Elsewhere Quotes - Page 29

• Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

  Chenjerai Hove

  Creativity, Space, Desire

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• One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, Way

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• Greece has been, in many ways, a partially dysfunctional society. For example, the wealthy barely pay taxes... to an extent, that's true elsewhere, including the United States, but it's been pretty extreme in Greece.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, Example, Pay

  Interview with Michael Nevradakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2012.

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• Arlen Specter is the man who voted in favor of Bill Clinton during impeachment, voted against Robert Bork for the Supreme Court, voted against school choice for the District of Columbia, endorses an absolutist interpretation of abortion rights. He is bright and he is tough and he belongs elsewhere.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  School, Men, Rights

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• To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either.

  Angela Merkel

  Xenophobia, Fighting, Racism

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• My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.

  Normandi Ellis

  Light, Flames, Shining

  Normandi Ellis (2009). “Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead”, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.

  Tom Chatfield

  Men, Machines, Levels

  "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.

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• In acknowledging woman-to-woman help it is important to recognize that power, within the family and elsewhere, can be used vindictively, and that it is not only powerful men who abuse women; women with power may also abuse other women.

  Sheila Kitzinger

  Powerful, Men, Abuse

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• The US remains an object of fascination for me, and the subject of much study, but while many of my friends etc. are American and I have no plans at present to move elsewhere, I consider myself a permanent outsider.

  Luc Sante

  Moving, Fascination, Outsiders

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• I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession with movie-making. There's a lot of sensationalism and superficiality. I wanted to take my kids out of that and raise 'em up elsewhere, and I wanted to stop being preoccupied with whether my star is on the rise or the descent. I can't imagine having a much greater life, and I don't want to be preoccupied with things that don't matter. But of course, ironically, my two oldest daughters have decided that they're going to be actresses.

  Woody Harrelson

  Daughter, Stars, Growing Up

  "Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg". Interview with Steve Heisler, film.avclub.com. October 1, 2009.

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• What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, America, Facts

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In Scotland, it's a common name.

  Isla Fisher

  Thinking, Names, Scotland

  "The Isla Fisher Definitely, Maybe Interview: Mum About Her Borat Bab". Interview by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 20, 2008.

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• In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Two, Affair

  P. G. Wodehouse (2011). “Indiscretions of Archie”, p.43, The Floating Press

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• Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make others die, but to die oneself--confronted day and night with his innocent crime, it became too difficult to go on. It was better to get it over with, to not defend himself, to die, in order not to be the only one to have survived, and to go elsewhere, where, perhaps, he would be supported.

  Albert Camus

  God, Night, Order

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• The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).

  Herman E. Daly

  Technology, Men, Law

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• ... in love, barriers cannot be destroyed from the outside by the one to whom the cause despair, no matter what he does; and it isonly when he is no longer concerned with them that, suddenly, as a result of work coming from elsewhere, accomplished within the one who did not love him, these barriers, formerly attacked without success, fall futilely.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Fall, Despair

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• Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

  Philip Larkin

  Home, Existence, Familiarity

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Whitsun Weddings”, p.32, Faber & Faber

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• There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Freedom, Wind, World

  1934 Speech, Dec.

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• The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Home, Heart, America

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• When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog-big as a donkey. ... I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio. ... I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere. ... Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

  Ray Davies

  Country, Dog, Song

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• When sleep enters the body like smoke
  and man journeys into the abyss
  like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere,
  then all quarrel ceases,
  overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip
  of its rider.

  Nelly Sachs

  Stars, Sleep, Journey

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• If you want to know something, go elsewhere. If you want to un-know everything, then sit and listen.

  Adyashanti

  Attachment, Want, Consciousness

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• ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Cities, Simplicity, Unions

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• The first and most important rule to observe...is to use our entire forces with the utmost energy. The second rule is to concentrate our power as much as possible against that section where the chief blows are to be delivered and to incur disadvantages elsewhere, so that our chances of success may increase at the decisive point. The third rule is never to waste time. Finally, the fourth rule is to follow up our successes with the utmost energy. Only pursuit of the beaten enemy gives the fruits of victory.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Blow, Giving, Enemy

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• Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Strong, Believe

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