Thousand Quotes - Page 19

• If Ansel Adams gets a thousand dollars a print, I want ten thousand.

  Paul Strand

  Dollars, Want, Print

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• I was talking to a businessman, and I said, Don't you think most men are little boys? And he said, I'm no little boy! I make seventy-five thousand dollars a year. And I said, Well, the way I look at it - you just have bigger toys.

  Jonathan Winters

  Men, Thinking, Boys

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• I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

  Douglas Coupland

  Witty, Thinking, Play

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• It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

  James Agee

  Eye, Past, Years

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• I'm not a big one for jokes. I can't tell a joke, believe it or not. If you gave me a thousand bucks and said, "Don, get up at a party and tell a joke," I'm the worst.

  Don Rickles

  Party, Believe, Bucks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's so much easier for me to talk about my life in front of two thousand people than it is one-to-one. I'm a real defensive person, because if you were sensitive in my neighborhood you were something to eat.

  Richard Pryor

  Real, Two, People

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• I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Memories, Likes And Dislikes, Clothes

  Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books

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• Whoever came up first with that saying a picture is worth a thousand words didn't understand the first thing about either one.

  Wim Wenders

  Firsts, Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

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• I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go over those numbers again, they're a little baffling at first: Iraq: 150,000, USA: 79. Does that mean we could have won with only 80 guys there? Just one guy in a ticker-tape parade, "I did it! Hey!"

  Bill Hicks

  Mean, Usa, Iraq

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• A word is worth a thousand images.

  Andreas Gursky

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• It's the hardest thing for an actor not to speak because you take away their main tool. So for an actor, it's very frustrating and very challenging, and very few people can pull it off. Some actors can say a thousand words with just a look, and it's a unique gift.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Unique, People, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• You have to be realistic in the use of blood in the movies. There is a little bit more than a gallon in a human being. If you have a few thousand people, that makes a lot of blood. I'm very realistic in my use of blood.

  Alexandre Aja

  Blood, People, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

  Luis Gonzalez

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I think 9/11 was a couple of thousand assholes in Afghanistan who ran rampant and just kind of did their thing and we could have gotten them in Tora Bora if that was handled better.

  Richard Patrick

  Couple, Thinking, Kind

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Man, them engagement rings, boy, they cost a lot. I was looking at 'em. Cost like a thousand bucks, two thousand bucks, y'know. Three thousand bucks. Something like that- four thousand bucks. Big number divisible by a thousand, anyways.

  Norm MacDonald

  Boys, Men, Two

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• My dad's like, If your mom and I are having sex and we videotape it and she falls out of bed funny, can I win ten-thousand dollars?

  Bob Saget

  Mom, Sex, Dad

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• Real patriotism is realizing America sucks, but everywhere else is a thousand times worse.

  Daniel Tosh

  Real, America, Realizing

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• It was either me or Confucius that said the journey of a thousand miles begins with a vicious ass raping at airport security.

  Doug Stanhope

  Journey, Airports, Ass

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• Two seconds are a thousand years.

  Andre Kertesz

  Two, Years, Seconds

  André Kertész (1985). “Kertész on Kertész: a self-portrait”, Abbeville Pr

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• ... the constant flow of images undercuts the sense that there's actually something wrong with the world. How can there really be a shortage of whooping cranes when you've seen a thousand images of them - seen ten times more images than there are actually whooping cranes left in the wild?

  Bill McKibben

  World, Flow, Cranes

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• Sri Ramakrishna is far greater than the disciples understand him to be. He is the embodiment of infinite spiritual ideas capable of development in infinite ways....One glance of his gracious eyes can create a hundred thousand Vivekanandas at this instant. If he chooses now, instead, to work through me, making me his instrument, I can only bow to his will.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Eye, Ideas

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• Who cares for your bhakti and mukti? Who cares what your scriptures say? I will go into a thousand hells cheerfully if I can rouse my countrymen, immersed in tamas, to stand on their own feet and be men inspired with the spirit of karma-yoga. I am a follower only of he or she who serves and helps others without caring for his own bhakti and mukti!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Caring

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• A picture is worth a thousand words, but conversations with them generally end in dissapointment.

  Dov Davidoff

  Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, Ends, Conversation

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• Do you think we care about the feelings of Native Americans when we celebrate Columbus Day? That's the day that the white man discovered a land where Indians had been living for a few thousand years.

  Carlos Mencia

  Native American, Men, Thinking

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• Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?

  Godfrey

  Hecklers, Done, Want

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