Closure Quotes - Page 4

• Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

  Salman Rushdie

  Perfect, Speak, Sentences

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.

  Rob McKenna

  Thinking, Delay, Death Penalty

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• I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Believe, Emotional

  "Helen Merrill (Part 3)". Interview with Marc Myers, www.jazzwax.com. February 4, 2009.

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• Print encourages a sense of closure, a sense that what is found in a text has been finalized, has reached a state of completion.

  Walter J. Ong

  States, Found, Print

  Walter J. Ong (2013). “Orality and Literacy”, p.129, Routledge

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• I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.

  Daniel Craig

  Movie, Falling In Love, Character

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• The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity.

  Susan Stewart

  Book, Design, Infinity

  Susan Stewart (1984). “On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection”, p.38, Duke University Press

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• [T]he commitment of time, money and man power necessary for a capital case is enormous and it takes from other cases. But I think what bothers me most is that it offers to the families of the victims and the survivors a false sense of closure.

  Richard Brown

  Commitment, Thinking, Survivor

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• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

  Robert Genn

  Jobs, Artist, Approval Of Others

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• People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

  George Carlin

  Memories, Healing, People

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• The PURPOSE of the DATA INTEGRITY BOARD review meeting is NOT for the purpose of reviewing the INTEGRITY of the paperwork because that has already been decided, it is for the PURPOSE of determining the CHARACTER & STANDING of THE MAN/WOMAN who brought the perfect paperwork and was intending to use the perfect paperwork for COMMERCIAL settlement and closure. So they have to find out if the STATUS and CHARACTER of the party who is going to use the paperwork was going to be ALLOWED to use it.

  Jack Smith

  Integrity, Party, Character

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• Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because we're big consumers: we probably take about a quarter of global demand. But if suddenly, let's just use a crazy example, fighting in the Middle East led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and no oil could get out through the Strait of Hormuz, well that would affect China, India, Europe, it will affect the whole global economy. It will affect us, too, then.

  Thomas Friedman

  Crazy, Fighting, Europe

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• The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.

  David Graeber

  Giving, Stories, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A dance feels finished to me when I suddenly see this moment in the movement that feels like closure and makes me want to cry. And then I'll realize, "Oh, that's the end. This whole thing is working because it all led up to this moment." It pulls all this together and it sends the correct message in a very poetic way.

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess

  Together, Poetic, Realizing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I see that very clearly in my own state of Maine, where there are people who have been affected by mill closures, some of which have been brought about by poorly negotiated trade agreements, and they do feel marginalized and left behind. They have not been able to find new work, despite the fact that they did nothing wrong that caused them to lose their jobs. Both parties need to do a better job of reaching out to those individuals, to those hardworking families, and providing job training, matching people and giving them new skills for new jobs.

  Susan Collins

  Party, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some among the European elite have sought out confrontation with us. As a consequence, we won't help Europe, although we could do so when it comes to the refugee question. A joint closure of borders would be essential. In this regard, the Russians would be 10 times more effective than the Europeans.

  Sergey Karaganov

  Helping, Confrontation, Refugee

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates a state of psychological unease that is interesting to acknowledge and examine.

  Chris Cleave

  Fighting, Differences, Interesting

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is what many of the critics of Guantanamo would like to see happen. When the US government talks about closing Guantanamo, they talk about moving some set of detainees to some other place where they continue to be detained without charge.

  Jennifer Daskal

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Writing, People, Trying

  Remarks With British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw At Blackburn Town Hall, Blackburn, England, April 1, 2006.

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• The idea that murder victims' families are best served by continuing the cycle of violence is something that I consider to be not only a lie, but criminally negligent. You lie to victims' families when you tell them they're going to receive closure if they participate in the process and witness the execution of a human being.

  Steve Earle

  Lying, Murder Victims, Ideas

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2004.

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• I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people -sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  Egypt, Other Cultures, Play

  "Boutros Boutros-Ghali: The world is his oyster". Interview with Gamal Nkrumah, weekly.ahram.org.eg. January 10-18, 2006.

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• If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Nice, Actors

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• Nationalisation...does not in itself engender greater equality, more jobs in the regions, higher investment or industrial democracy. The public knows this perfectly well, and so do the workers who have suffered from pit closures, steel redundancies and the run-down of the railways. It is idiotic to try to bamboozle them.

  Anthony Crosland

  Running, Jobs, Democracy

  Speech in Rotherham, June 9, 1973.

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• I'm not interested in leaving it open-ended. That would just cause me frustration. I wouldn't be satisfied. What's really cool about Fringe, and one of the things we did do right, was that the way we chose to tell the story was that, with every season, there was a closure and then a new chapter. That allowed us to actually make the closure.

  J.H. Wyman

  Frustration, Leaving, Causes

  Source: collider.com

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• There is an art to grieving. To grieve well the loss of anyone or anything--a parent, a love, a child, an era, a home, a job--is a creative act. It takes attention and patience and courage. But many of us do not know how to grieve. We were never taught, and we don't see examples of full-bodied grieving around us. Our culture favors the fast-food model of mourning--get over it quick and get back to work; affix the bandage of "closure" and move on.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Art, Jobs, Children

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