Words matter. These are the best Double Quotes from famous people such as Vic Reeves, Chaka Fattah, Paul Pierce, Bill Gates, Annie Lowrey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
People like to be voyeuristic and look at others bickering. That’s part of any double act, from Laurel and Hardy onwards.
Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
We used to play ‘Double Dribble’ on Nintendo. Later, in high school, it was more ‘NBA Live’ and ‘John Madden Football.’
Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.
A thin safety net, an expansive security state: This is the American way. At all levels of government, the country spends roughly double on police, prisons, and courts what it spends on food stamps, welfare, and income supplements.
I had the opportunity to go cast for a Hollywood film that was filming in Thailand called ‘Mortal Kombat 2.’ Out of 100 people, I was cast to be the stunt double for Robin Shou.
Tommy Aldridge is the guy that made me wanna play double kick, man.
My first medal, the League Cup at Tottenham, that was a very proud moment for me. Being captain, and winning. But also winning the double in my first year at Arsenal, that was special.
As we look at a future where we’re going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that’s integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?
I wanted to complete ‘Maryada Ramanna’ in a short time, but it took me almost a year, and now ‘Eega’ took double the time, but in the end, it was worth it.
We’ve recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.
We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever.
The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over.
I believe we have a double in every country. There’s something about that that is probably a commonness that we don’t make note of. That maybe there’s only a cast for so many faces, and we live everywhere.
The next time you check your moves in the mirror and reflect on how special you are, consider that somewhere in this universe or in another parallel universe, your double might be doing the same. This would be the ultimate Copernican Revolution. Not only are we not special, we could be infinitely ordinary.
We can’t double down on the failed energy policies of the past.
North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
I would only once have the opportunity to let my scientific career encompass a path from the double helix to the three billion steps of the human genome.
I’m dying to fool around with the distance between Selina Kyle and Catwoman. And, you know, the whole double identity thing is endlessly fascinating. I mean, you can always find another riff for it.
It’s almost like living a double life where I’m in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, ‘Foxy Knoxy,’ an idea of a person, exists, and I’m constantly having to juggle how someone is interacting with me based upon that two-dimensional person of me that has been in the public’s imagination for so long.
The reality is, the movies that were most impactful to me growing up, when I decided I wanted to make movies, I was going to see Woody Allen double features with my brother, back when they had double features.
Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.
On the morning of May 1, 2018, I woke up knowing that the day I had anticipated for nine years had finally arrived. It was the day of my preventative double mastectomy – the day I would attack my BRCA 2 genetic mutation head-on and take my chances of breast cancer from 84 percent to virtually zero.
When you’re a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you’re a criminal. That’s something we shouldn’t have to deal with, but we do. It’s a double standard. We can’t cover our head when it’s cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.
If someone shows me love, I always want to double that love.
Quite simply, without UKIP, there would not have been a referendum. I am convinced that the ‘we want our country back, we want our borders back’ message that we took across the country on an open-top double decker energised non-voters to back Brexit.
Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to act as support.
I love picture books – with picture books, you can use words and pictures as a double act, even tell two different versions of a story at the same time.
Cyprus had developed its financial center over three decades ago by having double taxation treaties with a number of countries: the Soviet Union, for example. That means if profits are booked and earned and taxed in Cyprus, they are not taxed again in the other country.
I have doubted myself on several Daily Double answers.
I always wanted to be an actor. I did drama at Manchester University and then had a stand-up comedy double act with a guy called Bruce MacKinnon.
I have 32 sweet teeth. I love everything from chocolates of all kinds to panna cotta to Khubhani ka Meetha and Double ka Meetha.
We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.
What is the most important moment in my career? The Champions League final played in Athens in 2007 when I netted a double.
Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.
I have no physical courage, I’ve asked for a double.
Gothic in its purest sense is actually a very powerful, twisted genre, but the way it was being used by by journalists – ‘goff’ with a double f – always seemed to me to be about tacky, harum-scarum horror, and I find that anything but scary. That wasn’t what we were about at all.
Everyone else is parsing it in terms of lowering the corporate income tax. Eliminate it. It’s not that big of a generator of income, and it’s a double tax. Get rid of it, and you would have an explosion of hiring.
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It’s a skill that you learn. The key is the 10/20/30 rule: 10 slides given in 20 minutes using no font smaller than 30 points. If people just adhered to this rule, they would double or triple the quality of their presentations.
A double bind is far worse than a straightforward damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t dilemma. It requires you to obey two mutually exclusive commands: Anything you do to fulfill one violates the other.
Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.
We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.
Most commercial products that contain organic molecules possess at least one carbon-carbon double bond, or if one is not present, it is likely that an olefin was used in its preparation. This being the case, the potential applications of olefin metathesis are endless.
Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You’re looking at double work.
I’m a normal sized girl. I’m not a size double zero; I don’t weigh 90 pounds. I’m a healthy girl.
I wasn’t like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
I did a double CD, ‘The Element of Surprise,’ in 1998. That album went gold.
A way you can get really good abs in film is you get your makeup artist to paint shadows – faux washboard. But if you see me in a movie and I have great abs, it means I have a great body double.
Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment’s thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at least double, and it ought to do much more than double, the representation of the metropolitan boroughs and of all the great cities of the United Kingdom.
I don’t know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that’s new, and hopefully will be fun, and there’s plenty of stuff out there to cut.
I want to double down on our commitment to clean energy into New Mexico – that way we’ll create good paying jobs by harnessing the power of our natural resources.
I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
My own funeral, I’d like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.
We are a retailer – we are a merchant. That is our business. But we look for places to make a positive difference. There is such a thing as a double bottom line, whether it is the wage increase or what we do with environmental sustainability to limit waste.
I don’t endorse sex comedies. Even in TV shows, there are many double meaning dialogues and I am not really comfortable doing that.
‘What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Deception can cost billions. Think Enron, Madoff, the mortgage crisis. Or in the case of double agents and traitors, like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, lies can betray our country. They can compromise our security. They can undermine democracy. They can cause the deaths of those that defend us.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
What counts aren’t the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.
There are a lot of food choices in Kyochon, but I personally recommend the double fried chicken and the Soonsal series – deep-fried, boneless chicken breast strips coated in a special rice batter.
In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
Pat Phoenix kept that amazing sassy look. I always wonder, was that because she was thrilled with that look, and thought it looked marvellous, or was it because she was too scared to change it? It’s a double thing. Security and insecurity.
We talk about the Arsenal ‘Invincibles’ of 2004 and the team who won the Double two years earlier and drool over their attacking play. It is easy to forget, though, that virtually the same squad had won nothing for three years.
I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it’s also someone who’s looking back. I like that kind of double vision.
Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
They say Ant and Dec are a double act, but they are just presenters. They read off an Autocue and they don’t do gags, so that doesn’t count.
One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.
I thought eating Double Quarter Pounders with Big Mac sauce wasn’t that bad, but I guess it was.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
On ‘Angel’ I got to work a lot with Mike Massa, who was David Boreanaz’ stunt double, and Mike would let me do most of my stuff by myself. I did almost all my fight scenes by myself.
I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it.
I’ll tell you the truth: I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There’s a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it’s automatically terrorism.
I look at what the polls say about attributes. I noticed in 2004 that George W. Bush led John Kerry by double digits for eight straight months on the question of who is more likely to take a position and stick with it.
I can’t have double standards, so I do what I believe in.
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
Here you get to play one on one more, individual basketball. I think that fits me better than in Europe. You have harder, different double teams and everybody helps, but in the NBA they let you play one on one, so I think that will fit me better.
It’s possible that we could change a human gene and double our life span. I don’t know if that’s true, but we can’t rule that out.
Though the Income Tax Act obliges even non-residents to pay tax on incomes earned in India, many foreign institutional investors avoided paying taxes citing the Double Taxation Treaty with Mauritius.
‘Miele’ is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
It is critical that we double down on the progress that President Trump has made with regard to Criminal Justice Reform. His focus on reforming our broken criminal system is geared towards improving the lives of minority families across the district, state, and country.
In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don’t mean gender-wise – I just mean intellectually.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Who made these laws? That’s what I want to know. So that’s why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion.
I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.
The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.
If I had planned to score double and triple hundreds, I would probably not have made them ever.
You dont mind booing through games. The crowd pay their money, and thats how you earn a living. I can take a bit of the pantomime villain. But if youre going for a double, thats when you should just get a little bit of respect.
I’m always working out; I did ice hockey in high school, but I’m not a dance person. I mean, this was horrible, but I had a dance double in my high-school musical.
When I was a player and hit into a double play, I felt as if I was letting everyone down.
For me, I never want anyone outside of my immediate family and outside of me to have the power to alter the way that I walk, talk, shop, or date. When you start feeding off of that outside acceptance and accolades, you lose sight of what’s actually real. Once you get there, it’s kind of hard to double back.
See I’m used to seeing myself with hair now, so it’s not a big deal. Now when I see pictures of me bald I’m like ‘ew.’ But people are used to seeing me bald so when I’m walking around without the hat on, I see people doing a lot of double takes.
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing’s a double skill, really.
At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
Most credit cards provide some sort of protection against a defective purchase, and with gold or platinum cards, you’ll often get double the manufacturer’s warranty. You’re also not immediately out your own money if something goes wrong.
We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.
I’m a movie buff. My mom would take me to a double feature. We’d come out, go have Chinese food, and then go back into another cinema and see another double feature. I feel I’m a child of the movies.
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.
I’m kind of a double middle child.
I was tortured fifteen times, that’s total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.
‘Genes, Girls, and Gamow’ was an attempt, even more than ‘The Double Helix,’ to mix science with one’s personal life. With ‘The Double Helix,’ no one had done it before, but I thought I’d try.
I like to think that with a double team, not every double team is going to be successful.
We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.
There are so many double standards that seem to be applied only to female MPs. I’ve had infinite comments about what I’m wearing when the focus should be on what I’m saying.
I had my lockdown period just after my two movies, ‘Pardes’ and ‘Daag: The Fire,’ where I had a double role, which was a huge thing at that time and it was a successful film.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
I’m just going out there and doing my job, so whatever it is – if it’s a hard slide protection, if it’s a double team, or even a triple team or a chip – whatever it is, I’m just finding ways to win, so that’s about it.
Because I’m shooting ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ at the same time, so my schedule is double. I leave one show and go and shoot the other. The cameras are with me for, like, every day of my life. So I’m extremely tired.
It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn’t take care of myself.
A lot of times getting double- or triple-teamed, like triangle-and-two, it just made me be more of an all-around player.
At times you get the sense that if the batsman is playing with the tailender then he will surely try to run a double.
Launching a ground war against Iran would require hundreds of thousands of troops for a ‘regime change followed by nation-building’ operation, as we attempted in Iraq. Iran has a much more modern military, more than double Iraq’s population, and almost four times the landmass.
For my wife Mary Corliss and me, ‘Colbert’ has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show’s excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we’d look back on the double whammy of ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ as the golden age of TV’s singeing singing satire.
There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.
If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
I’ve been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I’m working on my double back flip right now.
Using double coil pickups kills a lot of the guitar tone – you lose the acoustic mechanics. With my single-coils driven through the Marshalls and overdrive, it sounds massive.
Christmas Eve is my wedding anniversary so it is a double whammy.
There’s nobody else that can double me – except for a doll.
It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
I had quite a healthy childhood in the countryside, but I did have double pneumonia aged eight, and was one of the first patients to be given antibiotics.
I wanted to do a show about a family that is absolutely black. Because as Du Bois has shown, we do have to live a double consciousness every day in the world. We have to walk our path and walk the mainstream path, and there’s never really been a show that’s talked about what that’s like.
When I’m writing a novel, I’m dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
I made a wedding planning book and a whole double page is dedicated to the dogs.
Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
I was born in Islington and grew up in Islington, so Arsenal was all around me, and supporting them was kind of unavoidable. The first season I started going to watch them was when we did the Double in 1971, so my first heroes were Charlie George, Ray Kennedy, and John Radford.
Everybody calls it a purge, but when people move out of the state, they don’t need to be on our voting rolls if they’re living somewhere else. That’s how you get double voting.
If you come in like a typical modern drummer who is used to playing only with tricks and double kick and, like, big, big, big, fast rolls, but you can’t play a swinging shuffle, then you can’t play in Ghost whatsoever.
I’m an athlete; I’ve got an ego when stunt doubles have to come in. Not an ego like that, but when it comes to physical stuff, if I didn’t have to have a stunt double, I would always probably do it myself unless the producers were jumping in and stopping me.
My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation – truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
You shouldn’t worry who gets the funny line, just that you’re being funny as a double act. With us, it flips all the time. There’s no real straight man or funny man.
I got a call from somebody who used to be the president of Little Persons of America. She got called from some producers who wanted someone of a certain size in the John Hughes film ‘Baby’s Day Out.’ So that was my big break, as the stunt double of a nine-month-old.
I’m not looking to double my money with one golden opportunity.
When I kiss a girl for a part, people think it’s sexy. But if two guys kiss, suddenly there’s a backlash. It’s a double standard.
We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you’re in the media as a woman, or you’re in the professions or business or politics.
Computers double their performance every month.
I personally think ‘Power’ is much more similar to ‘The Sopranos’ in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.
I do feel pressure to look good. But that’s just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can’t pose. It’s such a struggle.
If you told me I was at number 34 Blake Street, I’d immediately think ‘double 17.’ If I was at number 37, I’d think ‘five, double 16.’
I’ve always wanted to do a double role.
I do some of my stunts for the things I have learned. But if it is for something I have never learned, then I use a double.
I always liked the double cutaway. It looked like two horns. It’s like a red devil. So I went to the guitar shop, saw an SG that was sitting there looking rather lonely, and said, ‘Hey, that’s for me.’
I love double cheeseburgers.
Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fibre of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.
We went to – I guess it was a legitimate boiler room, and I sat in front of this guy who literally was on the phone with two people at once. They call it double fisting.
There’s kind of a double standard: if a musician decides they want to act, everybody falls over themselves. But if you’re an actor and you have a band, everyone’s, ‘Ugh, disgusting! It’s a vanity project.’
I don’t know how many times I’ve been 114 yards from the hole and made double bogey. Well, I hit a great drive, but it doesn’t matter. It’s only the next shot that matters.
I have been part of some fantastic shows and played great characters, including a double role in ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi’ and a negative one in ‘Sanjivani’ because I was bored of playing positive characters.
Sitting there clapping and smiling… it’s difficult. You’re like, ‘Don’t worry about it, you just double faulted, you just played a really dumb point. Keep positive.’ Then more clapping. That would annoy me as a player.
I kind of missed out on those years when a lot of my friends did big backpacking trips around Europe and that sort of thing. So to be able to travel and see parts of the world on the job is kind of a double whammy.
In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.
The truth is I don’t really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don’t like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my ‘consumer profile.’ I’m anti all cards.
People who have theater or sketch-comedy backgrounds seem to be more, you know, our speed. Like Amy Poehler and Will Arnett – we double date.
I’m not a pop song lyric writer. I can’t just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
I would kill to be on ‘Dexter,’ and I would double kill to be on ‘True Blood.’ I would pay them to let me come be a vampire or a vampire victim. No joke!
Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.
My biggest tip is this… treat bread like chocolate. You wouldn’t have a chocolate bar in the morning and then a double chocolate bar at lunch and then some chocolate before dinner. I was essentially eating a loaf of bread a day. And that doesn’t work for me.
Thai food became one of my favorite types of food, it’s so delicious, and when you finish a meal it’s a double whammy; it tasted great and was pretty healthy.
Vampires are handy characters, as they can do double duty as monster/villains and the classic, misunderstood romantic hero.
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.
Initially, when ‘Scam’ was released and it instantly became huge, I did feel the pressure. Everyone kept telling me that my next move will decide my career, that I had to choose wisely and be double sure of what I do next. But when I thought about it, I realised there’s no formula to this.
I always wanted to make a three-record set. ‘Sign o’ the Times’ was originally supposed to be a triple album, but it ended up as a double.
If you really believe that every three years the market will double, then go and buy shares. I don’t believe that.
I had a double bacon cheeseburger at Chili’s, and I lost a tooth in it. My tooth!
I have a wonderful English-language dialogue coach. All the time I have to speak English, he is with me. It is a double effort, because you have to say the words correctly and then act them.
There was Shawon Dunston and Mark Grace, and together we were a double play combination for ten years.
Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it’s very production-friendly and there’s terrific talent down there.
If cats were double the size they are now, they’d probably be illegal.
If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids’ sugar-coated songs paint a mental picture of smiling clouds and double rainbows, with a unicorn or two tossed in for good measure.
If you build a 70,000-seat stadium it will cost much more than double to build than a 35,000-seater. The higher the seat the more expensive it is to construct.
It’s nice not to have to live a double life.
I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
We have a problem. ‘Congratulations.’ But it’s a tough problem. ‘Then double congratulations.’
I’m happiest on set because I’m not myself. I’m someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It’s not me. You’re always this sort of double, and it’s liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself… all those doubts.
Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like ‘Ball of Fire’ and ‘Double Indemnity.’ I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.
Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company – almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.
One day, I’d like to get a quadruple double, points, assists, rebounds and blocks.
Tim Miller’s idea of Colossus was to be bigger and stronger than everyone else, so for the motion capture, they needed an extremely tall man. I’m 6-foot-4, but he wanted Colossus to be over 7 feet, so they used a stunt double to recreate his height, and he did very good job there.
Lip balm can double up for taming the brows, too.
For African-Americans, it’s still going to be – some people say double hard – I’d say four times as hard. Be an opportunist. Take advantage of your resources, because the only way to win is with education, self-esteem, having value in yourself.
I love chocolate, and I love ice cream. That’s a double whammy there. I constantly have to check myself and say, ‘I’ve already had dessert today.’
I knew the full ‘Judy Garland Carnegie Hall’ double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, ‘Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you’re upset?’
When I was a kid, we played a jump rope game called double Dutch – where you had to jump over two ropes swinging in opposite directions. Picking just the right moment to jump in was a practiced art form.
I wake up when the time is double digits – 10, 11, 12 – and I make myself a cup of coffee and think about what I’m gonna do that day. Either I’m gonna set my house on fire or I’m gonna take pictures. I’m random.
I’m in so many videos. There was a period of about two years where I danced for everyone: Kylie Minogue, Ed Sheeran, Jessie J, Taio Cruz. It got to the point where my fees were double the other girls’, and I wouldn’t even have to audition. They’d call my agent directly and say, ‘We want twigs to come in.’
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.
I’m not going to sit here and be stupid. If someone comes and offers me double what I’m on, of course I’m going to sit down and seriously look at it.
I’ve never used a foam pit or an air bag before. I learned my tricks over time, and double corks have been a slow transition in my pipe riding.
It’s a terrible way to live, to be closeted, to always be worried about being found out. To live this double life is really trying.
Once you’ve lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It’s a mentality, a double standard of existence.
Almost all the golf courses in Staten Island double as something else.
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.
A long time ago, you couldn’t say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that’s where the double entendres and humour comes from and that’s where we come from.
My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.
My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing ‘Double Fantasy’ quite often.
The training at Tottenham is intense, but the structure is set out perfectly – in the gym, running, sometimes double sessions. Every player at Tottenham is in great shape.
Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.
Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation’s pockets of poverty.
After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
My aunty says I’m the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I’ve definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.
I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
The games come thick and fast and you can get left behind in the scoring charts. It doesn’t look so great if someone has double the amount of goals you have.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
We had not had time to establish ourselves as a double act before Ernie joined the Merchant Navy. I teamed up with the brother of the late Dave Morris.
I’d work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who’s a wushu master.
Popov was double Olympic champion in ’92 and ’96, and then Gary Hall came along and won in 2000 and 2004, and I would be the next on the list. That’s a good goal, to have my name on that list alongside these guys.
One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider’s outsider.
People forget that I am the granddaughter of a person named Nanabhai Bhatt, who had made more than 150 odd films. He was the person to introduce the double role phenomenon in Indian movies.
Because I’m such a die-hard New Yorker, I was skeptical of Montreal being a New York double.
I have fielded mothers, whose empowerment can bring the real double engine growth.
In my experience, there is more rivalry between male counterparts. Take ITV’s Piers Morgan and Dan Walker, his BBC Breakfast double. The way they snipe at each other on Twitter makes me shudder. I would never speak about a colleague like that.
When you go into the realm of a double role, you have to take it to another level to make it believable.
Much has been written on the subject of self-care, and what truly counts as such; one woman’s double gin and tonic is another woman’s culturally appropriated yoga retreat.
I definitely don’t subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
In the early ’90s, we discovered mutations that could double the normal life span of worms.
I really, truly believe that writing comes out of the body; of course, the mind is working as well, but it’s a double thing and that doubleness is united. I mean, you can’t separate persona from psyche; you just can’t do it.
I will do anything, and I do almost everything myself. But when there is something extra heinous to do, I have a great stunt double, Eddie Davenport, and a great stunt coordinator, Jeff Wolfe.
Do you want to get rid of the rules of the road? Do you want to let everybody just do whatever they want to do? Or do you want to really look out for the consumer, look out for the American people, and figure out ways to create and foster an environment where companies want to double down on America?
I am not very good at sticking to outlines, and I double back all the time to revisit scenes and change things.
Double vision makes reading the prompter very tricky.
When I went platinum, you know, I had no idea that it was going to go platinum and I would have been happy if it went double glass.
The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after my sophomore year there, I went to the San Francisco Ballet school for the summer, but then they offered me a scholarship to stay for the year.
As someone who is both an ethnic minority and openly gay, I often talk about how simply being who I am has given me a double awareness of the vulnerability that some Americans may be facing.
People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.
It’s one of those things when you’re down in the red area, a lot of teams double me. Two-man, guys sit underneath me, so I can’t really slant. They have a safety kind of cheated out, as far as the fade balls and things like that. But when we get our opportunities, we’ve got to make people pay.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
The Qualifier is a different standard to what we will face in the World Cup in England. The conditions will be different, the pressure is different, double or treble what we faced here. This will give a base for all the young players rather than go into World Cup raw.
Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me… and were just like, ‘You know what? We’re sick of this. Let’s kill her.’
Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it – to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that’s part of the human condition.
Offensively, I get the ball a lot and I’m able to score in double figures.
I’d rather have a pencil and paper and do all my own calculations rather than rely on a machine. And I’ll do most calculations in double digit multiples as quick as the machine.
Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there’s been a double standard between men and women. I think it’s time that men get equal time in terms of nudity.
All standards are double standards.
I always beat the sun up in the morning. It’s the secret to why I’m double trouble.
I believe in God and not religion, because I believe religion is the double cross. Because I’ve been double crossed by three religions, so I think I can safely say that religion – there is maybe something wrong with religion. Every temple that’s put up may not be a holy one, so watch out.
I got one comment that I had a lot of double chins. I just laughed at it. I do have a double chin, so that’s legit.
It was only after I made my Duleep Trophy debut did I think I had a realistic chance to play for India. I scored a double hundred, and I realised that I had the potential to play for my country because I played the best bowlers in the country at that time.
I feel scared of putting on weight or having a double chin as that might stop getting me work.
If Messi has the ball, he is fantastic to watch and difficult to stop. You have to double up on him, triple up on him even, stay with him constantly to block his way to the goal.
I feel so overwhelmed by the kind of double hitter of a successful book and record. I just assumed at least one of them… would hopefully stick. So it’s nice that both did so well.
It’s double standards when you’re young women. When we started out it was almost like, ‘This is your lane, stay in your lane. You’re the faces and the name.’ We’re not. We’re the brand.
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
He slides into second with a stand up double.
In economies with excess productive capacity, targeted investment can yield a double benefit, generating short-run demand and boosting growth and productivity thereafter.
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take ‘Swan Lake,’ the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they’re turning not just 32 fouettes – but double or triple pirouettes.
Sure, there’s pressure when you have one dart at double top when there’s a world ‘championship to be won, but real ‘pressure is what our troops are doing in ‘Afghanistan.
We owe it to consumers to treat their dollars with respect and to double- and triple-check our assumptions about complex marketplaces rather than getting locked into a regulatory tunnel vision that will ultimately leave consumers with fewer, more expensive choices.
It wasn’t until ‘Double Take’ that I was in a movie as the leading man, in a character that was more straight and less broad than the other character, and where the story is really about him.
I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture’s different. You’re standing upright as opposed to bent over; you’re slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy’s elbow and doing a traditional elbow pull or slide-by in wrestling.
My mantra is – eat little less than your hunger level, consume double the quantity of water, your workout must be tripled, and dose of laughter must be four times!
When you hit a three-run triple, do you really need to get on third base, or do you need to stand on the double? You gotta be as smart as you can.
It’s not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.
I don’t think I’ve left a trail of weeping women in my wake. I mean, the number of serious relationships I’ve had has not been into double digits.
I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass – and I only started playing it because my teacher said I’d get twice as much work, as there’s not enough players out there.
If I win the Olympics in Rio, then I’ll have each title in double.
I’ve been double-teamed my whole life. I know when a double team’s coming. I know what side the guy’s coming from. I know how to dribble out of it.
Don’t worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.
During the whole ‘Jeopardy’ experience, I felt like I was living a bit of a double life, I would be secretly flying out to L.A. to tape new shows, hoping that none of my coworkers would notice the absence and figure out what was going on. ‘Jeopardy’ tries very hard to keep their secrets.
One of the reasons I don’t trust the media is you can’t have a double standard for guys you like and dislike.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they’ll do better in the future. This double standard must end.
I remember my first day of chemo as if it were yesterday, hanging up my favorite summer dress like an athlete retiring a jersey. Within a few weeks, my waist had shrunk to a double zero – the size it was when I was in the sixth grade. My cheek bones jutting out. Rings under my eyes. Skin the color of chalk.
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny’s Child.
I hit balls hard on the ground, and sometimes they are double plays. Other times, you hit it hard, and it’s right through a hole.
If I were a betting man, the odds are that Obama’s White House and Justice Department will double down on their gun-control agenda by edict.
Would I change anything? I don’t know, that’s a double edge sword for me.
I get verbal diarrhea in the writers’ room. I just tell everyone a million anecdotes and stories and craziness, and we all double up on the floor laughing.
When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’ or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Every time my capability as an actor would be questioned, I would put in double the effort.
We’re a company that’s gone through many cycles and evolutions, and every time we have a major success, we double down and use the money from that to fund our initiatives and so forth.
The first law I passed in my cabinet was a law eliminating the double salary for the prime minister and the ministers. I have a salary as member of parliament. I don’t want a double salary. So it was a very important decision.
I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
I’m kind of hard to double, but I did have one guy for a while as my double. I kind of like to do my own stunts, though, because it’s just the overall experience. Sometimes you have to step aside when the stuff gets really dangerous, but I feel like sometimes you have to do your own stunts to make the role seem real.
One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was ‘good’ at it. Not only that – it helped him become a better politician.
The double chin’s not good for the red carpet.
We have a wonderful film lined up early next year called ‘Desi Magic.’ It showcases me in a double role for the first time. This movie has offered me the most challenging role of my career so far. It’s weird I chose to do my toughest film with my own production house.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
It’s kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have – and we don’t want it on our CV’s.
One boob was a 36B while the other was 36D – I’ve had big boobs since the sixth grade and walked around with double bras on for five years before getting surgery.
As we double down on urgent issues of housing affordability, access, inequities and displacement, we must prioritize addressing climate change.
Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It’s a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it over very low heat, ladling it out as your guests come in from the cold.
Andy Parsons was always very funny. He was in a double act with a guy called Henry Naylor. Dan Mazer was always a very funny guy.
We gotta be proud to be Latino. It’s almost like we cheating because we’re American and we live by American customs, but at the same time, we got that Latino culture. We cheating; we double dipping.
You can double team me anytime you want.
I didn’t want to be short. I’ve tried to pretend that being a short guy didn’t matter. I tried to make up for being short by affecting a strut, by adopting the voice of a much bigger man, by spending more money than I made, by tipping double or triple at bars and restaurants, by dating tall, beautiful women.
I had a stunt double for ‘The Bronze.’ She’s literally the most amazing human being I’ve ever seen. She’s NCAA women’s gymnastics champion. She was incredible. I would poke her thighs, and my nail would break because it was like poking a rock.
Me and fellow scouser Toni Duggan are a double act. We are always pre-planning some sort of practical joke.
It’s really important to me that ‘Peaky Blinders’ went down so well in Birmingham. Apparently the audience share in the West Midlands was double that of any other region.
If I had to pick one guitar to take to a desert island, I’d pick my ’67 Rickenbacker 12-string, which I bought a couple of tours ago in New Jersey. The ’67 is George-style from A Hard Day’s Night, with the double binding. It’s just like heaven. It sounds incredible.
When I got to NYU, I immediately inquired about doing a double major in acting and photography.
My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.
This is a dream that I have been dreaming to live! From watching ‘Double Dare’ to hosting it! I am ready for a summer of slime and nose-picking.
I live more than a double life, honestly. I have so many personalities, I live more than a double life.
When I was a kid, my pop used to take me to the double feature. He would take me – I had two brothers – and we used to go in the early ’80s and check out these grindhouse movies – a double feature, sometimes a triple feature.
Why, when India’s agricultural products are among the cheapest in the world despite a low yield per hectare, are we not able to double the production and export the products abroad?
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
I have families all the time in my district in southeast Louisiana sharing with me stories of double digit premium increases every single year.
I’m a product of a military dictatorship. Under a dictatorship, you cannot trust information or dispense it freely because of censorship. So Brazilians become very flexible in the use of metaphors. They learn to communicate with double meanings.
It’s really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and – too often – for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can ‘grow’ longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child’s play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won’t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff.
‘Pinocchio’s Revenge’ was pretty bad. I was basically a stunt double for a doll.
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more.
I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I’m not anymore. I’m more lenient on myself.
You can’t just release double albums and expect people to sit there and devote their time to it.
I would encounter W. E. B. Du Bois and the term double consciousness. When I read it, I thought about sitting in my mother’s employer’s family room, watching my mother clean while I waited for her to finish so we could go home.
One of the things I say is, ‘You want to know what it’s like to be a baby? It’s like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.’ And boy, you are alive and conscious.
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.
Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
The detail that goes into couture stuff is insane. Everything is handmade – every sequin, every double stitch.
Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.
Don’t get me started about the media double standard.
I once played Jennifer Lopez’s werewolf body double in a sketch. I don’t think anyone was shocked when the sketch got cut after dress rehearsal.
My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it’s actually been recorded by ‘National Geographic.’ He calls it the Hammer Fist.
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.
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the streets of Istanbul, in a house resembling ours, there lived another Orhan so much like me he could pass for my twin, even my double.
I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I’m happy with both.
When I’m on that field, I give it everything I have, and when I come off, I’m a mom. As tired and exhausting as it is, it’s about coming back, even after double days, and still being able to enjoy the kids.
For Indias 40 million taxpayers, the bulk of whom are salaried employees, forking out hefty service tax is a double whammy the government taxes them on income earned as well as all their expenditure.
The death rate among Marines in Iraq has been more than double that of the other services.
The right raw materials can… double or triple the protective power of the immune system.
We will have close to 3 months of rehearsals to learn about 30 songs. Frank usually rehearsed a band for at least 3 months. If it took him that long to be comfortable we probably would need double the amount, but It’s just not financially possible to do so.
I don’t like hypocrisy, I don’t like double standards, it’s probably why i’m vegan.
From my background in travel at HotWire and Expedia, the metrics that TaskRabbit is seeing are more than double at what I saw at both those companies.
For an Indian audience a double role promises twice the entertainment with somebody they enjoy watching on screen.
My eyes were bad. I stuttered. I had hepatitis, double pneumonia, even anemia. When I was 7, my family took me on a trip to Cuba, and all my ailments disappeared. Cuba gave me health, so I’ve been deeply attached to Cubans ever since.
I won’t do roles that are dirty, full of double meaning dialogues and vulgar gestures. Though such roles had made me a star, my conscience was against doing such scenes.
I was in Redwood for almost six years. It was an acoustic trio that I still think was the best band I’ve ever been a part of. We do have a double CD of the Redwood stuff available called ‘Lost But Not Really.’ I’m very proud of the old Redwood stuff.
As far as a wall is concerned, the experts actually say that in some places a wall is necessary, in other places a double wall is necessary, and in other places that a wall wouldn’t help. So I’m for whatever it takes to secure our border with Mexico. We’ve got to do it. I’m for then enforcing our laws.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
The majority of fighters and athletes live double lives.
Add a teaspoon of single cream, say, to a sauce just before serving to give it a touch of extra smoothness and depth. You also need single cream to float on top of Irish coffee. And you should probably use the finest unpasteurised double cream to make syllabub.
I think whenever you transform from normal light-hearted characters, to characters which might be out of your comfort zone or less relatable, that is double the work and commitment required to understand the society that character comes from.
Everybody in my family is very well educated. I’m probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.
I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
I’m not saying it’s easy, and it’s definitely harder for women. Because there is definitely a double standard about gorgeous older men, and it’s different for older women.
I think when you’re just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I’m recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool.
It’s human nature to keep doing something as long as it’s pleasurable and you can succeed at it – which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.
It’s very clear that there’s a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school.
I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.
The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven’t yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.
Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spirits, wine and beer. It is estimated that in dollar volume, the annual outlay is now practically double what it was before the war.
If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates, you know what I mean? That’s the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.
Often, I think, displaced people imagine themselves leading double lives. So a portion of my identity has always been privately siphoned into what would have been if I had stayed in Wisconsin.
Sometimes I’ll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it’s just crazy!
I graduated with a double degree, I speak well, I play two sports at an elite level, I volunteer, I do things the right way – I even got down on my knee to ask my wife to marry me! – and I can’t get sponsored? It confuses the hell out of me.
You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn’t have before that in some way problematizes your relationship with your family. You just start to be able to have a sort of double vision about them and who they are and how you grew up that can be really painful.
When I wasn’t touring I’d be really down, then suddenly after a few weeks of crazy travelling – America, a double headline with Ray Davies in Denmark, TV shows here and just partying… Suddenly I had an acute psychotic breakdown.
I’m concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.
I don’t indulge in double meaning humor.
