Territory Quotes - Page 24

• I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

  Denis Leary

  Fun, Guy, Toms

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• For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which I make occasional and transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state into whose territories I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper. Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moon nor fire-fly has shown me the cause-way to it. Nature is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Moon, Fire

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• The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military

  Nnimmo Bassey

  Military, Hands, Citizens

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• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

  Scott McCloud

  Explaining, Hood, Familiar

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• With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.

  Tim Parks

  Book, Different, Best Experiences

  Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale

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• Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Russia, America

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• Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.

  R. D. Laing

  Inspirational, Creativity, People

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  Calamity Jane

  Umpires, California, San Francisco

  Calamity Jane (1896). “Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane”

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• Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Smart, Lying, Race

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• If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

  Alfred Korzybski

  World, Maps, Links

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.61, Institute of GS

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• I learned a long time ago, if you want to keep your friends in show business, don't get famous. Because as soon as you get famous, a lot of the people you used to know, who didn't, become incredibly bitter and jealous. It's part of the territory.

  Denis Leary

  Jealous, Long, People

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• It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.

  Charlie Munger

  Principles, Use, Investing

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• I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'

  Jared Leto

  Thinking, Different, New Life

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• Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.

  Kevin Spacey

  Movie, Dark, Years

  "New Again: Kevin Spacey". Interview with Mare Winningham, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2016.

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• As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty.

  Dick Thornburgh

  Sea, Organization, Ranking

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• Probably Hobbes got it right when he said that a leviathan, a third party with a monopoly on the use of legitimate use of force in a territory, might be among the biggest violence reduction techniques ever invented.

  Steven Pinker

  Party, Technique, Use

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal ConanN, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Play, Two

  "Laughing matters". Book by Larry Gelbart, www.nytimes.com. 1982.

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• This war is not as in the past; whoever occupies a territory also imposes on it his own social system. Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. It cannot be otherwise. If now there is not a communist government in Paris, this is only because Russia has no an army which can reach Paris in 1945.

  Joseph Stalin

  War, Army, Past

  "Conversations with Stalin". Book by Milovan Djilas, 1963.

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• Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.

  Jimmy Carter

  Isis, Iraq, Being There

  "Carter unhappy with Obama’s policies in Middle East". www.star-telegram.com. October 07, 2014.

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• The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

  Max Bill

  Art, Vision, Orbit

  Max Bill, James N. Wood (1974). “Max Bill”

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• If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.

  Abdurrahman Wahid

  People, Islam, Belief

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• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• If the height of the heel is the same as the length of your foot, it starts to look wrong. And if the heel is positioned badly on the sole, you get into ballerina territory, where the body is pushed into a very strange posture. You can exaggerate the arch only so much.

  Christian Louboutin

  Feet, Looks, Arches

  "Head Over Heels" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 1, 2009.

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• I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.

  Greg Kinnear

  College, Doors, Giving

  "Greg Kinnear Talks Thin Ice, Guest Starring on Modern Family, and Writers with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.

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• We're not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. We're adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that's what stimulates us.

  Guy Laliberte

  Adventure, Order, Yesterday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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