Appeals Quotes - Page 2

• I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

  Sissy Spacek

  Motherhood, Social Values, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and soil and class and to create a common language and a common culture in which men can realize their common humanity.

  Christopher Dawson

  Men, Blood, Common Humanity

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• Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Law, Liberty, Another Day

  "Keeping Politics out of the Court". The New York Times, December 09, 1984.

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• The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Cinema, Fear Of Death

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  War, Heroism, Wealthy

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• Know about the appeals process, especially in the case of the most serious crimes.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Serious, Crime

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• We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

  Cyril Connolly

  Happiness, Passion, Justice

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• Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Mind, Details

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• One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

  Peter Gabriel

  Artist, Ideas, Pieces

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• The lavish presentation appeals to me, and I've got to convince the others.

  Freddie Mercury

  Convince, Presentation

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• Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.

  Albert Bandura

  Powerful, Fall, Mean

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• Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

  John Philip Sousa

  Beauty, Powerful, Opera

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• Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dream, Dark, Trying

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• Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

  David Minge

  Teaching, Special, Minnesota

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• All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, People, Defense

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• Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Court, Reverence

  Albert Schweitzer (1929). “Civilization and Ethics”

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• Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

  John Cleese

  Wine, Thinking, Experts

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• Children from like 8 and even up to the college age - Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark - they process information so quickly and it's not because of attention deficit or short attention span.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Children, Mean, College

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• When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death.
  And neither one particularly appeals to me.

  Steven Morrissey

  Life, Death, Song

  "Song: 'Nowhere Fast'". 1985.

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• But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

  Allen Tate

  Age, Glitter, Weak

  allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”

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• It's really cool to know that you've put something together that isn't for a particular audience. It's so often that a TV show can really only speak to one sect of the population, and this really is something that appeals to a worldwide fan base. People who are into the pursuit of knowledge. Their reaction has meant the world to us.

  David Krumholtz

  Tv Shows, People, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Practice, Conservative, Individual

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• Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

  Robert Browning

  Sympathy, Fall, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1826-1840”, p.116, Pearson Education

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• The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.

  Ida B. Wells

  Men, White Man, Pockets

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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