Air Quotes - Page 21

• Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.

  Renee Fleming

  Beautiful, Years, House

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• Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Covered Up, Direct Action, Medicine

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “Why we can't wait”

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• It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

  Jeremy Corbyn

  Country, People, Used

  House of Commons, Oral Answers to Questions: International Development, www.publications.parliament.uk. July 8, 2015.

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• When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

  Billy Connolly

  School, Aberdeen, Glasgow

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• Everyone has an opinion; the question is which opinions are actually relevant to your journey and which are just static in the air?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Journey, Opinion, Static

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody.

  Khwaja Abdullah Ansari

  Heart, Gnats, Water

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• Ever since I assumed my present office my main purpose has been to work for the pacification of Europe, for the removal of those suspicions and those animosities which have so long poisoned the air. The path which leads to appeasement is long and bristles with obstacles. The question of Czechoslovakia is the latest and perhaps the most dangerous. Now that we have got past it, I feel that it may be possible to make further progress along the road to sanity.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Past, Europe, Long

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• We study health, and we deliberate upon our meats and drink and air and exercises, and we hew and we polish every stone that goes to that building; and so our health is a long and regular work. But in a minute a cannon batters all, overthrows all, demolishes all; a sickness unprevented for all our diligence, unsuspected for all our curiosity, nay, undeserved, if we consider only disorder, summons us, seizes us, possesses us, destroys us in an instant.

  John Donne

  Exercise, Long, Curiosity

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne: Sermons. Devotions upon emergent occasions”, p.496

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• He who before was the money owner, now strides in front as capitalist; the possessor of labor-power follows as his laborer. The one with an air of importance, smirking, intent on business; the other hesitant, like one who is bringing his own hide to market and has nothing to expect but a hiding.

  Karl Marx

  Hiding, Owners, Importance

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• I love being in London because it means I am breathing the same air as the Queen.

  Melissa George

  Queens, Mean, Love Is

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• I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Recovery, Light, Self

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.233, Vintage

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• Inside the man all the elements that form the Universe and all the existing principles are interrelated: He touches the earth with the feet; with the arms the air and with the head the sky and through the Spirit he gets in touch with the Divinity, where he comes from and where he should return.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Men, Sky, Feet

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• Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Water, Bird, Swim

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• Wishing is good for us.
  Daydreams, fantasies, castles in the air, and aspirations
  All drive us forward,
  Impel us to make things happen.
  They also tell us a lot about ourselves.
  Our wishes come straight from our core,
  And they are loaded with vital information
  About who we are and who we can become.
  Keeping track of our wishes
  Helps us tap into the energy
  That propels us to go after our happiness.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Track, Wish, Energy

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2013). “The Wish List”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• Johnny Depp, as far as I'm concerned, is number one. Of his generation, there's no one who can touch him. Some performers, today, it's like looking at holes in the air.

  Christopher Lee

  Numbers, Generations, Today

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• Watching a movie with an audience is so exciting. For me, coming from TV, you finish an episode and then it airs, and I'm at home. There's no gratification and there's no audience interaction with it.

  Genndy Tartakovsky

  Home, Tvs, Episodes

  Source: collider.com

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• I love being a clutch member of the team, but I hope, in the future, I get a little bit more story on my shoulders and a little bit more responsibility to keep the world of a story up in the air. I really, really welcome that challenge.

  Chris Bauer

  Team, Responsibility, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"

  Edward Villella

  Vocabulary, Practice, Effort

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• Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

  Alex Haley

  Country, Lying, Men

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• Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that... I’ve always though that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly UNDER-polluted, their air quality is probably vastly inefficiently low compared to Los Angeles or Mexico City.

  Lawrence Summers

  Country, Dirty, Thinking

  "Larry Summers’ War Against the Earth" by Jim Vallette, www.counterpunch.org. June 15, 1999.

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• I don’t read Scripture and cling to no life precepts, except perhaps to Walter Cronkite’s rules for old men, which he did not deliver over the air: Never trust a fart. Never pass up a drink. Never ignore an erection.

  Roger Angell

  Men, Scripture, Never Trust

  "This Old Man" by Roger Angell, www.newyorker.com. February 17, 2014.

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• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  Benjamin Zander

  Mistake, Hands, Fascinating

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• I do so play an instrument! I play air! I play the air with my fingers, and I'm in touch with the deepest emotions within. It took me a while to learn that whatever I feel like doing is the right thing. If I want to play an invisible instrument, I will.

  Jill Scott

  Play, Want, Emotion

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• I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Water, Kind

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3924, Delphi Classics

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