Edges Quotes - Page 5

• China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.

  Noam Chomsky

  Russia, Iran, Korea

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Social networks are an incredible new tool which enables me to speak directly to large numbers of people. It is at the cutting edge of personal interaction around the world.

  Helen Zille

  Cutting, Numbers, People

  Source: memeburn.com

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• I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

  Paul Saffo

  Doors, Wish, Wildlife

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

  Al Gore

  Fall, Mean, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

  Paul Saffo

  Dark, Break Off, Worry

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, Guarantees That, Occupy Yourself

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty are looking bright. You're dealing with human beings on the cutting edge, and there's bound to be tension. You have to be make room for that, and you can't be too unreasonable, because that's everybody else's role.

  John Lydon

  Cutting, Years, Healthy

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• By myself, I'm a hard pill. My wife makes me look real good, because she smoothes my rough edges. That's why I say, "Take your wife everywhere. It's a good thing."

  Terry Crews

  Real, Rough Edges, Wife

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Years, Leader

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

  Henry Adams

  Men, Graves

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)

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• I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

  Jonathan Ames

  Fall, Cliffs, Recognise

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• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  Ian Anderson

  Teenager, Rocks, Guitar

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• Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory.

  Diane Arbus

  Life, Motivational, Softball

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• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Diane Arbus

  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

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• Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Cutting, Geek, Expertise

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• I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

  Travis Barker

  Littles, Poppies, Punk

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• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  Boris Becker

  Children, Rooms, Kind

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• All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Country, Running, Travel

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• Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

  Tony Blair

  Technology, Medicine, People

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• It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

  Tom Bodett

  School, Alaska, Mountain

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• Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Creativity, Adventure, Knowledge

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• The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Inspirational, Cutting, Hands

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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• The Black Mamba collection of watches is me: It is my alter ego, so to speak. As I mentioned before, it is sharp, cutting edge and sleek which are characteristics I try to apply when I’m out there on the basketball court.

  Kobe Bryant

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cutting

  "Kobe Bryant On The Black Mamba". Interview with Benjamin Clymer, www.askmen.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

  Tim Burton

  Real, Actors, Pushing

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

  David Byrne

  Analysis, Want, Lobotomy

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