Consuming Quotes - Page 8

• There's no rational reason why opera should exist. It's expensive, time consuming. Yet in some shape or other it has always existed.

  Jake Heggie

  Shapes, Opera, Reason Why

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The bureaucratic manager, the consuming aesthete, the therapist, the protester and their numerous kindred occupy almost all the available culturally recognizable roles, the notions of the expertise of the few and of the moral agency of everyone are the presuppositions of the dramas which those characters enact. To cry out that the emperor had no clothes on was at least to pick on one man only to the amusement of everyone else; to declare that almost everyone is dressed in rags is much less likely to be popular.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Drama, Character, Men

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.298, A&C Black

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• On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?

  Farley Mowat

  Choices, Substance, World

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• There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point of all goodness. It comes bringing with it, if not the freshness of innocence, yet a glow of inspiration that nerves feeble hands for hard tasks, a fire of hope that lights anew the old high ideal, so that it stands before the eye in clear relief, beckoning to make it out on its own.

  Charles Brent

  Forgiveness, Inspiration, Eye

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• Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

  Menander

  War, Iron, Clothes

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• A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

  Kenneth Clark

  Writing, Fire, Burning

  Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Martin Dieterle, Kenneth Clark, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1996). “Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875): late paintings”

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• Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.

  Mark Addy

  Shooting, Stuff, Complicated

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

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• In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Real, Women

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

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• What I think about is what people spend their time on this planet doing. So No.1 is sleep, No.2 is work, and No.3 is sight, sound, and motion video consumption. Basically, four to five hours a day is what Americans spend consuming video.

  Jason Kilar

  Sleep, Thinking, Sight

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• History is so fleeting and we are so busy consuming media and the contemporary culture, voraciously gobbling it up, that we have no room to look back ever, and our young people have a tough time looking back.

  Steven Spielberg

  Media, People, Tough Times

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• We could have a greener economy, even a greener consumer economy by changing the rules - whether it's by taxing carbon or trading carbon, I'm not sure what - but in the end there's just a fundamental problem with the sheer amount we're consuming.

  Michael Pollan

  Fundamentals, Problem, Economy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Men, Fire, Objectivity

  Stanislaw Lem (1983). “Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Stupid, Facts, Receiving

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• Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world.

  Dervla Murphy

  Reality, Sick, Growth

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• Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Inability, Enough, Embellishment

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Passion, Heart, Design

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, soldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!

  Florence King

  Running, Attitude, Nice

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• Our day-to-day lives are pretty chaotic. So in terms of the writing part, you have to get pretty disciplined about finding quiet moments and making sure you're making time for the art side, on top of all the time-consuming business side.

  Sarah Kay

  Art, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Source: saseye.com

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• Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

  Julie Powell

  Food, Challenges, Cooking

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• We are reducing the number of relationships. We are slowly but surely consuming the massive reserves of energy that have been accumulating and are stored in the ecosystems.

  Gunter Pauli

  Relationship, Ecosystems, Numbers

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• Our external environment no longer seems to have any firm boundaries, any limits, or any positive cues about when to stop consuming anything. I mean, there is a reason that people get fat - it's easy and cheap to get high-calorie, tasty food.

  Bob Harper

  Mean, People, Getting High

  Bob Harper, Greg Critser (2012). “The Skinny Rules: The Simple, Nonnegotiable Principles for Getting to Thin”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

  Eddie Murphy

  Moving, Waiting, Machines

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• The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fire, Self, Mind

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• I know that some people feel that cooking is time consuming, but cooking is an activity that you can do for yourself and you'll be in good condition to do all the other things that you want to do in your life for a very long time.

  William Katt

  Long, People, Cooking

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Growing Up, Father, Film

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