Isms Quotes - Page 5

• Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.

  Christine Pelosi

  Mom, Growing Up, Home

  "Mother’s Day Momily" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2014.

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• If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

  Adyashanti

  Lying, Missing, Mind

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• My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

  Peyton Manning

  Mean, School, Want

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• Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Painting, Whim, Pregnant Women

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• The qualities most needed are charity and tolerance, not some form of fanatical faith such as is offered to us by the various rampant isms

  Bertrand Russell

  Tolerance, Quality, Charity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.160, Routledge

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• The Flapper awoke from her lethargy of sub-deb-ism, bobbed her hair, put on her choicest pair of earrings and a great deal of audacity and rouge and went into the battle. She flirted because it was fun to flirt and wore a one-piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do. Mothers disapproved of their sons taking the Flapper to dances, to teas, to swim and most of all to heart.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Mother, Fun, Heart

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• A lot of Arabs have proven to themselves that there is an alternative to Bin Laden-ism if they want to do away with the corrupt, autocratic regimes in their countries.

  Irshad Manji

  Country, Alternatives, Want

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• Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.

  John Buchan

  Soul, Pessimism

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• Bin Laden-ism, I don't think, is dead yet. And I think there's a long way to go before we can legitimately say that, you know, it is no longer in our midst.

  Irshad Manji

  Thinking, Long, Way

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• I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

  Shashi Deshpande

  Writing, Feminist

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• I"m often accused of being irreligious, and I suppose it's for this very reason. Whether it's Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Judaism, or any other ism, when a religioin is created on the subtle premise that God withholds his love and you must submit to the system to earn that love, I consider it the worst of corruptions... For centuries, the church has been telling us that if we want God to love us, we need to follow the rules. It's been far more important to focus on the sin problem than the love problem.

  Erwin McManus

  Buddhism, Focus, Islam

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• All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Blow, Example

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• I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Thinking, Honor And Respect

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• I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

  Jim Shaw

  Way, Painting, Stores

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?

  Alison Mosshart

  Goodbye, Song, Hate

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• With the end of the cold war, all the 'isms' of the 20th century - Fascism, Nazism, Communism and the evil of apartheid-ism - have failed. Except one. Only democracy has shown itself true the help of all mankind.

  Jack Kemp

  War, Democracies Have, Evil

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• The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Believe, Hollywood

  Dorothy Parker (2004). “Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words”, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Past, Negative

  "Making the Spirits Dance". nymag.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Western interests: imperialism, colonialism, exploitation, racism, and other negative -isms.

  Malcolm X

  Racism, Colonialism, Negative

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• The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large swaths of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. This quality makes an ideology particularly hard to see, at least while it's still exerting its hold on your culture. A reigning ideology is a little like the weather--all pervasive and so virtually impossible to escape. Still, we can try.

  Michael Pollan

  Weather, Trying, Quality

  Michael Pollan (2008). “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto”, p.28, Penguin

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• People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

  Kanye West

  Daughter, Successful, Thinking

  "The Best Quotes From Kanye West's Oxford Lecture That We Don't Completely Understand" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. March 2, 2015.

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• SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Emotional, Safety

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Racism, Matter, Anarchy

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• A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sight, Hands

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian "isms" of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Mistake, Believe, Love You

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