Wall Quotes - Page 10

• It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

  Taylor Swift

  Change, Night, Hands

  Song: Changes, Album: Fearless, 2008

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Bricks, Moments

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• Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

  Richard Dooling

  Moving, Splits, Velocity

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• Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time.

  Lukas Foss

  Block, Artist, Creative

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• I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

  Josh Hopkins

  Character, Kentucky, Fans

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• When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.

  Merle Haggard

  Summer, Winter, Air

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• I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.

  Tab Hunter

  Water, Off The Wall

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• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  Fran Kranz

  Kids, Blood, Clothes

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• I build a wall around myself. I'm hard to get to know. Any trait you have, it gets worse as you go along.

  Diane Keaton

  Knows, Traits, Hard

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

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• And just about the time I feel like screaming and finding me a wall to punch right through, I look up and I just can't help smiling, it's you.

  Bob Seger

  Honesty, Looks, Helping

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• Living safe behind a wall, never tasting life at all.

  Jerry Jeff Walker

  Philosophy, Safe, Behinds

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• They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.

  Paul Simon

  Strong, Philosophy, Long

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• Come spend the night inside my sugar walls.

  Sheena Easton

  Sex, Night, Sugar

  Song: Sugar Walls, Album: A Private Heaven

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• He protected his feelings in walls he imagined, but castles crumble exposing the frightened child.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Children, Feelings, Castles

  Song: Fire In The Sky

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• I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Issues, Parent, Hot

  Interview with Mike Allen, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fall, Reality, Law

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• Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

  Rick Santorum

  Support, Detroit, Republican

  "Santorum: Romney favored Wall Street bailout, but not Detroit bailout" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. February 16, 2012.

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• Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

  James Laughlin

  Beautiful, Book, Ideas

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• I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

  J.K. Simmons

  Grateful, Listening, My Sister

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

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• When I was 14 I used to have a calendar on my wall, crossing the days off until I was 15, because the school leaving age was 15. Then three months before I turned 15 they changed the leaving age to 16.

  Mark E. Smith

  School, Leaving, Age

  "This much I know". Interview with Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. May 2, 2009.

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• It's all about the director for me; we have to click. It's a trust thing. I'll say I'm ready to let down my walls. I'll cry for you as long as you need. But you're going to have to hug me afterwards.

  Juno Temple

  Long, Hug, Directors

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• My boyfriend and I just got a projector, so we've been screening movies on the roof and projecting them against the wall next door. The last one we did, the theme was, "The Russians are Coming". So we screened Red Dawn and Top Gun.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Gun, Doors, My Boyfriend

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

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• An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

  Fred Upton

  Jobs, Creating, Growth

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• What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Rivers, People, Hollywood

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• Everyone feels some jealousy, some anger, and some hostility. Don't feel guilty. But to allow them to become dominant expressions of your way of life is off the wall.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Expression

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