Quotes with head-heavy

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  • Bela Fleck My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
    Bela Fleck
     
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antonio Gramsci My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Betty Parsons My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.
    Betty Parsons
    American artist, art dealer, and collector (1900 - 1982)
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  • Jackie Chan My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]
    Jackie Chan
    Actor, stuntman and kung fu expert from Hong Kong (1954 - )
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  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Satchel Paige Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Max Muller No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
    Max Muller
    British-German orientalist and philologist (1823 - 1900)
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  • James Baldwin No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • William Butler Yeats Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
    Source: De correcties
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Benjamin Millepied Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Billy Graham Occasionally I've seen children become heavy-handed and insensitive when dealing with their aging parents, and it only caused resentment and hard feelings.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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