Thrown Quotes - Page 31

• If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music?

  Wu Han

  Beautiful, Girl, Dream

  "David Finckel and Wu Han". Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

  John Wayne

  Art, Mistake, Hate

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• I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.

  Paul Newman

  Summer, Football, Team

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• Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

  Hyman Rickover

  Half, Bricks, Half Truth

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• How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

  Brian Urlacher

  Jail, Guy, Life Is

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• I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.

  Tim Lincecum

  Velocity, Mechanic, Caught

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• [Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.

  Richard Tarnas

  Men, Self, Views

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• You will see the constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread.... A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America.... [T]he land will be left without a Supreme Government,... [Mormonism] will have gathered strength, sending out Elders to gather the honest in heart... to stand by the Constitution of the United States.... In these days... God will set up a Kingdom, never to be thrown down.... [T]he whole of America will be made the Zion of God.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Heart, Government, Zion

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• I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.

  May Sarton

  Writing, Rainy Day, Silence

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• I've heard when girls meet 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, they throw up on them and faint. I wouldn't want to get thrown up on.

  Jonathan Lipnicki

  Girl, Boys, Want

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• Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

  Alan Alda

  School, Exercise, Keys

  "An Interview with TV Legend Alan Alda". "Pop Culture Passionistas" Interview, www.popculturepassionistasarchive.com. December 9, 2010.

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• I'm not the kind of person who digs through things other people have thrown away.

  Zach Braff

  People, Kind, Persons

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• Be ready to catch the ball when it is thrown by life.

  Steve Jobs

  Balls, Ready

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• I found that a whole series of people opposed me simply on the grounds that I was a woman. The clerics took to the mosque saying that Pakistan had thrown itself outside the Muslim world and the Muslim umar by voting for a woman, that a woman had usurped a man's place in the Islamic society.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Islamic, Men, People

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• Back then though, you had a few months of training, and then you were just thrown into it.

  Eve Hewson

  Training, Months

  Source: collider.com

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• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  Kim Dickens

  Three, Pilots, Lasts

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

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• There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Eye, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.249, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half
  shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the
  shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

  William Shakespeare

  Two, Clothes, Together

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.395

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• But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Jail, People

  "The Old Left". New York Times (section 6, p. 13), www.nytimes.com. January 22, 1995.

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• My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Regret, Tough, Grotesque

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Viewpoints, World

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Usually at the end of each story we're thrown clear out of the story's world and then we're given a new world to enter. What's unique about a linked collection is that it can deliver both sets of narrative pleasures - the novel's long immersion into character-world and the story anthology's energetic (and mortal) brevity - the linked collection is unique in its ability to be both abrupt and longitudinal simultaneously.

  Junot Diaz

  Character, Unique, Long

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

  Toby Keith

  Rocks, Together, Solo

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• The Domino Effect could stand for anything. It could be just the simple game of the domino rocks falling off one after another, all kinds of decision we make that come back to our face. For example take an anorexic model that stops eating until she dies, or the bombs that a are thrown in a war and the effect they have on people, or even something simple as listening to a record that you like until you get bored of it and leave it in your shelf.

  Leo Lionni

  War, Fall, Simple

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• Do not grow overconfident following a few victories. Should you not rely upon the Holy Spirit you will soon be thrown once more into a distressing experience. With holy diligence you must cultivate an attitude of dependency.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Rely Upon, Victory

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.204, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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