Sensational Quotes - Page 2

• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

  George Orwell

  Childhood, Saint, World

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When consciousness has awakened it is not something sensational or spectacular. It's simply a reality as natural as the one of a tree that has growth slowly and developed without starts or sensational stuffs. Nature is Nature.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Reality, Tree, Growth

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• I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.

  Robert O. Paxton

  Thinking, Careers, President

  "War Crime Investigations Among France's Release Of Vichy Documents". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. December 29, 2015.

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• It's often said that I choose subjects that are sensational! I choose to film subjects that spark difficult conversations and make people uncomfortable. Change only comes about when people are forced to discuss an issue, and that's what I hope my films do.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, People, Sparks

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• After many years of hip-hop as a nation we should have the sophistication to accept that their are distinctions between the corporate manifestation of hip-hop, sold as a commodity and package with sensational race, sex and violent imagery, and the hip-hop culture that kids are living everyday at a local level, which often doesn't dabble in that terrain.

  Bakari Kitwana

  Sex, Kids, Race

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• Everybody wants a sensational story.

  Hilarie Burton

  Stories, Want

  "EXCLUSIVE Hilarie Burton on 'Tree Hill' exit: 'It wasn't a rash decision'". Interview with Michael Ausiello, ew.com. May 14, 2009.

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• Ernest Hemingway called Jospehine the "most sensational woman anyone ever saw." I think all women deserve to be this sensational looking!

  Mia Moretti

  Thinking, Saws, Deserve

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's unfortunate that women feel they have to resort to something sensational... All the videos I see now are sexy and raunchy. What's the point? I don't get it?

  Nancy Sinatra

  Sexy, Video, Resorts

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• I loved the idea of the fact that the way, like I said, they colored outside of the lines. You know, there was rules that they didn't have to follow. And you got -you got - you could get more of a sensational thrill, all right, with some of these exploitation movies or art films, or you could get something you wouldn't see at the normal cineplex.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Art, Ideas, Way

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• Paste Magazine needs to stay in business! It's the first non-sensational quality music and film publication that doesn't only attempt to appeal to middle-aged male Bob Dylan completionists! And there are still many of us who love to pick up a print magazine instead of going online.

  Nina Persson

  Quality, Males, Needs

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• Even though I loved the song [My Yiddish Momme] and it was a sensational hit every time I sang it, I was always careful to use it only when I knew the majority of the house would understand Yiddish. However, you didn't have to be a Jew to be moved by 'My Yiddish Momme.' 'Mother' in any language means the same thing.

  Sophie Tucker

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• You don't win by making sensational plays; you win by not making mistakes.

  Bum Phillips

  Mistake, Winning, Play

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• You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

  Ian MacKaye

  Counter Culture, Black, Stories

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

  Samantha Bond

  Middle, Pops, Realising

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• There's something seriously wrong with Google. Technologically, they're brilliant, sensational. But morally, its management is completely adolescent. The company is so big and so arrogant, they do whatever they like, they think they are above the law.

  Max Mosley

  Thinking, Law, Google

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.

  Tilda Swinton

  Thinking, People, Example

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Compassion, Stories, Clicks

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.

  Robert Benchley

  Health, Eye, Hair

  Robert Benchley (1970). “Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces”, p.110, Courier Corporation

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  G. H. Hardy

  Triumph, May, Study

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• The BEST representation of Source Energy that you will ever find in your physical format is inexpressible. It's that feeling of love and appreciation that just WELLS up within you, that is so sensational that you can hardly find words for it. That's the true ESSENCE of who you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Appreciation, Essence, Feelings

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• On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

  Corey Taylor

  Hero, Memorable, Unique

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• A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Party, Pockets

  Sinclair Lewis (2015). “Babbitt”, p.19, Penguin

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• Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

  Tony Curtis

  Hollywood, Built, Merry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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