Contact Quotes - Page 40

• It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

  Hu Shih

  Relative Value, Elements, Understood

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• Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

  Peter Singer

  Choices, World, Want

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• I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'

  Kevin Smith

  Philosophy, Men, Everyday

  Interview with Robert Fischer, www.gq.com. August 31, 2011.

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• I did not come into contact with any Muslim before I embraced Islam. I read the Qur'an first and realized no person is perfect, Islam is perfect, and if we imitate the conduct of the Holy Prophet... we will be successful.

  Cat Stevens

  Successful, Holy Prophet, Perfect

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• Political pandering comes in all shapes and sizes, but every four years the presidential primary bring us in contact with its purest form - praising ethanol subsidies amid the corn fields of Iowa.

  John Sununu

  Years, Iowa, Political

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• I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - they don't bother me and when they do contact me it's usually on the nicest possible terms.

  James Taylor

  People, Very Good, Term

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

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• I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.

  Josh Turner

  People, Wealthy, Backgrounds

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• I'd say that all nations have contact with the truth, and all religions have admirable people.

  Jon Voight

  People, Admirable, Nations

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• It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

  Emma Watson

  People, Mouths, Body

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 14, 2010.

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• It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

  Betty White

  Years, Track, Pet

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

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• Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.

  George Will

  Distance, Men, People

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• The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Military, Fighting, Agriculture

  George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”

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• Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Dream, Agony, Evil

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• I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Blue, Interesting

  Frank Lloyd Wright (2008). “Modern Architecture: Being the Kahn Lectures for 1930”, p.76, Princeton University Press

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• Stores don't order merchandise unless they think they can sell it right away. Manufacturers and builders don't produce unless they have buyers lined up. My business contacts describe this as a paradigm shift and they believe it's permanent.

  Janet Yellen

  Believe, Thinking, Order

  "The Outlook for the Economy and Monetary Policy". Janet Yelle's Speech to the Burnham-Moores Center at the University of San Diego in San Diego, California, www.frbsf.org. February 22, 2010.

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• I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

  Loretta Young

  Prayer, Powerful, Believe

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• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Technology, People, Faces

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• Facebook is inherently viral. There are lots of sites that include a contact importer, and for lots of them it doesn't really make sense. For Facebook it fits so well. It wasn't until a few years in that we started building some tools that made it easier to import friends to the site. That was a huge thing that spiked growth.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Years, Growth, Tools

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• Chimpanzees, typically, kiss and embrace after fights. They first make eye contact from a distance to see the mood of the others. Then they approach and kiss and embrace.

  Frans de Waal

  Distance, Eye, Fighting

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• Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Phones, Cliche

  "Why Are We So Afraid of Silence?" by Margaret Heffernan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2013.

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• There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent!

  Sherry Turkle

  Children, School, Eye

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• Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be involved in the thrilling real-life sleaziness that we suspected Hester was in the thick-of. We were in a phase, through television and the movies, of living only vicariously. Even faintly sordid silliness excited us if it put us in contact with love.

  John Irving

  Real, Television, Phases

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• The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,"How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with?" When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Law

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.68, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no insoluble problems,no snags; a religion that would allow us to escape from our miserable human condition; a religion in which contact with God spares us all strife, all uncertainty,all suffering and all doubt; in short, a religion without a cross

  Paul Tournier

  Doubt, Suffering, Mystery

  Paul Tournier (1982). “Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions”, Westminster John Knox Press

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• In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and positively the last guest to leave the party, while the ground darkens, oozing night around your ankles, swallowing for ever that dropped contact lens, making you miss that low catch in the gully on the last ball of the last over.

  Hugh Laurie

  Party, Book, Fall

  Hugh Laurie (2011). “The Gun Seller”, p.279, Random House

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