Alive Quotes - Page 31

• No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

  Menander

  Men, Experience, Happens

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• To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Needs, He Man

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.33, New Directions Publishing

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• Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

  Douglas Kennedy

  Tragedy, Pay

  Douglas Kennedy (2010). “The Pursuit of Happiness: A Novel”, p.582, Simon and Schuster

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• If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.

  Alan King

  Currents, Ifs

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• The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

  George Leonard

  Sweet, Real, Effort

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• For it will be very difficult to persuade men of sense that he who with dry eyes and satisfaction of mind can deliver his brother to the executioner to be burnt alive, does sincerely and heartily concern himself to save that brother from the flames of hell in the world to come.

  John Locke

  Brother, Eye, Men

  John Locke (1796). “A Letter Concerning Toleration”, p.27

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• All of my films deal with the same thing: striving, socially and culturally, to stay alive.

  Robert Altman

  Film, Strive, Deals

  Robert Altman, David Sterritt (2000). “Robert Altman: Interviews”, p.40, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages? ... I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears - Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's. Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.

  Terry Jones

  Thinking, Order, Voice

  "The Middle Ages of reason" by Terry Jones, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2004.

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• The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

  John Howard

  Important, Liberty, Violence

  National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

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• We're just animals, creatures smart enough and unlucky enough to have figured out we're alive, and we're going to die without ever knowing any purpose. We can pretend all we want and we can wish all we want, but that basic existential fact remains—we can't know.

  James Redfield

  Smart, Animal, Knowing

  James Redfield (2011). “The Tenth Insight: A Pocket Guide (Storycuts)”, p.49, Random House

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• The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs. ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

  Dean Smith

  Rain, Air, Shining

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• I'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.

  Scott Walker

  Song, Moving, Black And White

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.

  Sonia Sanchez

  People, Trying, Breathe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Just to be part of a process where you hit no professional speed bumps and you're just sort of going on and on. I'm surrounded by these people that are all so collaborative and all bring things of their own to the process. For them to be alive in the scenes so you don't have to worry.

  Josh Peck

  People, Worry, Bumps

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted oligarchy of two corporate-indentured parties - to push hitherto taboo issues onto the public stage, to build for a future, to get a young generation in, keep the progressive agenda alive, push the two parties a little bit on this issue and that.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Winning, Issues

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 24, 2008.

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• I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.

  Russell James

  Dream, Art, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you wake up and everybody says, "How do you feel, Mike?" I say, "I'm alive." As long as I'm alive I can deal with anything that's out there.

  Michael E. Thornton

  Long, Wake Up, Deals

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

  Juliette Lewis

  Art, People, Joy

  "New again: Juliette Lewis". Interview witр Ingrid Sischy and Hannah Mandel, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2012.

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• The talent, including the talent for history - and I do think there are people who just have a talent for it, the way you have a talent for public speaking or music or whatever - it shouldn't be allowed to lie dormant. It should be brought alive.

  David McCullough

  Lying, Thinking, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I'm not one of those actors who likes to analyze things too much, so I trust what the writers are doing with the characters, in order to give them their journey. My job is to come in and try to make those words on the page come alive on camera.

  John Barrowman

  Jobs, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Males, Naked

  "Howard Smith: The counter-cultural correspondent's interviews from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to Raquel Welch". New York radio show, www.independent.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• But when you are doing an animated voice, it has to have more energy than usual or it falls flat and doesn't work. For myself, I found that I had to put myself in the same physical or emotional state as Sid, in order to make that voice sound alive and authentic. So if there was a scene in which he was running, I would be running beforehand to sound out of breath. That's important because the audience can tell intuitively if it does not sound real.

  John Leguizamo

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• If my father was alive to hear that, he'd turn over in his grave.

  Yogi Berra

  Father, Graves, Turns

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• The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

  Robert Barron

  Joy

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• It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Dream, Adventure, Risk

  Interview with Bob Rosen, robertprosen.org. June 3, 2011.

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