Variety Quotes - Page 36

• Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

  Ruth Benedict

  Men, Details, Constitution

  RUTH BENEDICT (1934). “PATTERNS OF CULTURE”

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• There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

  Theodor Reik

  Love, Sex, Needs

  Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.22, Transaction Publishers

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• Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

  Octavio Paz

  Power, Gestures, Terrible

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• Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.

  Israel Shenker

  Vocabulary, Quality, Syntax

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• Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity.

  Paul Davies

  Progress, Research, Littles

  "The secret of life won't be cooked up in a chemistry lab" by Paul Davies, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2013.

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• It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."

  Nathaniel Branden

  Struggle, Fighting, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I discovered in photos what had been missing in paintings; namely that they make a terrific variety of statements and have great substance. That is what I wanted to convey to paintings and apply to it.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Missing, Technique

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Taken

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of information on scientific as well as popular subjects. I should say of him that he is the most distinguished man of talents I have ever known on the continent: but I doubt if He be entitled to the appellation of a Man of Genius.

  Humphry Davy

  Character, Science, Men

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• I am told by those who know that there are six varieties of hangover-the Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and the Gremlin Boogie, and his manner suggested that he had got them all.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Hangover, Broken, Machines

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• Children coming forth today have a greater capacity to deal with, the greater variety of information that is coming forth, than you did.

  Esther Hicks

  Children, Information, Today

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• In my life outdoors, I've observed that animals of almost any variety will stand in a windy place rather than in a protected, windless area infested with biting insects. They would rather be annoyed by the wind than bitten.

  Tim Cahill

  Animal, Wind, Annoyed

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• I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters.

  Mira Sorvino

  Character, People, Giving

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• A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.

  Michael Azerrad

  Unique, Sprung Up, Voice

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• I've gotten to wear such beautiful clothes and had such a variety and it's just been so nice because I feel like I've grown so much with my style and everything because I've been able to have fun with it. It's really fun for me.

  Leighton Meester

  Beautiful, Fun, Nice

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• I love variety in my life.

  Elisabetta Canalis

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• But when I think of superchicks, I think of the roles, not the variety.

  Adrienne Barbeau

  Thinking, Roles

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• I worked with people I admire; Josh Lucas, who I'd worked with many many years ago on a pilot called The Class of 61 and Kurt Russell, and so there were a variety of different people that I enjoyed working with.

  Andre Braugher

  Years, Class, People

  Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

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• I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

  Julie Bowen

  Character, Opportunity, Reality

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• For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.

  Kathy Bates

  Long, Challenges, Roles

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• I am grateful to Penske Racing for six very productive years. Together we won a lot of races - 16 in all. I'm proud that we won on a variety of tracks.

  Kurt Busch

  Grateful, Race, Years

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• The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again.

  Ruth Buzzi

  Comedy, Hysterical, Hours

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• Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.

  Stan Brakhage

  Movement, Alive, World

  Stan Brakhage, Arts Council of Great Britain (1980). “Stan Brakhage: an American independent film-maker”

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• I'm not sure blogs are necessarily the best place to get a pulse on anything. People want to blog for a variety of reasons, and that may or may not be representative.

  Steve Ballmer

  People, Pulse, May

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• Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

  Dana Carvey

  Night, Years, Television

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