Deeper Quotes - Page 38

• There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.

  Jimmy Scott

  Careers, Voice, Style

  "'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.

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• I remember being in Japan when Destiny's Child put out 'Independent Women,' and women there were saying how proud they were to have their own jobs, their own independent thinking, their own goals. It made me feel so good, and I realized that one of my responsibilities was to inspire women in a deeper way.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Jobs, Children, Independent

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• I never studied science or physics at school, and yet when I read complex books on quantum physics I understood them perfectly because I wanted to understand them. The study of quantum physics helped me to have a deeper understanding of the Secret, on an energetic level.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Book, School, Understanding

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Secret”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

  Terence McKenna

  Doe, Mathematics

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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• God tries to first create a joyous yes inside of you, far more than any kind of no . . . Just saying no is resentful dieting, whereas finding your deeper yes, and eating from that table, is always a spiritual banquet.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Trying, Saying No

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Immortal Diamond: The search for our true self”, p.126, SPCK

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• The mass media causes sexual misdirection: It prompts us to need something deeper than what we want. This is why Woody Allen has made nebbish guys cool; he makes people assume there is something profound about having a relationship based on witty conversation and intellectual discourse. There isn't. It's just another gimmick, and it's no different than wanting to be with someone because they're thin or rich or the former lead singer of Whiskeytown.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Witty, Media, People

  Chuck Klosterman (2004). “Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself

  Joan Bauer

  Mountain, Draws

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Backwater”, p.9, Penguin

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• It's unsettling, to lose the safety of the familiar, even when what's disrupted is an ordinary routine. When I began this poem, I was grieving for the loss of my old barbershop in Manhattan, and wondering at the strangeness of my new one. I didn't have any idea the poem would break into the underworld, opening a deeper subject: the continuing force of the old griefs routine helps to mediate, and my strange, sheer wonder at my own survival. Where's home now? In the contingent present, in which anything can disappear, and where we're sometimes granted some form of grace.

  Mark Doty

  Grief, Home, Loss

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• Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

  Aberjhani

  Tears, Complexity, Agree

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• Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

  Matt Taibbi

  Cutting, Successful, Profound

  Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau

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• I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.

  Nick Flynn

  Inspired, My Friends, Ifs

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• I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did.

  Peter Gay

  Writing, Use, Wanted

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• Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

  Shane Carruth

  Choices, Important, Filmmaking

  "Five Questions For Upstream Color Director Shane Carruth". Interview with Ethan Alter, www.brilliantbutcancelled.com. April 1, 2013.

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• Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

  James R. Lewis

  Religious, Groups, Alternatives

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• It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies.

  Sophia Lyon Fahs

  Believe, Garden, Feelings

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• The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance.

  Martin Jacques

  Political, Events, World

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• Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium is syntax, grammar and logical continuity, which together form the carrier-wave of plain sense within which its deeper meanings are broadcast.

  Don Paterson

  Art, Rely Upon, Poetry

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• It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Humanity, Doubt

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• The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Understanding, Challenges, Intellectual

  "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

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• A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Shadow, Body, Brilliant

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.105, GENERAL PRESS

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• I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's. I have such passion for what I do that I can't see it as bleak. When people use that word, or “grim” or “gritty,” I just think, “Oh, come on, look a bit deeper.” My films don't give you an easy ride. I can see that. The sense I get is that people have quite a physical experience with them. They feel afterwards that they've really been through something.

  Andrea Arnold

  Passion, Thinking, People

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

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• The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts

  D.T. Suzuki

  Religious, Struggle, Heart

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• Deeper fulfilment is rather different from the happiness of seeing a good film or watching your team win at football, and it doesn't come at the push of a button.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Only death goes deeper than sex.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex

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