Various Quotes - Page 38

• Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.

  Yves Rossy

  Dream, Men, Wings

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Book, Writing, People

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• Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

  Assata Shakur

  Racism, Reason, Imperialism

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• The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, America, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue.

  Nancy Kates

  Differences, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think time management and dedication are the main factors along with being an organized person. To say I was highly ambitious would be an understatement. I'm never one to sit around, I always have to be creating in various facets to keep myself entertained.

  Ashley Purdy

  Thinking, Dedication, Creating

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision.

  Stevie Wonder

  Technology, Iphone, Ipads

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I didn't know the language of my own wisdom. I wanted to be loved and after all the various relationships I went through, I finally realized I am love. I carry love.

  Mark Nepo

  Language, Wanted To Be Loved, My Own

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• The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Pain, Wish

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• The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pain, World, Body

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.19, North Atlantic Books

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• Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

  George Lucas

  Focus, Firsts, Film

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, People, Orbit

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• It's really hard to fit a complex idea into a 3-minute pop song. And when you're dealing with issues that you're passionate about, usually they have various levels. And within a poem, you can get around the issue of space, and in a song the same way, by simply leaving holes and alluding to what you're talking about.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Talking, Ideas

  Source: www.songfacts.com

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• There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Gold, Way

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• I have many friends that don't claim to be followers of Christ. As far as day-to-day friendship and being together at various functions, I don't think that there should be any difference at all.

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Differences, Together

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Social, Instruction

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

  Johnny Depp

  White, People, Childhood

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Contactmusic Interview, www.contactmusic.com. January 2009.

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• Kids are in ongoing need of support, and they get various versions of it from grownups which aren't legitimate - a grownup's version of what we think you should have. We tell you what creativity is, and we even tell you what you're thinking.

  Jules Feiffer

  Creativity, Kids, Thinking

  "Jules Feiffer, Sketchy Character". Interview with Clara Jeffrey, www.motherjones.com. August 30, 2010.

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• You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

  Mary Gaitskill

  People, Appreciate, Giving

  Interview with by Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Editing, Together, Scripts

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• Common foreign policy is completely unnecessary. The various European countries have widely differing priorities, goals and prejudices. It would be wrong to force them all to follow the same course.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Country, Goal, Priorities

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• The development of European integration can be divided into two phases. The first era ended with the Maastricht Treaty. It was a liberalization phase, with the main goal of European integration at the time being the removal of various barriers and borders in Europe. The second phase is a homogenization or standardization phase, one that involves regulation from the top and growing control over our lives. This no longer has anything to do with freedom and democracy.

  Vaclav Klaus

  Europe, Two, Goal

  "'The Past Is the Past'". Interview with Christian Neef and Jan Puhl, Renata Hanusova, www.spiegel.de. March 13, 2006.

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• Tolkien was such a brilliant writer in so many ways. He was truly an inspiration. Many people don't realize just how much he researched and how much he based his stories and characters on mythology of various types. He was very deep and in many ways a genius.

  Raymond Buckland

  Inspiration, Character, People

  Source: paganpages.org

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• If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Mean, Past, Energy

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.

  Tim McCarthy

  Attachment, Worry, Meditation

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