Watches Quotes - Page 31

• When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Attitude, Fighting, Poison

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• Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places where you can take time out from the bustle and brouhaha of the city, and simply sit and watch and reflect.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Cities, Ideas, Idlers

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2006.

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• When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.

  Simon Hoggart

  Wall, Cities, Glasses

  "Simon Hoggart's week: hubris and the house of Miliband" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

  Simon Hoggart

  Airports, Hoarding, Ugly

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the ugly face of Swiss watches" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth once they inherit it.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Long, Inheritance

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• Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Two, Ghost Stories, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 19, 2012

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• I really do try to watch everything I say. Because one little tiny slip, and it's like the world is coming to an end!

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Trying, World, Littles

  "Vanessa Hudgens, High School Sweetheart" by James Kaplan, parade.com. July 26, 2009.

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• I loved cowboy films and TV series, and I learned bits of English from them. My favorite was 'Laramie', with Robert Fuller and John Smith. I used to watch 'The Lone Ranger', which had been famous in Japan as well. I idolized these cowboys.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Cowboy, Japan, Tvs

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• You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

  Alison Jackson

  Real, War, Nice

  "Alison Jackson On Obama, Assange And Why 'Reality' Doesn't Really Matter". Interview with Sam Parker, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. October 26, 2012.

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• Watch the walls come down, whether it's in the South or on Wall Street. When the walls come down, what do we find? More markets, more talent, more capital and growth. Which means that the race and sex discrimination stunt economic growth. It's not good for capitalism. It's not good for America's growth. And it's not morally right.

  Jesse Jackson

  Sex, Wall, Mean

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• If you think black people have a motivation problem, open up a Wal-Mart and advertise a thousand jobs. Watch 5,000 people show up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Jobs, Motivation, Thinking

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• The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

  Reggie Jackson

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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

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• I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

  Marc Jacobs

  Dog, Home, Europe

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• Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Talking, Years

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• When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

  Richard Jenkins

  Kids, Night, Horror

  "Richard Jenkins on Cabin In The Woods and why he knows nothing about characters off the page". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2012.

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• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Roland Joffe

  Land, Good Coaches, Skis

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• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  Gary Johnson

  Real, Party, Two

  "This isn't the year for ideological purity. Don't vote for Jill Stein" by Jill Abramson, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

  Angelina Jolie

  Love, Trying, Want

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• God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

  Norah Jones

  Two, Feet, Honor

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• I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

  Rashida Jones

  Mom, Night, Tvs

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• There's people who watch shows while they're preparing their dinners, and they don't want to focus, and they don't want to be challenged, and whatever. And then there's people who want to really sit down and get into a character in a world, and feel like they're expanding, or they have complex relationships, or whatever.

  Rashida Jones

  Character, People, Focus

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• As an actor to watch an audience of people howl together in a single mind as a result of work you've done together with friends is a privilege.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  People, Mind, Together

  "Tommy Lee Jones: 'I'd Make Men In Black III'" by wenn.com, July 31, 2002.

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• If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

  Jon Bon Jovi

  Ties, Video, Down And

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• Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, People, Psychologist

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