Tricks Quotes - Page 39

• Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...
  Heard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Gun, Hip Hop

  Song: Against All Odds

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• The mind tricks the body, Body thinks the mind is crazy.

  Buckshot

  Crazy, Rap, Thinking

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• That's a trick question Peter. It's real-life. Master P is a thug. He's poppin' everybody.

  Machine Gun Kelly

  Real, Thug, Hip Hop

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• In medieval times, the Church used to sell 'indulgences' for money. This amounted to paying for some number of days' remission from purgatory, and the Church literally (and with breathtaking presumption) issued signed certificates specifying the number of days off that had been purchased. . . . And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history. . . .

  Richard Dawkins

  Rip, Numbers, Religion

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• The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

  Frank Hadden

  Reality, Guy, Balance

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• Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain.

  Neville Brody

  Eye, Design, Brain

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• It's not about knowing all the gimmicks and photo tricks. If you haven't got the eye, no program will give it to you.

  David Carson

  Eye, Knowing, Giving

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• There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Workout, Arrogance, British

  Catherine Drinker Bowen (1959). “Adventures of a Biographer”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

  Kerry Joyce

  Space, Looks, Crafts

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• Having grown up watching Barcelona, Elen gets a bit annoyed watching me if I don't do flicks and tricks like Ronaldinho. I have to explain you can't do that all the time in a game!

  Frank Lampard

  Games, Annoyed, Barcelona

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• Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.

  Stephen Coonts

  Mistake, Pilots, Aviation

  Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

  Julio Cortazar

  Eye, Color, Kingdoms

  Julio Cortazar (2014). “Hopscotch: A Novel”, p.480, Pantheon

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• What I try to do is write a story about a detective rather than a detective story. Keeping the reader fooled until the last, possible moment is a good trick and I usually try to play it, but I can't attach more than secondary importance to it. The puzzle isn't so interesting to me as the behavior of the detective attacking it.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Writing, Play, Interesting

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• My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil's best trick is to persuade you that he doesn't exist!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Brother, Progress, Enlightenment

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• Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you’d like.

  Lynsay Sands

  Running, Pain, Taken

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• The immortal photographers will be straightforward photographers, those who do not rely on tricks or special techniques.

  Philippe Halsman

  Special, Technique, Photographer

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• The trick isn't adding stuff, it's taking away.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Stuff

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• I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

  Roger Stone

  School, Kids, Political

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• God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error.

  Martin Luther

  Men, Errors, Lord

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.300

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• The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

  Lindsey Graham

  Cutting, Government, Growing

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 5, 2010.

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• Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence. Moreover, by making their interpretations and prophecies sufficiently vague they were able to explain away anything that might have been a refutation of the theory had the theory and the prophecies been more precise. In order to escape falsification they destroyed the testability of their theory. It is a typical soothsayer's trick to predict things so vaguely that the predictions can hardly fail: that they become irrefutable.

  Karl Popper

  Order, Typical, Might

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• Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the politician, who live in the dialectic and have a feeling and instinct for it, try their best to keep it hidden.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Giving, Feelings, Trying

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.59, Northwestern University Press

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• The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Want

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1981). “Memories and Commentaries”, p.92, Univ of California Press

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• There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Pieces

  Electronics Magazine, 1989.

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• If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny

  Steve Wozniak

  Life, Real, Design

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