Superficial Quotes - Page 16

• A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

  William Faulkner

  Color, Europe, Fire

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• I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Regret, Believe

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

  Erich Fromm

  Real, Nice, Kind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I like to compare the first experiences of the Internet - the fortuitousness, the chance - with reality, with the experience, for example, of being in a city that you don't know. Many times - and I don't know if I can totally defend this argument - I've found that the way one experiences the world, and daily life, we are constantly dealing with these perceptions. And it seems like it works, this superficial perception of determinacy, but it's completely ridiculous.

  Sergio Chejfec

  Reality, Cities, Perception

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What I hate - a lot of conversations about choosing not to have children tend to be couched in these superficial terms, or kind of glib, "I'd rather have a Porsche" or "I forgot to have kids." No you didn't.

  Meghan Daum

  Children, Hate, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.

  Astra Taylor

  Technology, Wings, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Chess computers do not sweat during time pressure and commit costly blunders. Furthermore, the strength of these programs (over and above their faultless recall processes) lies in their capacity to make relatively superficial tactical decisions with incredible speed. Positional values, long-range strategy, aesthetic judgment, and political astuteness remain staples of human performance, man vs. machine results in the foreseeable future to the contrary not withstanding.

  Ira Carmen

  Lying, Men, Sweat

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• The people from where I grew up have no appreciation for Paleolithic rocks or menstrual calendars. I'm a retriever of lost iconographies. But I had real training and have deep discipline, and I believe in it. Too much of the work I see today is just cultural junk. It's very superficial and has no rigor. It doesn't address the dynamic and real politics of an aesthetic structure.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Appreciation, Real, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.

  James Vance

  Attitude, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's more about subtracting every single buck from the tourists that still flock there. Gentrification and the need for developers to maximize their profits from every square inch of the place means that there just aren't any scruffy little basement clubs left. Those scruffy little basement clubs were the areas lifeblood. Now, it's all penthouse flats and global brands. They destroyed the very thing that drew people there in the first place - it's superficial sleaziness.

  Derek Ridgers

  Mean, Squares, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's good to think about what kind of veneer you shellac yourself with. How superficial it may seep into your skin and into your blood stream and totally take over your heart, your brain, everything.

  Surya Das

  Heart, Thinking, Blood

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed us.

  Laura Mullen

  Safety, Arbitrary, Protection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

  Alison Jackson

  Photography, Believe, Complacency

  "What I see in the mirror" by Alison Jackson, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.

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• I want the kids who watch 'One Tree Hill' to know that it's all pretend, and that the person at the core of that character values morals, honor and things like that. You want to inspire them to look beyond what is superficial and try to find that greater thing.

  Hilarie Burton

  Character, Kids, Tree

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• But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making warmth shiver in ague fits. I think Shakespeare never errs in his logical sequence in character. He surprises us, seems unnatural to us, but because we have been superficial observers; while genius will disclose those truths to which we are blind.

  William Alfred Quayle

  Character, Thinking, Entering

  William Alfred Quayle (1900). “A Hero and Some Other Folks”

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• When you are in a relationship, you want the other person to appreciate the things you like. It sounds superficial, but it's nice.

  Diane Kruger

  Nice, Appreciate, Sound

  "Meet Diane Kruger, Our Style Icon". Interview with Josh Patner, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2011.

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• If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

  George R. R. Martin

  Popcorn, Dies, Ifs

  "'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding". Interview with James Hibberd, ew.com. June 2, 2013.

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• People are much more important than superficial environments.

  John Caudwell

  People, Important, Environment

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• I always feel that a viewer has an expectation about every moment of the film and where it's going, so if I act against that, I've created a twist. In fact it becomes a kind of game with the expectations of the viewer. This is the superficial appearance. In the layer beneath there is a hidden theme. The result of each twist is that the judgment of the audience member is challenged.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Games, Expectations, Facts

  "Interview: Academy Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi on his film ‘The Past’". Interview by Carlos Aguilar, www.indiewire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.

  James Madison

  Errors, Views, Certain

  James Madison (1867). “Letters and Other Writings of James Madison”, p.277

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• Teach people to let go of their superficial mental chatter and obsessions. Teach people to pay attention to the whole body's reaction to a situation.

  John Heider

  Letting Go, People, Attention

  John HEider (2015). “The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age”, p.12, Green Dragon Books

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• The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems, and a marked dissatisfaction with traditional philosophy as superficial, academic, and remote from life-that is the heart of existentialism.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Philosophy, Heart, School

  Walter Kaufmann (2016). “Existentialism From Dostoevsky To Sartre”, p.10, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth from appearances. And indeed the use and benefit of this touchstone, which is natural reason, is spoiled and lost only by assuming prejudices, overweening presumption, and narrowing our minds.

  John Locke

  Men, Mind, Gold

  John Locke (1819). “An essay concerning human understanding. Also, extr. from the author's works, i. Analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c.].”, p.314

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• Like many, I suspect, I found the difficulty of analytic philosophy unglamorous and therefore less appealing. This is regrettably superficial but superficiality is characteristic of youth. In my late teens I became enamored of Nietzsche, Bataille, and Artaud.

  Ray Brassier

  Philosophy, Youth, Difficulty

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We cannot be content with an evangelism which does not lead to the drawing of converts into the church, nor with a church order whose principle of cohesion is a superficial social camaraderie instead of a spiritual fellowship with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.

  John Stott

  Spiritual, Jesus, Father

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.54, SPCK

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