Kevin Gates
Rapper, singer, songwriter
"I don't gang bang but I'll bang tha thang!"
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Bangs
217 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it."
Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face."
Johnny Depp
Actor, Producer
"I don't trust anyone who hasn't been self-destructiv e in some way, and who hasn't gone through some sort of bout of self-loathing. You've got to bang yourself around a bit to know yourself."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it."
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"Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you."
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"If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper."
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"Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise."
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"I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail."
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"I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films."
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"Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it's done right. Even a pancake."
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"It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see."
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"You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe..."
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"And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else."
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"Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it."
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"If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway."
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"A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train."
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"The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes"
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"We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all."
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"I'm a rap comedian the same way Bill Cosby is a jazz comedian, Cosby's laid back. I'm like, bang, bang bang, right into it."
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"You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are."
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"The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood."
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"I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off."
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"If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form."
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"The radiation left over from the Big Bang is the same as that in your microwave oven but very much less powerful. It would heat your pizza only to minus 271.3*C - not much good for defrosting the pizza, let alone cooking it."
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