Response Quotes - Page 29

• After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

  Philip Kitcher

  Children, Diaries, Six

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting to see people come on board to support the project. It's gratifying to know that more people are seeing my work in this form than my work as a playwright. And it's been fun to hear people's response to seeing it. I've been having some deep conversations with strangers and friends about how much it has made them think about slavery and its impact today.

  Steven C. Harper

  Fun, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Book, Issues, People

  "'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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• The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

  Edward Said

  Terrible Events, Law, Community

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or some fond memory. We're human beings so we understand that laughter and crying aren't always disparate emotions.

  Harold Ramis

  Laughter, Memories, Laughing

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• My works are a direct response to the typical space opera. I grew tired of always reading about how the people with power, with agency, get involved in huge sweeping arcs of stories. I wanted stories that dealt with real people, people I could relate to.

  Nathan Lowell

  Real, Reading, Tired

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Emotional, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• That was sheer luck that it [being immersed into folk scene] happened when my voice began to develop. I don't know exactly what would have happened if I hadn't been alive and well and really lively in the Cambridge scene. But (the folk scene) was, and I fell into it absolutely naturally in the little coffee shops, and pretty soon it was Newport and then it was an overwhelming response internationally, actually.

  Joan Baez

  Coffee, Voice, Luck

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• It's cool because you don't know how certain songs are going to go over until you play them live. For some reason, "Shivers" gets a huge response. I was not expecting it. When I start singing in the middle of "Baby Get Worse", they go nuts. Just little surprises like that.

  John Britt Daniel

  Song, Baby, Nuts

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Although my own view is that bin Laden does not want to stage an attack that looks like 9/11 in Europe simply because he does not want to be the agent of Trans-Atlantic reconciliation. I think they will continue to do attacks like Madrid, the British attack, the subway systems, because those attacks have proven that the European response so far has been to blame the domestic government, not to side with the Americans.

  Michael Scheuer

  Thinking, Government, Views

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

  Alex Haley

  Listening, Asking, Analyzing

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Call-and-response style, yes, exactly. So whenever different groups get together then there has to be this long period of negotiation. How will we worship? What's acceptable? What's not? If I want to say "Amen" can I?

  Michael Emerson

  Long, Style, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

  Rob Brown

  Judging, People, Instant

  "Autechre". Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. February 18, 2008.

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• I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that... it was complete chaos of life, and then this horrific non-response from the powers that be. There was a lot of misery and sadness tied up in that.

  Kelly Reichardt

  New York, Moving, Sadness

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

  Colin Greenwood

  Emotional, Important, Kind

  "Radiohead". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 28, 2008.

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• It is possible to construct small realities that contain political or philosophical responses, not necessarily just practical or economical responses.

  Jimenez Lai

  Philosophical, Reality, Political

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Women still get angry at me. I mean, men go after me sometimes, but most of the bad responses come from women.

  Jessa Crispin

  Mean, Men, Sometimes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are ways in which you can make that distinction objective to a certain degree. For example, by looking at responses that could be generated in the brain to exactly the same stimulus and there could be differences there.

  Antonio Damasio

  Differences, Brain, Degrees

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.

  Antonio Damasio

  Biographies, Reason, Enormous

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, Oddities, Ideas

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Sexualization is imposed from the outside as opposed to sexuality, an understanding of the body's responses and desires and ability to communicate that, cultivated from within.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Understanding, Desire, Body

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.

  Edward Hirsch

  Thinking, Grandpa, Grandfather

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• Going all the way back to Jeremiah Wright and Tavis Smiley and Van Jones and even Shirley Sherrod and maybe even Maxine Waters and Charles Rangel. We're going to see what his [Barack Obama] response is.

  Cornel West

  Water, Way, Smiley

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

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• And guys will say looks matter, but they'll also say things like "Well, she should be smart and kind." And you know those are... so the typical responses and if you give them just a few options, like five or six, then they will rate them on the very characteristics that they said were really important to them.

  Sheena Iyengar

  Smart, Giving, Guy

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• When I asked the president [Barack Obama], can you kill an American on American soil, it should have been an easy answer. It's an easy question. It should have been a resounding and unequivocal no. The president's response, he hasn't killed anyone yet.

  Rand Paul

  Should Have, President, Answers

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