Fascinating Quotes - Page 13

• I think the culture of Civil War re-enacting is also incredibly fascinating.

  Ed Helms

  War, Thinking, Culture

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I began to analyze the movie [The Day the Earth Stood Still] and said it was really made out of these two characters [Nikola Tesla and Leon Teremin] who were brought together. That made it fascinating to me. And especially the language they made up, that Klaatu speaks. Because it has a Latin word order. It's like medieval Latin, but it had some Navajo phonemes in it and that kind of stuff.

  Paul Laffoley

  Latin, Character, Order

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.

  William Gibson

  Artist, Eight, Rocks

  Source: craphound.com

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• It's always a fascinating subject - a serial killer let loose on a small community. It always holds, it's always scary.

  Malcolm McDowell

  Scary, Community, Serial Killer

  Source: dailydead.com

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• "Born To Run," that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Running, Song, Night

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The fascinating thing about our best and worst behaviors isn't the behavior itself - the brain tells the muscles to do something or other - big deal. It's the meaning of the behavior.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Brain, Behavior, Bigs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• To work with Kaz on this kind of project is a fascinating process...He seems to be Dogen himself when offering the translations that we Western collaborators then refine with him.

  Joan Halifax

  Offering, Kind, Projects

  "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.

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• Olympics are three times more likely to be employed than people of a similar age, ethnic and socioeconomic status who have not been participating. It's a correlation, not a causation as far as the statisticians go, but the fascinating question is; Is there something in participation in sports, in community-building, confidence building, self-image-building, strength building, social networking - that greatly enhance employability?

  Timothy Shriver

  Sports, Self, People

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Hillary [Clinton] doesn't have a fascinating story to get behind. She doesn't fascinating story to tell. The only thing about Hillary is, you know, "first female president."

  Rush Limbaugh

  President, Female, Stories

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Take [the first female] president away from Hillary [Clinton], what's her story? What is fascinating? What's interesting about Hillary? Coughing fits? The lump in her throat that she has to cover with the Mao jacket? What's her story?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Interesting, President, Female

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

  John Medina

  Distance, Nuclear Families, Behavior

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I love coming to D.C. I think it's a very unusual city. It's so fascinating that it's this weird place that everything thinks of as the capital of the country, there is so much international business, political stuff that is connected to that part of the country that it has a very charred atmosphere.

  Joe Rogan

  Country, Thinking, Cities

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If you believe [Steven Lerner] is being honest about what he believes - and I do - it's a fascinating look into the mind-set of the kook, extremist left in this country who are treated sympathetically by the media. Their causes are all just, and so is the notion that capitalism is unfair and that their money has been stolen from them and that the country is unjust - and they need to, you know, economically hobble it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Believe, Media

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• "The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.

  Felicity Jones

  Religious, Atheist, Couple

  Source: www.shockya.com

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• The current economic climate means getting out of college is no guarantee of getting a job, and no guarantee of a satisfying work life. My Dad feels that this is the first generation of Americans that expects that there children will have a harder time then they did. That's a fascinating concept.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think, actually, that it's a really fascinating time in history because the development of modern technology and the photographs the satellites were taking from space were mapping the earth in a new way, making us feel like the globe we inhabit is much smaller than previously conceived of, in the human mind.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Thinking, Technology, Space

  Source: collider.com

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• Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really fun to me. I love taking a space and seeing the potential, gutting it, and putting it back together and I love the tools used to do that.

  Denison Witmer

  Jobs, Fun, Space

  Source: sojo.net

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• How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes democracy so fascinating.

  Colin Powell

  Giving, Democracy, Principles

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• One of the things that really impressed me about Anna Karenina when I first read it was how Tolstoy sets you up to expect certain things to happen - and they don't. Everything is set up for you to think Anna is going to die in childbirth. She dreams it's going to happen, the doctor, Vronsky and Karenin think it's going to happen, and it's what should happen to an adulteress by the rules of a nineteenth-century novel. But then it doesn't happen. It's so fascinating to be left in that space, in a kind of free fall, where you have no idea what's going to happen.

  Elif Batuman

  Dream, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same time has absolutely no taste whatsoever for even the slightest loss or bloodshed or ickiness. That's a fascinating combination.

  Jaron Lanier

  Loss, Feelings, Desire

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.

  Jaron Lanier

  Reality, People, Warfare

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Take cyberspace as an example. We had this wonderful utopian vision of a new home for the mind. What we've reaped isn't cyberspace. It's cyberbia. It's this vast, bland wasteland of vulgar people and trivial ideas and pictures of half-naked starlets. But despite all the uncertainty, has there ever been a more fascinating moment to be alive?

  Paul Saffo

  Home, Ideas, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I find China such a fascinating and interesting country. Each time I come back something has changed and it's moved on in leaps and bounds.

  George Osborne

  Country, Interesting, Moved On

  Source: www.economist.com

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• Bernard [Leach] knew Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth, Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Johnny Wells. I can think of a number of people that we met there just because we were living with Bernard. Some of them became our friends, particularly the younger artists, but we were privileged to at least meet and talk with the older artists also. And they would come to dinner, and we would simply be included in the conversation, which was quite fascinating.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The whole concept of stage fright is fascinating. Actors get stage fright, but they wouldn't be on the stage in the first place if they just succumbed to it. There's this love/hate relationship with the spotlight.

  Robert Greene

  Hate, Firsts, Actors

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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