Left And Right Quotes

• When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.

  Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Brain, Hemisphere, Add

  "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.

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• There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Good And Bad, Left

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

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• The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.

  Glen Drake

  World, Forgotten, Awareness

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• I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.

  Marat Safin

  Left

  "Former World No.1 Safin elected to Russian parliament". edition.cnn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I have equal contempt for both left and right radicals.

  Alexander Lebed

  Radical, Equal, Contempt

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• I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or not. Feminists who think they can abolish the sex trade are in a state of massive delusion. Only a ruthless, fascist regime of vast scale could eradicate the rogue sex impulse that is indistinguishable from the life force. Simply in the Western world, pagan sexuality has survived 2000 years of Judaeo-Christian persecution and is hardly going to be defeated by a few feminists whacking at it with their brooms.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Sex, Gay

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• The idea of actually taking sharp turns left and right has always intrigued me, but I've never really been bold enough to do that. As musicians go, I've allowed myself to be carried by other people's enthusiasm into places where I've learned a lot. There is no real tumult anymore. What I want to do, I do! I'm pretty fortunate.

  Robert Plant

  Real, Ideas, People

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, Men, Political

  Boris Johnson (2014). “The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• We're going to move left and right at the same time.

  Jerry Brown

  Funny, Stupid, Moving

  Jerry Brown (1976). “Thoughts”

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• There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

  Bob Dylan

  Hurt, Black And White, Thinking

  Address to the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, December 13, 1963.

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• To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Inspiration, Men, Hands

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• Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?

  Kohta Hirano

  Calling, Fool, Left

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• I am the comedy version of ambidextrous. I'm working with my left and right hand. I'm the two-sided coin. I'm all of those metaphors you can think of. I'm the interracial couple. I'm BET and CBS.

  J. B. Smoove

  Couple, Thinking, Hands

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• Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Wind, People, Snow

  Banana Yoshimoto (1993). “Kitchen”

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• Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

  Christopher Lasch

  Issues, Purpose, Manipulation

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• The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and right of it. The minute you put a light on someone, you are manipulating the image.

  David LaChapelle

  Light, Cameras, Minutes

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• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Simple, Lust, Mind

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• I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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• It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

  Eric Kendricks

  Guy, Matter, Balls

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships.

  Barbara Amiel

  Wings, Today, West

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• Since the end of the Cold War, America has been grasping left and right for an identity.

  Matt Taibbi

  War, America, Identity

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• Love is what makes you do everything. It really does conquer all. With my first album, I was writing about empowerment hoping that would make it true. And now it is. I'm in charge. I make the rules. I've been writing since I was nine years old and I'm very much involved in the creative process. And now that I'm in a happier place in my personal life, I'm spitting songs out left and right.

  Jessie James Decker

  Song, Writing, Love Is

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• I'm disappointed by bands left and right, every day.

  Henry Rollins

  Band, Disappointed, Left

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• London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble; we had severe energy problems; we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who had started a bombing campaign in English cities; politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

  Ian Mcewan

  Cities, Terrorist Groups, Energy

  "Ian McEwan's 'Sweet Tooth' Pits Spy Vs. Scribe". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 10, 2012.

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• Healthy ideas of both left and right, along with totally new ideas, must form a growing united front.

  Tom Metzger

  Ideas, Healthy, Growing

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