Centre Quotes - Page 21

When I was a kid and the carnival would come to the shopping centre, I'd go down and talk to all the people running the rides. I like that whole lifestyle, moving from town to town in a nomadic existence.

Randy Quaid

Running, Moving, Kids

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Things are so busy and so quick, and there’s so much going on, you have to realise the time when you have to take a step back, take a breath and really think back to where you come from. I’m from a very, very rural place. There’s really nobody out there, just roads and farms. I had a long transition to get to where I am now. I moved away when I was young, when I was about 19. I’d literally come from an area with dirt roads and stuff like that, right to the centre of a city of about five million people. It’s been great. I’m based in New York and every day it's amazing.

Diego Klattenhoff

New York, Thinking, Cities

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Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Rohinton Mistry

White, Black, Brain

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Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

Vayalar Ravi

Government, Individual Choice, Decision

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The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Character, Intelligent, Medicine

"Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee". www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order.

William Shakespeare

Order, Office, Priorities

'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 1, sc. 3, l. 85

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Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight.

William James

Sight, Perspective, Shifting

Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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I think it will help people have a better work-life balance, that's really important - that's the centre ground for me, it's the issues people care about in their lives.

David Cameron

Thinking, Issues, People

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Two big punchers, you've got to keep your chin down, keep your defense up, don't be careless or open, box sensibly, control the centre of the ring and when he lets his punches go, believe me he's gonna know all about it.

Joe Calzaghe

Motivation, Believe, Two

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If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.

Jeff Randall

Thinking, Views, Earth

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Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.

Liz Murray

Girl, Children, Smell

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The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

Amit Ray

Prayer, Heart, Eye

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Action for Happiness encourages each of us to live more compassionately and put the happiness of others at the centre of our lives. This is the path to lasting peace and happiness

Dalai Lama

Path, Action, Peace And Happiness

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Britain is obviously one of the world powers and they bombed the World Trade Centre, which is a landmark in itself, and over in Britain you've got Buckingham Palace and the Eiffel Tower, which are big buildings, so to speak.

Robbie Kearns

Rugby League, Towers, World

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Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

Quentin Bryce

Education, Learning, Journey

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You shoot your arrow and then you paint your bulls eye around it, and therefore you have hit the target dead centre.

Brian Eno

Eye, Arrows, Target

"On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno". Interview with Paul Morley, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2010.

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He's the best centre in the game I think, definitely the best in the Super League by far.

Thomas Leuluai

Thinking, Rugby League, Games

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Once we have chosen the right formation in the centre we have created opportunities for our pieces and laid the foundation of subsequent victory.

Alexander Kotov

Opportunity, Victory, Chess

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In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation.

Swami Vivekananda

Spiritual, Real, Yoga

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Bhakti Yoga: The Yoga of Love and Devotion”, p.51, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

Aldous Huxley

Community, Identity, Stories

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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Find your centre and live in it.

Ralph Waldo Trine

Relax, Calmness

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To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Nicole Brossard

Mean, Sensual, Delight

Nicole Brossard, Louise Forsyth (2009). “Mobility of light: the poetry of Nicole Brossard : a bilingual publication”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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The Ruy Lopez occupied a constant place in my opening repertoire. In it is reflected the classical interpretation of the problem of the centre.

Vasily Smyslov

Chess, Problem, Interpretation

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If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

Swami Vivekananda

Math, People, Alive

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

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It is always advantageous to exchange your king's bishop pawn for the king's pawn, since this leads to the seizure of the centre and, in addition, to the opening of a file for the rook.

Francois-Andre Danican Philidor

Kings, Bishops, Chess

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