Stones Quotes - Page 24

• When I was eleven or twelve years old, I became for a while fixated on the question whether there could be two 'identical' stones. This is, of course, the question whether the principle of identity of indiscernibles is true and, as I formulated it then, I was bound to fall into confusion about it.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Fall, Years, Two

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Teenager, Philosophical, Boys

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• "American Idol" has done a lot for me. It's a stepping stone in my life.

  Diana DeGarmo

  Idols, Done, American Idol

  Interview with Nick Orlando, www.broadwayworld.com. March 16, 2006.

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• A lot of novels use crime as a stepping stone to talk about greater issues. So I just think of myself as a writer.

  Karin Slaughter

  Thinking, Issues, Use

  Source: content.time.com

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• When Rolling Stone handed me this crazy assignment to be in the studio with James Brown, they had the misapprehension that I'd written for them already just because I claimed my character had.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Crazy, Character, Rolling

  "Fear of Music". Interview with Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital.

  Volker Bertelmann

  Home, Hands, Slipping

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When an English man speaks well, for example now, and this is another way of putting us down, they say he's "eloquent" you see. "Oh, eloquent chap they are!" An Irish person speak well, they say, "Ah, you have the gift of the gab." "Ah, you kissed the blarney stone." You see, all of this putting us down.

  Malachy McCourt

  Men, Example, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Even somebody like Bill Clinton, who I happen to admire very much, the second he was out of office, I remember, he was interview in Rolling Stone and he said he thought we should have legalized marijuana. And I thought, gosh, if only you were in some sort of position to affect change in the last eight years where you could have done something about that.

  Bill Maher

  Marijuana, Should Have, Years

  "Comedian Bill Maher Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

  Patti Smith

  Father, Real, Rocks

  "Rocker Patti Smith, 'Dream Of Life'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. December 30, 2009.

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• I've pretty much kicked over every stone. And there's nothing in me that says, "I must create this particular thing."

  Sandra Bullock

  Particular

  "Sandra Bullock, Boxed In On The Set Of 'Gravity'". www.wbur.org. October 04, 2013.

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• When I started covering The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in a rock 'n' roll band, it helped me realize that my natural voice is actually really high. It helped me find my voice.

  Gotye

  Voice, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Two, Growth, Woods

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• I have to understand the nature of change. And I cannot just work with stone or the more permanent materials. I need to work with leaves and ice and snow and mud and clay and water and the rising tide and the wind and all these.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Ice And Snow, Wind, Water

  "Sculptor Turns Rain, Ice And Trees Into 'Ephemeral Works'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 8, 2015.

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• So by the time the 60s rolled in that became a huge art form in its own right with bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Hendrix doing total concept albums, same thing with Pink Floyd.

  DJ Spooky

  Art, Rolling, Albums

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 8, 2010.

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• So Bach, Beethoven, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, these are all people who would sort of rearrange or take riffs from people. Same thing with rock, if you look at the Rolling Stones doing a cover of Otis Redding or you know if you look at literature James Joyce is pulling fragments of text from other people.

  DJ Spooky

  Rocks, People, Rolling

  "Big Think Interview With DJ Spooky". bigthink.com. April 08, 2010.

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• Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.

  Richard Gere

  People, Dedicated, Sharon

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• Rose quartz is said to be the stone of unconditional love. This crystal opens the heart chakra and is believed to encourage self-love and forgiveness, and to help you let go of anger, resentment, and jealousy.

  Miranda Kerr

  Letting Go, Heart, Unconditional Love

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.

  Miranda Kerr

  Spiritual, Emotional, Balance

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

  Muhammad Ali

  Struggle, Kentucky, Next Week

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• The Bible is full of dreadful things. There's a Psalm that says "Happy will you be when you take your enemy's children and dash their heads against the stones." Don't read that to me on Sunday morning and say "This is the word of the Lord." It's like that crazy man down in Alabama who wanted to put the Ten Commandments in his courtroom.

  John Shelby Spong

  Morning, Children, Crazy

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Once a script is released that doesn't mean it's the final product. It's not set in stone.

  Nathalie Emmanuel

  Mean, Finals, Scripts

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Saudi Arabia is militant Islamic extremism, Wahhabi Islam is extreme and violent. These are the people that execute gays. These are the people that stone women who show their face in public. You don’t hear much about it, but it happens.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Islamic, Gay, People

  "Scrambling Liberals Don’t Know Who to Blame for the Istanbul Airport Attack". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 29, 2016.

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• Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Advancement, Nests

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Mother, Opposites, Taught

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.

  David Gilmour

  Names, Yesterday, Rocks

  "David Gilmour Talks Pompeii Return: 'It’s a Place of Ghosts'". Interview with Kory Grow, www.rollingstone.com. July 7, 2016.

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