Subtle Quotes - Page 29

• Somebody must be up and somebody must be down. Trouble is, campaigns are messy, subtle creatures that don't follow convenient narratives.

  Ron Fournier

  Campaigns, Narrative, Trouble

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• It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Art, Intelligent, Years

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• There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

  Conrad Hall

  Jobs, Light, Color

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• The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Reactions, Delicate

  Daisaku Ikeda (2017). “Hope Is a Decision: Selected Essays”, p.35, Middleway Press

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• I was the most subtle person in the world.

  Quincy Jones

  World, Persons

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• As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Eye, Faces, Members

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• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• If you're living with a scientist, you see the world differently than you do with a humanist. It's in some ways very subtle, the differences in perceiving reality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Reality, Differences, World

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• Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

  Blaise Pascal

  Stupid, Justice, Tools

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• I love Indian food - it's my favourite cuisine. I love the mixture of spices and the subtle flavours. It's really erotic; the spices are so sensuous.

  Joe Perry

  Erotic, Spices, Mixtures

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• Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

  John C. Reilly

  People, Want, Way

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 16, 2010.

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• I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

  Nile Rodgers

  School, Play, Satire

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• I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Kind, Natural, Bigs

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• Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

  Steven Spielberg

  Real, Cutting, Choices

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• Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Rights, Looks

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• I'm here today to warn you: I want you to watch out for the adversary. Guard yourself from any spirit of entitlement. Restrain any and all subtle temptation to gain attention or to find ways to promote yourself.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Temptation, Watches, Attention

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• We began to see the renovation of our offices as a subtle part of the Nixon war against the press.

  Helen Thomas

  War, Office, Renovation

  Helen Thomas (1975). “Dateline: White House”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Acceptance, Reality, Energy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.178, Penguin

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• The bottom line is that the human body is complex and subtle, and oversimplifying - as common sense sometimes impels us to do - can be hazardous to your health.

  Andrew Weil

  Common Sense, Body, Lines

  "When to Ignore Common Sense" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2013.

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• O YOU whom I often and silently come where you are, that I may be with you; As I walk by your side, or sit near, or remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing within me.

  Walt Whitman

  Love, Dream, Your Side

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.406, NYU Press

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• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

  Oscar Wilde

  Magic, Vivid, Terrible

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.22, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Country, Spring, Expression

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• I said, I know why you’re afraid to fight with me.” "And why is that?” If he flexed again, I’d have to implement emergency measures. Maybe I could kick some sand at him or something. Hard to look hot brushing sand out of your eyes. "You want me.” Oh boy. "You can’t resist my subtle charm, so you’re afraid you’re going to make a spectacle out of yourself.” "You know what? Don’t talk to me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Fighting, Boys

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.198, Penguin

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• One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Mother, Jobs, Father

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• That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Secret, Belief

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