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“It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.”

People Made Done Passion Fire Proud Enjoyed

Author:Kevin Plank

“It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.”

Dirty Irony Sarcasm Sarcastic Fitting Dirty Words

Author:William Zinsser

“It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.”

Space Planets Mars Fixers

Author:Elon Musk

“It's a flaw in our argument, for sure. By any reading of evolutionary theory, creationists ought to have died out ages ago. They serve no function in the planet's ecosystem, and no other species has survived so long while in such fundamental disagreement with observable reality. If I wasn't such an ardent believer in secular materialism, I'd wager this is really troubling Darwin in the afterlife.”

Ifs Long Reality Age Reading Planets Theory Ought Argument Function Died Fundamentals Species Believer Materialism Flaws Afterlife Secular Survived Disagreement Ecosystems Ardent Wagers

Author:Richard Dawkins

“It's a floor cleaner and a dessert topping.”

Dessert Cleaners Toppings

Author:Jane Curtin

“It's a folk singer's job to comfort disturbed people and to disturb comfortable people”

People Jobs Comfort Comfortable Folks Singers Comforting Disturbing Disturbed Singer Songwriters Folk Music

Author:Woody Guthrie

“It's a fool boy who mocks a giant, and a mad world when a cripple has to defend him.”

World Boys Fool Mad Giants Cripples Mad World

Author:George R. R. Martin

Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons

“It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.”

Ifs Way Laughing Fool Graves Good Life Rogues

Author:Edward Abbey

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.”

Culture Foolish Food Supply Simpletons

Author:Joel Salatin

“It's a foreground of my feeling. That place moves me. And I don't mean my country; it's part of our shared natural world that happens to be particular to a sense of wherever my storytelling inclinations come from and my own history of kind of being a road rat and travelling.”

World Kind Mean Country Feelings Happens Moving Natural My Own Particular Storytelling Rats Inclination Natural World Foreground

Author:Sean Penn

“It's a form of bullying, in my opinion, to make sure that your kid gets the best grades, the best jobs and all that sort of stuff. I just want my child to be happy. I want him to do his best and trust God in the rest, but I'm not going to bully him.”

Want Children Kids Jobs Form Stuff Opinion My Children Grades Bullying Trust In God Bully Want Him Best Job

Author:Nick Vujicic

“It's a form of violence, in the way that we look at women and how we expect them to look and be - for what sake? Not health, not survival, no enjoyment of life but just so you could look pretty. I'm constantly telling girls all the time, 'Everything's airbrushed, everything's retouched. None of us look like that.”

Way Looks Form Girl Violence Survival Sake Enjoyment

Author:Rosario Dawson

“It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want”

Want I Can Country Mouths Free Country

Author:James Van Der Beek

“It's a free country. I wish it weren't.”

Country Wish Free Country

Author:Deval Patrick

“It's a frightening thing to act on your opinions. You've got to find confidence in yourself, not in what others think of you. I'm still trying to separate how I see myself from how I'm perceived. It's not easy, but it's worth it.”

Thinking Trying Stills Easy Opinion Frightening Worth It Think Of You Confidence In Yourself

Author:Carly Pope

“It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.”

Feelings Church Gone Daughter France Frightening Elders Gone Away

Author:John Wilkins

“It's a frightening world to be alone in.”

World Frightening

Author:Jhonen Vasquez

“It's a full moon here tonight, which makes me think of you. Because, I know that no matter what I am doing or where I am, this moon will always be the same size as yours, half a world away.”

Thinking Knows World Matter Half Moon No Matter What Size Tonight Think Of You Full Moon

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.”

Humans Jobs Social Responsibility Social Responsibility

Author:Colin Greenwood

“It's a full time job with a part-time companion.”

Jobs Companion Part Time Full Time Jobs

Author:Sylvia Day

Source: The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day

“It's a fun day, a day which kicks off the start of our tour, it's got great tradition - Australian cricketers just love tradition - and it's been a really pleasant day.”

Fun Journey Tradition Kicks Pleasant Australian Great Day Cricketers Fun Day Pleasant Day

Author:Matthew Hayden

“It's a fun idea, to follow a couple very slowly and show every nook and cranny of their relationship.”

Ideas Shows Fun Couple

Author:Judd Apatow

“It's a fun movie Death Note. Despite the fact that it's about killing people, it's even comical. But, there is an underlying message. I think we're in a place right now where everyone is really frustrated, and there's a lot of hate in the world and a lot of bullies and bigotry. Having the opportunity to get rid of that would be amazing. I wish that I could write down a whole concept, rather than a specific name. Rather than kill somebody, I'd like to write down "evil" in the notebook. That would be fantastic!”

People Thinking World Writing Hate Evil Opportunity Fun Wish Killing Fantastic Bigotry Frustrated Bully Notebook Comical Death Note

Author:Margaret Qualley

“It's a fun show, BoJack Horseman to do, and that gets around. It's easy, especially for a lot of actors who don't do a lot of voiceover. No makeup, no wardrobe, they really just come in, the lines are right there, we goof around for a half hour, and I think it feels like, "Oh, yeah, this is why I got into this business: to play around and have some fun." There's no paparazzi, most of them don't do any promotion for the show. it's the fun part of acting, without the other stuff.”

Thinking Fun Easy Hours Acting Makeup Promotion Wardrobe Paparazzi No Makeup

Author:Raphael Bob-Waksberg

“It's a fun thing for journalists to say that Captain Kirk is the boyfriend role. I'm happy to give a laugh. But it's a really complex story.”

Giving Stories Fun Roles Laughing Complexes Journalist Captains Fun Things Kirk Captain Kirk

Author:Chris Pine

“It's a fun thing to do, to put yourself in the service of something if you think you can add an interpretation. It's no different than any other storytelling.”

Ifs Thinking Different Fun Add Storytelling Things To Do Interpretation Fun Things

Author:Joss Whedon

“It's a fun thing to do: Go to a shooting range with a buddy, knock off a few rounds, release stress.”

Fun Stress Rounds Release Shooting Range Things To Do Buddy Fun Things Stress Release Shooting Range

Author:Laurie Holden

“It's a fun world to exist in, and I relish doing those movies as much as I do the smaller ones. They're always immense fun. I don't know if I am - unless we do a Benji film, I don't think I am an action hero really.”

Ifs Thinking Knows World Action Film Fun Hero Immense Relish Action Heroes

Author:Simon Pegg

“It's a fundamental aspect of the free enterprise system and economics: If there's no penalty associated with increased costs, why not lay on increased costs?”

Ifs Cost Aspect Economics Fundamentals Lays Enterprise Why Not Penalties Free Enterprise

Author:John McCain

“It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.”

Humans Children Fundamentals

Author:Gloria Steinem

“It's a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature and of the concepts of liberty, freedom, and self-determination. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics. He (Obama) believes that the pie is fixed and that he needs to more equitably divide up the slices.”

Needs Believe Humans Self Liberty Human Nature Concepts Determination Economics Fundamentals Fixed Divides Self Determination Pie Misunderstanding

Author:Paul Ryan

“It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?”

Thinking Wells Social Sound Attitude Support Beats Program Yeah Fundamentals Hip Hop Valuable Hips Hops Why Not Opera Symphony

Author:David Byrne

“It's a funny business. I kind of compare it to baseball. I'm always looking for a home run.”

Kind Home Running Baseball Compare Home Run Funny Business

Author:Billy Mays

“It's a funny feeling, being suddenly airborne. Just as you realize it, it's over, and you're sinking.”

Feelings Realizing Sinking Airborne

Author:Sarah Dessen

“It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.”

Kind May Left Wife Fans Months Baseball Cricket October Bloopers Cricket Funny

Author:Denis Norden

“it's a funny life. Either you don't make a red cent and you have all the time in the world, or else you get double the money and you don't have a moment to spend a penny of it.”

World Moments Time Money Red Cents Pennies Funny Life

Author:Gabrielle Roy

“It's a funny line when you're walking - the creativity, the subjectivity versus the objectivity, creativity versus the business, and recognizing that you are in the music business, so there are certain things that you have to acquiesce to on the business side and certain creative decisions that you have to make for the purposes of serving the business side of it.”

Purpose Certain Sides Lines Decision Creativity Creative Walking Serving Versus Recognizing Objectivity Music Business Subjectivity

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“It's a funny old world.”

World Funny Old World

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“It's a funny old world. A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.”

Ifs Men World Alive Lucky Funny Life Old World

Author:W. C. Fields

“It's a funny place, this world. Hate has rights. Love has none.”

World Hate Rights This World

Author:Torey L. Hayden

“It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Kind Pain Artist Makeup Look At Me Dentist Funny Relationship Makeup Artist

Author:Rick Baker

“It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.”

Turns Paint Landscape Borrowed

Author:Joe Bradley

“It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.”

Character Shows Funny Lasts Moving Given Bits Huge Seasons Casts Ugly Personal Life

Author:Matt Groening

“It's a funny thing - the reality is I have no feelings about school. It's long gone. Funnily enough, the bad memories - of which I don't have any left to be honest, I can just remember a sense of tedium - have faded. And teachers that I liked have remained quite vivid. There are three or four left.”

Long I Can Enough Feelings Reality School Remember Three Left Memories Gone Teacher Four Honest Being Honest Vivid Funny Things Faded Tedium Bad Memories

Author:Colin Firth

“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”

Needs Children Littles Long Ends Spending My Children Relax Weekend Funny Things Spending Time Time Away Long Weekend

Author:Emily Giffin

“It's a funny thing about bogs. You can fill them with rocks and sand and old logs and make a little fenced-in yard on top with a woodpile and chopping block - but bogs go right on behaving like bogs. Early in the spring they breathe ice and make their own mist, in remembrance of the time when they had black water and their own sedge blossoming untouched.”

Littles Black Water Rocks Spring Breathe Block Ice Sand Yards Remembrance Funny Things Mist Blossoming Chopping Bogs

Author:Tove Jansson

“it's a funny thing about Hollywood. Once you've been out here awhile, it's hard to go someplace else, and it gets harder the longer you stay here. Takes some real propulsion to make you leave.”

Real Hard Hollywood Harder Funny Things Propulsion

Author:Pamela Moore

“It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

“It's a funny thing about looking for things. If you hunt for a needle in a haystack you don't find it. If you don't give a darn whether you ever see the needle or not it runs into you the first time you lean against the stack.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Running First Time Hunts Funny Things Needles Needle In A Haystack

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Source: Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories

“It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry”

Kids Interest Hungry Funny Things

Author:Alan Ladd