Very Strong Quotes - Page 11

• In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.

  George Carlin

  Strong, New York, Marijuana

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• I have been very strong on Mexico. I have great respect for Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I work with the Mexican people all the time. Great relationships.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, People, Mexican

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I do have a big heart. In America, we're going to take care of everybody. We're going to have a very strong border. We're going to have a very solid border. Where you have great people that are here that have done a good job, they should be far less worried.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Jobs, Heart

  Source: fortune.com

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• The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!

  John Darnielle

  Strong, Rights, Voice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Believe, Ideas, Self

  Source: robertgraham.wordpress.com

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• I believe fully in making fun of children. I believe very strongly that you should never make fun of an embryo or your ovaries. I am a big believer on breaking those rules. It's a case-by-case basis. But the thing is, there's so many ways to make a joke about something that is sort of maybe verboten or something.

  Kathy Griffin

  Children, Fun, Believe

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• As far as inner cities, I was very strong on the inner cities during the campaign, I think it's probably got me much higher percentage of the African American vote than lot of people thought I was going to get. We did much higher than people thought I was going to get. I was honored by that.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong.

  Ed Balls

  Strong, Party, Gold

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• This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

  Elie Wiesel

  Strong, Accused, Contrary

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

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• She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.

  Joshua Ferris

  Sexy, Strong, Thinking

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• This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

  Miranda July

  Running, Strong, Home

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is took weak and fuddled to shake off.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sweet, Strong, Ambition

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• There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination to pitch Mr. Thomas Gradgrind Junior.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Water, Pieces

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am a goofy person, really. That's where my energy goes, that's how I live my life. The goof gene is very strong inside me, really.

  Devon Bostick

  Strong, Energy, Goofy

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• Steve Jobs had very strong feelings about what makes a company great, what makes products great. He more or less chose Tim Cook to be in that role, in that position.

  Steve Wozniak

  Strong, Jobs, Feelings

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• I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

  Esther Williams

  Football, Strong, Swimming

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• My clothes have always got a very strong dynamic rapport with the body - they are very body conscious, they help you to look glamorous, more hourglass, more woman.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Strong, Clothes, Looks

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• My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Strong, Children, Character

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• My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.

  Alice Walker

  Mother, Strong, Father

  "Redemption songs" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2005.

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• It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what you might know about and them claims can be very strong indeed. Very strong indeed.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Strong, Community, Want

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “No Country for Old Men”, p.124, Vintage

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• Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.

  Gail Carriger

  Strong, Opposites, Fruit Juice

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• Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all. This feeling was very strong upon me that night. Here was another side to my dream.

  H. G. Wells

  Dream, Strong, Stress

  1898 The War of the Worlds, bk.1, ch.7.

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• He just put his hand through the bulkhead, exactly as she'd done, and squeezed my shoulder. He has very strong fingers. And he kept his hand there the whole way home, even when he was reading the map and giving me headings. So I am not flying alone now after all.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Strong, Reading, Home

  Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.289, Egmont UK

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• Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Strong, Light, Long

  Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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