Alive Quotes - Page 20

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  So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

  John Waters

  Karma, People, Bullshit

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

  Brian Eno

  Cds, Interesting, Haiti

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

  Mora Stephens

  Thinking, Stories

  "INTERVIEWS HOME » INTERVIEWS » Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive) Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 25, 2015.

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• The script is the foundation, but it's not the full story for the film, which only comes alive with the actors.

  Mora Stephens

  Foundation, Stories, Actors

  "Interview: Mora Stephens Talks Zipper (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 25, 2015.

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• I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

  Dwight Howard

  Struggle, Numbers, Eight

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Effort, Way

  Source: content.time.com

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• I think that people have some sort of vision that everybody is moving towards perfection, and that there is some sort of set steps or something like that that you can move through to get to that place, and that that's sort of the project of being alive.

  Ayana Mathis

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that the project of being alive is to be alive. So there will always be twists and turns and steps forward and steps back, but that's just your life. There is no sort of place at which to arrive, and I think that the more one focuses on an end point, the harder it is to get there. It's like the horizon, sort of ever receding, ever receding, ever receding.

  Ayana Mathis

  Thinking, Twists, Horizon

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

  Richard Carlson

  Life, Heart, Thinking

  Richard Carlson (1992). “You can be happy no matter what”

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Perfect

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• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

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• Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured.

  Anne Campbell

  Fighting, Men, Scared

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• It is terrible that we all die and lose everything we love; it is doubly terrible that so many human beings suffer needlessly while alive. That so much of this suffering can be directly attributed to religion—to religious hatreds, religious wars, religious delusions and religious diversions of scarce resources—is what makes atheism a moral and intellectual necessity.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, War, Hatred

  "Letter to a Christian Nation". Book by Sam Harris, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2008.

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Live For Today

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• The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Hate, Home

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• No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

  Les Brown

  Games, Play, Fields

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• Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

  John Coleman

  Heart, Wish, Today

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.

  Ptolemy

  Knowing, Climbing, Sharks

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• The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

  William Wharton

  Air, Space, Firsts

  William Wharton (2012). “Birdy”, p.31, HarperCollins UK

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• And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

  Jack London

  Dog, Animal, Long

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.51, Bantam Classics

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• No one gets out of here alive.

  Jim Morrison

  "From peas in a pod to a kidney transplant: how my little brother saved my life" by Mark Tunnicliffe, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2017.

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• If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

  Robert Stone

  Hurt, Differences, Good Times

  Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

  John Eldredge

  Desire, Looks, Draws

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.82, Thomas Nelson Inc

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