Imagine That Quotes - Page 21

• Roman Candles was shown in a church, and so was Eat Your Makeup, so was Mondo Trasho, and so was Multiple Maniacs (1970). It's hard to imagine that churches showed these movies but a few in the '60s, like St. Mark's Church, or on the Bowery, they always were left-wing.

  John Waters

  Makeup, Wings, Church

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a matter of fact, I've been to Italy many times before I met my husband, which he can't even imagine that I could possibly know anything about Italian food. But, you know, Italian food's really basic, and there's so many different variations on it that what my husband did is he broke it down for me.

  Debi Mazar

  Husband, Italian, Variation

  "Cooking Under The Tuscan Gun". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 16, 2009.

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• I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Children, Men

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Imagine that Christianity is about loving God.

  Marcus Borg

  Imagine, Christianity, Loving God

  "Marcus Borg, Liberal Scholar on Historical Jesus, Dies at 72" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2015.

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Listening

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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• I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.

  Criss Jami

  Intelligent, People, Needs

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.41, Criss Jami

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Demand, Belief

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• Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.

  Kathleen McDonald

  Lakes, Clouds, Sky

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• Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.

  Phylicia Rashad

  Racism, Imagination, Political

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• As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Hollywood, Actors, Want

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• Children, we should consider every name as the name of our beloved deity. Imagine that He is the one that appears in all the different forms. If our beloved deity is Krishna, then while chanting the names of the Divine Mother, imagine that Krishna has come before us as Devi. We should not think that since we are chanting Devi's names, Krishna might not like it. These differences exist only in our world, not in His.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• In the 20s, you were a face. And that was enough. In the 30s, you also had to be a voice. And your voice had to match your face, if you can imagine that.

  Joan Blondell

  Voice, Faces, Imagine

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

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• I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.

  Adam Arkin

  Thumbs Up, Giving, Roles

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• Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.

  John Corbett

  Who I Am, Play, People

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• It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, Europe, Effort

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• We can no longer imagine that we are part of something larger than ourselves - that is what all this boils down to.

  Bill McKibben

  Life, Imagine

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• People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

  Mark Leyner

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

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• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  Barbara Olson

  Mistake, Als, Next

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• Imagine that you are in control of your life. Now, the question is: Why do you have to imagine this?

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Control Of Your Life, Imagine

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• Imagine a vast ocean. Feel that you are part of that ocean. Imagine that each wave in the ocean is slowly moving through you. Feel that each wave is a wave of joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Moving, Joy

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• I can't imagine that my children would have fewer rights, and less access to the safest, best health care.

  Cecile Richards

  Children, Rights, Care

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• Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Real, Suffering, Imagine

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• What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Army, Men

  "Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 94), 1881.

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• Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Teaching, Ignorance, Men

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