Intimate Quotes - Page 4

• Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

  Douglas A. Blackmon

  Black, Depth, Connections

  Douglas A. Blackmon (2012). “Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two”, p.381, Icon Books

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• Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings.

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon

  Feelings, Attire, Thoughts And Feelings

  Karen Elizabeth Gordon (1996). “The Red Shoes and Other Tattered Tales”

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• I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.

  Kurt Cobain

  Thinking, Ideas, Want

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• The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

  Gloria Estefan

  Writing, Challenges, Process

  "Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan". The Travis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. September 27, 2011.

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• God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Partners

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• I think there is much more storytelling in stand-up now. Less emphasis on the joke. Jokes are still important, but it feels like a more intimate and personal experience these days.

  Doug Benson

  Thinking, Important, Storytelling

  "8 Questions with Doug Benson". Interview with French Davis, yellowscene.com. August 19, 2011.

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• One of the chief inhibitions to human progress arises because of the extreme slowness with which the advances in knowledge become translated into action for the benefit of society as a whole. There is no step more important for the removal of that inhibition than that of providing for intimate contact between the leaders in the fields of pure and applied science.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Leader, Progress, Important

  Robert Andrews Millikan (1980). “The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour working day with bees, which are, when all is said and done, simply a bunch of bugs. But spending my days in close and intimate contact with creatures who are structured so differently from humans, and who get on with life in such a different way, is like being a visitor in an alien but ineffably engaging world.

  Sue Hubbell

  Years, Stronger, World

  Sue Hubbell (1999). “A Country Year: Living the Questions”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Of all those in the army close to the commander, none is more intimate than the secret agent.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Secret, Agents

  "The Art of War". Book by Sun Tzu (Chapter XIII: Intelligence and Espionage), 5th century BC.

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• The relationship between book and reader is intimate, at best a kind of love affair, and first loves are famously tenacious. [...] First love is a momentous step in our emotional education, and in many ways, it shapes us forever.

  Laura Miller

  Book, First Love, Love Is

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• You, and in fact quite a lot of your generation, have in some way been exiled from that particular sanctuary. It's become almost impossible for someone to "go mad" in the classical sense. At one time people conveniently "went mad" and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You all are too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard.

  Ken Kesey

  Character, People, Mad

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• In order to share intimate feelings, you have to have intimate feelings.

  Dean Martin

  Order, Feelings, Share

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• All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Morning, Simple, Waiting

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• Every band should study Queen at Live Aid. If you really feel like that barrier is gone, you become Freddie Mercury. I consider him the greatest frontman of all time. Like, it's funny? You'd imagine that Freddie was more than human, but... You know how he controlled Wembley Stadium at Live Aid in 1985? He stood up there and did his vocal warm ups with the audience. Something that intimate, where they realize, 'Oh yeah, he's just a f***ing dude.'

  Dave Grohl

  Queens, Gone, Band

  "Dave Grohl: How To Make An Arena Feel Like A Punk Club". Interview with Jacob Ganz, www.npr.org. April 07, 2011.

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• The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

  George Santayana

  Intelligent, Reform, Use

  George Santayana (2012). “The Sense of Beauty”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• With our intimate partners, we can take responsibility for the parts of ourselves that are hardest to deal with - because we finally know ourselves well enough to do so.

  Wendy Lustbader

  Responsibility, Enough, Partners

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.

  James Wan

  Cameras, Way, Helping

  Source: collider.com

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• There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe - a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication.

  Ervin Laszlo

  Communication, Reality, Messages

  Ervin Laszlo (1999). “The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science”, Element Books, Limited

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• My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Advice

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• Yeah, um, I do twitter because I want people to, you know, get to know me, my fans, or my fans to get to know me, you know, just see what type of person I am. You know, hopefully be more on an intimate level with me as opposed to a distant level.

  Serena Williams

  People, Fans, Levels

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• You shared one of the most intimate things that ever happened to you - falling in love with someone who wasn't brave enough to love you back. Your relieving yourself of your 'secret' is as much about wanting to honestly connect as it is about exhibition. We are all made better by your decision to share publicly.

  Jay-Z

  Falling In Love, Love You, Decision

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• I tend to work in layers. There's a huge orchestra in the film, but I also record a lot things with very intimate groups, and I like to be able to use the textures of those intimate groups.

  Steven Price

  Able, Groups, Use

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

  J. J. Abrams

  Cameras, Use, Problem

  Source: collider.com

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• [Nabokov's] language is made visible . . . like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Veils, Rooms, Helping

  Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Kings, Queens, Voice

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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