Running Quotes - Page 40

• I really like incorporating elements, and it's also difficult to do in stop motion, which means sometimes I run into problems.

  Kirsten Lepore

  Mean, Elements, Problem

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• All the children in the world, when they go to school, have the right to study in their mother tongue. But we go to school and run into literary Arabic as children. It sounds like a foreign language. The words for "house" or "table" or "lamp" are not the same as the words we use at home, and most of the other words are alien to children at school. Classical Arabic is one of the prisons of the Arab world.

  Hassan Blasim

  Mother, Children, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• While I was studying film at the Academy, the problems started. I wasn't a political activist directly in the time of Saddam [Hussein], because the dictator was so cruel and brutal that no one could criticize or complain. I felt futile and empty. The only solution in Iraq was to run away.

  Hassan Blasim

  Iraq, Political, Complaining

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• "Pursuit of happiness" implies that we're running after happiness and happiness is running away from us. It also implies that happiness is somewhere out there, in material goods, which we have to pursue, whereas I believe that it is an illusion happiness is not out there, it is within us.

  Satish Kumar

  Believe, Pursuit Of Happiness, Illusion

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• It is only an illusion that time is running out. This is where the problem of fear arises. We become anxious that "I don't have enough time and I have to do everything quickly." We need to turn our attention away from results, achievements and outcomes.

  Satish Kumar

  Achievement, Enough Time, Needs

  Interview with Frank Lipman, www.drfranklipman.com. April 14, 2009.

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• I think that my IQ level grew as a player. I think that I [run] the game a little bit better. I'm waiting for the game to come to me, and I'm picking and choosing my spots instead of just going out there and just doing whatever because I don't have to do that with this team?

  Derrick Rose

  Team, Player, Thinking

  "NBA: Chicago Bulls' Derrick Rose remains confident in his game". Interview with ESPN's Nick Freidell, January 12, 2016.

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• One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Butterfly, Character, Night

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't have any particular plans in mind. What I see is that you can become so focused on the idea of running that winning becomes your motivation, as opposed to what you stand for being your motivation.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Motivation, Winning, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 

  Our country is being run by incompetent people.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Incompetent

  "GOP Debate Filled With Tough Exchanges Between Trump And Cruz". "Morning Edition" with Mara Liasson, www.npr.org. January 15, 2016.

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• Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system became so pervasive that the Tunisian scholar Larbi Sadiki described countries who used it as dimuqratiyyat al-khubz - "democracies of bread." But the problem with this system of offering bread in exchange for genuine democracy is that it can never last - sooner or later, the bread will run out, and people will start demanding bread and roses too.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Loyalty, Country, Egypt

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You [can] become part of someone else's narrative. Every once in a while I would get people asking me questions like, "If your husband is a Muslim, then why haven't you converted to Islam?" Interestingly enough, almost every person who asked me that was a Sunni, and it was their not-so-subtle way of implying that my Shiite husband was a bad Muslim for letting his infidel wife run around unconverted.

  Annia Ciezadlo

  Husband, Wife, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• After a decade of war you have this Pentagon-military apparatus run amok using resources that they shouldn't be to try to manipulate U.S. public opinion.

  Michael Hastings

  Military, War, Using Resources

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A new software is being developed so the psychological operations guys and the Pentagon's strategic communications guys - and we don't really know who's running it - but this is all totally out in the open. It's this new program that will allow them to have like ten fake Twitter accounts and ten Facebook accounts so you can pretend.

  Michael Hastings

  Communication, Fake, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've remained friends with all of them. We'remaking a fun kids movie and it's a comedy so we're just having fun and running around fighting these aliens.

  Carter Jenkins

  Fun, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Believe, Rocks, Political

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think in the long run, it will be better for us if we solve our problems without suffering through some terrible disaster. I like the idea of change without Apocalypse.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

  Viola Davis

  Educational, Niece, Drama

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Air, Breathing, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.

  Chad Harbach

  Reality, Differences, Essence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are moments when it frightens us, threatening to expose us as inauthentic. Well, the big-time impostors we read about in literature run this risk constantly, flirting with destruction, not just humiliation or embarrassment. It's a spectacle that we can't help but find compelling, and it involves a certain level of courage that we sneakily admire, perhaps.

  Walter Kirn

  Flirting, Risk, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points in some real tangible sense, and that I had to make this a self-contained novel, in case I'm run over by a bus tomorrow or in case there's no demand for anyone to ever see a sequel. (Two things that I hope don't happen, incidentally.)

  Tod Goldberg

  Fashion, Real, Emotional

  Source: therumpus.net

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• While I was travelling and I kind of had the classic realisation - that I guess most teenagers have at some point - that time's gonna run out and that's not in my power to change that.

  George Ezra

  Teenager, Classic, Kind

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• In a family, you take on each other's problems and joys differently, and more intensely. The amplitude - and the undulation of the family - is different from the people you just generally bump into on the street, because you're chained together. And what happens if you break that chain? In almost every family that I know, someone has escaped, set themselves free, tried to run away - whatever what you want to call it. And often, they are made more conspicuous by their absence.

  Mary Kay Zuravleff

  People, Joy, Together

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wanted to give the songs a run for their money, to see if they stood on their own without a lot of accoutrements. It made more sense - and it was easier, too - to go out alone and see if these songs could get in a couple of fistfights and still be standing.

  Annie E. Clark

  Song, Couple, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think it's really important to do what you want to do because in the long-run it's your career, you want everything to go well and you want to be happy with what you're doing. It was really important for me to take control of my career.

  Cher Lloyd

  Thinking, Careers, Long

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