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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are all fed from hundreds and thousands of hands. Often we do not know whose they are nor how they work. Only a few of us ever visualize the hands that grope in the coal mines or push levers in the mills or handle axes in the lumber camp.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to skip some school for National Team purposes, I am looking forward to holding that Carolina degree as soon as I can get my hands on it.
- Hard Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must continue working to build trust between communities and law enforcement. We must continue working to guarantee every person in this country equal justice under the law. And we must take a hard look at the ease with which wrongdoers can get their hands on deadly weapons and the frequency with which they use them.
- First Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1968 when I was in high school I built a four-foot-tall remote control robot with pneumatic cylinders that operated his hands. My robot won first place at a science competition at the University of Alabama where my high school was the only African-American school represented. That was a huge moral victory.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been working for this industry since I was 15, and every makeup artist I've known who's worth my time uses Jao Refresher on their hands and their brushes. It's like an all-encompassing sanitizer that smells way better than alcoholy Purell.
- Nov 07, 2020
You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were one of the three viable presidential candidates, I doubt I'd be too broken up about someone looking into my passport file. Go ahead look, I'd say. It's the passport photo I wouldn't want anyone getting his hands on.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'
- Big Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.
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- Nov 07, 2020