Interesting Quotes - Page 40

• Living your life 40 floors up, looking out every day on ocean and skies, you see the world from a different point of view. It's like living in a very interesting fishbowl, but since no one can see up here, it's like a fishbowl with a limo tint.

  Pharrell Williams

  Ocean, Views, Sky

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

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  Venus Williams

  Gold, Dresses, Wonder Woman

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• Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Real, Technology, People

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• What's interesting is the show allows for the awkward pauses to be captured, which makes it stylistically unique, especially for American audiences.

  Rainn Wilson

  Unique, Awkward, Shows

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• There was an interesting article in Los Angeles Magazine about women directors. A woman director makes one bad independent film and her career is over. Guys tend to get an opportunity to learn from their mistakes.

  Dick Wolf

  Mistake, Independent, Opportunity

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• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  Naomi Wolf

  Sex, Vacation, Expression

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• It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

  Steven Wright

  Feelings, Doe, Firsts

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• There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

  Steven Wright

  Fun, Alive, Fabric

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• A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

  Will Wright

  Cities, Issues, Dynamics

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• It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Imagination, People, Inspire

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• It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.

  John Zorn

  Mean, Events, Watches

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• I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

  Edward Zwick

  Life, Responsibility, Issues

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

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• My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Thinking, Want, Stuff

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's no question that how Johannesburg operates is what made me interested in the idea of wealth discrepancy. 'Elysium' could be a metaphor for just Jo'burg, but it's also a metaphor for the Third World and the First World. And in science fiction, separation of wealth is a really interesting idea to mess with.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Ideas, Elysium, Fiction

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

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• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

  Francis Collins

  Healing, Sick, Path

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• My church is the world! I want to bring the gospel to as broad and as interesting an audience as possible.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Church, Want, World

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• If you look at national economies today, for example, the American economy, the European economy, the Indians, the Chinese, we're all tied together. If one of them sinks, the rest are going to sink with them and if one floats, the rest are lifted up. I find that very interesting.

  Frans de Waal

  Economy Today, Chinese, Together

  "Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature". Interview with Eric Michael Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Studying the daily news can appear more interesting than the priesthood lesson manual. Sitting down to rest can be more attractive than making appointments to visit those who need our priesthood service.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Sitting Down, Needs, News

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• Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

  Chris Hardwick

  Philosophy, Thinking, Training

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• The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the press and TV. When that happens, the culture of politics has to change, moving away from controlled one-way messages towards a political culture that is more questioning.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Moving, People, Political

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• I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.

  Colm Toibin

  Fun, Intelligent, Australia

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• If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

  Tom Robbins

  Might, Next, Cleanliness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.20, Bantam

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• The exception is more interesting than the rule. The rule proves nothing; the exception proves everything. In the exception the power of real life breaks through the crust of a mechanism that has become torpid by repetition.

  Carl Schmitt

  Real, Break Through, Repetition

  Carl Schmitt (2010). “Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

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• The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from tasting the wood to tasting them.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Men, Boys, Trying

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Alta: Joust #2”, p.170, Penguin

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