Accepted Quotes - Page 20

• As soon as I accepted that I am this kind of writer and I happen to live here, and stopped going to meetings and stopped beating myself up because I wasn't making a ton of money writing for some stupid sitcom, I felt really at home.

  Meghan Daum

  Stupid, Home, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• However, unlike some of my friends and students, I don't think it's a laughing matter. I think it is frightening to see what outrageous stories can be told in the United States and then are accepted by many educated people and academics as facts. Movies get awards, books become best sellers, heroes are made, and people become wealthy as a result of dishonest caricatures of Iranian people and society.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Hero, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how many people weren't accepting of that.

  Hayley Williams

  Crazy, Real, Butterfly

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

  Alice Schwarzer

  Islamic, Home, Dark

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

  Victoria Chang

  Writing, World, Clubs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.

  Kate Zambreno

  Men, Doctors, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed with some of the sentences, you know? Syllabication and prosody and such crap. Because the printed word is etched in stone. But for reading purposes I accepted this book of texts in the manner in which I wrote them, no need to fuss. Most of the shorter stuff was written as poetry. Meaning lots of white space on the page.

  Richard Meltzer

  Book, Reading, White

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Zombies - obviously they're doing it in a much more expansive way on The Walking Dead - basically, what you used to do is you put a bunch of goo on an actor and have them shamble towards you, and it's a very effective creature. It always has tremendous impact, just that feeling of death coming for you; that's universally accepted.

  David Hayter

  Impact, Walking Dead, Feelings

  Source: www.ign.com

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• When I was getting close to being accepted for pilot training, I was allowed to get in a jet airplane. I sat there looking at all those switches and dials and I got the distinct feeling that I was sitting in the nose of bomb. I realized my fantasies of flying and fighting were just that - fantasies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Airplane, Fighting, Flying

  "New Again: Morgan Freeman". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

  Junot Diaz

  Long, Different, Conform

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• You're Dominican only if you do this, this, and that. And if you do this and that, you'll be accepted to a certain degree and if you don't, people will scorn you for it.

  Junot Diaz

  People, Degrees, Certain

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together.

  Barack Obama

  Home, Iran, America

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

  Manisha Sinha

  Men, Ideas, People

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Christ's purpose was to really show how everyone can be loved and how everyone should be loved and accepted.

  Margaret Cho

  Purpose, Christ, Should

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• The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind and she taps into our fantasies of wanting to be accepted and loved for who we are.

  Jennifer Coolidge

  Mind, Who We Are, Fantasy

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire Judaism was not a proselytizing religion. It didn't go out looking for converts, but it accepted converts.

  Susan Jacoby

  Thinking, People, Empires

  "'Strange Gods' Chronicles The History Of Secularism And Conversion". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 17, 2016.

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• People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

  Amy Ray

  Gay, Vocabulary, People

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• Without parental guidance telling you there's another way to live it can be tough but my kids have an advantage over my life. I can tell them I know what it's like and that they don't ever want to go to the places I've been, whereas when I grew up, it was so accepted and normal that if you didn't do it, you were considered weird.

  Christian Hosoi

  Kids, Way To Live, Want

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Abel's sacrifice was accepted by God because it was made according to God's instructions. Cain, however, tried to approach God in his own way and was rejected by God (Genesis 4:3-5). From that point on, Cain became a symbol of those who try to approach God on their own terms.

  Robert Jeffress

  Sacrifice, Trying, Cain

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If there is such a simple argument for physicalism, how come everybody hasn't always been a physicalist? That's a good question, and there is a good answer. The 'causal completeness of physics' wasn't widely accepted until recently.

  David Papineau

  Simple, Good Questions, Answers

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• You could go church and you could describe your worst behavior, your worst self, and despite your worst behavior you would be forgiven and then redeemed and then accepted back into the community through communion. So you didn't have to carry this burden your entire life. Once a week you went someplace you went someplace where you could really look terrible and be loved despite how terrible you were.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Self, Community, Church

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Men, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

  Philip Kitcher

  Ideas, Political, Groups

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.

  Alison Assiter

  Thinking, Common Humanity, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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