Wide Quotes - Page 19

• We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

  Dave Barry

  Objectivity, Literature, Littles

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• I am bad at cultural generalizations but I would venture to say that by a wide margin there is less hypocrisy about sex in France than in America.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Sex, America, Hypocrisy

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I remember my mentor once said, "The low road is crowded. The high road is wide open. So let's try to take the high road." I think that people are hungry for content that enriches and expires. You can entertain people while still expanding their horizons. You don't have to have it be a race to the bottom with reality television.

  Jason Silva

  Reality, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I listen to a wide array of music, all depends on the mood I'm in at the time.

  G-Eazy

  Mood, Depends

  Source: www.axs.com

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• [People] just don't seem to want to give [Donald Trump] any kind of berth at all, let alone a wide berth, to govern.

  Kellyanne Conway

  People, Giving, Want

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Along the wide curving moat surrounding the palace, rows of cherry trees announced the end of their seasonal beauty. Some of the trees were weeping: blossoms in white and palest pink, ponderous with decreptitude, eddying on the brown water, stirred by the paddling of ducks.

  John Burnham Schwartz

  Ducks, White, Water

  John Burnham Schwartz (2009). “The Commoner”, p.148, Vintage

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• I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb and evolve, and I think more often than not we are squashed, the older we get.

  Audra McDonald

  Creativity, Thinking, Essentials

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• There are different reasons why people write: for themselves, or for other writers, or to get prizes, or keeping an audience in mind. In my case, it felt really nice that a certain type of readership read the book and liked it, even though my readership is not as wide as certain popular books.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Nice, Book, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Every single aspect of a text requires very careful choices and rigorous evaluation. Style is employed - or deployed - for a reason. It's purposeful. Form and aesthetics are part of meaning-making. Ideally, a writer would have mastery over a wide variety of rhetorical gestures and tonalities, our lexicon and punctuation system, our grammar, and all the riches of a liberal and literary education.

  C.E. Morgan

  Choices, Style, Mastery

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I think good storytelling continues to teach you how it unfolds. And so I don't think that film and stage are mutually exclusive at all. It's just that you're always in a wide shot.

  Terry Kinney

  Thinking, Film, Storytelling

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being a TV comedian, actor, writer, columnist, and all that is quite helpful to me in acquiring wide varieties of knowledge, which is crucial for filmmaking.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Comedian, Actors, Tvs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Iran, Should Have, People

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• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Keys, Understanding

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

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• Stem cell research holds out the promise of finding cures and treatments for a wide range of diseases.

  Tom Allen

  Cells, Promise, Research

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Political, One Day

  "Crises of the Republic". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Civil Disobedience", 1972.

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• I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.

  Arthur Ashe

  Art, Moving, Yards

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

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• It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

  Roger Babson

  Dream, Wide Awake, Persons

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• Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

  Joe Baca

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Hands, Would Be, Privilege

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• I'm not an actor that tends to care. I don't ask "Is this a close up? Is this a master? Is this a wide? What are you doing?" If I look up and notice the camera I go "Oh, it's a big one today, must be an IMAX." And that's kinda it for me because it doesn't affect what I'm doing.

  Christian Bale

  Actors, Care, Today

  "Christian Bale Talks Shooting in IMAX, Ending the Trilogy, Fight Scenes with Bane & More on the Set of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 27, 2012.

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• The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

  P. T. Barnum

  Art, Drama, Envy

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Positive, Summer

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296

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• Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

  Max Beerbohm

  Done, Given, Should

  Mainly on the Air "From Bloomsbury to Baywater" (1946)

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• Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

  Josh Billings

  Wisdom, Learning, Sleep

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact, as of the writing of this column, millions of people along the Gulf Coast have been displaced from their homes in a period of only five days.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Home, Writing

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