Labels Quotes - Page 30

• Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

  Rob Bell

  Atheist, Years, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Years, Mind, Use

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Being Yourself, Mean

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, World, Wonderful

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• Oh, I love labels, as long as they are numerous. I'm an American writer. I'm a Nigerian writer. I'm a Nigerian American writer. I'm an African writer. I'm a Yoruba writer. I'm an African American writer. I'm a writer who's been strongly influenced by European precedents. I'm a writer who feels very close to literary practice in India - which I go to quite often - and to writers over there.

  Teju Cole

  Practice, Long, African American

  "Teju Cole on the 'Empathy Gap' and Tweeting Drone Strikes". Interview with Sarah Zhang, www.motherjones.com. March 6, 2013.

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• In the past, people were going to record stores and buying albums or CDs. And the label was exposing their artist as much as possible and maybe getting them picked up by a major. Now I tell people to cut a good tune and have it up in the marketplace the next day. You better be prepared to give it away, and people will come pay to see you.

  Chuck D

  Cutting, Artist, Past

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always thought that comedy was just another dramatic expression. I try to measure the amount of truth in a work rather than just looking at the generic distinction between comedy and drama. There's a lot of bullshit drama that leaves you totally cold. And there's a lot of wasted comedy time too. But when you get something honest, it doesn't matter what label you give it.

  Harold Ramis

  Drama, Expression, Giving

  "Harold Ramis, Seeker" by Ray Pride, newcityfilm.com. February 24, 2014.

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• You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

  Betty Wright

  Records, Paid, Majors

  Source: ratedrnb.com

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• My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

  Mark McMorris

  African American, Identity, Intention

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• People really have to start being a smarter consumer, read labels, and understand what hidden sugars are.

  Jackie Warner

  People, Sugar, Consumers

  Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 25, 2008.

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• A photographer is a photographer and an artist is an artist. I don't believe in labels or titles. Why should a painter or sculptor who has probably never challenged the rules be an artist just because his title and an art school education automatically make him one.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Art, Believe, School

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• My spiritual path has largely been Christianity - a label that I embraced and then rejected and have partially embraced again, as my understanding of Christianity has changed over time. When I accepted the mainstream, dogmatic definition of Christianity there came a point when I had to say, "Well, if that's what a Christian is, I'm not one."

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Spiritual, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The beauty of running your own label and your own show is that you are in charge. I get sent a huge amount of musicfrom new and established talent every day, so if I like a track, I play it - no questions asked.

  Nicky Romero

  Running, Play, Track

  Interview with Aditya Seth, thebanginbeats.wordpress.com. August 28, 2014.

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• I'm building my adult beverage empire the way I built my independent rap label. As my career.

  E-40

  Rap, Independent, Careers

  "GO DER Exclusive; the Ambassador of the Bay Himself E 40 #GODER". GO DER Interview, godermag.com. February 29, 2016.

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• National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

  Bjork

  Sharks, Lemurs, Want

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 29, 2011.

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• I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.

  Brian Eno

  Water, Details, Bottles

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I want people to get out of that nasty habit of needing a label. Every genre for each song is different.

  SZA

  Song, People, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Actors, Want, Seven

  "Neil Patrick Harris Interview, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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• I'm really inspired by the interplay of visual art and music, a total artistic environment where there's sound and visuals. When I think about that I get stimulated and excited. It's a feeling that you can't label with words.

  Black Francis

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• When you see a handwritten envelope addressed to you in your packet of mail when you get your mail out of the mailbox - when you see a personal letter waiting for you - it's exciting. It touches you. You say "Oh, somebody really thought of me and didn't just slap a mailing label across an envelope. Somebody wrote something to me."

  Martha Williamson

  Waiting, Letters, Envelopes

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll- em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it.

  James Thurber

  Laughter, War, Home

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

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• Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!

  Randy Jackson

  Cute, Dance, Thinking

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• Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

  Brandon Thomas

  Rocks, Band, Done

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• The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.

  Martha Beck

  Ideas, Mind, Watches

  "Think your way free of old problems" by Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com. November 26, 2007.

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• Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

  John Burns

  Men, Judging, Progress

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