Distance Quotes - Page 40

• I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

  Ang Lee

  Thinking, Pieces, Way

  "TalkAsia" with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2007.

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• Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

  Doris Lessing

  War, World, Firsts

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• Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

  Leona Lewis

  Relationship, Long, Anything Worth Having

  "Leona Lewis looking lovely in Cosmo as she hits back at critics of her goody two-shoes image" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. September 10, 2009.

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• Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Running, Sea, Religion

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

  Ian MacKaye

  Mainstream Society, Years, Perception

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  Maimonides

  Philosophy, Medicine, Soma

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• I was 21 years and 218 days old when I received the Academy Award for Best Actress. I had just stepped into an imaginary world that I'd seen at a distance for years.

  Marlee Matlin

  Awards, Years, World

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• Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.

  James McAvoy

  Determination, Real, Fall

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• If you go back back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Years, Data

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

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• Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

  Henri Nouwen

  New Horizons, Way, Intimacy

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Lifesigns: Intimacy, Fecundity, and Ecstasy in Christian Perspective”, p.24, Image

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• When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Rain, Kids, Phones

  "Hello, It’s Me" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 12, 2010.

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• This Congress has promised all manner of border security and port security to the tune of billions of dollars... yet we have - to date - funded our promises for port security at only $900 million. That's quite a distance between what we say and what we actually do.

  Solomon Ortiz

  Promise, Tunes, Borders

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• Do we need distance to get close?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Long Distance Relationship, Distance Relationship, Needs

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• It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one’s working here and one’s working there, or one’s staying at home and one’s off someplace else.

  Dennis Quaid

  Long Distance Relationship, Home, Wind

  "Dennis Quaid on Fame, Fatherhood, and His First TV Series". Interview with Dotson Rader, parade.com. September 20, 2012.

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• A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Civilization, Heritage

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Law, Sides

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Thinking, Defining Moments, Defining

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• I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless.

  Christopher Walken

  Play, People, Tongue

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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• Early on, I played one or two disturbed people, and I guess I must have been good at it, because it stuck. But, you know, I'm a regular guy. I stay home a lot, I make an effort to keep a distance from the whole social thing, the openings, the parties. I try to live in a calm way.

  Christopher Walken

  Party, Home, Two

  "Christopher Walken: 'No matter who I play, it's me" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2012.

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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

  Men, People, Backyards

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• When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.

  Debra Winger

  Funny, Life, Thinking

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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

  Eye, Fighting, Kissing

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• All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Zero, Government, Justice

  "Going global: social innovation" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 3, 2010.

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• Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.

  Margaret Atwood

  Kindness, Men, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2003). “The Penelopiad”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Self Harm, Glasses

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