Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Sticking Quotes from famous authors such as Diana Penty, Ted Dwane, Koel Mallick, Ben Fountain, Jillian Hervey. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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I have to admit that I’m terrible when it comes to following and sticking to my fitness regime when I’m traveling. Unfortunately, I need to be pushed.
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Sticking to our guns creatively is the only way we’ll ever survive as a band and be happy.
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I was studying psychology honours and was very happy in that zone. I had dreams of pursuing higher education. When the first film happened and another one after that, I was not sure about sticking around in this career. It was never my dream.
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Learning essential stuff is as much a discipline as going to the gym or sticking to a diet, and an excellent antidote for the modern condition of being numb and dumb.
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Londoners always seem to be fearless and more willing to have fun with their look. New Yorkers tend to play it safer – sticking with neutrals and black. In London, people aren’t afraid to mix patterns and colours.
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Really, what matters in the long run is sticking with things and working daily to get better at them.
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I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem.
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It’s weird, but Scion is kind of cool. I couldn’t drive one because I’d look like one of those McDonald’s Happy Meal toys with giant heads sticking out the window.
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Sticking to a routine helps you get in the zone for the match. I always put my left shinpad on before my right. When I go out onto the pitch, I take three hops on my left leg – but I don’t know why I started. I must have seen Messi do it or something.
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Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget.
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I’ve learnt that through life you just get on with it. You’re going to meet a lot of dishonest people along the line and you say good luck to them. I hope they live in comfort. Then I start sticking more pins in their effigies.
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Crucially, I’d like to thank Labour party members up and down the country for sticking with us. For their active citizenship, their willingness to engage in our democracy, and for being there at the cutting edge of making our democracy work.
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My father never was and isn’t a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in life without sticking it to anybody. And that’s a great example for a man, a strong man, a man’s man, to give to his children. You can succeed, you can be successful, without walking over somebody.
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Conservatism to me is limited government, liberty and sticking to the Constitution and realizing that government is not the solution to almost anything, that your community, your family is the solution to everything.
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My father had owned a ranch when he was younger, in Montana, and he remembered riding his horse across the prairie and seeing some large bones sticking out of the ground. He was enough of a geologist, being a sand and gravel man, to have a pretty good notion that they were dinosaur bones.
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In all these years of doing theatre, I’ve been a very physical performer – physically demonstrative, yet sticking to the realism of the piece.
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If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals’ behinds, I would be a vet.
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Impulse decisions can often be our downfall when it comes to sticking to good habits. Do something to buy yourself some time when you’re experiencing those ‘moments’ of weakness, and often, the urge will pass. If you keep the cookies in a box in the basement, you might find it’s not worth the effort to go get them.
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I understand that the truth can upset people, but I’m never going to stop sticking up for myself, or for what I think is right.
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My dad wanted me to go down a more academic route. He is very much about sticking to the rule book and sticking to the blueprint of a successful career.
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I’ve got a vibe going on with a lot of what I’ve been doing, and to completely change it based off of me having a child might be a little confusing. I’m sure as my life goes forward, and she starts growing up, there will be a lot more things to include in my music. But, at this point, I’m just sticking to what I do.
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The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
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I’m always sticking up for other people.
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I actually re-signed with Warner Bros. on my own. They’ve been really good to us and all the people over there are great; they love me and I love them. So I’m just sticking with them.
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On all the ‘Housewives’ shows, there’s always some wannabe wife who’s always sticking her head in.
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Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It’s hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.
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If I were on the field, I’d want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.
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It’s hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
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In LA, where I live, it’s all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
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I’m just not sticking to one thing. I like to have fun with it. I like to spread myself in many ways, so you’re gonna get all types of music.
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When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don’t know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
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The fact is, after a certain age, high heels can feel as painful as someone sticking hot pins into the soles of your feet.
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Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions.
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I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.
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I used to exercise an hour every day – no excuses. I live in absolutes: I either exercise every day, or I let myself off the hook. I’m trying to find that balance of working out three or four days a week and sticking to it.
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I did a really good job of sticking to the tennis court.
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One of the best paradoxes of leadership is a leader’s need to be both stubborn and open-minded. A leader must insist on sticking to the vision and stay on course to the destination. But he must be open-minded during the process.
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It’s about sticking to your strengths – I’m not trying to run away from nobody or do any double stopovers or anything like that, have you seen how big these legs are? Though i’m sure people would love to see it.
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Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.
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It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I’m sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.
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Crashes are the worst thing because your wounds stick to you, so you are sweating into your road rash all day and when you try to sleep your wounds are sticking to the bed sheets. It is part of the job and we know the risks.
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‘Power’ is Andy Bean’s first television job, ever. Talk about sticking the landing at first go!
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I turned down a lot of parts, and I ate a lot of canned tuna for dinner because I was just like, ‘No, I don’t want to do that; no, that’s awful.’ But sticking to my guns paid off, and I can look back now and be proud that I refused to take any stereotypical Asian parts.
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The best thing about doing a realistic film is that you have the freedom to deliver your lines as natural as possible without sticking to the script.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it’s a tightrope. It’s a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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I’m just shocked and thankful that I’ve gotten away with everything – experimenting here, trying at this, failing at that, being good in some things, not so good in others. It’s kind of amazing that people are still sticking by me. When they come up to me in the street, I just want to write them all cheques.
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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
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‘Charlie Hebdo’ had been nondenominational in its satire, sticking its finger into the sensitivities of Jews and Christians, too – but only Muslims responded with threats and acts of terrorism.
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I was proud of President Trump for sticking up for the American taxpayer and saying it’s time for you to shoulder your burden. You are not fulfilling your promise that you made to NATO. And you need to step up to the plate.
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In a way I feel completely frightened of dealing with other human beings at all, yet here I am sticking my face in front of a movie camera all the time.
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I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That’s just so not me.
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I remember being two, maybe, and hearing my mum’s typewriter in the other room and sticking my hands under the door and screaming, ‘Mum! Mum!’ I was so angry she wouldn’t come out. I got used to it quickly.
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I appreciate your support, particularly this year, for sticking with me.
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My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
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I don’t go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.
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For the record, I am sticking with my claim that the simultaneous degradation of air quality, water quality, water supply, food safety, soil quality, and other environment-related variables is the main challenge to China’s continued development.
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I’ve built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it’s heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes coming off it.
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One of my travelling bugbears is just people-watching or sticking to a rigid to-do list without venturing further afield.
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It comes with experience and learning and knowing the game. It’s not necessarily about sticking your chest out and saying, ‘I’m tough.’
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I hate getting old, but I’m sticking with it!
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The ‘Sticky’ video symbolizes the merry-go-round period of love, where things aren’t quite right, but you can’t help sticking around each other.
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I don’t want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don’t want to fix children once the system’s broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that – because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.
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I spent a week in Wensleydale with a real vet called Jack Watkinson, living with him and going out on calls at 4 A. M. Sticking my hand up cows’ bums became second nature. I got really good at it.
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I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the writing. I think that if the writing is good and the point of view is strong, the writing is going to take care of itself.
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Actors are like Swiss Army knives – we’re ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that’s the only thing they can imagine.
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When a company is charging money for a product – as Evernote does for all above its most basic service, and same for Dropbox and SugarSync – you understand its incentive for sticking with that product.
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I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are depriving themselves of intellectual stimulation in the workplace – and personal growth – by sticking to the stultifying, rigid system that I call corporatism.
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I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.
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I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there’s something more to say.
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There’s an anecdote that’s really been sticking with me: To be a Black man in America, you are born into the horror genre. You are not safe. Period. Full stop.
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I am very tall, and when you’re a teenager, you want to be like everyone else. I used to slump a lot; it’s very human at that stage to want to be part of the crowd and not want any part of you that is sticking out.
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I always think there’s this thing, when you live in New York, like, this unspoken agreement between everyone who lives there, like, ‘We’re sticking this out. It’s the hardest place to live, but it’s the best city in the world, so we are all going to do this together.’
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Alongside my ‘no email’ policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, and send letters and postcards to people. There is a huge pleasure in writing a letter, putting it in an envelope and sticking the stamp on it. And huge pleasure in receiving real letters, too.
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Sticking to good habits can be hard work, and mistakes are part of the process. Don’t declare failure simply because you messed up or because you’re having trouble reaching your goals. Instead, use your mistakes as opportunities to grow stronger and become better.
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I love trying new things but, of course, love sticking to the classic makeup looks.
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Values can set a company apart from the competition by clarifying its identity and serving as a rallying point for employees. But coming up with strong values – and sticking to them – requires real guts.
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Human language… prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.
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Both at Barca and the Spanish national team we know that the best way to win is by sticking to our philosophy.
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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
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You work on you doing your thing, sticking to your game plan, not letting stuff distract you and get you into a danger zone.
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Kentucky has always said you can’t really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it’s a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That’s our story, and we’re sticking to it.
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I like and respect the idea of people sticking with their friends.
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I started rooting – you know, sticking up joints – with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was – the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.
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Growing up, I learned the value of sticking up for my brown-skinned friends amongst my white-skinned friends.
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If you go to Japan, you have to take the train and go visit different capital cities. Just sticking to one city would be a shame, considering how easy it is to get around. Tokyo, Osaka, and Kyoto all have different vibes and sights.
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This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!
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I’m not very good at sticking at things if I can’t be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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Lil Uzi and I gave Philly different sounds by stepping outside of the box and not sticking to the stigma.
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It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.
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The name came about from me just closing my eyes and sticking a pen on a map of South Africa. St. Lucia was the fifth place that the pen landed on.
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Hats off to Julian and Johnny, the producers, for sticking to their guns with the five-season story arc of ‘Merlin’. It would have been too easy to give in to demand and stretch the show on beyond their original plan because of its incredible success.
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‘Stand By You’ is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren’t alone.
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For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.
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Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
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I could see hunks of metal and rocks sticking out of my legs.
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I had everything you could collect. I had these Spice Girls postcards. I also had the stickers and Barbie girls. I had all five of them. I was a real fangirl. They were actually preaching some cool stuff, the thing about girl power and sticking together with your best girlfriends.
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There are people out there who want me to fail. I’m sticking to those people who believe in me.
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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
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Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what’s going to be some very trying times.
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I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I’m not proud of them.
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No nose hair. Ever. You’d be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can’t get it. How can you see that and not just want to hack it off?
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Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.
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I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I’m often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do.
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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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Before anybody knew who I was, I was just working on what I love and having fun with it, and I’m sticking with that – because, ultimately, that’s what people want to see.
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I’d feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a little.
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I mean, I wasn’t fortunate enough to have ever experienced starting out with a band and sticking with them, so that would be interesting to me. People whose bands start out like that, when they break up it’s always terrible.
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We’re just very passionate about girls sticking together and the sisterhood of things.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it’s probably kind of sad to live forever if you’re the only one sticking around.
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I believe President Obama means everything he says about sticking to the unprecedented backing of Israel and keeping all options on the table against Tehran, as well as countering its adventures in Syria, Yemen, and Iraq.
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‘A League of Their Own’ had some special meaning for me, I guess – it’s about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there’s drama and struggles. I’m really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.
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I’m sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I’m thinking I’ll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.
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I’m sticking to what I’ve always said, either the right movie gets made or no movie gets made.
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I just want to say thanks to everyone who has been a part of ‘iCarly’, and that includes the fans. Thank you for sticking with us and staying loyal for six years of the show.
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What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.
118
My sister, when we were in Elementary school, had one particular lime green fuzzy troll doll sweater with a gem sticking out of the belly and actual hair that stuck to it, and I just remember, even though I was very young, being like ‘This is unusual. It is weird that she is wearing this in public.’
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That’s probably the key to our success and our longevity, sticking to our formula and what we do best, the hardcore Mobb Deep sound, rather than chasing trains. But we’re always experimenting with the art and the creativity of hip-hop.
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His unit is in charge of 5,000 homes, and they’ve only been able to search about 2 percent of them. People are standing on roofs or sticking their hands out of air vents so they can get rescued.
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We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.
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Unless we break from sectionalism and sticking to precedents, there will be no revival of Japan.
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I’m not worried about making a certain type of music or sticking to one type of music.
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In the initial stages of my journey, I was trying to travel too fast by horse by sticking to a ‘five days on and two off’ schedule. On the steppe, time is not measured by days, weeks or hours but the fall of the seasons and condition of the animals.
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What I didn’t know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
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As Oregonians, we share a deep optimism for a better future. From the time of the Oregon Trail, we have understood that a better future won’t just happen by accident or by sticking with the status quo.
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I don’t think drag will ever be mainstream because it’s counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.
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Everyone has a few little quirks in their preparation – I just tend to do the same sort of things as I did in previous competitions – but there’s nothing too weird, sticking with lucky knickers or socks! For instance, I’ll see my family the day before a fight but won’t see them on the day.
129
I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It’s wild and incredible.
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In the past, the main problem for me was sticking with the game plan.
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I think, as an actor, you’re constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.
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For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
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You have to have faith in yourself, keep believing and sticking to the game plan, and hope when the chance does come, one of you will put it away.
134
Sticking to my schedule, I’ve gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a ‘Pearls Before Swine’ movie script for the big screen.
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My dad is good at sticking with stuff and he has a strong work ethic, which is imbued in me. Growing up, he would constantly ask what I was doing and was I achieving anything.
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I had cartilage sticking out my nose. I couldn’t breathe out of my left nostril.
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I like to leave things open, and even when I write out the story ahead of time, it always changes. I don’t think I would finish anything if I was sticking to a plan that was very rigid.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else’s house!
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don’t remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, ‘Manicures and massage, come on in.’ My mother rushed in, saying, ‘All these weirdos are knocking on the door.’
143
Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don’t like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.
144
Privacy is important to me. But it’s not just about sticking two fingers up and saying I don’t want anyone to know my business. It’s an artistic choice. I think that for any actor to convince their audience that they have completely inhabited a character requires a certain level of anonymity.
145
The place I most missed my husband and family was when I stayed at Giraffe Manor, which is a crazy hotel in Kenya where giraffes wander around sticking their necks in through the top-floor windows for snacks.
146
In football you never know what’s around the corner, but by sticking together – directors, management, players and fans – we can look to do something.
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I would never use prosthetics. I don’t like sticking things on. I don’t really like wearing wigs, either.
148
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man’s face right after he has learned of his wife’s death?
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When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall.
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Start with a clean grill. Keep it clean by brushing with a wire brush after preheating, and again after cooking. Make sure to oil your grates and your food before putting it on the grill to keep it from sticking.
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You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that’s just sticking with my family.
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I would love to do film someday, but I think we are all so happily in tune with ‘Glee’ that we are sticking with that right now.
153
A lot of people involved in the Black Lives Matter movement are actually sticking up for those other lives. They are turning out for their Muslim brothers and sisters who are now being targeted.
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When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too.
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We want to grow old together, and even when we won’t have fame, success, fans, we know we will still be sticking to each other.
156
I don’t know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I’ve always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm – whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
157
I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.
158
I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I’m courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!
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Therapy is really good, so I’m kind of sticking with therapy.
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If there’s a principle really worth sticking up for, I’ll go the whole way.
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If you have reason to think that yesterday’s forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I’m sticking to the script, I’m putting that organic feeling back in the game.
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I’m one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I’m very good at doing that, but I don’t like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.
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There’s something to be said for perseverance. We’ve been sticking it out a long time.
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The way football is, sometimes, everything that could go wrong goes wrong. You have to dig yourselves out of that by simply working hard and sticking together.
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I used to throw a lot of stuff against the wall, just to see what ended up sticking; now I’m pretty much using everything that I create for a record.
167
After getting driven into the ground by the policies of the Bush administration, the economy is creeping up. It’s doing that because people are sticking their shoulders to the wheel. Community banks are doing a lot of lending to small businesses and keeping them going.
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I really believe that if we were from another planet, and we sat down to put our heads together on torture experiments, the concept of sticking a needle into someone and sucking their blood out would probably qualify as a pretty good one.
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VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn’t happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.
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My only responsibility as a playwright and a storyteller is to give you the time of your life in the theatre. I just happen to think that with Hamilton’s story, sticking close to the facts helps me. All the most interesting things in the show happened.
171
I like the package deal. A lot of schools just want me, but I know what I’m standing for. I know what I’m here for. I’d rather be with my brother than without my brother. Some college, I actually turned down because they didn’t want the package deal. I’m sticking with it.
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I love my job and I love my children. It’s really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.
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I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word ‘marriage.’ Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
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I like to be a creative variable rather than sticking to a dogma.
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My eyes are so big that, weirdly, I feel like an alien if my eyelashes don’t match their intensity. I like to curl my lashes to the point where they’re sticking straight up and then put on a ton of mascara!
