Stopped Me Quotes
41 quotes by 40 authors
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When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an…
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
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A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day. She said, 'Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?' I…
— Jimmy Carr
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I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place.…
— Stokely Carmichael
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A policeman stopped me and said: Would you please blow into this bag, sir? I said: What for, officer? He said: My chips are too…
— Tommy Cooper
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The voice is always in my head. In fact I aspire to be more like Mario. What could be better than rescuing and falling in…
— Charles Martinet
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But coming home that day, walking downhill with a panorama of valley and hills before me, I turned my gaze inward, and what I saw,…
— Bernadette Roberts
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I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds…
— Alexis Arguello
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of…
— Isabel Allende
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Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.
— Rachel Hartman
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People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they're referring to June Cleaver.
— Barbara Billingsley
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Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
— Quentin Tarantino
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I could always escape into this demi-monde of homosexuality, which I feel really indebted to. It stopped me being a 'mummy's boy.'
— Rufus Wainwright
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I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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...this time I didn't launch into my usual tirade. Was it a memory of Krishna, the cool silence with which he countered disagreement, that stopped…
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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No one wants to hear you speak, Bradie Boy," Kitten said in that scratchy voice of hers. "Like that's ever stopped me. I can't believe…
— Gena Showalter
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If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
— Tanith Lee
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It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore…
— Hugh Laurie
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I’d never seen a man cry before, only on TV. I’d never even seen Dad close to crying. Those tears looked so odd on you.…
— Lucy Christopher
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The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they…
— Daniel Quinn
Who Wrote These Stopped Me Quotes
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