Imagine That Quotes - Page 20

• The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy in a relationship like that [of an artist and a gallery manager], to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

  Miranda July

  Perfect, Imagine, Easy

  "Decade: Miranda July on 'Me and You and Everyone We Know'". Interview with Petr Knegt, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2009.

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• I love having made a film and watching it when it affects audiences in a positive way. It was always fun for me to hide in the back of a theater and watch Tootsie with an audience and hear them laugh. And it's gratifying 20 years later to imagine that they still can find it amusing.

  Sydney Pollack

  Fun, Years, Laughing

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Let us not imagine that we obscure the glory of the Son by the great praise we lavish on the Mother; for the more she is honored, the greater is the glory of her Son. There can be no doubt that whatever we say in praise of the Mother gives equal praise to the Son.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Christian, Mother, Son

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• The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole planet, the whole ball at once, we just see parts of it.

  Sally Ride

  Moon, Blue, Views

  Source: www.dannyskidspage.com

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• I'm desperate to have children. I am chomping at the bit. It's a problem. I can't imagine that I will not be a mother.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mother, Children, Problem

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interveiw with Katic Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• If my songs are being listened to between any other songs, that is awesome, and I'm glad people are getting something out of them. We go to countries like Germany, where I can't imagine that all of my fans are engaging with the lyrics first and foremost. I think they're catching a vibe, a feeling. I consider myself a lyricist first and foremost, but if you get something else out of what I do, that's fine too. I'm not sitting back and telling people how they have to take my stuff. We just want to play music, and hope that people like it.

  John Darnielle

  Country, Song, Thinking

  "What’s Got John Darnielle’s Goat?". Interview with Emma Silvers, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2011.

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• If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or a Cervantes. But nowadays, we can't see that. We're not close enough to it yet.

  Robert Coover

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Aaron Shulman, believermag.com. July 1, 2015.

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• I think loads of people see acting, when they're kids, as these magical stories that just happen within the context of the film or the play or the cartoon or whatever they're seeing. They don't imagine that there are actually people that go and do that for a living.

  Rebecca Hall

  Kids, Thinking, Play

  "The Roles of Rebecca Hall". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 13, 2015.

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Book, Kids, Responsibility

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Thinking, Matter

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December, 2011.

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• Imagine that, a poncho sombrero combo, I'll be off my tits on happiness.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Ponchos

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• It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

  James Arthur

  Reality, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Destiny, Men, Choices

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.863, Pan Macmillan

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• I hate the man who builds his name On ruins of another's fame. Thus prudes, by characters o'erthrown, Imagine that they raise their own. Thus Scribblers, covetous of praise, Think slander can transplant the bays.

  John Gay

  Hate, Character, Men

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.73

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• The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it... He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that...in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might choose to impress upon it.

  Adam Smith

  Wise, Men, Hands

  "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith, (Section II, Chap. II), 1759.

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• The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with the principal of good, and you will become truly good.

  Charles Fillmore

  Art, Character, Imagination

  Charles Fillmore (2017). “The complete works Charles Fillmore”, p.1391, Youcanprint

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• Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will least forever or else are so frightened it won't, that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Class, Waiting

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• When I imagine God creating each one of us and planting a purpose deep in our hearts, I never imagine that purpose being mediocrity.

  Katie Davis

  Heart, Creating, Purpose

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• We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free. We can stop thinking of what we have failed to do and do whatever lies within our power. What those powers that are in us may be no one has truly dared to imagine. That they are infinite we will realize the day we admit to ourselves that imagination is everything. Imagination is the voice of daring.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Live Life, Thinking

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.341, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.

  John Wesley

  Dream, Mean, Men

  John Wesley (1829). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.417

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• Your turn Imagine that the world had no middlemen, no publishers, no bosses, no HR folks, no one telling you what you couldn’t do. If you lived in that world, what would you do? Go. Do that.

  Seth

  Boss, World, Imagine

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• I'm especially baffled by the idea of taking insurance against a U.S. default. If America defaults, we're talking about a chaotic world - Mad Max, more or less - in which case, who imagines that insurance claims will be honored?

  Paul Krugman

  Talking, Ideas, America

  "Ask the Author Live: Larissa MacFarquhar with Paul Krugman". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Butterfly

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• I imagine that people see me as they would see me if I were the man that I want to be.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, People, Want

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• You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Writing, Character, People

  "Patrick Rothfuss on his charitable fans, priorities, and kissing a llama". Interview with Caitlin PenzeyMoog, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2014.

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