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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay. -- Chris Martin
I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite. -- Katharine Anthony
I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic. -- Kevin Chapman
I think it would be lovely to see some features on a disc of 'The Rocketeer,' with some reminiscing. I think that would be dynamite. -- Billy Campbell
If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up. -- Lakhdar Brahimi
I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different. -- Estelle
You know, you can touch a stick of dynamite, but if you touch a venomous snake it'll turn around and bite you and kill you so fast it's not even funny. -- Steve Irwin
In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse. -- Kary Mullis
You re-watch 'Napoleon Dynamite', and there's a lot of thrift shopping that goes on in that movie; there's a lot of funny stuff. It's definitely amusing, and paying 99 cents for a samurai sword is amazing. -- Al Madrigal
We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some great backing singers, and it gave tracks like Dynamite, which was written there, that kind of flavour. -- Jay Kay
A guy like Benoit, he's really good and a lot like Dynamite. Dynamite, just because he was the original, was the best. But, you know, Benoit now is by far better. Dynamite Kid is nothing now. -- Owen Hart
My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop. -- Lacey Chabert
When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite's style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old. -- Jason Reitman
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you'll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It's so much more rewarding. -- Jason Statham
I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them. -- Rutger Hauer
The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me. -- Mike Scully
When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time. -- Mike Scully
I really like 'Passion of the Christ.' I like that movie. I also like 'We Were Soldiers,' and 'Braveheart.' And 'Napoleon Dynamite' - that movie was funny. -- Luke Benward
What I think a lot of that was K-1 having had their Grand Prix finals not even a month before the "Dynamite!!" show so a lot of those guys were coming into that fight pressured to fight. -- Shawn Tompkins
In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs. -- Robert Benchley
After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power. -- W.S. Gilbert
When I look at 'Napoleon Dynamite"s style I'm reminded of how I spoke when I was an eight-year-old boy. It was just like capturing the essence of, 'Duh!' It was just like the stuff that I would say when I was like eight, nine, ten years old. -- Jason Reitman
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people. -- James Agee
Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. -- Mac Anderson
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. -- George Bernard Shaw
A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens. -- John Cowper Powys
When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite. -- Sergio Leone
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There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot. -- Joel Greenblatt
I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite. -- Hal Sutton
Ann Romney has been front-and-center. She's held a lot of town halls, a lot of campaign rallies, on her own, separate from her husband. And she is dynamite out on the campaign trail. -- Monica Crowley
A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. "Hear that?" you say. "That's dynamite, baby." -- Jack Handey
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions. As soon as men will find that in one instant, whole armies can be utterly destroyed, they surely will abide by golden peace. -- Alfred Nobel
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. -- Emma Goldman
Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite. -- Charles Jencks
Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. -- Alva Myrdal
I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill. -- George Saunders
The Federal Reserve - all of them - could be sitting on a barrel of dynamite, and then pouring gasoline on top of it, and then light a cigar with matches, throw the match into the gasoline, and then not notice that there is any danger. -- Marc Faber
Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave. -- Al Roker
By means of meditation, I feel that we have planted dynamite to transcend the world of confusion. So it would be good if you could practice meditation as much as you can, as much as physically and psychologically possible. You could become more clear and sane, and you could also influence the national neurosis in that way. -- Chogyam Trungpa
I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man. -- Garry Hynes
Stocks can be dynamite. -- Benjamin Graham
The A-bomb is dynamite. -- Samuel Goldwyn
One handles truths like dynamite. -- Anais Nin
Colors were dynamite for us. -- Andre Derain
His smile is laced with dynamite. -- Tahereh Mafi
Babies in silk hats playing with dynamite. -- Alexander Woollcott
I am no man, I am dynamite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
I am not a man, I am dynamite! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite. -- Robert A. Heinlein
I am not a human being, I am dynamite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
She could do anything with dynamite, except eat it. -- Clare Mulley
She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite! -- Salman Rushdie
Evolution cannot be brought about by the use of dynamite. -- Irene Parlby
There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. -- John H. Vincent
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century. -- Mark Twain
If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument! -- Leonid Andreyev
You could date a stick of dynamite and wouldn't go out with a bang. -- Eminem
I've never met Hans Rosling, but I just knew him through his many YouTube videos, and they were absolute dynamite. -- Keith Devlin
Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. -- John H. Vincent
You and your group of nerds fall into a pit and it's full of dynamite and you blow up. The End. -- Jeff Kinney
Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic ... -- Anne Morice
Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door. -- Jacob Bronowski
there is something dangerous about mirrors. ... What dynamite we handle when we lift a mirror or bend towards one! I seldom do. -- Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed. -- Anais Nin
The line between the white-science and the black-science is very narrow. You can open roads or you can kill people by the same dynamite! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
A genuine free enterprise system, without state-enforced artificial scarcities, artificial property rights or subsidies, would be like dynamite at the foundations of corporate power. -- Kevin Carson
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb. -- Ambrose Bierce
Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined. -- Mark Twain
Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake. -- Robert Dean
I love to meet people for lunch at my favorite restaurant, the Loaded Goat. It is named after the Andy Griffith Show episode where a goat ate a bunch of dynamite. -- Betty Lynn
Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless. -- Dave Barry
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature? -- George Bernard Shaw
I know my fate. One day my name will be tied to the memory of something monstrous - a crisis without equal on earth.... I am no man, I am dynamite! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
All noise is waste. So cultivate quietness in your speech, in your thoughts, in your emotions. Speak habitually low. Wait for attention and then you low words will be charged with dynamite. -- Elbert Hubbard
As was the case for Nobel's own invention of dynamite, the uses that are made of increased knowledge can serve both beneficial and potentially harmful ends. Increased knowledge clearly implies increased responsibility. -- Nicolaas Bloembergen
In our language rhyme is a barrel. A barrel of dynamite. The line is a fuse. The line smoulders to the end and explodes; and the town is blown sky-high in a stanza. -- Vladimir Mayakovsky
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hotlines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. -- Dave Barry
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact. -- Andre Derain
And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going 'You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know'. -- Robin Williams

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