Absolutes Quotes - Page 13

• If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

  Dan Marino

  Confidence, Player, Special

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• Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Song, Pain, Struggle

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• Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely.

  Joyce Meyer

  Heart, Situations In Life, Best Things

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• The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

  John Stuart Mill

  Independence, Mind, Society

  On Liberty ch. 1 (1859)

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• It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Perfection, Divine, Enjoy

  "Complete Essays".

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• Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Interesting, Mystery, Vulnerable

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• The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

  Iris Murdoch

  Life, Relationship, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.273, Penguin

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• The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.

  Benito Mussolini

  Essence, Groups, Doctrine

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• Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.

  Mira Nair

  Heart, Elephants, Challenges

  "Portrait of the artist: Mira Nair, film director". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Believe, Offended You, Expression

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• It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

  Joe Nichols

  Country, Trying, Sound

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• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relation, Absolute Truth, Symbols

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.83, Regnery Publishing

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• There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Facts, Absolute Truth, Eternal

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “A Book for Free Spirits 1: Human Book”, p.10, 谷月社

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• But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Technology, Quality

  "Christopher Nolan Talks 3D, Why He Shoots IMAX, His Approach to CGI, and Much More in Fascinating DGA Interview" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. April 13, 2012.

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• There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

  Ted Nugent

  Hunting, Hands, Fishing

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• What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Two, Worry

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• In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.

  William Osler

  Broken Heart, Broken Promises, Unattainable

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.5, Ravenio Books

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• The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.

  Rick Perry

  Country, Ties, People

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• The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

  Albert Pike

  Light, Medicine, Justice

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

  Robert Plant

  Kids, Dark, Mississippi Delta

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Danger, Terror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.161, Bottletree Books LLC

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  Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Insecure, Self, Soul

  "Q&A: Gordon Ramsay Will Chew People Out, But Won't Eat Them". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.

  Rachael Ray

  Dream, Dog, Sweet

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• I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

  Alan Rickman

  Thinking, Discipline, Connections

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• Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Passion, Doubt

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