Involving Quotes - Page 3

• When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

  Amy Ray

  Stuff, Solo

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• By changing the way I experienced things, even just involving different details than in reality, I often felt I was betraying the past and playing an unfair game with the reader where he (of course) would ask himself "Did this really happen?"

  Sasa Stanisic

  Past, Reality, Games

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label of "immigrant literature" after I had read quite a number of reviews (in different countries) involving books written by 'immigrants.'

  Sasa Stanisic

  Country, Book, Writing

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• People say to us, look, it may well be the case that there are fewer wars and fewer genocides, but surely more people are being killed. But when we look at this, the number of people killed in wars involving a state every year, all the wars, and you can see there's a high point, that's the Korean war, and it keeps on going down and down and down. If you look at the average number of people killed per conflict per year, it goes from 37-thousand in 1950 to just 600 in 2002.

  Andrew Mack

  War, Average, Years

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• What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

  Roger Ebert

  Fantasy, Goodness, Happens

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.403, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Authors can only soft sell the environment. Create a wonderful story around the environment involving the characters that leaves a lasting impression on the reader's mind.

  Wilbur Smith

  Character, Mind, Lasting Impressions

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• Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead.

  Matt Taibbi

  Successful, Evil, Stories

  "Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital". www.rollingstone.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).

  James Thurber

  Husband, Men, Bed

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

  Thornton Wilder

  Believe, Theatre, Events

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to 'crowdsource' ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Ideas, Design, Innovation

  "Happiness – and How to Find It". www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2011.

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• Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Stress, Impact, Sight

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• Reader, you must know that an interesting fate (sometimes involving rats, sometimes not) awaits almost everyone, mouse or man, who does not conform.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Fate, Men, Interesting

  Kate DiCamillo (2009). “The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread”, p.25, Candlewick Press

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• Through the blur, I wondered if I was alone or if other parents felt the same way I did - that everything involving our children was painful in some way. The emotions, whether they were joy, sorrow, love or pride, were so deep and sharp that in the end they left you raw, exposed and yes, in pain. The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent's heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Mom, Funny Inspirational, Children

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• Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Two, Romance

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.257, Bantam

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• We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli

  Janet Evanovich

  Writing, Rabbits, Accidents

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• The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving millions of dollars. Asked to comment, a spokesperson for Halliburton said, 'Millions? With an M? That is adorable.'

  Amy Poehler

  Government, Adorable, Dollars

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• 'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not quite prepared for the philosophical implications of her subject, it is not as deeply involving emotionally or as interesting thematically as it could be.

  Jane Smiley

  Philosophical, Interesting, House

  "Ape House by Sara Gruen - review" by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2011.

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• When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

  Robert Moog

  Doe, Machines, Down And

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• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  Harold Prince

  Emotional, Nine, Saws

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• It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Nice, People, Political

  United States v. Rabinowitz (dissenting opinion) (1950)

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• The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Real, Different

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• As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

  Naveen Jain

  Sports, Wise, Teamwork

  "Keeping Football Exciting While Reducing the Threat of Traumatic Head Injuries" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?

  Naveen Jain

  Kids, Thinking, Games

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• I think the Resurrection continues to be a pivotal issue, a pivotal question for people. I think a lot of other issues have been raised in interim years, about the nature of truth, of course gender issues, issues involving social matters like abortion and euthanasia and so forth, those swirl about and change from time to time, but I think the fundamental question of whether or not Christianity is true ultimately goes back to the Resurrection.

  Lee Strobel

  Thinking, Years, Issues

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Reading, Community, Certain

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