Height Quotes - Page 34

• Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Women, Bird, Savages

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.

  Robert Reich

  Funny, Humorous, Reality

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Blow, Hair, Political

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• Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

  David Lehman

  Mean, Artist, Criticism

  David Lehman (2015). “The State of the Art: A Chronicle of American Poetry, 1988-2014”, p.162, University of Pittsburgh Press

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• A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.

  Andrea Arnold

  People, Nails

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• What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.

  Eve Arnold

  People, Able, Refusal

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• I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, "Tough."

  Jaimie Alexander

  Thinking, Voice, People

  "Jaimie Alexander Exclusive Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 6, 2011.

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• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.

  Criss Angel

  Jobs, Fire, Snakes

  Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• In modeling, my height was a big challenge to overcome, because I was pretty much the shortest girl on the runway whenever I was doing the catwalk. The clothes didn't fit and the shoes didn't fit. It was an issue, but luckily, it didn't prevent me from working.

  Devon Aoki

  Girl, Clothes, Issues

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

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• I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

  Britt Ekland

  Children, Snakes, Three

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• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Influence, Reader, My Own

  "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• When you play arenas you can create whatever you want. At a theater the height of the stage and the limitations of the theater can make you feel more separate from the audience.

  Sade Adu

  Play, Want, Arena

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• I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

  Dar Williams

  Falling In Love, Love You, Compliment

  Song: Iowa

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• ... social environment in childhood affects achieved adult height, life chances, and ultimately mortality rates in adult life. (...) ... social circumstances acting in childhood do have a persisting effect on adult disease rates, in addition to influences acting in adulthood.

  Michael Marmot

  Health, Childhood, Acting

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• Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls.

  Michael Jackson

  Heart, Soul, Haunting

  Song: Is It Scary?

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• When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

  Rebecca Hall

  Heels

  "Need to Meet: Rebecca Hall". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

  Max Irons

  Dad, Thinking, Smoking

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• My goal is just to get healthy as far as what my ideal weight has to be for my height.

  Sean Kingston

  Goal, Healthy, Weight

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

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• My heaviness comes from the heights.

  Antonio Porchia

  Heaviness

  "Voces". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

  R. Kelly

  Struggle, Kids, Fire

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

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• I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Destiny, Comfortable

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• I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people.

  Rose McGowan

  Men, People, Dangerous Man

  "Rose McGowan and Christie Brinkley sound off on heartbreak at red dress" by Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 9, 2012.

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• People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.

  Chris Noth

  Taken, Commitment, People

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• I have a fear of heights and I'm claustrophobic.

  Kunal Nayyar

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

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