Connections Quotes - Page 33

• With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

  Brad Pitt

  Father, Son, Inexplicable

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• I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that.

  Paula Poundstone

  Night, Clubs, Auditions

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• I'm nutty for nutrition. I've become one of those people who can't stop talking about the connection between food and health. Now that I know how much changing what you eat can transform your life, I can't stop proselytizing.

  Robin Quivers

  Talking, People, Nutrition

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• The philosophical connection between the Islamic world and the West is much closer than I thought. Doubt did not begin with Descartes. We have this construction today that the West and Islam are entirely separate worlds. This is wrong.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Philosophical, Islamic, Doubt

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• Wrestling and boxing is like Ping-Pong and rugby. There's no connection.

  Mickey Rourke

  Wrestling, Boxing, Ping Pong

  "Mickey Rourke Explains His Preparation For 'The Wrestler': 'I Had Some Demons'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Artists working for other artists is all about knowing, learning, unlearning, initiating long-term artistic dialogues, making connections, creating covens, and getting temporary shelter from the storm.

  Jerry Saltz

  Artist, Creating, Knowing

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• As we work to reweave the strands of connection, we can be supported by the wisdom and lovingkindness of others.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strands, Lovingkindness

  "There Is Always Trauma In The Room" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2009.

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• Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.

  George Saunders

  Pain, People, Might

  Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. January 18, 2013.

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• One of the unintended negative consequences of online advertising has been the loss of value in traditional classifieds. It's simply quicker, simply easier for an end user who's online, on a broadband connection, to look things up and to figure out what they want to buy.

  Eric Schmidt

  Loss, Negative, Looks

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• Post-9/11, we saw an immediate uptick in the amount of people in our stores, all over the country. People wanted that human connection. We are not going to fracture the Starbucks experience.

  Howard Schultz

  Country, People, Saws

  "Coffee talk: Katie Couric interviews Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz tonight". Interview with Katie Couric, latimesblogs.latimes.com. December 8, 2008.

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• What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

  Jane Seymour

  Beautiful, Journey, People

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• I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Topics, Intrusion, Authorship

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• Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world's greatest libraries - indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.

  Peter Singer

  Library, Needs, World

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

  Zadie Smith

  Consciousness, Reason, Feels

  "Brave, Brainy, Changeable - Zadie Smith Revealed" by Heller McAlpin, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Race, Rocks, Dying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

  Cat Stevens

  Air, Giving, Needs

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• Masses of girls identified with Bella in a really profound way, for want of a better word. The connection that I've seen people have - I've seen it physically. It's the characters they're flipping for.

  Kristen Stewart

  Girl, Character, People

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• Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.

  Allen Tate

  Art, Historical, Facts

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that.

  Tim Tebow

  Player, Use, Want

  "Q&A with Tim Tebow: On his autobiography, competing to be a starter and his bachelor status". Interview with Gene Frenette, jacksonville.com. February 21, 2011.

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• I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Hearing, Messages

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• What I look for in music is artistry, sincerity, and simplicity, and Tom Waits has all of that. I want to make a connection to the creator.

  Steve Vai

  Waiting, Simplicity, Looks

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

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• Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

  Steve Vai

  Art, Player, Guitar

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

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• If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

  "How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

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• I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Real, Wine, Talking

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.

  Eddie Vedder

  Reality, Want, Way

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