Variety Quotes - Page 28

• People will get into the habit of doing the same thing over and over again, and you'll stop seeing changes in your body. If you add variety and spice things up, I think it'll help you to stay motivated.

  Dara Torres

  Thinking, People, Add

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• Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety.

  Ken Wilber

  Teacher, Nice, Guy

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• No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Character, Mirrors, Infinity

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• Some people said, “we don't want to risk astronauts lives anymore, we need to stop doing this”. The astronauts don't feel that wayWe fly for our country, we fly for humanity, we fly for exploration, we fly for a variety of reasons, and we don't stop flying because we have accidents.

  Eileen Collins

  Country, Patriotic, People

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• Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

  Susie Bright

  Partnership, Humans, Human Beings

  Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

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• I still love a variety of kinds of music.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Kind, Stills

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• I do like the idea of pulling in different producers to get new perspectives. That's what I did with Vows and I feel it just gives variety and makes for a more exciting journey for the listener.

  Kimbra

  Journey, Ideas, Giving

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• Voting, we might even say, is the next to last refuge of the politically impotent. The last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then will submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into--what else?--another piece of news. Thus we have here a great loop of impotence: The news elicits from you a variety of opinions about which you can do nothing except to offer them as more news, about which you can do nothing.

  Neil Postman

  Giving, Voting, News

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.69, Penguin

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• If the Royal Variety Show was put in a matter transportation machine with the Royal Institution Christmas lectures, this is what you'd get.

  Robin Ince

  Machines, Matter, Royal

  "O come all ye non-faithful, and rejoice in science" by Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 06, 2009.

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• Generally speaking, life is so rich and full of variety; you have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Sides, Remember, Life Is

  "Alone with the Greta Garbo of verse". Interview with James Hopkin, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2000.

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• A meal can be thought of as a ritual and a work of art, with limits laid down, desires aroused and fulfilled, enticements, variety, patterning and plot. As in a work of art, not only the overall form, but also the details matter intensely.

  Margaret Visser

  Art, Desire, Details

  Margaret Visser (2015). “The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book.

  Michael Hardt

  Book, Reading, Animal

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• Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

  Coleman Dowell

  Death, Block, Loss

  "Mrs. October was Here".

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• Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

  Serge Schmemann

  Soccer, Sports, Passion

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• Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just the pattern of former presidents; maybe it reflected how much the circumstances had changed on the ground.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Strong, Taken, President

  Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy (2012). “The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rocks, Sea, Land

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• I'm told my SF is of the hard variety and my Fantasy is romantic but hopefully all the characters are strong and the plots are lively.

  Sarah Zettel

  Strong, Character, Plot

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• We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of the Queen-Elizabeth-Slept-Here variety. There were old tennis-courts - the Tudor kind where Henry VIII was said to have played; and gardens filled with winter heather, jasmine and yellow chrysanthemums. [...] So that first night together was spent in the ancient bedroom with the tiny leaded paned windows, through which shafts of moonlight touched the room with a dreamlike radiance [...]

  Jean Plaidy

  Country, Queens, Winter

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• The many varieties and wonderful colors of the modern dahlia make it a totally different flower from the one our grandmothers knew. The names are descriptive of the different varieties, and as there are so many of them, and they bloom from early in June or July until frost, a garden of dahlias might be very interesting.

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely

  Flower, Grandmother, Garden

  Helena Rutherfurd Ely (1911). “The Practical Flower Garden”

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• No rock and roll ensemble, however inspired, can deliver the kind of musical variety obtainable with the resources of 110 instruments.

  Nicholas Meyer

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Musical

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• I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

  Peter Hammill

  Song, Believe, Interesting

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• The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.

  Lynn Barber

  Race, Biographies, Interviews

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• Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

  Tipper Gore

  Television, Internet, Forums

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

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• Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Lying, Atmosphere, Foundation

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Mean, Simple, Order

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