Accustomed Quotes - Page 17

• The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

  Umberto Eco

  Thinking, Civilization, Events

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• When you're accustomed to doing stand-up, so often you're the only person onstage and it's all your thing. It's very gladiatorial. Obviously, when you're in a scene with somebody, you're supposed to listen and react - and that's a bit of a transition.

  Jon Stewart

  Transition, Scene, Persons

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• It's a very different experience shooting in 3-D because the camera rigs are so large. Everything we've become accustomed to in the last ten years as filmmakers, which is cameras getting smaller and smaller and you can just throw them on your shoulder and stick them in a car and do whatever you want, you can't do any of that now. You're forced to put things on dollies and track and cranes.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Years, Different Experiences, Track

  Source: collider.com

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• To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chain.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Links

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• I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.

  Tina Modotti

  Expression, Gone, Want

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• God is not accustomed to refusing a good gift to those who ask for one. Since he is good, and especially to those who are faithful to him, let us hold fast to him with all our soul, our heart, our strength, and so enjoy his light and see his glory and possess the grace of supernatural joy.

  Ambrose

  Heart, Light, Joy

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, World, Conservative

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• I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

  Fan Bingbing

  Misunderstood, Being Misunderstood

  Source: travel.cnn.com

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• My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Regret, Tough, Grotesque

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

  Suzy Amis

  Children, Vocabulary, Other Cultures

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• I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fire, Soldier, Diplomats

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• How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.

  Howard Kurtz

  Kings, Inspiration, Moving

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• For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Hands, Too Much

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Return Of Merlin”, p.426, Random House

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• I’m an actor who’s accustomed to bringing a lot of stuff to the table, and you have to be ready because some of them will be accepted and some of them will be rejected. Then you need a generous, free, fearless, loving director like Tarantino to allow you to take those risks.

  Demian Bichir

  Fearless, Risk, Directors

  "The Tarantino Actor". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2016.

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• A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, People, Empires

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• I'm accustomed to just working by myself, alone in the room and cranking up the music and just working and getting all into an obsessive state where I'm focused on this thing, and it's the one thing that I feel like I may have a little bit of control over in my life.

  Eric Drooker

  May, Littles, Rooms

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

  Rafael Correa

  Giving, Advice, Havens

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative. I have one life. I am a certain age. I'm married to one person. I have a certain number of children. I won't have another life other than that, but I do have many lives through the films. It's a way for me to understand what it's like to be a murderer, to confess, to be a beaten wife, to be a minority, to be a victor, to get the girl, to lose the girl. I can do all of that through the practice of an art form.

  Sydney Pollack

  Girl, Art, Children

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• This is a horrid generalization, so I'll probably get hate mail from stockbrokers. I would have been forced to get back to work, and would have been less accustomed to being in touch with my feelings and allowing my feelings to drive my decisions and behavior.

  William Mapother

  Hate, Decision, Feelings

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I was accustomed to walking alone. I'd find other people who agreed with me, but they also said, "I wouldn't dare mention it." I was the only one who would say, "We've got to stand." And they said, "Well, yes. And after you make it safe, then I'll stand, too. But you have to make it safe."

  Harry Hay

  People, Safe, Walking Alone

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It is this capacity for relentless self-criticism that should be - everywhere - the true measure of intellectual freedom and cosmopolitanism, not the entrenched cultural power and self-congratulatory moral rhetoric of some people in countries long accustomed to telling other societies what to do and how to behave.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Country, Self, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• He will always see the most beauty whose affections are the warmest and most exercised, whose imagination is the most powerful, and who has most accustomed himself to attend to the objects by which he is surrounded.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Powerful, Imagination, Affection

  lord Francis Jeffrey (1879). “Essay on beauty, by Francis, lord Jeffrey; and Essays on the nature and principles of taste, by A. Alison. Repr. of the 5th ed”

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• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

  Emily James Smith Putnam

  Anomalies, Planets, Deals

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• I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Moving, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.205, Jazzybee Verlag

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