Layers Quotes - Page 12

• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• [...] a morass of despair violence death with a thin layer of glass spread upon the surface where Love, a tiny crab with pincers and rainbow shell, walked delicately ever sideways but getting nowhere, while the sun [...] rose higher in the sky its tassels dropping with flame threatening every moment to melt the precarious highway of glass. And the people: giant pathworks of colour with limbs missing and parts of their mind snipped off to fit them into the outline of the free pattern.

  Janet Frame

  Glasses, Flames, Sky

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• I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.

  Poppy Delevingne

  Vests, Dresses, Goes On

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• Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then up at the sandstone cliffs--those awe-inspiring layers of red and yellow rock shaped over the millennia, with dozens of black-streaked crevices that temporarily became waterfalls after rainstorms.

  Jeannette Walls

  Morning, Horse, Lakes

  Jeannette Walls (2009). “Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I am such a complex person. I have so many different layers of my personality to choose from. I am super-sensitive, and I am super-strong.

  Lykke Li

  Strong, Personality, Different

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• The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.

  Frances Mayes

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• I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.

  Candice Olson

  Thinking, Light, People

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• The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Wings, Machines, Noise

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• My movies are film-paintings - moving portraits captured on celluloid. I'll layer that with sound to create a unique mood -- like if the Mona Lisa opened her mouth, and there would be a wind, and she'd turn back and smile. It would be strange and beautiful.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Moving, Unique

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• I live in L.A., so layers are essential to my wardrobe. I like slim silhouettes, typically, and I love good tailoring.

  Michelle Monaghan

  Silhouettes, Essentials, Slim

  "Michelle Monaghan on Her Bad Marriage with Woody Harrelson in HBO's New Cult Series 'True Detective'" by Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. January 24, 2014.

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• Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

  Mark Cuban

  Crazy, Three, Chance

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• If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.

  Michio Kaku

  Years, Essence, Common Sense

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Feb 16, 2010

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• The message that underlies healing is simple yet radical: We are already whole.... Underneath our fears and worries, unaffected by the many layers of our conditioning and actions, is a peaceful core. The work of healing is peeling away the barriers of fear that keep us unaware of our true nature of love, peace, and rich interconnection with the web of life. Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.

  Bill Vaughan

  Healing, Health, Simple

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• I know that I have in my make-up layers of synthetic experiences, and that the most powerful of my memories are only half true.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Memories, Powerful, Half

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• The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.

  Aaron Belz

  Moving, Writing, Reality

  "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

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• A gritty grain of truth lay at the heart of most legends, she had told me, and the slow accretion of fiction hardened in layers around it.

  Caroline Llewellyn

  Heart, Fiction, Legends

  Caroline Llewellyn (1994). “Life Blood”

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• here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.

  Sandra Tsing Loh

  Book, Reading, Rain

  Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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• Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

  Kim Chernin

  Giving Up, Lying, Long

  Kim Chernin (1982). “The obsession: reflections on the tyranny of slenderness”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

  Helen Caldicott

  Eye, Ozone, Vision

  Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we may. Life in a small town is like a layer cake. One gets the whole of it, frosted top, lemon filling and all.

  Laura E. Richards

  Cake, Joy, Sorrow

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• In India the human being is a symphonic theme. 'The people' is not a compact, close-knit concept, but a sprawling one, flowing not only into different walks of life, but into the intricately woven multi-layers of privilege, wealth, and education. 'The people' created by Gandhi is a young concept.

  Nayantara Sahgal

  People, India, Different

  Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

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• Im hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

  Rufus Sewell

  Disappointment, Depth, Compromise

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• If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

  Ben Kingsley

  Would Be, Actors, Good Person

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• I think that the Internet is our most profound and beautiful achievement. It is magnificent. We have the Internet as a layer of our thinking that doesn't control us, we control it, yet we don't have to be aware of it. It will be like a suit that really fits well.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Beautiful, Thinking, Profound

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Being able to look cute, at all times, while being able to peel off layers is the most essential thing.

  Brad Goreski

  Cute, Essentials, Looks

  "Brad Goreski Is Taking Care of Business". Interview with Kelsey Garcia, www.elle.com. March 13, 2013.

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