- Brand
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- Nov 07, 2020
Handed Quotes
Lines about what gets passed from one hand to another.
One entry admits a dislike of clothes shopping despite loving clothes themselves, calling it a small luxury to just have someone else pick out the outfit. Another recalls printing and handing out flyers for a long-shot campaign at a convention, a memory more about the era than the outcome. Related reading sits on the Given quotes page.
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- Exploited
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- Nov 07, 2020
I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020