Contact Quotes - Page 38

• AP promoted me to the White House beat because I knew Clinton, his family, friends, and staff better than anybody in the national press corps. Those contacts helped me break a few stories and get my career in Washington jump-started.

  Ron Fournier

  Careers, White, House

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• What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

  Anna Freud

  People, Opinion, Affection

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• Everybody's entitled to think whatever they want and to express that, but my personal day-to-day experience does not come into contact with any of those people.

  Amy Grant

  Thinking, People, Doe

  "Simply Complicated". Christianity Today Interview, www.crosswalk.com. August 25, 2003.

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• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Reality, Deviousness

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• What we know is smartphones are everywhere and they are rich in data. What we know is that there are apps once downloaded by the consumer that will also in turn download the consumers' contact book. Most consumers don't want that to happen and don't know it's happening.

  Kamala Harris

  Book, Smartphones, Data

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• Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fiction, Genius, Literature

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• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Hans Hofmann: With Selected Writings by the Artist". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15, 1963.

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• I've had no ­contact with my daughter for years. That's her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don't want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Daughter, Moving, Years

  "Meet the painter Anthony Hopkins". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2010.

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• My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

  Whitney Houston

  Mother, House, Church

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• Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

  Aldous Huxley

  Literature, Three, Beastly

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Soul, Analogies, Body

  Jamila Khatoon, Sir Muhammad Iqbal (1963). “The place of God, man, and universe in the philosophic system of Iqbal”

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• I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

  John Irving

  Birthday, Sports, Writing

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• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  Washington Irving

  Fear, Real, Humble

  Washington Irving (1999). “Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories”, p.95, Penguin

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• I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Eye, Two, White

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• Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

  LeBron James

  Family, Basketball, Mean

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• I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

  Penn Jillette

  People, Performers, Products

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

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• We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.

  Steve Jobs

  Iphone, Phones, Use

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• In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like it, we'll just turn it off.

  Michio Kaku

  Want, Able, Turns

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• Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalists, Plans

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• What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

  Jaron Lanier

  Technology, Self, Agendas

  "The virtual visionary" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2001.

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• Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Ideas, Want Something

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• The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mind, Literature, Should

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• As any speaker will tell you, when you address a large number of people from a stage, you try to make eye contact with people in the audience to communicate that you're accessible and interested in them.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Eye, Numbers, People

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• When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

  Diego Maradona

  Team, Skins, Shirts

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