Trapped Quotes - Page 7

• I think in some ways, I would go back home, and I didn't really quite fit in and couldn't - didn't have a person to bounce those experiences off of. So I felt a little bit trapped within me, and it made me feel lonely because I really couldn't - the things that were exciting to me, I couldn't really share those with another kid and that other kid understand that.

  Mahershala Ali

  Lonely, Home, Kids

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm from a pretty working-class background, and I really worked hard in my life to eradicate those parts of myself that were stupidly trapped in that world.Those of us who come up that way made a series of choices to benefit ourselves and make ourselves more generous and open.

  George Saunders

  Class, Choices, Benefits

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You really, really feel like you have no control [participating in franchise] . I mean, it's a huge juggernaut, especially when something becomes part of the cultural landscape in a way as well. It's really scary because you get trapped and you get scared of changing, which is the worst thing that can happen if you want to be any kind of artist.

  Robert Pattinson

  Mean, Artist, Scary

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Certainly youth of color, particularly those in ghetto communities, find themselves born into the cage. They are born into a community in which the rules, laws, policies, structures of their lives virtually guarantee that they will remain trapped for life. It begins at a very early age when their parents themselves are either behind bars or locked in a permanent second-class status and cannot afford them the opportunities they otherwise could.

  Michelle Alexander

  Ghetto, Opportunity, Color

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Of course, no one should be trapped in bad schools or bad neighborhoods. No one. But I think we need to be asking a larger question: How do we change the norm, the larger context that people seem to accept as a given? Are we so thoroughly resigned to what "is" that we cannot even begin a serious conversation about how to create what ought to be?

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Thinking, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Once you have been branded a criminal or felon, you are typically trapped for life.

  Michelle Alexander

  Criminals, Felons, Branded

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Most people with good jobs, middle-class occupations, what have you, are only one pitfall away from social embarrassment and destitution. It's so precarious. Even salaried people in the West now feel this sense of being trapped, not having the freedom to strike out.

  Irvine Welsh

  Jobs, Class, People

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.

  Colin Powell

  Art, Management, Can Do

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

  Eminem

  People, Appreciate, Addiction

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• [My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Brother, Law, Grandfather

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you're trapped in a small town, the only excitement is the booze.

  Amy Pietz

  Towns, Excitement, Small Town

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Trying, Groups

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• And it (the left brain) has a massive role within this reality, yes. It is basically the point where infinite consciousness joins this reality. It’s that conduit. But if you get trapped in it, and imprisoned by it, you become the decoding mechanism itself and it becomes your awareness.

  David Icke

  Reality, Brain, Roles

  "Global Conspiracy Goes Mainstream: A Conversation With British Author David Icke". Interview with Bret Lauder, lotusguide.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I think it comes in cycles for Brandy [Burre] and for many women. You want to take care of your home, making it as good as possible for your kids and for yourself, and then eventually you feel trapped and you want to break out of that. You want to be someone else and you want the world to look at you as something else. Eventually, you come back again. The cycles are very much a part of her life.

  Robert Greene

  Home, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.cineaste.com

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• What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

  Amanda Palmer

  Dark, Light, Play

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• I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

  Wayne Coyne

  Thinking, Mind, Want

  "Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

  Scott McClanahan

  Hate, Body, Reason Why

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I think American man unconsciously hates his work very often, because he feels trapped by it... imprisoned by it... because he feels that he is spending most of his energy for something which has no meaning in itself.

  Erich Fromm

  Hate, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious choice. I didn't want to find myself in a niche that I couldn't get out of.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Choices, Fiction, Done

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Caesar [from the Rise of the Planet of the Apes] was brought up with human beings and because of the drug he had pretty much grown up with his whole life, he felt like an outsider, he felt trapped in an ape's body but he didn't really feel like an ape and that was my way into the character. So he's always had this duality playing him from an infant all the way to now as a fifty-five year old ape.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Years, Drug

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Lines, Kind

  Source: www.dawn.com

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• It's been a real success - one of the great business successes in the United States - to break down organization, to separate people too: it's part of consumerism. If you can drive people toward individual consumption, that's the highest goal in life. And furthermore, drive them into debt so they're trapped. You don't have to worry about a democracy function because people are trapped and they're alone.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Darkness, Sin, Pointing

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2015

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• I have been working. I've been blessed to have shared a movie in the north of Chile called 'The 33,' with Gabriel Byrne and Juliette Binoche and Antonio Banderas, which is the beautiful story of the miners (trapped underground for 69 days in 2010). And then, this incredible, epic story came my way.

  Cote de Pablo

  Beautiful, Blessed, Epic

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• Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

  Michael Franti

  People, Justice, Musical

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