Abstract Quotes - Page 25

• You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in the abstract but you actively think people should seek it when it comes to the way you hire people, the way you compensate people, the way you treat women and men in professional settings and school, whatever the case, giving them equal opportunities without disadvantaging them because of their, for the fact that they're women. And to me that's what it means for me to be a feminist. I don't think it's that controversial.

  John Legend

  Believe, School, Mean

  "John Legend Has His Dad Jokes at the Ready". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. January 14, 2016.

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• A lot of people go to the movies wanting the movie to be about feelings, and it's really not about that. Or rather it's about feelings in the abstract.

  Steven Soderbergh

  People, Feelings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suspect that any worthwhile exploration of these deep questions about living requires going beyond abstract discussions to the vivid presentation of possibilities. If readers are to be prompted to serious examination of their lives, anatomy isn't enough. We have to be stimulated to imagine, in some detail, what it would be like to live in particular ways.

  Philip Kitcher

  Details, Would Be, Examination

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's not just that there is a cooperative spirit of investigation there, where we all recognise that we are engaged in a common project of inquiry. It's also that the philosophers are well-versed in the relevant empirical data, and the scientists are well-versed in the more abstract issues which are typically the central focus of philosophical work.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Philosophical, Data, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For me, there's the certain focus points that come out, which could reference a song or a pop disco, or something really abstract. It's not totally fulfilling or complete, but rather an ongoing incompleteness. I'm really interested in the audience's relationship with myself, and my relationship with them.

  Sue Tompkins

  Song, Focus, Ongoing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

  Tim Crane

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The first thing we do is sit around a table and discuss what we could pick up from daily life, from space. That's how it starts, completely abstract. There's no kind of, "Oh, let's do Peru," or "Let's do pleats," you know?

  Rei Kawakubo

  Space, Tables, Firsts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always just been a fan of the music... and the aesthetic only in an abstract sense.

  Colin Marston

  Fans, Aesthetic

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

  Kurt Wagner

  Offering, Painting, Knows

  "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008.

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• I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

  Spencer Krug

  Self, Awkward, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Everybody in mathematics had given up for 100 years or 200 years the idea that you could from pictures, from looking at pictures, find new ideas. That was the case long ago in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in later periods, but then mathematicians had become very abstract.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Long Ago, Years, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still have this kind of abstract subliminal quality to take you on a journey, but you can root it just enough in a particular situation, a particular kind of real situation that a person might have, or a particular context in the real world.

  Tod Machover

  Real, Journey, Roots

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The music should highlight nuances within a collection. I always discard my initial music selection, but it's important to get those more obvious ideas on the table, that way you can move on to something more abstract, yet still relevant.

  Mia Moretti

  Moving, Ideas, Important

  Source: www.elle.com

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• And when I say permanent afternoon, you know, I’m talking like crystal clear, crispy blue sky. All the sudden you didn’t need to sleep as much because it just was difficult. And how that translated into my creative process I still am not quite sure, but it made my relationship to sleep a kind of abstract you know bizarre…

  DJ Spooky

  Sleep, Blue, Talking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

  Carl Andre

  Art, Conspiracy, Yeah

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented by events and objects can be removed, but obstacles presented by social principles are hard to remove.

  Zicheng Hong

  Taoism, Desire, Principles

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• I did grow up in a rough neighborhood in Portland, which is an abstract concept for anybody who's rolled through Portland because now it looks like a TV set, literally.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Growing Up, Portland, Looks

  "Not My Job: Jazz Bassist Esperanza Spalding Gets Quizzed On Bases". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. March 26, 2016.

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• It's unfortunate that [Louis] Brandeis was not able to translate or abstract his devotion to cultural pluralism and racial equality as he put it for Jews to enslave people and their descendants and to African Americans.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  People, African American, Pluralism

  Source: www.slate.com

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• We all have our own takes on things. To being yourself. The abstract, the whole thing that I play with, seems to result in seeing through your lenses, and once you express how you see things to others, you start to see there are similarities between all people. It's kind of like, no matter how far you go, you're still where you started, in a way.

  Q-Tip

  Being Yourself, Play, People

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• If you hand an adult a lump of clay, they're likely to respond by fashioning something representative out of the raw material. For the most part, they'll simply forge an object that signifies something "real" in the world, even if that something is as abstract as an emotion or an energy. A child, on the other hand, will just as often produce something totally without semiotic meaning, a shape or a mass that represents nothing that exists outside of their imagination. Or else, they'll eat it or throw it or ignore it, wholesale.

  Keith Murray

  Children, Real, Hands

  "Keith Murray of We Are Scientists: Examining Life with Humor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their own families' histories, and how those stories relate to the larger picture of American history. Then it is no longer abstract. Then it becomes a story that really means something to us as individuals.

  Adele Logan Alexander

  Mean, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Real, People, Related

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Small thoughts grow into a picture. It may suggest an individual or it may suggest a place, but generally the painting's job is to work that [idea] into an abstract proposition that is completely removed from the starting point.

  Nigel Cooke

  Jobs, Ideas, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Considerable sacrifices were demanded of the inhabitants of the machine in order that purely abstract formal development... might be carried as far as possible.

  Le Corbusier

  Sacrifice, Order, Machines

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• The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.

  Mike Watt

  Memories, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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