I Quotes
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“I recruited a Czech kicker, and during the eye exam, when asked to read the bottom line, the kicker replied, Read it? I know him.”
“I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.”
“I recurred on Grey’s Anatomy for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eight episodes on Rescue Me. And I’d recurred for nine episodes on The Practice. Frankly, the guest star is often the most compelling character.”
“I recycle. I have a house in the south of France and I have a small garden. My name is Dujardin - 'from the garden.' I grow carrots, peppers, strawberries, green beans, and things for salads, but there are lots of wild boars all around and they steal the food.”
“I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed: this is the end of painting.”
“I reeled my head back, and with violent, uncontrollable contortions, I launched a spray of yellow, soupy duckfoot vomit into the air ... I (didn't see) where my regurgitated lunch had ended up after it'd been blasted from my throat. I booked it out of the now-befouled Chang'an Theater as fast as possible. (My guide) found me fifteen minutes later trying to look as casual as it is possible for a six-foot-two curly-haired white guy to look in a Beijing theater.”
“I reenact everything. I love to paint a picture for my audience. I'm a lot like Richard Pryor in that aspect. I do a lot of acting on stage, acting out and visualizing stuff. I love to do that. I'm into it so much, it just comes out of me.”
“I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time.”
Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“I refer the largest number of my clients to Payce Payroll because the specialize in the restaurant and contractors industries. I am pleased with the service they provide, competitive fees and responsiveness to clients. What most impressed me was that one of the founders, Gus, came to personally meet with me and a client to establish their payroll software. They truly care about their clients.”
“I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes.”
“I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.”
“I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.”
“I refer to my hands, feet and body as the tools of the trade. The hands and feet must be sharpened and improved daily to be efficient.”
“I refer to my non-productive periods as fallow times. I think they are essential.”
“I refer to myself as gay, but I’m married to a man.”
“I refer to sleep as a reset. 6-8 hours is a hard reset. (Never happens for me)
Sometimes throughout the day, I need to do a soft reset multiple times. IE: naps
Plugging into your sleep setting, so that you can recharge is a must.
I’m trying.”
“I refer to the debt - the new red menace. This time consisting of ink.”
“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”
“I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.”
“I refilled the wineglass and took it with me for a nice long bubble bath, where I settled in with Ambrose's guide for low-voltage outdoor lighting.
It wasn't thrilling bubble-bath reading material, but I was impressed by his imagination. You wouldn't know from the writing that he'd never actually seen a low-voltage lighting system in someone's yard, much less installed one himself. His descriptions were clear, colorful, and written with authority. The inscription wasn't bad either: To Natalie, You're a high-voltage system as far as I am concerned.”
Source: Mr. Monk in Outer Space
“I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.”
“I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.”
“I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do is give an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.”
Source: Dolly
“I reflected on other victims I had met and how they were raped right on the altars of their own churches. Some of them were altar boys, and they were abused before or after mass. An altar boy walked right in front of us as we sat there. I began to shake, sweat, and become very uneasy. I felt frozen in my seat.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Cross: The True Account of My Childhood Sexual and Ritual Abuse at the Hands of a Roman Catholic Priest
“I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection”
Source: Just Kids
“I reflected on the jacket, dangling with an attitude of nonchalance, as though it had never doubted its own worthiness. Resentment set in. How I envied my jacket.”
“I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.”
Source: The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy
“I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and conventions of the young.”
Source: Moonglow
“I reflected that, when dynamic, positive change happens, it is usually because of generational commitment to social transformation.”
Source: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
“I refrain from a way of dicey and precarious politics and diplomacy since I breathe within such pillars of truth, respect, and love-dynasty, not the White House.”
“I refrain from lots of things I love, like cheese and carbs. I eat plenty of greens every day, my favorite being watercress.”
“I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.”
“I refuse absolutely to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. ... I obdurately insist on believing that some men are my equals.”
Source: The Burglar: Play
“I refuse for anyone to tell me who I am because I know who I am.”
“I refuse not to have a sense of humour.”
“I refuse putting from me the best that I am.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
“I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not.”
“I refuse the definitions of love
in dictionaries and philosophy,
for today I know love.
I had sought you for years,
but find that you were always the seeker
and I the sought.
I suddenly appeared
reverent before you
to bear witness to your beauty,
to dance in your silky attention,
but you were always my wild destiny,
my heart’s pilgrimage—
the meeting place of all my joy
and self-forgetting.
When I first loved you,
life for me had just begun.
I look forward to so much with you—
our togetherness in a world of wounds,
our children awaiting birth.
I look forward to so much life with you,
and yet, I am perfectly content
with this moment here.
It matters not to me if I die
before finishing this poem,
for today I know love.
For today,
I am free.”
“I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.”
“I refuse the pressure and the stress......I Choose to Enter into the Rest.”
“I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.”
Source: The Art of the Theatre
“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.”
Source: A Confederacy of Dunces
“I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes.”
“I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.”
“I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“I refuse to accept failure. If we are going to succeed in education, we must do more than everyone else.
-Blank Check: What Would You Do If You Were Asked to Reinvent Public Schools?”
“I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.”
“I refuse to accept Pluto's resignation as a planet.”
“I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.”
“I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.”