Thousand Quotes - Page 23

• Thousand years ago, we all descended from Africans who left the continent. Those ancestors, we will never know their name. We can go back 200 or 300 years and actually populate your family tree with real people who had names and documents. They had customs, characteristics that, unbeknownst to you, you have inherited. Almost through osmosis it has been passed down to you.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Real, Years, Osmosis

  "Black Ancestry Matters on 'Finding Your Roots'". Interview with Alexandra Phanor-Faury, www.ebony.com. January 26, 2016.

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• I definitely felt frightened [on Skyfall], but never in danger, because they were always so careful about everything. Some of the driving, particularly on that road around the sheer-drop cliff was actually done by stunt driver Ben Collin, who is otherwise known as The Stig from the TV show Pop Gear. He's a brilliant drive, nonetheless, it was terrifying to be careening along when a wrong turn would mean a thousand-foot drop and you're not in control and you want to slow the car down.

  Naomie Harris

  Mean, Tv Shows, Feet

  "Naomie Harris is the new James Bond Girl in Skyfall". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I believe that the Israelis and the Palestinians, by and large, want peace, they each want their own country, and they want to get along, and they are going to get along. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I know enough about this, having been there, that these are sophisticated people. It's not like in Pakistan, where people have been told about Jews for a thousand years but don't know any. The Palestinians know the Jews.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Believe, Years

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• I could only shoot when the subway was on the other platform. Little things like that, and the platform is very narrow. It's not like you can hide if a subway comes so a lot of things happened because of that. Or a thousand people just came and looked straight into the lens like they didn't expect a movie to be shooting.

  Jaume Collet-Serra

  People, Lenses, Shooting

  Source: collider.com

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• Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific revolution is less than a hundred years. And computers only a few decades! We've changed so much. It's amazing, the speed of changes.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Couple, Years, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Real, Technology, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• So he [Shoko Asahara] was insane but managed to convince a couple thousand people that he was enlightened. Western culture, which Japan is now definitely a part of, doesn't have an understanding of what Enlightenment is.

  Brad Warner

  Couple, Japan, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Well there were other Maharajis, so Neem Karoli Baba was his technical name, like there are a thousand Lamas called Rinpoche.

  Surya Das

  Names, Baba, Wells

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• We have a legal system, and this is not something that happens all the time. We have capital punishment. America has capital punishment. Iran has capital punishment. Iran hangs people and leaves their bodies hanging on cranes. Iran put to death more than a thousand people last year. I don't see EU reporting on it.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Iran, Years, Punishment

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I understand that these people are all there to see me ride, that that's why they're in the building, and whether I have ten people, or a thousand people come out to see me, they still came out to see me, and I take that to heart.

  Mike Vallely

  Heart, People, Building

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Vacation, Dutch, Anticipation

  Source: time.com

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• I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

  Viola Davis

  Spiritual, Book, Hero

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I would for sure do a thousand dollar meet and greet because literally every single person knows where I live.

  Vince Staples

  Dollars, Single Person, Persons

  "Summertime '16 with Vince Staples". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel but I know what the ending will be already.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Book, Two, Next

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A thousand years ago, scientists who wondered about consciousness and the nature of reality were burned at the stake. We still haven't recovered from that and it's left us with a culture that no longer investigates consciousness, except on the fringes.

  David O. Russell

  Reality, Years, Culture

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

  George Meyer

  Giving, Three, Sometimes

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go a university, that's a fake school.

  Marco Rubio

  School, People, Fake

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…

  J. Robert Spencer

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.

  Tamara Keith

  Senior, Kids, Winter

  "Democratic Candidates In Michigan Focus On Flint's Water Crisis". "All things considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 7, 2016.

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• I was writing the Paraguay book, a Paragauyan told me that only five thousand people in Paraguay read.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I was talking to my publisher in Britain and was told here we are - we are sixty million people and we reckon only four hundred thousand people in Britain really read.

  John Gimlette

  Talking, People, Four

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I'd take about 40 thousand CDs, and then take about three full vans of people to hit every hood, every mall, and every club. Just hit one city to the next.

  Gorilla Zoe

  Cds, Cities, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm looking at the window and can't understand why there are six hundred thousand SUVs here in this little town. No one can even move. Why doesn't everyone just get out and walk?

  Kelly Reichardt

  Moving, Suvs, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 'm constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"

  Richard Rodriguez

  Block, Mean, Ghetto

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster.

  Peter Diamandis

  Gps, Car, World

  Big Think Interview With Peter Diamandis, bigthink.com.

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