Absolutes Quotes - Page 7

• My life at home gives me absolute joy. There are some days when, as soon as you've finished cooking breakfast and cleaning up the kitchen, it's time to start lunch, and by the time you've done that, you're doing dinner and thinking, 'There has to be a menu we can order from.'

  Julia Roberts

  Home, Thinking, Order

  "Julia Roberts interview: 'I don't work a lot now that I'm a desperately fulfilled housewife'". www.mirror.co.uk. August 13, 2010.

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• At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

  Amanda Harlech

  Home, Wind, Silence

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• I think we are seeing the absolute and utter collapse of male politicians in this [U.S] country and we're seeing what the underpinnings of the power structure are, which are sexist underpinnings.

  Eve Ensler

  Country, Thinking, Males

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

  Colin Firth

  Actors, Interpretation, Absolute Truth

  "Colin Firth and Tom Hooper interview: The King's Speech, Rocky IV and more". Interview with Michael Leader, www.denofgeek.com. January 7, 2011.

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• If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

  Salman Rushdie

  Safety, Choices, Ifs

  "'Terror Is Glamour'". Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 28, 2006.

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• The word "people" is unpleasant to me. The phrase "Soviet people" was drummed into us from childhood on. I love concrete people, enlightened people who live conscious lives and do not simply sit there and vegetate. To love the people you have to be the general secretary of the Communist Party or an absolute dictator.

  Vladimir Sorokin

  Party, People, Childhood

  "Russia Is Slipping Back into an Authoritarian Empire". Interview with Martin Doerry and Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. February 2, 2007.

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• In my view, the Catholic Church as a community of faith will be preserved, but only if it abandons the Roman system of rule. We managed to get by without this absolutist system for 1,000 years. The problems began in the 11th century, when the popes asserted their claim to absolute control over the Church.

  Hans Kung

  Views, Years, Community

  "'A Putinization of the Catholic Church'". Interview with Martin Doerry, Ulrich Schwarz and Peter Wensierski, www.spiegel.de. September 21, 2011.

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• My absolute favorite kind of people in the world are people that are passionate about something.

  Emma Stone

  People, Passionate, World

  "'Spider-Man' Star Emma Stone On Going Blonde, Science Class, And Becoming Gwen Stacy". Interview with Eric Ditzian, www.mtv.com. November 24, 2010.

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• Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Men, Laughing, Energy

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• I couldn't stand to be separated with my wife for months. It became quickly apparent to me that I needed to find a balance between my absolute work obsession and a private life that we could share without my disappearing all the time.

  David Bowie

  Wife, Balance, Months

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• When you spend as much time as I do with wounded warriors and their families, and terminally ill kids and their families, you are humbled and powerfully inspired by their courage and positive energy to live your life to the absolute best you can everyday. It will wake you up really fast to never stop believing.

  Ted Nugent

  Believe, Kids, Warrior

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• I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Frustration, Ignorant, Culture

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Track is full of the absolute nicest and most polite athletes in all of sports, and where does it get us?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  "Usain Bolt, a Collapse, and an Epic Beer Mile". Interview with Nicholas Thompson, www.newyorker.com. August 27, 2015.

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• Whenever freedom is made into the absolute, the result is not freedom but anarchism. Freedom must be under law, or it is not freedom.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Law, Made, Results

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• God alone knows absolute Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Absolute Truth, Knows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, Rajpal & Sons

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• It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Dirt, Bereft

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• Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, World, This World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.52, Rajpal & Sons

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• Hover boards, unfortunately, currently violate the laws of physics. Supermagnets exist, but they have to be cooled to near absolute zero, and they are extremely expensive. So Michael J. Fox's hover boards are not possible until we invent room temperature super conductors.

  Michio Kaku

  Zero, Law, Boards

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.

  Betty Friedan

  Taken, Media, Organization

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

  Mark Cuban

  Kids, Home, School

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• There are periods in life when you get caught up in the whole field of relativity and lose your moorings with the absolute.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fields, Caught, Periods

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

  Matthew Hussey

  Mean, Exercise, Sanity

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• As soon as I reach my destination I have a cup of tea, something to eat and then sleep for about 13 hours. I make that an absolute rule and I always feel fresh afterwards and never have jet lag.

  Jackie Collins

  Sleep, Tea, Lag

  "Jackie Collins's Travelling Life". Interview with Ruth Huntman, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 10, 2015.

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• Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

  Peter Kreeft

  Absolutism, Want, Morality

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