Week Quotes - Page 17

• (R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the attention of millions of their fellow half-wits for weeks on end.

  Terry Teachout

  Editing, Attention, Half

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• The Mars Rover sent back stunning photos [last week] indicating the past presence of water. The pictures show tiny splotches of blue on the Red Planet. The other theory is that the satellite dish on the rover accidentally picked up CNN's election coverage.

  Argus Hamilton

  Past, Blue, Cnn

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• Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

  Amy Poehler

  House, Pancakes, Firsts

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• I like doing Zumba. I only do it like, once a week. If I did it more often, I would be very skinny.

  Shanina Shaik

  Zumba, Would Be, Skinny

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• I seem to wonder if we can reach some kind of new destination with cinema, or touch upon human existence in a different way to what cinema usually does in its very schematic and sometimes very controlled, plot-oriented ways of thinking. Sometimes I feel like I've found the holy grail, and next week I think it's a complete mistake and I need to try something completely different. It's an ongoing process.

  Christoffer Boe

  Mistake, Thinking, Next Week

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• Rick Santorum said this week that his 12-year-old could out-reason me about God. Look, I am not about to debate a home-schooled 12-year-old. I have enough trouble with Sarah Palin.

  Bill Maher

  Home, Years, Looks

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• So Ahmadinejad wants to be the first Iranian in space - wasn't he there just last week? 'Iran launches monkey into space.'

  John McCain

  Space, Iran, Firsts

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• My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it.

  Marissa Mayer

  Long, Maternity, Maternity Leave

  "So Marissa Mayer will be skipping maternity leave - how very American" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Now is the time to become a disciple of Jesus Christ, which means accepting His invitation to 'come, follow me' (Luke 18:22). This is the decision we made in our premortal lives. Now we must make it again here in mortality, every day, in every situation by taking the Savior's name upon us, remembering His atoning sacrifice, and keeping His commandments. This we covenanted to do when we were baptized, and we have the opportunity to renew those covenants each week as we partake of the sacrament.

  Robert D. Hales

  Jesus, Mean, Sacrifice

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• We are a covenant-making people. We make covenants at the waters of baptism. We renew those covenants each week as we worthily partake of the sacrament. We take upon ourselves the name of Christ; we promise to always remember Him and to keep His commandments. And in return He promises us that His Spirit will always be with us. We make covenants as we enter into the temple, and in return we receive the promised blessings of eternal life-if we keep those sacred covenants.

  Sheldon F. Child

  Blessing, Names, People

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• It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

  Jules Renard

  Hero, Men, Honorable Man

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• Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.

  Bede Griffiths

  Perseverance, Yoga, Years

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• The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Technology, Water

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge". Book by John Brockman, 2003.

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• What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

  Marion Woodman

  Analysis, Moments, Hours

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• The religion of which you are a part is 7 days a week. It isn't just Sunday, it isn't the block plan, it isn't just 3 hours in church, it isn't just the time you spend in Seminary - it's all the time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Block, Sunday, Years

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• It takes me about a week and a half to read the typical book. I don't know how many ten-day spans I have left. Eventually the unread books on my shelves will have to be abandoned, or they will join me on the pyre. The book I'm about to purchase may be among them. We all buy books we won't live to read.

  Ken Kalfus

  Book, Half, May

  "A Book Buyer's Lament" by Ken Kalfus, www.newyorker.com. June 25, 2015.

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• ...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.

  Stephen King

  Friday, Teaching, Writing

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• A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

  Keith Devlin

  Writing, Years, Three

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• Sunday is the best day of the week because we celebrate the risen Christ of the cross in the local church, the dearest place on earth.

  C. J. Mahaney

  Sunday, Church, Earth

  Twitter post from Apr 26, 2015

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• The Wolverine was fired from his job as a cashier in a newsagents after just six weeks because his boss said, "he talks too much to customers". He can talk to me all day.

  Hugh Jackman

  Jobs, Boss, Too Much

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• I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, People, Naked

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.366, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted.

  Guy Pearce

  Writing, Ideas, Creative

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• 'One Week' changed my life because I used to be the Million Dollars Guy, and now I'm the Chickity China Guy.

  Ed Robertson

  Guy, Dollars, Used

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• Government can't deliver a free lunch to the country as a whole. It can, however, determine who pays for lunch. And last week the Senate handed the bill to the wrong party... the poor and middle class.

  Warren Buffett

  Country, Party, Class

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• Donald Rumsfeld also lost his gig last week. When asked what his future plans are, Rumsfeld said, 'What's a plan?'

  Bill Maher

  Gigs, Lasts, Lost

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