Accepted Quotes - Page 26

• I think every filmmaker wants... I don't know about every filmmaker. I certainly want my films to just exist. I want them to be judged for what they are and analyzed, accepted, criticized, whatever you want to call it, on their own terms, not as part of some mall-cop genre.

  Jody Hill

  Thinking, Want, Film

  Interview with The A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.

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• The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It's used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.

  Margaret Cho

  People, Silence, Routine

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• One can speak of an alterity of desire - a paradigm defined outside the tired, tacitly accepted regime, but one comes up short when attempting to posit a framework of desire beyond available, known desires.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Tired, Desire, Speak

  Source: outwardfromnothingness.com

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• I've reprised roles in the theatre, which is somehow more accepted, and where one can automatically go deeper and further into the role.

  Cate Blanchett

  Theatre, Roles, Deeper

  "Elizabeth: The Golden Age - Cate Blanchett interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• To comprehend an idea, a person must simultaneously accept it as true. Conscious analysis - which, depending on the idea, may occur almost immediately or with considerable effort - allows the mind to reject what it intially accepted as fact.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Ideas, Effort, Mind

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• Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

  Carl Sagan

  Doe, Pseudoscience, Would Be

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer.

  Jacques Ellul

  Prayer, Character, Giving

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• Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very best pupil, judging by the quantity and value of the information it gave me!

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Judging, Information, Pupils

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• It cannot remain unmentioned that so many poorly equipped boys, and boys who have no talent at all for music, have been accepted into the school to date that the quality of music has necessarily declined and deteriorated. And those who do bring a few precepts with them when they come to school are not ready to be used immediately.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  School, Boys, Quality

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• Why is everything that's good for our bodies, our communities, our world, and our planet called the 'alternative'? That means everything bad for us is the accepted norm.

  Julia Hill

  Mean, Our World, Community

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• Frankenstein can be a metaphor for abandonment, or wanting to be accepted for who you are, or not liking who you are and wanting to actually change that.

  Kevin Grevioux

  Abandonment, Metaphor, Who You Are

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Models should just be beautiful women who inspire others. They won't be starving themselves because they are being accepted for themselves. Any thinner than today's ideals would be impossible. Any thinner means dead.

  Crystal Renn

  Beautiful, Mean, Inspire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ronald Reagan four times accepted the limits in contributions of what he could take, what he could spend, and the public funding for the general elections. So I just think the idea that it didn't work, and didn't work - it did work. It worked brilliantly.

  Mark Shields

  Thinking, Ideas, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that we share the same rules and values, and are still nevertheless different. Islam doesn't have this idea. And Islam also has no tradition of tolerance.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Ideas, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

  Robin Wall Kimmerer

  Powerful, Animal, Names

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• Art exhibitions would be less censored if they were rated, G or NC-17, like movies. People in general see galleries and museums as family-appropriate excursions. Censorship is a provided system which caters to lazy parenting, which is publicly-funded and socially accepted.

  Adamo Macri

  Art, Museums, People

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• New York. Truly, this is the only city that I feel this energy. Everyone is accepted. This is the first place that I felt open and that I can do everything.

  Elie Tahari

  New York, Cities, Energy

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is something very special about this part of the world [U.S], which is the openness and the curiosity and the lack of prejudice and the lack of generally accepted norms as to what art should be and how an artist's career should go and all that.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Art, Careers, Curiosity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If a truth will be accepted with a million repetitions, repeat it million times!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Repetition, Repeats, Ifs

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• Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Facts, Accepting, Despite

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• Imbalance or abnormity is never so dangerous as when it is widely perceived or accepted as being normal. The worst thing you can do is not to try.

  Linda Bradford Raschke

  Trying, Imbalance, Normal

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• Nobody can be saved from anything, unless they save themselves. It is hopeless doing things for people - it is often very dangerous to do things at all - and the only thing worth doing for the race is to increase its stock of ideas. Then, if you make available a larger stock, people are at liberty to help themselves from out of it. By this process the means of improvement is offered, to be accepted or rejected freely, and there is a faint hope of progress in the course of millennia. Such is the business of the philosopher, to open new ideas. It is not his business to impose them on people.

  T. H. White

  Mean, Race, Ideas

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• The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend towards equilibrium, and...discount the future correctly. I operate using a different theory, according to which financial markets cannot possibly discount the future correctly because the do not merely discount the future; they help to shape it.

  George Soros

  Shapes, Different, Helping

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• Very few people are accepted as creative: A few painters, a few poets - one in a million. This is foolish! Every human being is a born creator. Watch children and you will see: all children are creative. By and by, we destroy their creativity.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Creativity, People

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• We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Two, Keys, Growth

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