Made It Quotes - Page 27

• When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is cute 'cause you made it, just forget it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Cute, Thinking, Littles

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• I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

  Amy Sedaris

  Crafts, Littles, Made

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• Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of various, formerly antagonistic nationalities to live together in peace.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Ethnicity, Together

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.126, Penguin

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• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  Mike Figgis

  Plot, Actors, Made

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• When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Devil, World, Made

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (1955). “Theological texts”

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• We were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and unique. No two people are alike. No two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same. He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God’s holy scheme.

  Elif Safak

  Heart, Unique, Differences

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, 2011.

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• Our eurozone partners have made it clear: The choice is between staying in or getting out of the eurozone.

  Lucas Papademos

  Choices, Made, Partners

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• The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a pet notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

  John Dewey

  Inspirational, Eye, Ideas

  John Dewey (1986). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1933”, p.136, SIU Press

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• What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Men, Signatures

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.135, Modern Library

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• Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it.

  Gore Vidal

  Novelists, Imitation, Poet

  Gore Vidal (1968). “Sex, Death, and Money”

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• The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

  James Fallows

  Dream, Father, World

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• Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Meditation, West

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• Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display.... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art.

  Gary Saul Morson

  Art, Museums, Interesting

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• I have never been happier, more exhilarated, at peace, rested, inspired, and aware of the grandeur of the universe and the greatness of God than when I find myself in a natural setting not much changed from the way He made it.

  Jimmy Carter

  Nature, Greatness, Way

  Jimmy Carter (1994). “An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections”, p.6, University of Arkansas Press

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• If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Marriage, Bed, Made

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• A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

  John Lahr

  Book, Artist, Theatre

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• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Practice

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• There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Movie, Thinking, Actresses

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• It is possible that a scientific discovery will be made that humans will later regret because it has awful consequences. The problem is, we probably would not know in advance and, once the discovery is made, it cannot be undiscovered.

  Paul Davies

  Regret, Discovery, Awful

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• We had a very successful trip to Russia. We made it back.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, Successful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Since I've made it to 87 so far, obviously my two kids and my seven grandchildren haven't been too hard on me. On the other hand, the fact that I have an unlisted phone number and move a lot might have something to do with it.

  George Burns

  Humorous, Moving, Kids

  George Burns (1983). “How to Live to be 100--or More: The Ultimate Diet, Sex, and Exercise Book”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Subtler and more far-reaching means of invading privacy have become available to the government. Discovery and invention have made it possible for the government, by means far more effective than stretching upon the rack, to obtain disclosure in court of what is whispered in the closet.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Money, Mean, Government

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• New media may at first appear as mere codes of transmission for older achievement and established patterns of thought. But nobody could make the mistake of supposing that phonetic writing merely made it possible for the Greeks to set down in visual order what they had though and known before writing. In the same way printing made literature possible. It did not merely encode literature.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mistake, Writing, Media

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• As I step off at the surface at Taurus-Littrow, I'd like to dedicate the first step of Apollo 17 to all those who made it possible.

  Gene Cernan

  Moon, Steps, Apollo

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