All Kinds Quotes - Page 35

• New possibilities for a more active democracy are beginning to emerge in the information age. Effective citizen action is possible if citizens develop the abilities to gain access to information of all kinds and the skills to put such information to effective use.

  Harry Boyte

  Skills, Age, Democracy

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• It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness.

  Frank Ocean

  Writing, Next Steps, Stories

  "Frank Ocean Says Debut Album Will 'Define' Him". www.mtv.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

  John W. Gardner

  Real, Creativity, Science

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• There are now 17,000 local American police forces that are armed with rocket launchers, bazookas, heavy machine guns, all kinds of chemical sprays, in fact some of them have tanks. You now have local police departments that are equipped beyond the standard of American heavy infantry.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Gun, Police, Historical

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• The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Children, Ballet, Way

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• I have flown in just about everything, with all kinds of pilots in all parts of the world - British, French, Pakistani, Iranian, Japanese, Chinese - and there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between any of them except for one unchanging, certain fact: the best, most skillful pilot has the most experience.

  Chuck Yeager

  Differences, Flying, Chinese

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• I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.

  Anna Kendrick

  Crazy, People, Age

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• The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it, a more mature, more intellectual approach. We were different people, we were older. We knew each other in all kinds of different ways than when we wrote together as teenagers and in our older twenties.

  John Lennon

  Music, Teenager, Writing

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• I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, America, World

  "Which Republican Candidate Would Make the Best Arts Nominee? The ARTINFO Endorsement" by Benjamin Genocchio, Andrew M. Goldstein and Chloe Wyma, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

  Jimmy Page

  Writing, House, Magic

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• Instead of gambling on the eternal impossibility of the revolution and on the fascist return of a war-machine in general, why not think that a new type of revolution is in the course of becoming possible, and that all kinds of mutating, living machines conduct wars, are combined and trace out a plane of consistance which undermines the plane of organization of the World and the States?

  Gilles Deleuze

  War, Thinking, Organization

  Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet (1987). “Dialogues”, Burns & Oates

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• Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

  Tryon Edwards

  Life, Common Sense, Sound

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.218, Ravenio Books

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• Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure

  Fanny Burney

  Moving, Kind, All Occasions

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.3751, Delphi Classics

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• The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

  Keith Miller

  Sacrifice, Men, Giving

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• I mean, when you think about it, it's 'bombs bursting in air,' 'rocket's red glare,' it's all kinds of - you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too - all kinds of military jargon, and the land - there's only one phrase 'the land of the free,' which is kind of nice, and 'the home of the brave?' I don't know....Are we the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, all the brave people live here I mean, it's just stupid, I think. I'm embarrassed, I'm embarrassed every time I hear it.

  Bill Press

  Military, Nice, Stupid

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• A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

  Mark Knopfler

  Music, Guitar, Play

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• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  Brian Regan

  Knives, Two, Sandwiches

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• We gauge risk literally hundreds of times per day, usually well and often subconsciously. We start assessing risk before the disaster even happens. We are doing is right now. We decide where to live and what kind of insurance to buy, just like we process all kinds of everyday risks: we wear bike helmets, or not. We buckle our seatbelts, smoke cigarettes, and let our kids stay out until midnight. Or not.

  Amanda Ripley

  Kids, Risk, Everyday

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• The way I deal with arthritis is to keep moving. As long as I can play hard tennis, as long as I can ski or ride a horse - all kinds of things can come your way. As long as you can, do it. People who retire die. My dad retired and died shortly after. Just keep moving.

  Robert Redford

  Horse, Dad, Moving

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• It has long been recognized by public men of all kinds. . . that statistics come under the head of lying, and that no lie is so false or inconclusive as that which is based on statistics.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Funny, Lying, Humorous

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 170)

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• You have to be single minded, drive only for one thing on which you have decided. And if it looks as if you might be getting there, all kinds of people, including some you thought were your loyal friends will suddenly show up... to trip you, blacken you, and break your spirit.

  John R Noe

  Determination, People, Looks

  John R. Noe (2006). “Peak Performance Principles for High Achievers”, p.90, Frederick Fell Publishers

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• Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Culture, Weapons, Kind

  Marjane Satrapi (2004). “Persepolis Two”, Pantheon

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• I think I had the same notion most people have, which is it’s simply a town that percolates around country music. Though country-music history is deep and richly steeped throughout the city, this is a place that’s been expanding musically and culturally…People coming from Europe and Canada-there are all kinds of different cultures and different music being represented here. It continues to blossom.

  Joy Williams

  Country, Thinking, Nashville

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• Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Kind, Construction, Substitutes

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

  Erik Larson

  Jazz, Kind

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