- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hands Quotes
On whose hands hold wealth, power, and craft.
Hands shows up here mostly as a metaphor for control - who holds wealth, who creates it, and who is trusted with responsibility - rather than anything literal. For a related theme of doing rather than holding, see Action.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before, back in the day when I was young, when you had some problems, you dealt with it with your hands. No one had a knife.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a neat kid. I never wanted my hands dirty. I wasn't a dirty kid. A lot of kids like to run around. If I was rolling around the dirt, I went home and took a shower. That's just the way I was. I'm not sure. I might have been born with it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I wanted to be a musician when I saw the movie 'Amadeus' around 1987. I was five years old, so it was a good time to start piano lessons after seeing Tom Hulce who played Mozart play the harpsichord on his back with his hands crossed. Such a great movie to inspire a five-year-old.
- England
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm English, I've always wanted to play for England but it's out of my hands.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had matches go 38 minutes. To be able to move for 38 minutes and have somebody's life in your hands is a difficult thing.
- Demanded
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the time I attempted to purchase the rights back for the 3 Homestead records, but the owner demanded an outrageous sum in the neighborhood of $10,000, about 10 times more money than I could get my hands on at the time.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, Parnelli Jones was the greatest driver of his era. He had aggressiveness and also a finesse that no one else possessed. And he won with everything he put his hands on, including off-road.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way the bankers have kind of toppled the way money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands, is as good as Stalin or Hitler.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far away as you can get from the process of mechanisms and machinery, the more likely your food's going to taste good. And that - that is probably the largest thing I can hand to anybody is let your hands touch it. Let them make it.
- Nov 07, 2020
There's something uniquely exhilarating about puzzling together the truth at the hands of an unreliable narrator.
- Cards
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad actually had business cards made up with my sister's website and my website and all of our information. And he hands them out to people he meets.
- Greatest Weapon
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020