Usual Quotes - Page 16

• When we pull back and get, for a moment, the 'bird's eye' view of life, it reveals meanings that are ungraspable by the narrow focus of our usual worm's eye view

  Colin Wilson

  Eye, Views, Focus

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• There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

  Christopher Morley

  Fashion, People, Tables

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

  Ross Perot

  Voice, Democracy, Tiny

  Ross Perot (1992). “United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country”

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• We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

  Richard Curtis

  Agency, Hot, Position

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• I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

  Frank McCourt

  Book, Writing, Matter

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• A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask his advice, and consult with him about those things wherein he has any knowledge or understanding. By this, the father will gain two things, both of great moment. The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one; and if you admit him into serious discourses sometimes with you, you will insensibly raise his mind above the usual amusements of youth, and those trifling occupations which it is commonly wasted in.

  John Locke

  Growing Up, Father, Son

  "Some Thoughts Concerning Education" by John Locke, (Sec. 95), 1693.

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• We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole.

  David Bohm

  Independent, Reality, Fundamentals

  "On the Intuitive Understanding of Nonlocality as Implied by Quantum Theory". Foundations of Physics, Volume 5, 1975.

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• Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Soup, Peas

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• I had to battle it out with all the usual suspects and whatnot and go to the callback. I was lucky that (writer-director) John (Levine) and I were sort of these two white-boy hip-hop-heads from New York. I think that alone got me in the door.

  Josh Peck

  New York, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I had to get the voice back, the precise pitch of Sid's voice and I'd forgotten that I'd pitched him higher than my regular voice, so that was a little difficult to begin with. It was especially hard because we started recording in the morning so I had to warm up a lot and my usual voice is a little more gravelly.

  John Leguizamo

  Morning, Voice, Littles

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If you've heard Hillary Clinton's recent remarks on Ritalin and other drug use on children, you'll find the usual nauseating demagoguery. She appears to be urging Ritalin caution; but, if you listen carefully, she's calling it a miracle drug: "A Godsend for emotional and behavioral problems, for both children and their parents." She insists her efforts are not an attack on the medical treatment of children's emotional well-being because the drugs are very, very "useful."

  Peter Breggin

  Children, Emotional, Drug Use

  Source: whale.to

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• With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

  David Parnas

  World, May, Bugs

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• The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors.

  Plutarch

  Disease, Neighbor, Made

  Plutarch (1881). “Plutarch's Lives”

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• A sports bar is a way to take a bar and fill it with even more annoying people than usual.

  Demetri Martin

  Sports, People, Bars

  Twitter post from May 19, 2012

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• The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

  Danielle Steel

  Long, Rejection, Trying

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• Not only has [Donlald] Trump adopted that tactic attacking usual suspects like The New York Times and The Washington Post, but he`s turning it back on the conservative media who invented it in the first place.

  Chris Hayes

  New York, Media, Tactics

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Making an independent documentary film is so hard that usually, the usual model is that your film becomes a model for advocacy, so you can enlist that support group and get as much juice out of your film as possible. That's just practically, financially, what you need to do.

  Tim Hetherington

  Independent, Support, Groups

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.

  Collin Peterson

  Running, Party, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

  Van Jones

  Moon, Promise, Patterns

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.

  John Rawls

  Fighting, Together, France

  John Rawls, Samuel Richard Freeman (1999). “Collected Papers”, p.620, Harvard University Press

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• While painting I noticed a piece of madras cloth on the floor. As usual, my mind started working overtime and a pair of scissors and a small amount of glue later...I created THE COMEDIAN. Everybody loved the uniqueness of the painting. It was indeed a hit.

  St. Lucia

  Comedian, Mind, Glue

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• There are performances in which the people who have the best muscle skills and musical history may be on the stage, but it's not  -  like a Dead show is not like a usual sit-down performance; the audience does participate.

  Howard Rheingold

  Skills, People, Musical

  Source: medium.com

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• My big "double-aha" moment came while anchoring the national news at CBS News. It was at the height of the recession, and on top of the usual negative stories, my newscasts became full of especially heart wrenching stories of people losing their homes, jobs, and retirement savings. Starting the morning off like that could leave even the most optimistic person feeling helpless and hopeless. The lightning bolt came when we changed how we talked about the negative.

  Michelle Gielan

  Retirement, Morning, Jobs

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• [Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.

  Neal Stephenson

  Space, Expectations, Interesting

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

  Nat Hentoff

  People, Suffering, Administration

  Source: annaz.blogspot.com

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