Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Bill Hicks I've been on what I call my UFO Tour, which means, like UFOs, I too have been appearing in small southern towns in front of a handful of hillbillies lately. I've been doubting my own existence.
    Flying Saucer Tour Vol. I
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Bob Dylan I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, ''Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.''
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Anthony Robbins I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Alice Walker I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more people who merely had to change their motive to service in order to change their lives.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • George Eliot I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Beth Ditto I've never had a very quiet voice. I tried in choir to make it smaller, and it just didn't work out. And I listened to a lot of soul music when I was growing up on my own accord. But I was mostly into Mama Cass and Gladys Knight, and they all had big voices too; just different than mine.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Margaret Atwood I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Ben Roethlisberger I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
    Ben Roethlisberger
    American football player (1982 - )
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  • Ben Brantley I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
    Ben Brantley
    American theater critic and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Emily Post Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Aldous Huxley Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Gaston Bachelard Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
    Gaston Bachelard
    French scientist and philosopher (1884 - 1962)
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  • Carolyn Heilbrun Ideas move fast when their time comes.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
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  • John leCarré, John le Carré Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and angels of our striving selves.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Jeremy Collier Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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