Empty Quotes - Page 28

• Comedians a lot of times we're on the road, we're by our self. We come home to New York to our empty one-bedroom apartment, you know, and we need a place to go where you see a bunch of other miserable people sit around and eat a corned beef sandwich.

  Jeff Ross

  New York, Home, Self

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Running, Loneliness, Thinking

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

  Alice Walker

  Buddhist, People, Greed

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Here's the number one reason Americans are heavy: The brain, very smartly, wants nutrition. But the average American is not eating nutrients; he or she is eating empty calories. So you finish that 2,000 calories and your brain says, Keep going until you get nutrients.

  Mehmet Oz

  Numbers, Average, Brain

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• Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Compassion, Giving

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Talking, Europe, East

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Monsanto will not come empty-handed. Monsanto will come with a big bag of money. And because these governments are poor, when they are shown money for their research institutions, for their universities, for their professors, they are very quick to say yes, and I can tell you that when Monsanto came to Kenya, they were able to be given permission to do research in one of our research institutions, and yet there was not a single law to control such research.

  Wangari Maathai

  Law, Government, Kenya

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• The economy is changing everything. And men need to deal with that. Our response to it has been rage, stupidity and conscious avoidance of dealing with what the reality of being a man might be outside of empty concepts from ancient history.

  Stephen Marche

  Men, Reality, Stupidity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• My view on well-being and fulfillment comes from Maslow and positive psychology, and that is that you're satisfying three sets of needs. First need is physiological and safety needs: Got to satisfy those first. And the second is you got to satisfy your community needs because we're social animals, and if we don't have that, we're empty and we don't have people to share knowledge and bounce things off of, and challenge ourselves. And then the third is the idea is to find a calling.

  Charles Koch

  Animal, Views, Ideas

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Thinking, Film, Feels

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• When I was a little kid and I heard a song I liked on TV, I would jump up and run to the piano to try and figure it out by ear. When I was 10 or 11, I built myself a drum kit in the garage made out of empty laundry detergent buckets, old lawn chairs, paint cans, and old trash cans. And around that time, my parents got me my first guitar. A baby acoustic. I jumped between all of these instruments constantly to satisfy the ideas I heard in my head. At this young age, I realized that music would play a huge part in my life.

  Brendon Urie

  Running, Song, Baby

  Source: villaparkiliad.com

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• A lot of people in this country are obese because of a form of malnutrition. One thing I'd like to do is to help people understand the correlation between a steady diet of empty calories - though you may not experience hunger pangs, you can't really function well if all you're eating are things like ramen noodles, or chips, cookies, and sodas, things that are quite typically inexpensive and affordable because of the way we subsidize the ingredients that go into them.

  Lori Silverbush

  Country, People, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always wished I could go to confession. I was so full of things I couldn't name and had an instinct to hide. I felt burdened by the loneliness of my interior life. I wanted some container that I could empty myself into, some ear that would never be shocked, even if it offered me some kind of penance.

  Melissa Febos

  Loneliness, Names, Ears

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The era of empty talk is over. Now is the time for action.

  Donald Trump

  Eras, Action

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!

  Iris Apfel

  Fashion, Thinking, Shoes

  Source: www.thegayuk.com

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• Male say they're looking for a girl just like the girl who married dear old dad, but what they really want, and usually get, is an empty-headed little chick who's very young and very physical -and very submissive.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Dad, Males

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• Life is about more than earning a living, and if you're not in the habit of thinking about it, you can end up middle-aged or even older and shocked to realize that your life seems empty.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Earning, Realizing

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. Whereas the chef makes cake and sometimes tastes it with a finger, but that's it - the rest is for the people.

  Jonathan Santlofer

  Artist, Cake, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you don't have that empty white space around everything in the comics, the border of the page, then it feels like you're a little claustrophobic.

  Ed Brubaker

  Like You

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the foreign policy is really not Donald Trump administration concern. Like the Syria strike. I mean, it meant almost nothing. They hit an empty air base. Within a day, it was functioning again. Planes were flying off it. It was for a domestic show, you know - show what a tough guy I am; I'm not Barack Obama.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't think Trump is a deeply self-aware person. But he's absolutely off the charts as a narcissist. He is the consummate narcissistic salesman. He is in fact a sick man. And that's potentially very dangerous. The only positive thing about Trump is that he has no ideology, he is an empty vessel, surrounded by people who give him ideas, and it only matters which ideas will shine the light on Trump.

  John Dean

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most of these charges that people pay are economically unnecessary. There's no real cost behind them. There's no real value behind them. So, they're what the classical economist called empty pricing. Prices with no real cost value. What they called rent and fictitious capital. Capital claims on junk mortgage borrowers. The pretense is that all these debts can be paid but it's all fictitious, because everybody knows - at least on Wall Street everybody knows - that many debts can't be paid.

  Michael Hudson

  Wall, Real, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The only thing that dictates whether I respond to someone is whether I have something interesting to say in return. I respond to people I don't know at all, when their tweet hauls a nice fresh bucket of water up out of me, but if it comes up empty then I just stay quiet.

  Patricia Lockwood

  Nice, People, Water

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very good at making expenses line up with income. But he is a marketing genius. He must have seen an empty market niche that no one but him filled.

  David Frum

  Marketing, Genius, Niche

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump participated in something known as the empty box scam. He bought $65,000 worth of jewelry from Bulgari across the street from Trump Tower, and had the record show that it was mailed to him in an out-of-state address. Now, if you're not a New York resident, you may not have to pay sales tax if the jewelry is mailed to you in another state. The problem is, they were empty boxes. It was proven.

  Hillary Clinton

  Jewelry, Problem, Taxes

  Source: www.pbs.org

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