Avenues Quotes - Page 9

• Shot me twice. I want my name, or I'm going to start charging you a fee every time I field something for you. And it's going to be expensive. I'm Park Place. Bud-dy." His red, goat-slitted eyes squinted at me from over his smoked glasses. "You're more like Oriental Avenue right now, dove. What are you on?

  Kim Harrison

  Eye, Glasses, Names

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• The Israeli puppeteer travels to Washington and meets with the puppet in the White House. He then goes down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress. The Israeli leader then 'brings back millions of dollars' in aid to Israel.

  Ralph Nader

  Israel, White, House

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• I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting to learn to work in another. At age 76, I really don't have the time to settle down to one medium when there are so many avenues to explore.

  Nancy Johnson

  Hard Times, Age, Settling

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• There is a gift available to all of us-the gift of looking to God for direction. Here is an avenue of strength, comfort, and guidance. . . . "Look to God and live." This is the wonderful promise given so often in the scriptures. . . . Our capacity to see and comprehend is increased only in proportion to our willingness to look. God becomes more approachable as we look to him.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Strength, Promise, Comfort

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• Most important, however, is the third avenue to meaning in life: even the helpless victim of a
  hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond
  himself, and by so doing change himself. He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Fate, Challenges

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.142, Beacon Press

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• Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Feel Good, Mind, Left

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays”, p.64, Coyote Canyon Press

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• The experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional and hence avoidable, but are systematically related to each other in such a way as to catch one between and among them and restrict or penalize motion in any direction. It is the experience of being caged in: all avenues, in every direction, are blocked or booby trapped.

  Marilyn Frye

  People, Way, Life Is

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.

  Josh Schwartz

  Thinking, Mtv, Age

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• Regular meditation opens the avenues of
  intuitional knowledge,
  makes the mind calm and steady,
  awakens an ecstatic feeling,
  and brings the practitioner in contact
  with the source of his/her very being.

  Sivananda

  Meditation, Feelings, Mind

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• Ads are carefully designed by the Madison Avenue frog-men of-the-mind for semiconscious exposure.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Men, Mind, Frogs

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Money, Debt, Pay

  'Solution' (1847)

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• Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Yoga, Fake

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Scott Montague Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1969). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

  Elvis Stojko

  Opportunity, Progress, Different

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• As a private person, I have a passion for landscape, and I have never seen one improved by a billboard. Where every prospect pleases, man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard. When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon. How many juries will convict us when we are caught in these acts of beneficent citizenship?

  David Ogilvy

  Passion, Dark, Moon

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• Adorable in her not-very-bright submissiveness, charming in her childlike delight in shiny floors, even forgivable in her spiteful competition for the whitest, brightest wash, Madison Avenue's girl-next door is all the American male could wish for: unless, by some miscarriage, he should fancy human companionship.

  Vivian Gornick

  Love, Girl, Miscarriage

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• I’m a huge South Park fan, loved Avenue Q and can not wait to work with Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bobby Lopez and Casey Nicholaw. Elder Price is an amazing role and I am so excited to take The Book of Mormon across the country.

  Gavin Creel

  Country, Book, Waiting

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• It's the reductionist approach to life: if you keep it small, you'll keep it under control. If you don't make any noise, the bogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion, because they die too, those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe?! From what? Life is always on the edge of death; narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues, and a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. I choose my own way to burn.

  Sophie Scholl

  People, Torches, Doe

  As quoted in "O2 : Breathing New Life Into Faith" by Richard Dahlstrom, Ch. 4 : Artisans of Hope: Stepping into God's Kingdom Story, (p. 63), 2008.

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• Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

  Bruce Mau

  Unique, Simple, Yield

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• We teach children to save their money. As an attempt to counteract thoughtless and selfish expenditure, that has value. But it is not positive; it does not lead the child into the safe and useful avenues of self-expression or self-expenditure. To teach a child to invest and use is better than to teach him to save.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Money, Children

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me.

  Alison Bechdel

  Self, Needs, My Family

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• There haven't been fundamental structural changes in America. There's been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Nice, America, People

  "Skip Gates Speaks". Interview with Dayo Olopade, www.theroot.com. July 21, 2009.

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• As a journalist, you know you are doing your job properly when you manage to upset rich, powerful and entitled people who are used to getting their own way,and you know you’ve really got under their skin when they pursue censorship, the avenue of last resort since time immemorial.

  Guy Adams

  Jobs, Powerful, People

  Guy Adams: I thought the internet age had ended this kind of censorship, www.independent.co.uk. July 30, 2012.

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• Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

  Ira Levin

  White, House, Guy

  Ira Levin (1985). “Three by Ira Levin”, Random House (NY)

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• Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory, in the dense network of your neurons. Most slow hunches pass in and out of our memory too quickly, precisely because they possess a certain murkiness. You get a feeling that there's an interesting avenue to explore, a problem that might lead you to a solution, but then you get distracted by more pressing matters and the hunch disappears. So part of the secret of hunch cultivation is simple: write everything down.

  Steven Johnson

  Memories, Writing, Simple

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