Traps Quotes - Page 17

• Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

  Stewart Brand

  Environmental, World, Poverty

  Stewart Brand (2010). “Whole Earth Discipline: Why Dense Cities, Nuclear Power, Transgenic Crops, RestoredWildlands, and Geoengineering Are Necessary”, p.41, Penguin

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• The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

  Wade Guyton

  Crazy, Insane, Trying

  Interview with David Armstrong, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• You can fall into a trap, worrying too much about what the audience might think, rather than going from the inside out.

  Vik Sahay

  Fall, Thinking, Worrying Too Much

  Source: collider.com

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• What makes people weak? Their need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important. Don't get caught in this trap.

  Paulo Coelho

  Validation, People, Important

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 28, 2010

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• This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.

  Terence McKenna

  Attitude, Believe, Opposites

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• To a mouse, cheese is cheese. That is why mouse traps are effective.

  Wendell Johnson

  Cheese, Mouse Traps, Mice

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• If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

  John Lennon

  Parenting, Doors, Healthy

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• The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

  Steven Weber

  Snakes, People, Voting

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.

  Maud Adams

  Ambition, Mind, Needs

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• An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Believe, Responsibility, Giving

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.57, Penguin

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• I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

  Stephen Colbert

  Thinking, Media, Talking

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• If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them.

  Barack Obama

  War, Fall, Painting

  "Gorka: Obama, Clinton policies emboldened US enemies; Trump sons go after Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 15, 2016.

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• I wonder how often not the intention but the desire springs up in a doctor's mind: 'Can I let this human being out of the trap of Life?

  Phyllis Bottome

  Spring, Doctors, Mind

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• I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

  Alex Hirsch

  Mom, Fall, Glasses

  Source: collider.com

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• Comparison, a great teacher once told me, is the cardinal sin of modern life. It traps us in a game that we can't win. Once we define ourselves in terms of others, we lose the freedom to shape our own lives.

  James C. Collins

  Teacher, Winning, Games

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• If you listen to Bryson Tiller's record, there's some real music. There's some trap stuff, but if you listen to what's on top of that stuff, that's real music. I look at that and I know it's real. I respect it immensely.

  Warryn Campbell

  Real, Looks, Records

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.

  Marina Abramovic

  Art, Hate, Habit

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• These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.

  Alexander McQueen

  Beautiful, Trying, Rooms

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• When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Parent, Fame, Thrown

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 6, 2003.

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• So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

  Bill Watterson

  Long, Checks, Pops

  "Calvin and Hobbes". Book by Bill Watterson, April 1987.

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• Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Home, Lasts

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• Was there ever a trap to match the trap of love?

  Stephen King

  Gunslinger

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.

  William Goldman

  Thinking, Alive, Stills

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.192, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was skinning a bear. I was terrified at first, because the corpse resembled a naked man quartered between two trees. He'd created a deadfall trap over some big talus blocks and the bear had fallen in. He used the skin for something and jerked the meat. If it wasn't astonishing enough behavior in a national park, the next day he made donuts, using bear fat for grease ! Surely, by now, he's created an empire somewhere in the world.

  Dave Cook

  Block, Men, Climbing

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• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Hard Work, Climbing

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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