Fine Lines Quotes - Page 7

• There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.

  Justin Guarini

  Lines, Fine, Assertive

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• There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

  Jim Nussle

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  The Arena Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com.

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• But there's a difference between having artistic interests and being psychotic. That's more than a fine line of differentiation, and I do see that a bit too much.

  Crispin Glover

  Differences, Differentiation, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only say, if you have never known what it is to be utterly betrayed and abandoned, you cannot know how close it is.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Thinking, Civilization, Lines

  Jacqueline Carey (2002). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.390, Macmillan

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• I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

  Eva Mendes

  Sex, Actors, Lines

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a fine line between masturbating while you look out a window, and masturbating while you're looking in a window. I'll give you a hint: one of 'em is super illegal.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Humor, Giving

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• A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

  Christopher Walken

  Differences, Missing, Ferrari

  Source: www.donshewey.com

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• I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

  Macklemore

  Writing, Thinking, Artist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  People, Political, Tools

  "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.

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• It's always a fine line. If you overdo (aggression) it's 'ugly Australians', but if you have a smile on your face it's Australia being too nice.

  Brett Lee

  Nice, Australia, Ugly

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• That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

  Nick Willis

  Sports, Sweet, Track

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• There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

  Ridley Pearson

  Dream, Believe, Reality

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• There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.

  Ray Bentley

  Attitude, Team, Winning

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• Somewhere between sanity and madness lays a fine line, for some it is a tightrope walked daily, a fight for balance to be won or lost. That fight is lost one of two ways. Some simply lose their balance and fall, others are pushed.

  Zoë Heller

  Fall, Fighting, Lost Ones

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• There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

  Jenny Holzer

  Lines, Information, Propaganda

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• I think it's OK to talk about your military service, but there's a fine line between, you know, too much and just about right.

  Bob Dole

  Military, Thinking, Lines

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2004.

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• I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Space, Adrift

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 15, 2014

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• I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

  Tiffeny Milbrett

  Mistake, Perfect, Needs

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• There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Hate, Soul, Lines

  Cecelia Ahern (2009). “There's No Place Like Here”, Hyperion

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• Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one's sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open - to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren't afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Confidence, Ambition, Self

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

  Brad Mehldau

  Loneliness, Kids, Reflection

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• There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

  David Coleman

  Stalking Me, Serendipity, Lines

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• You can either tell yourself, 'It's too hard, I don't think I'll be able to do it,' or 'Yes, I can do this. Let me at it!' Only a fine line separates the two. But I'll tell you one thing: if you work like crazy, you'll come to display capabilities that you never knew you had--potentials that you always possessed, but never tapped.

  Josei Toda

  Motivational, Crazy, Work

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• Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Hate, Self, Lines

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• I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.

  Davey Havok

  Personality, Lines, Wanting To Die

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