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“I listen to a lot of rap where men talk a certain way about women and I'm not offended. It's meant to be funny. I'm throwing it right back at them with humor, but some people can't take it. They're not used to women talking back.”

People Men Way Used Certain Talking Rap Meant To Be Throwing Offended Talking Back

Author:Kesha

“I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.”

Giving Trying Two Wanted Three Stuff Week Perspective Down And Tired Throwing Throwing Things

Author:Krist Novoselic

“You have to be a brat in order to carve out your parameters, and you have to be a monster to anyone who gets in your way. But sometimes it's difficult to know when that's necessary and when you're just being a baby, throwing your rattle from the cage.”

Knows Way Sometimes Order Difficult Baby Monsters Throwing Just Being Cages Parameters Brat

Author:Paul Thomas Anderson

“Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.”

Should Writing Used Waste Paper Should Have Dinner Saved Newspapers Magazines Breakfast Lunch Throwing Guests Mail Delicious Flavor Ink Printing Baskets Dinner Guests

Book:M: Writings ’67–’72

Source: M: Writings ’67–’72

“Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.”

Should Littles Humor Funny Mirrors Throwing

Author:Jean Cocteau

“It is throwing our life away, to think of the wrong things.”

Thinking Throwing Wrong Things

Author:Hugh Nibley

“When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”

Giving Wells Water Enemy Arms Rivers Decided Necks Throwing Destroying Wraps Aversion

Author:Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

“And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?”

Turns Republican Feds Throwing Cliffs Granny

Author:Neil Cavuto

“Chris [Kattan] and Will [Ferrell] and I all went out – I don’t want to say where, because it’s a famous restaurant and it’s Italian-owned and I don’t want any trouble. But I ended up throwing up all night from food poisoning. All the blood vessels in my eyes were broken, and the blood vessels in my face. I did not sleep. I walked into the audition and the makeup person said, ‘Oh my God, what happened to you?’ I looked like I was in a car accident.”

“I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know.”

People Ifs Knows Kind May Ends Enough Feelings Might Age Hate Fall Secret Football College Terrible Office Paper Picks Honestly Bars Thirty Throwing Riding Clip Hate People Paper Clips

Author:J. D. Salinger

“We please God most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms.”

Trying Arms Please Throwing

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore”

Men Politics Left Party Responsible Democratic Clinton Legacy One Man Als Throwing Destroying Revival Gore Pitching Populist Throwing Away

Author:Andrew Sullivan

“Quietly scuttling Columbus Day sales doesn't mean they are opposed to 15th century Iberian seafarers; it just means They don't want protestors on the sales floor throwing blood on the Calvin Klein hosiery in the name of the anti-imperialistic cause.”

Want Mean Politics Names Causes Blood Century Throwing Columbus Columbus Day

Author:James Lileks

“In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken nor betrayed, and that your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion. This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point of the Christian religion, which, when we have it, all else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is precarious.”

“It's important to understand it's OK to control the subject. If most editorial stories were photographed just as they are, editors would end up throwing most in the waste basket. You have to work hard at making an editorial picture. You need to re-stage things, rearrange things so that they work for the story, with truth and without lying.”

Ifs Needs Important Ends Hard Stories Lying Subjects Stage Hard Work Waste Photography Photographer Editors Throwing Baskets Editorials

Author:Alfred Eisenstaedt

“The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.”

People Ifs Knows Want Lasts Party Minutes Love You Vote Election God Love Canada Throwing Headings Last Minute God Loves You Liberal Party

Author:Rick Mercer

“I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.”

Years Term White Poor News Not Sure Throwing Elites Trash Harvard Southerner White Trash

Author:Bernard Goldberg

“Serving the reader by working cooperatively with the writer? Sometimes throwing 'the rules' out the window? Clearing the decks of pet peeves, mythical prohibitions and intractability? That is subversive. And welcome.”

Sometimes Reader Window Welcome Pet Serving Throwing Prohibition Deck Subversive Clearing Peeves Pet Peeve

Author:Craig Lancaster

“Im thinking of buying a monkey. Then I think, Why stop at one? I don't like being limited in that way. Therefore, I'm considering a platton of monkeys, so that people will look at me and see how mellow and well-adjusted I am compared to these monkeys throwing feces around.”

People Thinking Way Wells Looks Buying Throwing Considering Monkeys Look At Me Mellow

Author:Robert Downey, Jr.

“In the futile attempts we all make to tidy up our lives and our surroundings, nothing is more difficult than throwing out a book.”

Book Difficult Our Lives Throwing Surroundings Tidy

Author:Andy Rooney

“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.”

Firsts Self Creativity Conscious Throwing Self Conscious

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?”

Kind Lasts Games Violence Devices Throwing Pornography Resorts

Book:The complete short stories

Source: The complete short stories

“A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you”

Writing Trying Mind Made Asks Trouble Ready Sentences Phrases Throwing Constructs Obliged Shirk

Author:George Orwell

“Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.”

Objects Forgiveness Stones Adversity Forgiving Oneself Extremes Throwing Doing Good Provocation

Book:Path To Tranquility

Source: Path To Tranquility

“No man should dogmatize except on the subject of theology. Here he can take his stand, and by throwing the burden of proof on the opposition, he is invincible. We have to die to find out whether he is right.”

Men Should Dies Subjects Burden Proof Theology Opposition Throwing Invincible Dogmatism Burden Of Proof

Author:Elbert Hubbard

“If you get to be a really big headliner, you have to be prepared for people throwing bottles at you in the night.”

People Ifs Bigs Night Prepared Bottles Throwing Be Prepared

Author:Mick Jagger

“Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.”

Water Knowing Painting Swim Throwing

Author:Edouard Manet

“Oppression costs the oppressor too much if the oppressed stands up and protests. The protest need not be merely physical-the throwing of stones and bullets-if it is mental, spiritual; if it expresses itself in silent, persistent dissatisfaction, the cost to the oppressor is terrific.”

Ifs Needs Spiritual Too Much Cost Stones Silent Oppression Protest Throwing Bullets Oppressed Persistent Terrific Dissatisfaction Oppressors

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois

“I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.”

Thinking Kind Ideas Stories Would Be Emotion Objects Normal Cameras Intimate Realistic Throwing

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.”

Way Party Class Clear Middle Movement Socialism Middle Class Nationalism Throwing Fascism Marxism Crystals Cowardly Synthesis Goering Cauldrons

Author:Hermann Goring

“I like throwing snowballs at small children.”

Children Throwing Small Child Snowball

Author:Sam Mendes

“In the past I would self destruct when it came to love - I was immature, throwing myself into things but now times have changed, I want a relationship where you understand the other person.”

Want Persons Self Past Relationship Changed Throwing Immature Self Destruct Times Have Changed

Author:Elisabetta Canalis

“I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.”

People Want Real Play Party Four Rocks Hero Band Ten Guitar Throwing Rock Bands Mics Guitar Hero

Author:Elizabeth Banks

“Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.”

Ifs Records Selling Fantastic Throwing Knives Loving What You Do

Author:Wes Borland

“I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.”

Writing Long Used Stuff Realizing Hours Late Quitting Throwing Afternoon I Quit Long Hours Late Afternoon

Author:Robert Caro

“I'm a little bit superstitious, and I think that just comes from playing hockey. I won't avoid the number thirteen. A big one for me, though, is walking under a ladder. I've always felt like that's tempting fate. That's just throwing it right in their face. Check me out. I just walked under a ladder. What are you going to do about it?”

Thinking Littles Bigs Faces Felt Bits Numbers Fate Walking Little Bit Checks Hockey Throwing Ladders Thirteen Superstitious Tempting One For Me Playing Hockey Tempting Fate

Author:James Badge Dale

“I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.”

Children Beautiful Parent Cities Teach Streets London Throwing Disgusting Beautiful City

Author:Britt Ekland

“We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're my weaker events - they don't come as naturally to me as running and jumping. I like the hurdles and the high-jump, I'm a springy, speedy athlete so those suit me.”

Littles Long Running Bits Events Little Bit Athlete Suits More Time Throwing Jumping Hurdle Hurdling Obstacles Long Jump

Author:Jessica Ennis

“I've been looking at people and how they change with the times, and lately all I've been seeing are people throwing love away and losing their minds.”

People Mind Reality Seeing Losing Throwing

Author:Michael Martin Murphey

“Football is my profession now. I'm getting married in August... It's a new experience for me as someone just getting out of college. I still have the same attitude about football I always had. I play hard. I enjoy practice. I'd rather be throwing in passing drills than sitting around and watching TV.”

“It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.”

Want Humans Feelings Pain Loss Emotion Attention Heard Share Cry Fit Blame Punishment Recovery Upset Throwing Scream Being Human Being Alone Wrongdoing Feeling Sad

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.”

Want Play Stories Guy Grows Risk Scared Insane Throwing Telling Stories Kitsch Curveballs

Author:Taylor Kitsch

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