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“People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.”

“Powers Hapgood had just come from court because there was some kind of dust-up on a picket line. The judge was so curious about him - coming from a rich family - why he would choose to live as he had. I guess you know what his answer was ..."The Sermon on the Mount, sir." That's important.”

Knows Kind Important Lines Answers Rich Judging Court Dust Curious Sermons Sermon On The Mount Rich Family

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“If you put a little pin in the middle and you make a little space, a little circle, then the nature of the mirror shines through. So now you know the mind is not dust, that behind that dust there is this mirror-like nature of the mind, and if it's a big enough hole, you might be so transfixed by the hole you don't notice the rest of the dust.”

Ifs Knows Mind Littles Enough Bigs Might Space Behinds Middle Mirrors Shining Circles Holes Dust Pins

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“It's only when all the dust is completely gone from the mirror, and there is only mirror, no dust, that we're really enlightened. So that's a lot of work.”

Gone Mirrors Dust Enlightened

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I'll argue anyone into the dust when it comes to facts.”

Facts Arguing Dust

Author:Jim Goad

“I heard more of the stories from my mother and my granny and my aunts that would describe what they had known that he didn't often talk about. I remember seeing [grandfather] as a child. He was working in a mine that was fairly close to their home there in Betsy Lane, Ky., and it was so close in proximity that he wouldn't clean up or shower there. He would just drive back home. And I remember one time seeing him come in and it was like seeing an alien person show up because he was still covered in coal dust and soot, and it had a profound impact on me.”

“It is no more expected of most producers to read a book than it is, say, of Ted Williams to dust off home plate.”

Book Home Expected Producers Dust Plates Home Plate

Author:Mordecai Richler

“I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.”

Perfect Down And Victim Get Up Dust Survivor

Author:Patsy Kensit

“Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.”

World Mean Ends Dust Drag End Of The World

Book:The Portable Jack Kerouac

Source: The Portable Jack Kerouac

“In the best organizations, love is the real "pixie dust."”

Real Love Is Organization Dust Pixies Pixie Dust

Author:Bill Capodagli

“Like Nietzsche's own writings on education, most of mine were relatively youthful ones. Both were inspired by a critical animus against prevailing trends in education: in Nietzsche's case, the production either of 'useless', dry-as-dust scholars or people 'useful' for the needs of an expanding industrial economy; in my case, a similar subjection of education to economic imperatives, but also to ideological obsessions, notably with promoting 'equality'.”

“Do not think about the body. The body comes and goes; for it there is birth and there is death. But you are not the body. Body is just rust and dust. Think only of God. Love God.”

Thinking Body Birth Dust God Love Comes And Goes Rust

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Anywhere where the humanity of people is undermined, anywhere where people are left in the dust, there we will find our cause.”

People Humanity Left Causes Dust

Author:Desmond Tutu

“Just imagine, more than half of the young people in the European Union do not have jobs. How can one explain that? How can one explain that to a working family, that produces goods and services, those who produce the olive oil that is a a main source of food in any European country? They humbly work the land with great effort and then the little resources they had saved in banks have now become dust simply because they did not have the means to withstand inflation produced by the adjustment policies.”

“The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.”

Has Beens Earth Past Fall Remains Dust Housekeepers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I always forbade everyone to clean my studios, dust them, not only for fear they would disturb my things, but especially because I always counted on the protection of dust. It's my ally. I always let it settle where it likes. It's like a layer of protection.”

Clean Studios Protection Likes Dust Settling Allies Layers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.”

Has Beens Missing Color Suits Dust Touched Gray

Author:Pablo Picasso

“When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job washing dishes at a restaurant. And then I got a job in a grocery store deli. And then I got a job in a factory sweeping Cheerio dust off the ground.”

Firsts Jobs Dad My Dad Stores Dust Restaurants Factories Dishes Roof Groceries Washing Sweeping Grocery Stores Washing Dishes Shingles

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.”

Feels Trying Happens Pain Moving Failing Get Up Dust Over It Get Over Try Again Keep It Moving Dust Yourself Off

Author:Queen Latifah

“Two messengers covered with dust come to bid me fly, but I wait for him.”

Two Waiting Dust Covered Messengers Wait For Him

Book:Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

Source: Memoirs and Letters of Dolly Madison: Wife of James Madison, President of the United States

“In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.”

Political House Left White Boys Four Media Eating News Males Decades Dust Journalism White House Bus Exposed Outsiders Packs Reporters Alaska Insiders Gals

Author:Michelle Malkin

“I'm full of dust and guitars.”

Guitar Dust

Author:Syd Barrett

“You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.”

Waiting Waste Dust

Author:Reba McEntire

“There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.”

Men Made Earth White Dust Indian White Man

Author:Standing Bear

“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”

Wells Might Kids Winning Sports Records Majors Golf Dust Makeup Flaws Tigers

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

Real Running Born Friendship Fields Basketball Gold Competition Dust Awards Strife Athletic Gold Medals Athletic Ability Athletic Competition Real Gold Gold Dust

Author:Jesse Owens

“Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.”

Motivational Running Friendship Dust Motivational Sports Awards Strife Gold Medals Favorite Sports Athletic Ability Athletic Competition Gold Dust

Author:Jesse Owens

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”

Art Soul Purpose Art Is Dust Daily Life Washing Creative Art Famous Artist Inspirational Artist Inspirational Art Purpose Of Art Best Art Dust To Dust What Is The Purpose Of Life Art Love

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.”

Inspirational Beats Blow Dust Sufi

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.”

Use Earth Names Sound Common Habit Mere Dust Buried Etymology Satanic Verses Naming Things

Book:The Satanic Verses

Source: The Satanic Verses

“I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust.”

Said Two Happens Remember Fall Natural Powerful Wall Months Dust Prophet Dictatorship Berlin Two Months Unbreakable Berlin Wall

Author:Salman Rushdie

“The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not be were God absent from it; the loftiest seraph is but a spark from the eternal fire, which is God. Sharers in one life all form one brotherhood. The immanence of God, the solidarity of man, such are the basic truths of theosophy.”

Men Form Life Is Spirit Fire Divine Eternal Dust Sparks Atoms Brotherhood Grain Solidarity Absent Archangel Divine Life

Book:To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings

Source: To Members of the Theosophical Society: Being a Selection of Instructive Articles and Teachings

“Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”

Book Empty Dust Skulls Erudition

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.”

“I would say Will came at a time in my life where he saw beauty in me that I didn't see in myself at the time. And, you know, he saw a diamond in the rough and kind of, picked me up and blew off all the dust and said, 'I'm telling you, I'm going to make you shine, girl.'”

Knows Kind Said Girl Saws Shining Dust Rough Diamond Diamond In The Rough

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.”

Time Behinds Watches Dear Blow Heavy Dust Clock Suspects Curtains Repression

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.”

Ifs Mean Fool Devil Dust Why Not Sparks Lightning Specks

Author:Ben Stein

“From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.”

Children Play God Running Forget Watches Chess Dust Temples Priests Solemn Gloom

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.”

Inspirational God Greater Prove Dust Idols Shattered

Book:Stray Birds

Source: Stray Birds

“What the mortgage bubble was all about was big banks like Goldman Sachs taking big bundles of subprime mortgages that were lent out largely to low-income, highly risky borrowers, and applying this kind of magic-pixie-dust math to these bundles of securities and slapping AAA ratings on them.”

Kind Bigs Magic Security Lows Math Income Dust Bubbles Mortgage Rating Bundles Low Income Pixies Borrowers Slapping Goldman Sachs Pixie Dust

Author:Matt Taibbi

“I cannot get myself interested in video games. I've been given video game players and they just sit there connected to my TVs gathering dust until eventually I unplug them so I can put in another special-region DVD player.”

I Can Games Given Player Special Tvs Connected Video Dust Regions Gathering Dvds

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“I've got to pick myself up Dust myself off And start all over again.”

Picks Dust

Author:Peter Tosh

“I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.”

Evil Dust Bites Doubted Apartheid

Author:Desmond Tutu

“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.”

World Want Trying Believe Children Has Beens I Believe Justice Injustice Dust Imperfect Tenderness Palestinian Severe Delay Disrespect

Author:Alice Walker

“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

Lines Forever Feet Tomorrow Draws Tyranny Dust Tyrants Segregation Toss Gauntlet Racial Segregation

Author:George C. Wallace

“Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.”

Doe Dust

Author:Dionne Warwick

“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”

Fall Cutting Blood Ambition Lust Dust Diamond Tennis Balls Glow Worms

Book:The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

Source: The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster

“Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.”

Seems Consequence Argument Dust Dry

Author:George Will

“It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.”

Should Joy Spirit Literature Alive Impossible Sorrow Active Cease Dust Organized Restless Joys And Sorrows Restless Spirit

Book:Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

Source: Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

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