Connections Quotes - Page 31

• What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Class, Numbers

  Interview, www.pbs.org. 1998.

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• I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Thinking, Political, Moral

  "Alan Dershowitz on Being Wrong, Part I: Lawyers, Pundits, Error, and Evil". Interview with Kathryn Schulz, www.slate.com. May 12, 2010.

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• I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

  Ani DiFranco

  Mean, Punk, Folks

  "Ani DiFranco, Then and Now". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I think one of the paradoxes of writing fiction is when people enjoy it, they want it to be real. So they look for connections.

  Junot Diaz

  Real, Writing, Thinking

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• It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

  Novak Djokovic

  Support You, Grandparent, Interesting

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• A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

  David Eagleman

  Stars, Mean, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.6, Vintage

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• The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Unions, Tribes, Natural

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Phones, Lines

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• It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.

  Geoffrey S. Fletcher

  Meaningful, Validation, People

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

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• I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.

  Jodie Foster

  Jobs, Sleep, Dollars

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• Armed with nothing more than a Facebook user's phone number and home address, anyone with an Internet connection and a few dollars can obtain personal information they should never have access to, including a user's date of birth, e-mail address, or estimated income.

  Al Franken

  Home, Numbers, Phones

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• When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?

  Al Franken

  Meaningful, Political Opinions, Years

  "How Privacy Has Become an Antitrust Issue" by Al Franken, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want.

  Seth Godin

  Want, Reader, Publishing

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• I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Baseball, Writing, Trying

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• Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

  John Green

  Falling In Love, Teenager, Love You

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• To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you're there. And you can have that anywhere.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, People, Bounds

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• Mindfulness practices enhance the connection between our body, our mind and everything else that is around us. Mindful living is the key to understanding our struggles with weight and to empowering us to control our weight.

  Nhat Hanh

  Struggle, Keys, Practice

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• The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

  Tom Hanks

  Movie, Numbers, Office

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. September 2001.

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• There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

  Stephen Hawking

  Real, Brain, Add

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• I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Country, New York, Thinking

  "Carl Hiaasen reports from 'Paradise': Con artists and land developers". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2001.

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• Showing young children in these communities, that there are outlets for their feelings, that there is room in a space for their stories to be told, and that they will be applauded - and it's not about ego, it's about connection: that their pain is everybody else's pain.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Pain, Children, Space

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

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• People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections.

  Khaled Hosseini

  People, Redemption, Human Connection

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• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  Ted Hughes

  Opportunity, Self, Fishing

  "Poet, pike and a pitiful grouse". Interview with Thomas Pero, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 1999.

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• I always choose songs that I have an emotional connection to, and I often feel myself getting very emotional when I sing.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Song, Emotional, Feels

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

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• The failures of other genres to provide an emotional connection with some of their characters and narratives gives memoir a toehold.

  Mary Karr

  Character, Emotional, Giving

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