Isolated Quotes - Page 15

• The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Giving Up, Hero, Islands

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• Even though I am in this weird position of being a semi-recognizable screenwriter, which isn't that common, at the same time, I'm not an actress. I'm pretty isolated.

  Diablo Cody

  Actresses, Common, Position

  "Diablo Cody Talks about the 2013 Athena Film Festival, Female Writers and Directors She Admires, Plus Updates on PARADISE and SWEET VALLEY HIGH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 5, 2013.

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• The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

  Corey Taylor

  Years, Firsts, Sober

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The effect is of three isolated aspects, distinct phases of the day. All of it, strewn across the horizon, is contained in his vision.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Blue, Vision, Three

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• The worst example of rural poverty is that of migrant farm workers. They have no permanent jobs, so they have no equity in the places where they work. They're not shareholders, let alone entrepreneurs. They're not small farmers, they're not market gardeners, they're just temporary - uprooted, isolated, easily exploitable people.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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• Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion and to work with our alliance is to keep them isolated. I'm just as frustrated as many Americans are that Saddam Hussein still lives. I think we ought to keep the pressure on him. I will tell you this: If we catch him developing weapons of mass destruction in any way, shape or form, I'll deal with that in a way that he won't like.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Frustrated

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• The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.

  Aristotle

  Government, Self, Creation

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.16, Aristotle

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

  William Butler Yeats

  Doe, Absolution

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• Home is where one starts from. As we grow older
  The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied
  Of dead and living, Not the intense moment
  Isolated, with no before and after,
  But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .

  T. S. Eliot

  Home, Intense Moments, Burning

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• If you want good behavior, don't pay on a commission basis. Our judges aren't paid so much a case. We keep them pretty well isolated with a fixed salary. Judges in this whole thing have come out pretty well - there have been relatively few scandals.

  Charlie Munger

  Judging, Salary, Want

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• Tthe first rule is that you can't really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang 'em back. If the facts don't hang together on a latticework of theory, you don't have them in a usable form.... You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Trying, Together

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• It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

  Augusta Jane Evans

  Blood, Veins, Flow

  Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.438

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• We don't have an isolated group [of senior managers] surrounded by servants. Berkshire's headquarters is a tiny little suite. We just came back from Berkshire's board meeting; it had moved up to the board room of the Kiewit company and [it was so large and luxurious that] I felt uncomfortable.

  Charlie Munger

  Senior, Groups, Boards

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• Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.

  Dave Parker

  Sports, People, Judging

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Cooperation, Individual, Social

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.44, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

  Rooney Mara

  Good Friend, Made, Dies

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm getting more and more isolated as I get on in years. I think people's insanity starts to slowly take over.

  Jim Shaw

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

  Cate Blanchett

  Way, Designer, Painter

  Interview with Jack White, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 23, 2008.

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• The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

  Paul Goodman

  Education, Class, Humanity

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• Your assumption, to be effective, cannot be a single isolated act, it must be a maintained attitude of the wish fulfilled.

  Neville Goddard

  Attitude, Wish, Assumption

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.

  John Hawkes

  Alaska, People, Ships

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• Things we think of as tremendous advantages can get in the way of being happy, and wealth is one of those things where people can become isolated within this luxury and not connect.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Thinking, Luxury, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I see the role of IT as a change agent. It empowers, connects and can bind isolated parts of India and create harmony. IT can join people with governments, bridge the gap between demand and supply, and can bring us closer to knowledge.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Government, Bridges

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• I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

  Sadako Ogata

  Islands, Japan, People

  "Japan should be a peace broker, former UN refugee chief says". Interview with Hiroyuki Akita, asia.nikkei.com. August 19, 2015.

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