Advocating Quotes

• Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.

  Mary Oliver

  Giving Up, Writing, Groups

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• Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

  Herman Melville

  Strange, Habit, Accomplish

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.267

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• It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

  Jenny Agutter

  Unhappy, Strange, Combination

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• It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.

  Clea DuVall

  Awkward, Strange, Kind

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• War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Men, Giants

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.117, U of Nebraska Press

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• If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Rome, Would Be

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• We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

  Jack Nance

  Strange, Strange Things, Picks

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• It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

  River Phoenix

  Phoenix, House, Strange

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• Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any other case. Society must go on, I suppose, and society can only exist if the normal, if the virtuous, and the slightly deceitful flourish, and if the passionate, the headstrong, and the too-truthful are condemned to suicide and madness.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Suicide, Mind, Passionate

  Ford Madox Ford (2016). “The Good Soldier: Ford's works”, p.190, VM eBooks

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• The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

  Fiona Apple

  Strange, Used, Bits

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• I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

  Ben Bradlee

  Thinking, Passionate, Saws

  "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.

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• There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Military, Differences, Evil

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people’s rights to get married, join the Army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform.

  Barney Frank

  Army, Thinking, Rights

  "Barney’s Great Adventure" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. January 12, 2009.

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• I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

  Cate Blanchett

  Acting, Likes, Strange

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

  Richard Brautigan

  Simple, Things In Life, Goes On

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• Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

  Michael O'Donoghue

  Events, Strange, Mysterious

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• A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Hacking, Strange

  Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

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• It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Soccer, Time, Kids

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• It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Moving, Writing, Doe

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• I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.

  Haley Barbour

  Careers, Community, Guy

  "Rep. Paul Ryan on Deficit Reduction; Gov. Haley Barbour on 2012 Presidential Politics". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2011.

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• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  T Bone Burnett

  Thinking, Issues, Groups

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• We live in a strange bubble.

  Brian Molko

  Strange, Bubbles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  Patricia Ireland

  Numbers, Statistics, Blame

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• The loudest voices we hear are those who advocate conflict, divisiveness.

  John C. Danforth

  Voice, Conflict, Divisiveness

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• Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.

  David Chalmers

  Trying, Principles, Fundamentals

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