Excess Quotes - Page 13

• I don't want to think too much about how I'm carving and what I'm carving - you are just carving away the excess clay and there's a piece underneath there. And it's kind of like getting out of the way. Maybe that's what the commonality is: It's getting out of the way so that the art can speak.

  Erykah Badu

  Art, Thinking, Clay

  Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.

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• I've never met a bread basket that I didn't love. At the same time, it can make me tired. If I have too much wine, it's too much sugar. If I overindulge on tortilla chips in a Mexican restaurant, I can really feel it. I think sometimes just watching it and not doing things in excess can really help with whether you feel good or not.

  Molly Sims

  Tired, Wine, Thinking

  "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

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• Some people's weight loss is impeded by an impaired thyroid. So I think it's worth testing that at your next physical exam. If it's off, sometimes, that can be caused by excess metals, such as mercury or cadmium. A qualified M.D. can help you cleanse your body of those.

  Tony Robbins

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

  Gary Shilling

  Thinking, World, Too Much

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• America is a country of excess.

  Norman Lear

  Country, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood against the excesses in politics. He didn't want to unleash a lot of nationalist, populistic reaction. He wanted to try to figure out how to get back into that balance that has served America so well over our entire nationhood.

  Hillary Clinton

  America, Balance, Trying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Donald Trump was seen for quite a long time as a punchline, the jokes about the excesses and the failures of the 1980s. And he had become, you know, a human shingle and a punchline.

  Timothy L. O'Brien

  Long, Trump, Shingles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I lived my teenage years in my 20s when I sort of left home and became Elton John success, then it became Elton John excess... Everything I couldn't do when I was younger I did 10 times over. I was having the time of my life. I was becoming the person that I wanted to be.

  Elton John

  Home, Becoming, Wanted

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.

  Allen Hershkowitz

  Age, Generations, Looks

  "American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2009.

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• As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

  Diogenes Laertius

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• Characters exist in a flat line until we challenge them - sometimes they challenge themselves, sometimes they're challenged by other people, by nature, by robots, or by fungal infections in and around one's nether-country. Stories need conflict across the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual spectra. Accidents, betrayals, cataclysm, desperation, excess - these are the letters in the alphabet of conflict.

  Chuck Wendig

  Spiritual, Country, Betrayal

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• But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.

  Yaroslav Trofimov

  Fighting, Government, Abu Ghraib

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, People, Style

  William Zinsser (2012). “On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Because by definition they lack any sense of mutuality or wholeness, our specializations subsist on conflict with one another. The rule is never to cooperate, but rather to follow one's own interest as far as possible. Checks and balances are all applied externally, by opposition, never by self-restraint. Labor, management, the military, the government, etc., never forbear until their excesses arouse enough opposition to force them to do so.

  Wendell Berry

  Military, Government, Self

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• The eye that gazes upon the sun sees not the orb it looks upon, confounded by the excess of its brightness.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Eye, Looks, Brightness

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• Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other.

  Pietro Metastasio

  Light, Shining, Grace

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• To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

  Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

  Passion, Ideas, Useless

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• Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

  Kate O'Beirne

  Squares, Religion, Faces

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• Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

  Mary Blakely

  Children, Real, Self

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• The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Liberty, Doe, Harm

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• The ass bears the load, but not the overload.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Bears, Ass, Overload

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1872). “Sancho Panza's Proverbs: And Others which Occur in Don Quixote”, p.4

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• Remember, that when I speak of pleasures I always mean the elegant pleasures of a rational being, and not the brutal ones of a swine. I mean la bonne chère, short of gluttony; wine, infinitely short of drunkenness; play, without the least gaming; and gallantry, without debauchery.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Wine, Mean, Play

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• I have great admiration for power, a great terror of weakness, especially in my own sex, yet feel that my love is for those who overcome the mental and moral suffering and temptation through excess of tenderness rather than through excess of strength.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Sex, Love Is, Temptation

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.52

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• Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

  Richard Whately

  Religious, Men, Vanity

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.59

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