Layers Quotes - Page 23

• Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic: Those are sort of three layers of repression.

  Paul Rust

  Growing Up, Catholic, Three

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Passion, Tissue Paper

  Margaret Atwood (2000). “The Blind Assassin”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• As you get older, you have more and more layers of experience to forgive, more layers of heartbreak, more layers of what you might think of as failure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Forgiving, Might

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You can't remove that layer of pain by just saying, "Okay, I'm not going to wallow in it." The only way to remove that layer of pain is to face what it says and to recognize it as the look in the mirror that it is, reflecting the things you did that you wish you hadn't done and the things you didn't do that you wish you had done.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Mirrors, Wish

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Crazy, Generosity, Support

  "'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I think that all of the scars and all of the layers that I've built over the years made me the person that I am today, and I'm pretty happy about that person.

  Nick Carter

  Thinking, Years, Today

  "Nick Carter Confirms That "of Course" the Backstreet Boys Will Appear on His Tour". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. February 25, 2016.

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• I believe that if we would carefully apply the distinction between transparency and opacity to the different layers of the human self-model, looking at self-consciousness in a much more careful and fine-grained manner, then we might also arrive at a new answer to your original question: What a "first-person perspective" really is.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Believe, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

  John Fowles

  Views, Ideas, People

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• Separating them were two layers of brick, a few inches of plaster, and nine years of silence.

  Paolo Giordano

  Years, Two, Silence

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• The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Grateful, Boys

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1422, Bantam

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• I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.

  Geena Davis

  Home, Mean, Stuff

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ozone, Iron, Hot

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• I'm naturally a personable person. I feel like figuring out ways to have my personality shine through outside of just a three minute song helped. I have layers, there are many different sides to Torae.

  Torae

  Song, Personality, Shining

  Source: respect-mag.com

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• I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

  Lauren Oliver

  Impossible, Buried

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.707, Hachette UK

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• A novel must work as a story because no one's going to get to the other themes if you don't entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Stories, Levels

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated the added stakes of having someone relying on me for survival. My daughter makes me want to do right. That doesn't mean I won't relapse again. It's happened to me before. But she adds a layer of love in my life that I've never known.

  Joshua Mohr

  Daughter, Mean, Survival

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• I spent a lot of time trying to layer upon layer upon layer as I wrote. I think that's often the fear of a writer, that little nuances won't get picked up.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Trying, Littles

  "There’s Poetry About Beyoncé Now - And It’s Amazing". Inerview with Becca Andrews, www.motherjones.com. February 15, 2017.

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• Harriet Tubman is the perpetuation of a "Super Soul Sunday" every day. Learning about her and the layers of her helps you to see that the same woman who holds a gun and an axe felt feelings for a man.

  Aisha Hinds

  Sunday, Gun, Men

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• With couture you have faithfulness - people are faithful to you. In couture, you will see that the cut looks like a lace dress from a distance, but it's only when you get nearer you understand that it's layers of lace, hand stitched in a certain shape, all the work - the zips, the buttons, the hooks... it goes on.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Distance, Cutting, Hands

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.

  Paul Ryan

  Average, Two, World

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there, for me.

  William Gibson

  Buried, Code

  Source: craphound.com

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• Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Thinking, Duration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making the lake of Cocytus ice so you can't get out. So, again, where Heaven and Hell are, who the hell knows that now?

  Paul Laffoley

  Ice, Wings, Lakes

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• When you have this long of a run [in The Big Bang Theory], you don't have to have something happen every episode. Like, Sheldon lost his virginity last season and in the first season he didn't even like girls. So I feel like you can earn that stuff. And that is really fun, because you get to find new layers. It's a testament to the writing.

  Simon Helberg

  Girl, Running, Fun

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

  Dar Williams

  Believe, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: progressive.org

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