Connections Quotes - Page 32

• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Ubuntu

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• Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Waiting, Use, Succeed

  "Dear President Obama, Qualified Women are Everywhere..." by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 14, 2008.

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• I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Thinking, People, Important

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• You know it's right when you feel this undeniable connection and chemistry.

  Ali Larter

  Chemistry, Feels, Knows

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• I do feel like I have a direct connection with God for some reason; always have since I was a little kid - I would talk to God, talk to the sky.

  Queen Latifah

  Kids, Sky, Littles

  "Queen Latifah: 'Joyful Noise' Role Brings Her Closer to God". Interview with Kelly Mahan, theboombox.com. January 4, 2012.

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• I am convinced that, despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people. I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him, object of sympathy. I think people feel he's a victim, he portrays himself as a victim of America; he gets sympathy that way.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sorry, Thinking, Race

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• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Artist, People, May

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• Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Memories, Imagining Yourself, Brain

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• I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.

  Martina McBride

  School, People, President

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• I have never felt any ethnic connection between the Greeks and me other than how hairy I am.

  George Michael

  Greek, Felt

  2004 In Scotland on Sunday,14 Mar.

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• I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

  Mike Mills

  Hate, Sadness, Thinking

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• The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

  Mike Mills

  Grieving, Nerves, Poetic

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• As people continue to do more and buy more over the Internet, continue to meet people over the Internet, connection speeds are going to get faster, and the Internet is just going to become an even more integral part of people's lives.

  Moby

  People, Internet, Speed

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• At the risk of sounding pedestrian, I'll be completely honest: the first thing I do in the morning is check Google News, partially because it seems sort of random and unbiased and partially because I tend to stay in hotels that don't necessarily have the fastest Internet connections.

  Moby

  Morning, Risk, Google

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• In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

  Alan Moore

  Numbers, Mind, Atoms

  "He does it with magic". Interview with Nick Hasted, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2000.

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• When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

  Alanis Morissette

  Spiritual, Husband, Silence

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• Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

  Peter Mullan

  Catholic, Church, Relation

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• While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Pain, Believe, Sacrifice

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by ee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Grief, Believe, Sadness

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• Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child.

  Yoko Ono

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Yoko Ono" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2008.

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• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  Yoko Ono

  Book, Thinking, Cities

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• The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

  Joel Osteen

  Connected, Creator, Ultimate

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• It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Done, Century

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• Obama's capitalism is a capitalism of connections.

  Sarah Palin

  Capitalism

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• The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Art, Creativity

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