Closest Quotes - Page 17

• Love begins by taking care of the closest ones - the ones at home.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Marriage, Home

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• You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

  Sonny Terry

  Humanity, Mind, Culture

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Friends, Beautiful, Winter

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• When I talk about the importance of the institution of marriage, I think of the commitment and the significance of standing in front of those closest to you and promising fidelity to your partner 'til death do you part.'

  Mark Udall

  Commitment, Thinking, Fidelity

  "Same-sex marriage debate a model". www.politico.com. October 16, 2012.

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• And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Clothes, Important

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• 'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American life, and to my own particular child - and girlhood in upstate New York. Everyone in the novel is enormously close to me, including Marianne's cat, Muffin, who was in fact my own cat.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  New York, Children, Valentine

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• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hurt, Artist, People

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• I've always valued the input of the people I love. So in the past, whenever I'd make a decision - what to wear to an event, whether to pursue a job opportunity - I'd consult those closest to me, like my mother, husband, or manager.

  Alicia Keys

  Mother, Jobs, Husband

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• I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Cousin, Couple

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• Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a moment - and getting them to think, cry, laugh, argue. More than anything, we are remembered for our smiles; the ones we share with our closest and dearest, and the ones we bestow on a total stranger, who needed it RIGHT THEN, and God put you there to deliver.

  Carrie Hamilton

  Inspiration, Thinking, Giving

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• I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Party, People, Intimate

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• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  H. Rap Brown

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

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• Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

  Richard Brautigan

  Space, Perfection, Lovely

  "An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey". Book by Richard Brautigan, p.15, 2000.

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• I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

  Amy Lee

  Heart, Creating, Creative

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• Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Passion, Joy

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• I think when people see that you are shy, or even just calm, collected and reserved, they think you can be pushed around, made to do everything they want - but that's definitely not true of me. The people closest to me know that's not the case. They know I'm not a pushover.

  Leona Lewis

  Thinking, People, Shy

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

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• Traits like humility, courage, and empathy are easily overlooked - but it's immensely important to find them in your closest relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Courage, Humility, Empathy

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• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

  Norman Mailer

  Book, Writing, Men

  1965 'Mr Mailer Interviews Himself', in the NewYork Times Book Review,17 Sep.

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• I'm a huge 'Futurama' fan, so that's my closest sci-fi tendency.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Fans, Sci Fi, Tendencies

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• A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Window

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• When I was growing up, albums were my closest friends, as sad as that may sound - Joy Division's 'Closer,' or Echo and the Bunnymen's 'Heaven Up Here'... I had a more intimate relationship with those records than I did with most of the people in my life.

  Moby

  Growing Up, Echoes, Intimate Relationships

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• Kurt and I weren't the closest of friends, but I knew him well enough to be devastated by his death. For such a quiet person, he was so excited about having a child.

  Layne Staley

  Children, Quiet Person, Excited

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• There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

  Petra Nemcova

  Lost Love, Second Chance, Way

  "Model Petra Nemcova Recovering After Tsunami". abcnews.go.com. May 17, 2005.

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• Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

  Daria Werbowy

  Adventure, Hair, Challenges

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• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  George Will

  Distance, Men, People

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