Leaving Quotes - Page 19

• When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less self-conscious about how you’re presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it’s all coming from you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Writing, Dna, Self

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.

  Graham Linehan

  Thinking, People, Mouths

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Both Einstein and Freud were clever in leaving Germany, because both of them would doubtlessly have been caught by Himmler and murdered.

  Hans Frank

  Clever, Germany, Caught

  "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached.

  Jasper Johns

  Color, Names, Neon

  "Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes, Interviews". Book edited by Kirk Varnedoe and Christel Hollevoe, 1996.

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• Where you really have your eggs in one basket and that breach happens and you know you should go but you're still in love and you just don't know what to do. It hits you because it's not like -- you're a cheater, and a liar, and I hate you, and you're no good, and I'm leaving. It's not that. It's like, I'm tormented. Even though you've done this and I know it, I still don't know what to do. I know I should go, but I don't want to. And that's why it's such a f***ed-up thing.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Hate, Liars, Cheater

  Interview with Candice Rainey, www.elle.com. January 5, 2010.

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• It is also in theory, conceivable that some universal empire some day might cover the whole globe, leaving no external "barbarians" to serve as invaders.

  Carroll Quigley

  Might, Empires, Barbarians

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  Alan Shepard

  Inspiration, Moon, Firsts

  "The thrill of space? Let's ask Alan Shepard" by Richard Louv, The San Diego Union-Tribune, p. A-2, August 02, 1995.

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• A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

  Simon Blackburn

  World, Moral, Worship

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

  Nonie Darwish

  Blessed, Dedication, Self

  Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem, 2007.

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• I spoke with the crows before leaving for Los Angeles. They were the resident storytellers whose strident and insistent voices added the necessary dissonance for color. They had cousins in California, and gave me their names and addresses, told me to look them up. They warned me, too, what they had heard about attitude there. And they were right. Attitude was thick, hung from the would-be's and has-beens and think-they-ares, so thick that I figured it was the major source of the smog.

  Joy Harjo

  Cousin, Attitude, Thinking

  Joy Harjo (2004). “How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems 1975-2002”, p.144, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Genius, Sparks

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• It's destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I'm just leaving it as it is meant to be.

  Liu Dan

  Destiny, Energy, Thread

  Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

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• At twenty-seven years old, I was diagnosed HIV. Three years later I decide to dedicate the remainder of my life to art. Leaving work and refusing the assistance of Unemployment Insurance or Welfare, I challenged myself to live completely through my art.

  Joe Average

  Art, Health, Years

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• Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah.

  Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

  Heart, Contentment, Carriages

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• The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

  Alex Kozinski

  Stupid, Fall, Gun

  "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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• Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

  Devendra Banhart

  Grieving, Crow, Tunes

  "Song: 'Cripple Crow' ('Cripple Crow')". 2005.

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• It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Animal, Expression, Ideas

  "Revised Historiography". "Liberty Bell" Magazine, April 1980.

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• More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.

  M.C. Beaton

  Eye, Airports, Years

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• In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.

  David M. Raup

  Important, Earth, Extinction

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• The dreams of "leaving it up to the market" or of returning to a politically neutral gold standard cannot succeed because the nature of the monetary system has a profound impact on the interests of powerful groups and states. Affected groups and states will always try to intervene in the operation of the system to make it serve their interests.

  Robert Gilpin

  Dream, Powerful, Impact

  "The Political Economy of International Relations". Book by Robert Gilpin, 1987.

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• It is a great truth, wonderful as it is undeniable, that all our happiness - temporal, spiritual, and eternal - consists in one thing; namely, in resigning ourselves to God, and in leaving ourselves with Him, to do with us and in us just as He pleases.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Happiness, Spiritual, Wonderful

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 297), 1895.

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• Consider the death of Princess Diana. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.

  Mark Riebling

  Princess, Italian, Medicine

  "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies". Center for Policing Terrorism, January 2006.

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• If you're leaving your family behind, you better believe in what you're singing.

  Jon Foreman

  Believe, Singing, Behind You

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• How did I gain from not remembering my earthly self? It allowed me to go deep into realms beyond the worldly without having to worry about what I was leaving behind. Throughout my entire time in those worlds, I was a soul with nothing to lose. No places to miss, no people to mourn. I had come from nowhere and had no history, so I fully accepted my circumstances-even the initial murk and mess of the Realm of the Earthworm's-Eye View-with equanimity.

  Eben Alexander

  Eye, Self, Views

  Eben Alexander (2012). “Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

  John Lennon

  Psychics, Littles, Temples

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