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“At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.”

Ends Hell Middle Notes Average The End Of The Day Differentiate Being Played Punters

Author:Jeff Beck

“Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. We're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.”

Humans Said Found Stuff Results Middle Century Changed Standards Average Oil Fuel Gas Coal Fossils Human History Fossil Fuel Seductive Standards Of Living Keynes

Author:Bill McKibben

“There are ways to minimize the risk if you are a woman working in the Middle East: You can dress modestly, wear the hijab, cover your head, always travel with a man.”

Ifs Men Way Risk Middle Dresses East Over You Middle East Hijab

Author:Lynsey Addario

“Photography is an individual passion of mine. I don't get paid to do it, although people offer me money. I do it because I love it, and if there's no money attached, I don't have to do anything. It's my weekend away, my vacation, whether it's an hour or five hours or editing photos on my laptop in the middle of the night. It gives me relief from all the other stuff.”

People Ifs Giving Night Passion Individual Stuff Hours Five Middle Mines Offers Photography Give Me Paid Relief Weekend Vacation Editing No Money Middle Of The Night Laptops

Author:Nikki Sixx

“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.”

“Getting up way in advance of dawn is always a good idea. Nearly ninety-nine percent of the time when I have gotten up in the middle of the night for a shoot, something good always presents itself to offset the nagging tiredness and discomfort of losing sleep.”

Way Ideas Night Sleep Middle Losing Percent Nine Dawn Good Ideas Ninety Discomfort Middle Of The Night Ninety Nine Nagging Tiredness

Author:Peter Menzel

“We come from an abundant, endlessly providing, always forthcoming, always giving source. If we would just stay like that, if we would be forthcoming and giving and sharing and allowing, excluding no one, then it wouldn't be possible to have wars in the Middle East, or poverty in Africa, or any of these kinds of things.”

Ifs Giving Kind War Would Be Poverty Middle Source East Allowing Middle East Providing Forthcoming

Author:Wayne Dyer

“Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.”

Humans Human Beings Middle Expression Right Now Happenings Obvious Vulnerability Fragile Connecting

Author:Jason Mraz

“I grew up in a middle class household with parents, went to good schools, and never feared for anything, never wanted for anything that was really important. For all of us living in this world, all of us who have the resources, for us to not dedicate ourselves to giving something back, is to leave the world a lesser place.”

World Giving Important Wanted School Parent Class Middle This World Grew Grew Up Resources Middle Class Household Never Fear Good School

Author:Annie Lennox

“In America, if your next-door neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want one too. But in England, if your neighbor has a Rolls-Royce, you want him to die in a fiery accident. That's a quote from someone else, but there's something about American optimism, that feeling you can do anything if you're at least middle class in America. If I can have a writing career, anyone can. There's nothing special about me.”

Ifs Want Writing I Can Feelings America Dies Next Can Do Class Careers Doors Middle Special Optimism England Accidents Neighbor Middle Class Fiery Want Him Rolls Royce Next Door Neighbors

Author:David Sedaris

“The answer to the nature of our existence is somewhere in the middle, and that, of course, is what we're looking for: how to see ourselves in a new picture of ourselves and understand the questions that humans have asked forever, "Who are we, how did we get here, where are we going, and what's the nature of this reality that we're in?"”

Humans Reality Courses Answers Existence Forever Middle

Author:Edgar Mitchell

“At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].”

Men Kids Age Realizing Accepting Middle Baby Fifty Forty Mortality Ignored Middle Ages Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:John Travolta

“I think the new school is dope. Artists like Kid Cudi, The Cool Kids, Drake and Wale can come out of middle class homes and be on tracks with people like Jay-Z, who's from the hood and the street.”

People Thinking Home Kids School Artist Class Streets Middle Track Middle Class Hood Dope Wales Cool Kid

Author:SonReal

“I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.”

Stories Guy Grows Poor Class Growing Up Rich Middle Sticks Middle Class Middle Class Family

Author:SonReal

“In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.”

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Author:Young Jeezy

“My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.”

People Ideas Real Middle Elements Findings Approach Extremes Real Life Substance Nails Cartoon Animated Coffins Lure Craziest

Author:Busta Rhymes

“At one time I was a nihilistic punk with a mohican and a ring in my nose. I think in the course of time I'll find a middle ground, but I also carry that sense of responsibility. I'm in a position to defeat stereotypes.”

Thinking Courses Responsibility Middle Position Defeat Rings Noses One Time Punk Stereotype Sense Of Responsibility Middle Ground

Author:Michelle Shocked

“I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.”

Done Hands Reading Middle Directors Paper Auditions Casting Casting Directors

Author:Kevin Hart

“My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.”

Knows Kids Poor Middle Brother My Brother Laughed

Author:Dick Van Dyke

“I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve.”

People Needs Important Done Class Economy Middle Taxes Lows Deserve Agree Middle Class Screws Whatever It Takes

Author:Barack Obama

“I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.”

May Hard Class Middle Middle Class Als

Author:Jimmy Carr

“Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me. I called the process of discovery 'halftime,' and the outcome led to my second half.”

Age Process Half Middle Discovery Crisis Lays Outcomes Better Life Middle Ages Halftime

Author:Bob Buford

“[T]he people of Iraq have spoken to the world, and the world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Time [is] flowing in the middle of the night.”

Night Middle Middle Of The Night

Author:Alfred the Great

“Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.”

Knows Men Courses Middle Decide Upon

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given at Cardiff University last year. Astrology is not mere superstition but contains some psychological facts (like theosophy) which are of considerable importance. Astrology has actually nothing to do with the stars but is the 5000-year-old psychology of antiquity and the Middle Ages.”

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Author:Carl Jung

“I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Bits Term Middle Tough Cups Tea Shells Nasty Typical Cups Of Tea Crabs

Author:Katherine Jenkins

“Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.”

Whole Chance Careers Middle Realising Middle Aged Another Life

Author:Sharon Stone

“The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.”

Facts Values Social Class Middle Weight Aids Middle Class Permit Yearning Speakers Sheer Avoiding Syllables Euphemism Pomposity

Book:Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

Source: Class: A Guide Through the American Status System

“The land is not old. It only changes, becoming one thing and the next. We are the ones who ascribe age, the brevity of our lives demanding a beginning, middle and end.”

Ends Age Next Our Lives One Thing Land Middle Becoming Brevity Becoming One Beginning Middle And End

Author:Craig Childs

“My God! Middle Earth does exist!”

Doe Earth Middle Middle Earth

Author:Elijah Wood

“I respect all religions. What I don't respect is when people use religion to attack others. I've met people across the world, in the middle of nowhere, who are just trying to survive and all they have is religion. In some why, it helps them, and I wouldn't take it away from them. There are also people who use to to hate and kill. I don't consider them religious people.”

People World Trying Helping Use Hate Religious Middle Mets Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.”

Age Middle Goes On Holiday Packs Middle Ages Sweaters

Author:Denis Norden

“I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.”

People Ifs Thinking Should Firsts Dream Lasts Left Pieces Middle Ocean Clinging Driftwood

Author:Kevin Costner

“I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.”

Way Feels Should Persons Middle Sitting Nervous Restaurants Judged Being Judged Misconstrued

Author:Rachel Hunter

“You need to be able to ride past the technology by understanding what it can do, who you are, and where you want to take it. You don't want technology to lead you; you want to lead it, but it's very hard to do that when you're in the middle of it.”

Want Needs Hard Able Past Understanding Can Do Technology Middle Who You Are

Author:Paula Scher

“I woke up; I go to the window, open the curtain. I don't know why! In the middle of night, usually I don't do that. Something drove me... And then I was freeze-framed! The lightship showed one light after the other, in such intensity!”

Knows Light Night Middle Window Intensity Curtains Freeze Framed

Author:Nina Hagen

“Negotiating techniques do not work all that well with kids, because in the middle of a negotiation, they will say something completely unrelated such as, 'You know what? I have a belly button!' and completely throw you off guard.”

Knows Wells Kids Middle Technique Buttons Negotiation Belly Negotiating Belly Buttons

Author:Robert Foster Bennett

“That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people.”

People Hands Seems Middle Offers Fingers Invisible Awful Adam Invisible Hand Middle Finger

Book:3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

Source: 3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?

“There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.”

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Cannabis always made me paranoid; I felt like people were watching me. And now I'm sober, and I've got this talk show in the middle of the night on CBS, and I now know that no one is watching me.”

People Knows Made Shows Night Felt Middle Sober Paranoid Middle Of The Night Cannabis Talk Shows

Author:Craig Ferguson

“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”

Knows Men World Young Community Cities Middle Summer Europe East Young Man Tension Divided Middle East Eastern Instability Eastern Europe Missouri American Cities Ferguson

Author:Barack Obama

“Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.”

Self Poor Class Rich Middle Discipline Factors Middle Class Self Discipline

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

Men Want Age Young Nature Middle Young Man Smoking Weed Attributes Marijuana Middle Ages Soothing

Book:Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

Source: Three Men in a Boat (illustrated) + Three Men on the Bummel + Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: The best of Jerome K. Jerome

“The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.”

Whole Problem Political Social Class Middle Conditions Example Middle Class

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.”

“Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.”

Way Found Sports Middle Car Female Scientist Males Expensive Buying Mice Middle Aged Menopause Sports Cars

Author:Conan O'Brien

“If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.”

Ifs Two Middle Car Right Now East Middle East Suvs Prius

Author:Meryl Streep

“Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.”

Long Two Country Found Grows Cases Four Generations Middle Hair Lows Seasons Horse Hot East Middle East Long Hair Four Generations

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

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