Distance Quotes - Page 33

• For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Children, Soul, Mind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Many painters had a clear idea of what fractals are. Take a French classic painter named Poussin. Now, he painted beautiful landscapes, completely artificial ones, imaginary landscapes. And how did he choose them? Well, he had the balance of trees, of lawns, of houses in the distance. He had a balance of small objects, big objects, big trees in front and his balance of objects at every scale is what gives to Poussin a special feeling.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Beautiful, Small Objects, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

  Emmy Rossum

  Long Distance Relationship, Play, Skype

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Shields, Needs, Want

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

  Dani Shapiro

  Dream, Writing, Self

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• If we become uncomfortable in any given moment, we can look at a flower, a pebble in the street or the tire on our car and be grateful. We can gaze at a person in the distance or at a cloud in the sky and be appreciative. We can smile at a stranger, hug someone we know or tidy a disorganized shelf and be thankful for the opportunity. If we choose gratitude, we will be happy!

  Barry Neil Kaufman

  Happiness, Success, Gratitude

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• The distance between your knowledge of truth and your obedience is called lack of integrity. And the amount of negative behavior-or lack of integrity-a person exhibits is directly proportional to their amount of pain.

  Tara Leigh Cobble

  Pain, Integrity, Inspiration

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• The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Hands, Mountain, Smooth

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• Your goal is simple: Finish. Experience your first race, don't race it. Your first race should be slightly longer or slightly faster than your normal run. Run your first race. Later you can race. You will be a hero just for finishing, so don't put pressure on yourself by announcing a time goal. Look at it this way: The slower you run the distance, the easier it will be to show off by improving your time the next race!

  Bob Glover

  Running, Hero, Simple

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• I am talking about anything that is a provocation - ignore it. When something falls under freedom of expression, you can read it and take a critical distance.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Fall, Expression, Talking

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic Verses is a blasphemous book. I did not consider the book as being a great read, but as an intellectual I read, I assess, and I respond. I make a difference between true freedom of expression to which we owe a response and provocation, which we ignore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Book, Thinking, Expression

  "'You want my reaction? You get my silence.'". Interview with Lars Mensel, Clemens Lukitsch, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I think people who make objects like the distance; they're not there when the other person is taking it in.

  Eric Fischl

  Thinking, People, Persons

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd entirely forgotten about Pass The Distance, and then I went to Japan in 2000, and was asked to do interviews with all these journalists, who were showing up with bootlegs of this record, asking me to talk about it. I was astonished. It kind of gained momentum.

  David Toop

  Japan, Showing Up, Interviews

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I would not presume from this distance, nor would America presume to say who should be the leader of the Iraqi nation.

  Colin Powell

  America, Leader, Should

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• That is part of our critique of some of the charity and service work is that we can still keep relationships at a distance by creating programs that offer services but we don't really create a reconciled community.

  Shane Claiborne

  Creating, Community, Charity

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.

  Dalai Lama

  Talking, People, Old Friends

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• The first important [step] one was going to school. There was an advantage as there was a one-room schoolhouse that was within walking distance of my home. I went there being very shy, but I fit in quickly, and I was nurtured by a very dedicated and caring teacher, Magdalen George, who we referred to as Miss George. She was my teacher for a full seven years.

  Paul Smith

  Teacher, School, Home

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• Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.

  Mara Wilson

  Teenager, College, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

  Morgan Saylor

  Character, Creating, Important

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

  Socrates

  Art, Children, Real

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

  Manmohan Singh

  Lying, Moving, Nuclear Disarmament

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• The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

  Manmohan Singh

  Daughter, Brother, Powerful

  "Dr Manmohan Singh's interview with Charlie Rose". Interview with Charlie Rose, www.rediff.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Serendipity looks a lot like creativity, at least at a distance, and if I can tap into these ways in which one thing resembles another.

  Jonathon Keats

  Creativity, Serendipity, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It has to be fun for you when you see somebody at a distance and you take their opinion of what they're going to be like and then you go interview them, and they're totally different. You're like, wow, I didn't expect that.

  John Calipari

  Fun, Different, Wow

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• 'The anthropocene' refers to the way we live now, in a highly globalized world, characterized by a large human population and powerful technologies that allow for "action at a distance" that aggregate apparently negligible acts into powerful forces that are transforming fundamental planetary systems. In this sense 'the anthropocene' refers to a period in which nature as an independent autonomous domain comes to an end or is under serious threat.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Independent, Technology

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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