Originals Quotes - Page 20

• God knows that all sorts of gentlemen knock at the door; but whenever used in strictness and with any emphasis, the name will be found to point at original energy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Doors, Gentleman

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.343, Modern Library

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Writing, Order, Perfection

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.9

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• For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

  John Woo

  Cutting, Three, Bullets

  Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. August 15, 2007.

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• There's so many ways to do stand up, and I think, for awhile, people weren't really maximizing the freedom of it. We were all kind of doing a similar kind of stand up, and I started to see some original voices come out of Boston.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Thinking, Boston, Voice

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• If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends.

  Nina Garcia

  Fashion, Memorable, Unique

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• Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.

  Dawn French

  Play, Theatre, Saws

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• Well I think always, when you remake films, I always think the first one is most original, authentic.

  Bai Ling

  Thinking, Firsts, Film

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• There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

  Daniel Smith

  Selfish, Moving, Ideas

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• While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.

  Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

  Art, Airplane, Innovation

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• The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story.

  Carol Bly

  Together, Story Writers, Stories

  Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”

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• Every adult should be able to make as many effective decisions without fear or favor about as many aspects of her or his life as is compatible with the like freedom of every other adult. That belief is the original and only defensible meaning of liberalism.

  Judith N. Shklar

  Party, Decision, Political

  Judith N. Shklar, Bernard Yack (1996). “Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar”, p.80, University of Chicago Press

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• Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay, treatise and fable. With one hand it offers a sad commentary on environmental degradation, while with the other it presents a bright, whimsical, and funny exploration of what it means to be human. It's wonderfully written, crazily imagined, and absolutely original.

  Anthony Doerr

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• We have a documentary film festival in Mexico. It's really original. It's called Ambulante, and it's a film festival that travels around several cities in Mexico.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Cities, Mexico, Festivals

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• It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

  Reza Aslan

  Islamic, Years, Idols

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• My original idea for the cover was better - decapitate Paul - but he wouldn't go along with it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Ideas, Original Ideas

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• I use throughout the term 'liberal' in the original, nineteenth-century sense in which it is still current in Britain. In current American usage it often means very nearly the opposite of this. It has been part of the camouflage of leftish movements in this country, helped by muddleheadedness of many who really believe in liberty, that 'liberal' has come to mean the advocacy of almost every kind of government control.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Believe, Mean

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• Lauren Kirshner creates a first-person narrator you never stop rooting for. . . . [Where We Have to Go] highlights Kirshner as a new novelist to watch. A very strong, original debut.

  Zoe Whittall

  Strong, Narrators, Novelists

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• True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

  Walter Benjamin

  Light, Shining, Doe

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• I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Daughter, Mean

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• I was pretty young when I saw the original Planet of the Apes, and for a time in the seventies, I was pretty obsessed with it.

  Gregory Keyes

  Saws, Apes, Obsessed

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• Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue.

  John Shelby Spong

  Believe, Humanity, Mind

  "Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• No one has something original or important to say will willing we run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief

  William Zinsser

  Running, Writing, People

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• I had a date with a girl I called the parrot. All she did was repeat everything I said. She never had an original thought of her own. Everything I liked, she liked. Everything I hated, she hated. It was annoying!

  Justin Chon

  Girl, Original Thought, Annoying

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• I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.

  Helen Vendler

  Art, Criticism, My Favorite

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