Week Quotes - Page 10

• Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

  Dan Savage

  Fun, Next Week, Today

  Dan Savage (1998). “Savage Love: Straight Answers from America's Most Popular Sex Columnist”, p.146, Penguin

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• Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment."

  Richard Dawkins

  White, Black, Entertainment

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• In Nepal, the phenomenon is reversed. Time is a stick of incense that burns without being consumed. One day can seem like a week; a week, like months. Mornings stretch out and crack their spines with the yogic impassivity of house cats. Afternoons bulge with a succulent ripeness, like fat peaches. There is time enough to do everything - write a letter, eat breakfast, read the paper, visit a shrine or two, listen to the birds, bicycle downtown to change money, buy postcards, shop for Buddhas - and arrive home in time for lunch.

  Jeff Greenwald

  Morning, Cat, Home

  Jeff Greenwald (2014). “Shopping for Buddhas: An Adventure in Nepal”, p.16, Travelers' Tales

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• I have a trainer who comes three times a week and just listens to me moan... and I keep fit and keep moving... and I do watch what I eat. I am a vegetarian... I can't eat crazy food. I'm highly allergic to onions and garlic and spices... I've never had a pizza, never had a curry.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Moving, Spices

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• I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.

  John Quincy Adams

  Morning, Reading, Years

  John Quincy Adams (1970). “The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814”, Arno Pr

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• You need to update your blog a couple of times a week. You need to post a Twitter here and there. It feels so dumb to say that stuff, but it's important for me to keep that presence going.

  Nick Thune

  Couple, Dumb, Important

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I trust the [series] writers when I'm filming, because it's interesting for me to go in every week and see what's going to happen, and the challenge for me as the actor is to make it work.

  John Barrowman

  Interesting, Challenges, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I enjoyed living in New York City, I liked the premise of the show [Saturday Night Live], I liked working with a different host every week and different musicians. I always thought, "This is great. I never expected to get this in the first place, so I'm just happy being here."

  Kevin Nealon

  New York, Night, Cities

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.

  Signe Baumane

  Training, Actors, Impossible

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In East Germany it was very normal for a woman to go out and work even if she had children. A few weeks after giving birth women would return to their normal working life. We never had housewives in East Germany.

  Christian Schwochow

  Children, East Germany, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I haven't exactly grown wings or anything. I'm happy with how I have been playing so far this week, but my feet are firmly on the ground. I haven't cured cancer or anything.

  Johanna Konta

  Cancer, Wings, Feet

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• In some parts of the world, what you are doing is already apparent.According to the World Health Organization, the warming of the planet caused an additional 140,000 deaths in 2004, as compared with the number of deaths there would have been had average global temperatures remained as they were during the period 1961 to 1990. This means that climate change is already causing, every week, as many deaths as occured in the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

  Peter Singer

  Mean, Average, Organization

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• Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mistake, Progress, Lessons

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Art, School, College

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• I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

  Bob Dole

  Dream, Keys, Doors

  "Clinton Honors Dole With Medal Of Freedom". www.cnn.com. January 17, 1997.

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• During the last century a seven-year-old boy, Harry Service, was lost from his family's home in Manitoba and lived for two weeks with a badger in its underground den. When he was found he said that the badger had brought him food several times.

  Sally Carrighar

  Home, Boys, Years

  Sally Carrighar (1965). “Wild Heritage”

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• At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn't collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

  Lou Holtz

  Average, Balance, Twenties

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Wins, Losses, and Lessons: An Autobiography”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Why waste your life working for a few shillings a week in a scullery, eighteen hours a day, when a woman could earn a decent wage by selling her body instead?

  Emma Goldman

  Body, Waste, Hours

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• When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).

  Andy Roddick

  Past, Bags, Looks

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• The Universe is responding purely to the desire that you have right now, and if the desires that you have right now are pure and unencumbered by all of your excuses about why you're not where you want to be, your vibration would be pure and the Universe would yield to you easily and it would not take years or weeks or days. It would be instant manifestation.

  Esther Hicks

  Yield, Years, Desire

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• I bought me a spy-glass some weeks since. I buy but a few things, and those not till long after I begin to want them, so that when I do get them I am prepared to make a perfect use of them and extract their whole sweet.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, Glasses, Long

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.29, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• The first day of training in Big Bear, it felt like somebody put a plastic bag over my head. After eight weeks up there, I feel very strong.

  Tavoris Cloud

  Strong, Eight, Training

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• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  Vince Gilligan

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

  Howard Stern

  Commitment, Night, Eight

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• In an old model, the way a film would imprint itself on the public's consciousness is to get a theatrical run. But now there are more documentaries and more films in general being released than ever before. There are weeks when the New York Times is reviewing 15 films, so it's harder to leave an impression on the public. A lot of these films are seeing their financial future on digital platforms. Because viewers aren't hearing as much about films in theatrical release, I think the festival circuit is going to have increasing importance for the life of a film.

  Thom Powers

  Running, New York, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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