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  • I'm not much into anything too flashy.

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  • Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

  • My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

  • Unfortunately, marketing textbooks is like marketing fishing lures: the point is to catch fishermen, not fish. Thus many adopted textbooks are flashy to catch the eye of adoption committees but dull when read by students.

    Eye   Fishing   Adoption  
    James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.347, The New Press
  • Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.

    Rich   Easy   Flashy  
  • serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular state of being. Just sitting, one simply meets the immediate present. Desiring some flashy experience, or anything more or other than 'this' is mere worldly vanity and craving.

    John Daido Loori (2010). “The Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza (Large Print 16pt)”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The tango is a very interior dance. It's not an exterior - it's not flashy and all over the floor. It's a very interior dance when you see the old guys dance in the clubs. I learned everything from the old guys in the clubs.

    Guy   Clubs   Tango  
    "If You Hire Robert Duvall Not to Flinch, He Damn Well Won't Flinch". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2014.
  • Every young woman should dress well, that is, neatly, tastefully, modestly, whether she be rich or poor. Conspicuous dressing is vulgar. True refinement avoids anything showy and flashy: it never dresses better than it can afford, and yet it is always well dressed, even in simple muslin or plain calico.

  • We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

    Noise   Bigs   Flashy  
  • Even when I was a hip-hop DJ I always kept it classy. The motto is always 'flashy but classy.' You've got to be original and stand out from the crowd and take some chances. But you've always got to keep it classy.

    Hip Hop   Crowds   Hips  
    Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.
  • Years ago, while I was watching a baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers, I remember staring in awe at Cal Ripken. I realized during this game that 'you don't have to be flashy' or have 'power numbers' to be great. It's about the simple things that are the hard things. It's about leadership, work ethic and commitment.

  • My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  • There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota. We never won a pennant there, we were far away from the big media centers of Los Angeles and New York, and I wasn't a flashy power hitter but a guy who hit to spots, who bunted and stole bases.

    New York   Player   Media  
  • Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

    Hands   Feet   Important  
  • I'm a quiet person, I'm not a flashy art world person. I'm in the studio in the middle of nowhere. There's sheep and fields. The work has to be authentic in that way.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

    Strong   Real   Mean  
    "Holland Taylor stirs things up on 'Two and a Half Men'". Associated Press, www.today.com. August 10, 2004.
  • The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

  • The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.

    Gun   Men   Play  
  • The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  • I`ve always liked Dennis Chambers, he`s real flashy.

    Real   Flashy   Chamber  
  • I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system.

    Stars   Character   Voice  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Don't be cocky. Don't be flashy. There's always someone better than you.

  • I'm an old-school guy. I don't try to be too flashy.

    School   Guy   Trying  
  • So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.

    Teenage   Guy   Narrators  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • Chicago theater vs. New York theater. There's just nothing to say about it really. If you've seen Chicago theater, you know that the work is true to what is there on the page. It's not trying to present itself with some sort of flashy, concept-based thing. It's about the work, and it's about the acting you're about to watch. So acting-based theater feels like it was born there to me.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

    Nerves   Gestures   Born  
    Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
  • I don’t want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

    Car   Singing   Would Be  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

  • I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy.

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