Core Quotes - Page 22

• Every underground artist has that little chip on his shoulder, like "I'm stuck here, and I'm trying to get out of this little hole that I'm in." You've got this core fan base, but it's limited.

  Chamillionaire

  Artist, Trying, Littles

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2005.

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• I'm a nerd. But I'm not that hard-core.

  Joe Manganiello

  Nerd, Hard Core, Hard

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

  Joyce Brothers

  Self, Personality, Human Behavior

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• I think the idea of freedom or liberty is really misused for political reasons, but it's something that resonates with people to the core. People want to be masters of their own destinies, but at the same time, I think they do so selectively. Sometimes they want to be told exactly what to do so they don't have to think for themselves - as long as they can still exercise their free will.

  Shepard Fairey

  Exercise, Destiny, Thinking

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• About my work, my first film, Écoute le Temps (Fissures), was positioned by distributors as a thriller because they thought that it would sell more easily. But it was surely a mistake, as that kind of viewer did not take the bait, and it drew away its potential core audience, those whom I met in festivals and in various Q&As who seem to appreciate that particular kind of cross-over arthouse film.

  Alante Kavaite

  Mistake, Appreciate, Bait

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Obama's primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Campaigns, Financial

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• I think we all have a core that's ecstatic, that knows and that looks up in wonder. We all know that there are marvelous moments of eternity that just happen. We know them.

  Coleman Barks

  Thinking, Looks, Wonder

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• Recently, results of the Human Genome Project have shattered one of Science's fundamental core beliefs, the concept of genetic determinism. We have been led to believe that our genes determine the character of our lives, yet new research surprisingly reveals that it is the character of our lives that controls our genes. Rather than being victims of our heredity, we are actually masters of our genome.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Believe, Character, Research

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• The gut-check message is do we have the right balance in our culture? Or are we in a position where hero worship and winning at all costs has subordinated our core values?

  Mark Emmert

  Hero, Winning, Balance

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• Rest, rest at the heart's core . . . till joy shall overtake.

  Christina Rossetti

  Heart, Joy

  Christina Rossetti “Christina Rossetti”, Ardent Media

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• Maybe at the core of me, I'm a survivor, but I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes, in acting of course with your performance, some of your own personal character seeps through. My performance goal has always been to perform for the audience. People pay their hard earned money, and so I always desire to give all of myself in every single scene.

  Paula Patton

  Character, Goal, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Part of my learning curve as a novice screenwriter was peeling back the layers and getting to the core of the story. I was really blessed to have two amazing writing mentors who helped me along the way. They always encouraged me to be okay with a simple story.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Blessed, Writing, Simple

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people.

  DJ Shadow

  People, Work Ethic, Want

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't agree with a core statement by most feminists, the statement by Simone de Beauvoir: "One is not born a woman, one becomes one." Even as a schoolgirl I wasn't convinced by the claim that gender has nothing to do with biology and is only shaped by one's environment.

  Kristina Schroder

  Feminist, Environment, Biology

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The perception of the West as mostly a "knight of democracy" has been replaced with the disappointed belief that pragmatism, often cynical and selfish, lies at the core of Western policies. For many Russians it was a grave disillusion, a crushing of ideals.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Crush, Selfish, Lying

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Communication, Years, Foundation

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In humans, the family prevents infanticide. Next to language, the core family, consisting of a mother, a father and children, is the greatest difference between us and other primates.

  Frans de Waal

  Mother, Children, Father

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• sometimes, in pursuit of a greater peace, a man must stand by and lets those he loves suffer the injustices of men ho cares only about their own beliefs and nothing about the faith or feelings of others-- even when it pains him to the very core of his spirit

  Darren Shan

  Pain, Men, Feelings

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• Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn't have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness pierced my soul and ached to the core. I not only felt disconnected from the world, but I also felt like no one ever loved me. Intellectually, I knew that people did, but I still felt that way.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Lonely, Loneliness, Long

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• I see it as my job to try to keep Bach in the mainstream and present his music with, rather than without, its emotional core.

  Nigel Kennedy

  Jobs, Emotional, Trying

  "Nigel Kennedy accuses fellow violinists of destroying Bach's legacy" by Dalya Alberge, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2011.

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• The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

  Charlotte Selver

  Bases

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• Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

  Lewis Mumford

  Adventure, Giving, House

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• Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.

  Elie Faure

  Twilight, Past, Symphony

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• With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Strong, Exercise, Opposites

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