Distance Quotes - Page 34

• Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.

  Dale Jamieson

  Mean, People, Suffering

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• This is the thing I've noticed is that the greater the distance between you and any ordinary task is the measurement of how much rockstar potential you have.

  Emily Haines

  Ordinary, Tasks, Measurement

  "Taking Measurements: An Interview with Metric". Interview With Devon Powers, www.popmatters.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Writing, Bass

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Those who are living out the drama and the violence still need to live that out for their experience, while others of us have gone past that need - but we're still witnessing it from a distance. What the Pleiadians are saying is don't engage in drama that is not ours.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Drama, Past, Violence

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• There was a lot of distance between the Dar of The Honesty Room and the Dar of Mortal City, so there was no attempt.

  Dar Williams

  Honesty, Cities, Rooms

  "Dar Williams returns to Mortal City". Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. November 3, 2016.

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• Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.

  Judith Butler

  Struggle, Thinking, Choices

  Source: ilga.org

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• If Donald Trump behaves well, personally, and morally - I agree with Van [Jones] on this - if he distances - if he disassociates himself from forces that he unfortunately coddled and even fostered a little in this campaign, if he is responsible about the way in which he goes about his policy, initiatives on immigration and ObamaCare, trade and other areas, he has a huge opportunity, because the truth is that a lot of this stuff isn't that - there is a lot that can be done.

  William Kristol

  Opportunity, Obamacare, Immigration

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Children, Airplane, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The distance between where I am and where I want to be seems impossibly large.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Want, Seems

  Source: collider.com

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• I noticed you could monitor the recording that you're making, but you could also monitor the playback head. There's a little distance between them and so you get an echo, right? If you change the amplitude of, say, the playback and play with that, you get different qualities and different sounds. So I was very interested in that phenomenon.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Echoes, Play, Quality

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• I think the recent cluster of WWII novels is so good because we have reached an optimal distance from the war. Just as a lens has its focal length, the novel also has its best distance from the action.

  Chris Cleave

  War, Thinking, Lenses

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• Balzac, you know, our great Balzac, he wrote interesting things about how in literature you keep distance in order to express great feelings. You have to keep a distance - and it's exactly the same with acting.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Order, Interesting, Feelings

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We had a dog, Lucky, who was fourteen years old. For the last year of his life, I would take him on these walks that were long but didn't cover much distance.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Dog, Years, Long

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I just want to take a realistic look now, now that we have enough distance.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Looks, Want, Realistic

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• Unfortunately, Trump has showed hateful inclinations toward many, many groups. Many groups. The most obvious: undocumented immigrants and Muslims. His comments that I've seen that he's made about Jewish people, about black people - they're all very troubling to me - even though he sort of said, "Oh, I distance myself from hate and don't do any of this hating stuff."

  Barbara Boxer

  Hate, People, Black

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think of depression as the mechanism that pushes down the pain of that loss. It tries to distance us from the loss but it lowers our whole energy level. I think that's a pervasive way we end up responding to loss or the anticipation of loss. Natural but not necessary.

  Tara Brach

  Pain, Loss, Thinking

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I think we don't need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don't speak the same language, don't eat the same food. There's a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.

  Bernie Ecclestone

  Country, Running, Thinking

  Source: www.topgear.com

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• Vertical thought likes to imagine the vast distances between the stars.

  Robert Bly

  Stars, Likes, Imagine

  Source: www.utne.com

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• The distance between the adolescent and the true adult is about five thousand miles, but the distance between the adult and the elder is almost as large.

  Robert Bly

  Adults, Miles, Thousand

  Source: www.utne.com

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• You have to develop a certain healthy distance to allow you to keep a clear head, to be able to analyse the situation, lead your team, and move forward with them, because there are times if I'm not careful... if you get too involved, it will consume you; it will consume you, and you will not be good to your team; the issues you are dealing with.

  Kofi Annan

  Team, Moving Forward, Issues

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• I love short stories. They're like small imploding universes. They are very tightly bound and controlled. I'd been wanting to write one for ages but just got tangled up in novels. The novel is the same in the sense that it is also a universe, but it explodes outwards with all that shrapnel going in several different directions. I don't see too much difference in the forms except for the fact that writing short stories is like sprinting rather than long-distance running.

  Colum McCann

  Short Love, Running, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I think when it comes to Anderson Silva, it comes down to his speed, his distance and his timing are impeccable. They are second to none and that's what makes him dangerous.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Thinking, Timing, Anderson Silva

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• No distance is too far.

  Max Lucado

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.

  Max Lucado

  His Love, Limits, Common

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'm going to do everything I can to help Hillary Clinton get elected and I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that Donald Trump never comes within shouting distance of the White House.

  Elizabeth Warren

  White, House, Helping

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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