Substance Quotes - Page 12

• Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Sex, Addiction, Adults

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For years I was so busy building walls I did not see I was imprisoning myself behind them, and did not recognize this pattern as being addiction. My addictive thinking and behavior became the bars of my cell. Denying feeling empty inside, I constantly looked for new things to acquire, people to be around, substances to take, and new goals to achieve in order to feel better about myself. Over the last four decades I have focused on healing my addictive mind and helping others do the same.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Wall, Healing, Feel Better

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• McDonald's offers a king's ransom to any hip-hop artist who is able to put Big Mac into a song. MTV - and more to the point, Viacom - is succeeding in extending a teenage life to twenty-nine or even thirty-one years old. It is about extending this market and removing any intelligent substance in the music.

  Chuck D

  Song, Kings, Teenage

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• I think certain people may make it to sexual; and then others will offset that with the depth of R & B and all of its substance it has to have, in order to be called R & B or, known for an looked at to be called R & B and I kind of straddle the fence on that one because in my earlier years I was the 'Nasty Man,'.

  Ginuwine

  Men, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• I do think we should be focused on substance and record. If you want a candidate who opposes amnesty, who opposes citizenship for the 12 million people here illegally, I'm the only candidate in the race who opposes that.

  Ted Cruz

  Thinking, Race, People

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Now, I worry a bit about the TEDification of the world where style trumps substance, so hopefully you have a good blend of both!

  Scott D. Anthony

  Worry, Style, World

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Kant takes a free will to be a being or substance with the power to cause a state of the world (or a whole series of such states) spontaneously or from itself.

  Allen W. Wood

  World, Causes, Free Will

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is actually a nice question how far Descartes himself endorses the monological and metaphysically dualistic theory of mind associated with his name and his legacy in early modern philosophy. But Fichte does reject this tradition, by suggesting that an immaterial thinking substance is an incoherent notion, and a rational being whose rationality was not developed through communication with others is a transcendental impossibility.

  Allen W. Wood

  Nice, Philosophy, Communication

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.

  Catherine Wilson

  Medicine, Noble, Matter

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Style tells you a lot more about the truth than substance, because it comes at the truth in an oblique way, it comes in on a slant, it doesn't tell you what it is. It's unexpected and it makes you laugh and think.

  Robert Benton

  Thinking, Laughing, Style

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• Marijuana is not not harmful, but is the least harmful psychoactive substance that we have, with the possible exception of caffeine.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Marijuana, Caffeine, Exception

  Source: sojo.net

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• Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism that creates the foundation for sapping democracy of any political substance and moral vitality. The predominance of the disimagination machine in American society, along with its machinery of social death and historical amnesia, seeps into in all aspects of life, suggesting that young people and others marginalized by class, race and ethnicity have been abandoned.

  Henry Giroux

  Race, Ethnicity, Class

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.

  John I. Jenkins

  Leader, Healthy, Democracy

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

  Bell Hooks

  Shadow, Looks

  Source: nefac.net

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• Organized religion is in substance a mystification, a means of hiding the wickedness of the social system. If the Christian principles of love, equality, and freedom were really practiced instead of only preached, there would be no need for a special institution(the church) to take care of those principles.

  Erich Fromm

  Christian, Mean, Special

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• [Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Simple, Men

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• want to get to the substance of the book ["Thank You for Being Late"], but it is so closely connected to this presidential election. And you also wrote a series of columns during the campaign, very tough on Donald Trump. You called him a disgusting human being and now you're calling the election a moral 9/11 only 9/11 was done to us from the outside. We did this to ourselves.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Book, Presidential, Want

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I don't have a right to pick the president's cabinet on substance.

  Christopher Dodd

  President, Cabinets, Picks

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• To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

  John Heilemann

  Defense, Controversial, Adviser

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• Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.

  Allan Nairn

  Issues, Racism, People

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.

  Jerry Garcia

  Reality, People, Different

  Source: medium.com

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• Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Symbolism, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Suicide, Ideas, Might

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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