Tendencies Quotes - Page 21

• Stories have a tendency to seep across the shining membrane walls separating the universes. They whisper and flutter like the feathers of birds, from island to mainland and back again. They fall into dreams like rain.

  Kelly Barnhill

  Dream, Wall, Fall

  Kelly Barnhill (2012). “Iron Hearted Violet”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

  Tony Abbott

  Jobs, People, Today

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Thinking, People

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

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• The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.

  Barney Frank

  Party, Thinking, Government

  "The Political Scene: Barney's Frank Opinions". Interview with Michael Guerriero, www.newyorker.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Sometimes when you're listening to a neuroscientist, they have a tendency to use a particular type of jargon that works in their world perfectly but that would lose the average layman.

  Pharrell Williams

  Average, Listening, Use

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The labor of rising from the ground will be great, ... but as we mount higher, the earth's attraction, and the body's gravity, will be gradually diminished till we arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fall, Men, Air

  Samuel Johnson (1940). “The reader's Johnson: a representative selection from his writings”

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• You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Forget, Forget It, Handle

  "Iyanla Vanzant Interview for Fourth Season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ Returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 06, 2014.

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• We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

  Stephen King

  Order, Needs, Want

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• I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.

  Joe Swanberg

  Communication, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

  Thomas Merton

  Children, Character, Reality

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• I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

  Assata Shakur

  People, Want, Be Kind

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• I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.

  Don Rickles

  Mean, People, Guy

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• I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country."

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Country, Thinking, Government

  "Yes, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Will Marry You". Interview with Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. January 16, 2014.

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• People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.

  Paul Washer

  Men, People, Pedestal

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Men, Human Nature

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• There are a lot of movies that are badly made that I love, and there are a lot of movies that are just beautifully made but I don't like them. And critics have a tendency - that's all they focus on, which is, "I like it. I don't like it. It's good. It's bad."

  George Lucas

  Focus, Made, Critics

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• When the boomers started to have kids reach adolescence, there was suddenly this feeling that they needed to protect their kids from all the same things they did when they were kids. Which I guess is a natural tendency, but it makes for a less fun society.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Kids, Feelings

  "All I Think Is That It's Stupid". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

  Johnny Depp

  Lying, Voice, People

  Press Conference: Johnny Depp Talks Rango, www.mtv.com. March 3, 2011.

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• If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

  Billy Joel

  Might, Crime, Turns

  "Backstage With Billy Joel: The Billboard Cover Story Interview (Exclusive)". Interview with Ray Waddell, www.billboard.com. January 31, 2014.

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• I try to speak plainly and be sympathetic to the idea of religions where people gather in community. They get a sense of people looking out for each other. My claim is that we have a tendency to look out for each other whether or not there is a religion involved.

  Bill Nye

  Ideas, People, Community

  "It's that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye". Interview with Clay Farris Naff, thehumanist.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.

  Stephen King

  Girl, Reading, Twilight

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

  Cornel West

  People, Black, Three

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When something goes wrong, the natural tendency is to say, "By God, we need to pass a law and do something."

  Milton Friedman

  Law, Needs, Natural

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• There is no question that abuse, drugs and exposure to violence at home can exacerbate someone's criminal tendencies enormously. But there are many, many criminals who don't come from that background.

  Andrew Solomon

  Home, Drug, Abuse

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• I believe one must be such a big egoist that it is possible to avoid the big tendencies that cut of your head. What we call fascism and things like that. It is about egoism. When you are egoistic enough you avoid such things. You become an incurable individualist and in that case you are sailing in your own sea anyway. What is very enjoyable for the individualist is to find this kind of "happy spaces" to be in and to live in.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Cutting, Sea

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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