Starks Quotes - Page 9

• Maia Sharp is one of America's great singer-songwriters. Her storytelling runs profound and
  deep while honoring a pop tradition that urges you to sing along and feel good. Maia sings with
  an angelic voice that's shrouded in stark realism and a healthy dose of cynicism.....it's an exotic
  cocktail!

  Don Was

  Running, America, Voice

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• Da Vinci always seemed like the prototype Tony Stark to me.

  David S. Goyer

  Prototype

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• The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Humble, Mean

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• Don't run away from the world. The world is God. Don't run towards the world. God is the void. Don't be afraid of the complexities of this life, nor the stark simplicity of death.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Running, Buddhism

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• I just try to find ways to love the people that I'm around. It's hard sometimes because I'm selfish and I want to focus inwardly but when I can fight against that and look at other people's needs, it's really a stark contrast to what people are used to in such a selfish environment.

  Matt Diaz

  Selfish, Fighting, People

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.

  Jon Rappoport

  Simple, America, Allies

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• Throw leaders into an extreme environment, and it will separate the stark differences between greatness and mediocrity.

  James C. Collins

  Greatness, Differences, Leader

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• Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth and indicts us - as a society - for our selective, casual complicity in devaluing it. Ward's account of these losses is founded in a compelling emotional honesty, and graced with moments of stark poetry.

  Peter Ho Davies

  Honesty, Loss, Men

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• They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.

  Daniel Handler

  Relief, World, Ugly

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• The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Men, Stories, Want

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• Knitting is a boon for those of us who are easily bored. I take my knitting everywhere to take the edge off of moments that would otherwise drive me stark raving mad.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Mad, Bored

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.223, Storey Publishing

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• As if channeling Robbe-Grillet, who strove to establish 'new relations between man and the world,' Sesshu Foster's electrifying prose poems tenderly examine then fiercely weave stark-and-broken realities into luminous dream-like narratives on the game of life.

  Wanda Coleman

  Dream, Reality, Men

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• I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

  J. K. Rowling

  Mad, Challenges, Gone

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• I would like to do any way possible that Howard Stark can make a return. He's such a fun character to play, and I really believe that he could make quite an exciting character to watch more of. The flawed entrepreneur, the kind of crazy playboy, from that era is an exciting concept.

  Dominic Cooper

  Fun, Crazy, Believe

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• History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Essence, History, Mind

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• How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?

  Barbra Streisand

  Art, Children, Grief

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• The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

  Elvis Costello

  Hurt, Philosophy, Dark

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

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• The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark reality of the Korean situation, as well as of the long-cherished aspiration of the 50 million Koreans. The North Koreans have already constructed a number of underground invasion tunnels across the Demilitarized Zone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Reality, Usa

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.

  Danny Pino

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• The HoneyLine is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Reality, People, Needs

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by Gabrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

  Kim Young-sam

  Jobs, Cutting, Reality

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• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Struggle, School

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Judenhass is endlessly disturbing, often unpleasant and incessantly horrifying in its stark coldness. The quotes should never be forgotten or made light of. It is why all people of good will say, 'Never again.'

  Marv Wolfman

  Light, People, Forgotten

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• I could have written a story about a well-adjusted family. Ned Stark comes down to King’s Landing and takes over and solves all their problems. Would that have been as exciting?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Stories, Problem

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