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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
- Situation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of writing can be a form of release - a confession performs the same action: putting your inner life on the page or into the hands of a trusted person releases tensions and sheds light on what often seems hidden until spoken - or written.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like being in front of a live audience and getting that vibe from them, and I love people to join in the singing, and I love people to clap their hands.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter is one of those dangerous toys that if it gets in the hands of the wrong person you'll have the mind of a 12-year-old masquerading as an adult.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite player growing up was Julius Erving, because I loved the way he played above the rim, all of the tricks with the ball, big hands, and just phenomenal showmanship.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can say, ‘Put your hands up.' And 30,000 people put their hands up. It's one of the craziest things.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Heinrich Heine once imagined the exiled Israelite as a dog who regains his stolen manhood only when he embraces the Sabbath bride. I see western swing performing a similar function in hardscrabble Texas, turning dirt-poor hired hands into Dapper Dans with magic feet at the Saturday night hoe-down.
- Nov 07, 2020
But Sergio Leone invented totally the way of, you know, the details, the eyes, the hands - fantastic.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason why those female celebrities are always in filthy moods is not because they're being hounded by men with massive cameras or because Ridley Scott cancelled their film. They just want to get their hands on a cheeseburger.
- Enraged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Etretat is becoming more and more amazing. Now is the real moment: the beach with all its fine boats; it is superb, and I am enraged not to be more skillful in rendering all this. I would need two hands and hundreds of canvases.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger and obsessed with becoming an artist, the hospital was my New York loft apartment. I would move the furniture around to create space on the floor, throw down some sheets and indulge in any form of art that I could get my hands on.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
- Ethically
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- Nov 07, 2020