Titles Quotes - Page 40

• I'm drawn to very large texts that are mammothly popular in different parts of the world but are almost unknown here [the USA]. They're safe bets; if they've been around for 2,000 years, there's a reason. It's often a title or just a phrase within the text that will compel me to adapt it.

  Mary Zimmerman

  Years, Usa, Different

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• Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

  Patrick Ewing

  Education, Winning, Ncaa

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• One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? She wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?

  Sarah Mayberry

  Best Love, Technique, Hollywood

  Sarah Mayberry (2008). “Burning Up”, p.57, Harlequin

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• Ed Woolard, his mentor on the Apple board, pressed Jobs for more than two years to drop the interim in front of his CEO title. Not only was Jobs refusing to commit himself, but he was baffling everyone by taking only $1 a year in pay and no stock options. I make 50 cents for showing up, he liked to joke, and the other 50 cents is based on performance.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Two, Apples

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• The purpose and effect of [land titles] have been to maintain, in the hands of robber, or slave holding class, a monopoly of all lands, and, as far as possible, of all other means of creating wealth; and thus to keep the great body of labourers in such a state of poverty and dependence, as would compel them to sell their labour to their tyrants for the lowest prices at which life could be sustained

  Lysander Spooner

  Mean, Land, Class

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• A
  fighter's dream is to win a world title and gain financial stability.
  But what is happening to me now is the most humbling experience of my
  life. It is a great honor for me to be the face of my people and to let
  everyone know we are a small but mighty country. I have great pride for
  all of the Filipinos living throughout the world and it is these people
  that I fight for each and every time I step into the ring.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Dream, Country, Fighting

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• Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

  Lydia Lunch

  Musician

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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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• Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain Tempest. It's two different titles.

  Bob Dylan

  Play, Names, Two

  "Bob Dylan's Tempest: first listen" by Caspar Llewellyn Smith, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2012.

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• The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'

  Chinua Achebe

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Things Fall Apart ch. 1 (1958)

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• Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.

  Sam Kinison

  Christian, Rocks, Names

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• Remember my titles? I don't get poisoned,I do the poisoning.I'm the princess of it.

  Kresley Cole

  Princess, Remember, Poisoning

  Kresley Cole (2013). “Poison Princess”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• No man under forty can be dignified with the title of gourmet.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Gourmet

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• And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.

  Trip Hawkins

  Trying, Machines, Kind

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• What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later.

  Trip Hawkins

  Mean, Games, Machines

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• Now tell me, what does that mean to be noble? Your title gives you claim to the throne of our country, but men don't follow titles, they follow courage. Now our people know you. Noble, and common, they respect you. And if you would just lead them to freedom, they'd follow you. And so would I

  William Wallace

  Country, Mean, Men

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• Teams like Ferrari, McLaren and Mercedes are going to be very, very motivated to go for the titles.

  Sebastian Vettel

  Team, Ferrari, Motivated

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• Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.

  Delano Johnson

  Beautiful, Strong Women, Queens

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• There are many facts within fiction. This captivating story provides invaluable insights into the childhood of a girl who has Asperger’s syndrome. Fiction allows the author to explore different perspectives and add poignancy to the experiences of sensory sensitivity and being bullied and teased of someone who has Asperger’s syndrome. The title Delightfully Different describes Asperger’s syndrome but also the qualities of this novel.

  Tony Attwood

  Girl, Perspective, Childhood

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• Cena with the WWE Title, Randy Orton with the Money In The Bank briefcase, & Daniel Bryan with the beard.

  Jerry Lawler

  Wwe, Beard, Briefcases

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• I'd RKO my own grandmother if it meant keeping this title. Then I'd RKO your grandmother just to see the look on her face.

  Randy Orton

  Grandmother, Wwe, Looks

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• Not to mention our former tag team champions lost their titles after my good friend Christian was hit in the genitals with a hockey stick by a midgit! I mean enough is enough

  Kurt Angle

  Christian, Team, Mean

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• Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Home, Years, Wwe

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• Every day that I bring this World Title home with me, I realize it's a gift. It's a blessing. And this? This has been the biggest, the BIGGEST ride of my life.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Home, Blessing, Wwe

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• Ryan Giggs will go down as the most successful British footballer of all time and I cannot see anyone ever overtaking him. He's on the brink of his 13th league title, after all.

  Gary Neville

  Successful, League, Giggs

  "Ryan Giggs named best player in Premier League's 20-year history", www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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