Somewhere Else Quotes - Page 6

• I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

  Steve McNair

  People, Proud, Moral

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• I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.

  Jane Siberry

  Law, Musician, Vacuums

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• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  Frances O'Connor

  Parent, Older Sister, Rebellious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When we're concrete about our writing time, it alleviates that thin constant feeling of anxiety that writers have - we're barbecuing hot dogs, riding a bike, sailing out in the bay, shopping for shoes, even helping a sick friend, but somewhere nervously at the periphery of our perception we know we belong somewhere else - at our desk!

  Natalie Goldberg

  Dog, Writing, Shoes

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft”, p.78, Open Road Media

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• Life is not somewhere waiting for you, it is happening in you. It is not in the future as a goal to be arrived at, it is herenow, this very moment - in your breathing, circulating in your blood, beating in your heart. Whatsoever you are is your life, and if you start seeking meaning somewhere else, you will miss it. Man has done that for centuries.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Future, Heart

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• Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

  Eileen Caddy

  Spiritual, Moving, Onward And Upward

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• I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, World, Seems

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• There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

  Michael Stipe

  Spiritual, Believe, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And I guess I'm a kid at heart in that when I go for entertainment, I want to be totally transported. I want to go somewhere else; I want to encounter different things, different beings, different universes. And so I love that aspect of being able to play those things in both 'True Blood' and in 'American Horror Story.'

  Denis O'Hare

  Heart, Kids, Blood

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• Time was away and somewhere else,
  There were two glasses and two chairs
  And two people with one pulse.

  Louis MacNeice

  Love, Glasses, Two

  'Meeting Point'

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• I am an author-illustrator of children's books - and yet - I must confess I don't do the books for the kids. When I'm working on a book I'm somewhere else - at the circus - or a rustic old farm - or deep in a forest - with no thought of who might read the book or what age group it would appeal to. I write them so I can illustrate them.

  Bill Peet

  Children, Book, Writing

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• I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Kids, Black

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• We found that if you played a bunch of punk singles in a row, people would dance like crazy and then get worn out and go somewhere else in the house. And if you played reggae all the time, people ended up leaning against the walls and nodding their head. But if you mixed it up, the floor got more and more packed, and the energy from the two types of music seemed to feed into each other, and the adrenaline from the punk, and the seductive sway of the reggae seemed to fit together.

  Dave Wakeling

  Wall, Crazy, Two

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

  Beth Orton

  Effort, Want, Way

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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• A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'

  Jean Fleming

  Spiritual, Fun, Heart

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• Look, if you think your need to complain is more important than the lives of the people that are counting on us, go whine somewhere else!

  Jack Bauer

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I don't think there is anything good about fame. 'Tables in restaurants.' People say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? Or go eat somewhere else?

  Jodie Foster

  Thinking, People, Tables

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• After you manage the Yankees for 12 years, it's really tough to envision going somewhere else. But then the Dodgers called.

  Joe Torre

  Yankees, Years, Tough

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• Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Depressing, Character, Night

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• Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

  Michael Lewis

  Thinking, Pay, Irreplaceable

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• If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Happiness, Running, Peace

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.11, Sounds True

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• When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Successful, Years

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• One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones. In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads. When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are...they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded. We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.

  Alan Lightman

  Phones, Cells, People

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• We're all the same, we all think its better somewhere else; its better being older if you're younger - or its better being younger when we're older.

  Naomi Watts

  Thinking, Ifs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].

  Jim Gibbons

  Hippie, Iraq, Ties

  "Demanding an Apology" by Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. March 04, 2005.

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