Closest Quotes - Page 26

• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Dying

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• The closest place that I feel like I come to having religious moments is always musical.

  Amos Lee

  Religious, Musical, Moments

  "Amos Lee sings of love, loss and hope". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. January 18, 2011.

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• The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

  Dee Hock

  Law, Income, Substance

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• The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

  David Riesman

  Work, Artist, Class

  David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.168, Transaction Publishers

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• Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?

  Robert MacNeil

  America, Mind, Degrees

  "Journalist Robert MacNeil: 'Looking For My Country'". Interview With Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2003.

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• I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.

  Bob Brown

  Religious, Mean, Men

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

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• It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Children, Play, People

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

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• I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Land, Judgment, Stranger

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• I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.

  Hans Frank

  Circles, Decision, Political

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• What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness.

  Theodor Adorno

  Men, Mirages, World

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• Off in the coupe, spreadin' the loot with my family and friends, and my closest of kin.

  Nelly

  Order, Law, Family And Friends

  Song: #1

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• It's definitely like being in some weird sorority. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Sorority, Actresses, Snl

  "‘Suburgatory’ Star Ana Gasteyer Talks New Show And ‘SNL’ Past". The Huffington Post Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2012.

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• The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.

  Paul Mazursky

  Careers, Acting, Trying

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• I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Heart, Thinking, Community

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• Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references).

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Writing, Two, Three

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• I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Cousin, Imagination

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• When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

  Gene Veith

  Christian, Hypocrite, Suffering

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• To me, my husband was my son's murderer. He was also my daughter's molester. A parasite nibbling on the Holy Book, he was Lucifer, holding me by the throat and driving me to sin every night. He was Bhai's destroyer, Amma Sain's tormentor, Ma's humbler and the people's exploiter. He was the rapist of orphans and the fiend that fed on the weak. But over and above all this, he was known to be the man closest to Allah, the one who could reach Him and save us.

  Tehmina Durrani

  Daughter, Husband, Book

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• I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Mother, Children, Book

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• The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Earth, Program

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• In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you always. No cell phone required. No language required to communicate. All is there within you. Other parties have to end, but this one has the possibility of going on and on, for the rest of your life.

  Prem Rawat

  Party, Heart, Phones

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• Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

  Elon Musk

  Engineering, Magic, World

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• Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

  Michael Enzi

  Strong, Government, Conservative

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The charities closest to my heart have always involved helping children in some way.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Children, Heart, Charity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heart, Should Have, Enemy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.108, Penguin

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