Areas Quotes - Page 27

• Any people whose lives are about the way they look, whether it's fat or thin, are in a dangerous area.

  Dawn French

  People, Looks, Way

  "Super size me". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

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• So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.

  Robert Fripp

  Different, Orchestra, Railway Station

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• I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

  Kenny G

  Letting Go, Thinking, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Kids, Parent

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• Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Airports, Waiting

  "Neil Gaiman: Literary Rock Star and Me". Interview With Jeffrey Berman, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

  John Garamendi

  Yellowstone, Land, House

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• I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

  Adam Garcia

  Country, Islands, Two

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• Iraq is a manufactured conflict for the sake of geopolitical dominance in the area.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Iraq, Sake, Dominance

  "No Kidding". www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2003.

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• You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

  Bill Gates

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

  "A Conversation with Bill Gates: Making a Healthier World for Children and Future Generations". "Now" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 9, 2003.

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• Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Writing, Made, Whole Life

  Nadine Gordimer, Nancy Topping Bazin, Marilyn Dallman Seymour (1990). “Conversations with Nadine Gordimer”, p.139, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I used to go to the Improvisation Comedy Club every night in Times Square. How I didn't get killed in that area either means that 1) God is watching over me or 2) I am so insignificant to God that he didn't bother having me killed.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Mean, Night, Squares

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• If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Money, Attitude

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.141, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

  Martha Graham

  Life, Dance, Education

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood memory”, Doubleday

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• I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Dog, Home

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

  Father, Law, Criminals

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• The Internet opens up a whole new range of possibilities in a wide range of areas.

  Herbie Hancock

  Internet, Possibility, Range

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• Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

  Stephen Harper

  Policy, Universality, Has Beens

  Stephen Harper's Speech to the National Citizens Coalition's Colin Brown Memorial Dinner, 1994.

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• Economically, many folks don't feel they can afford organic. While this may be true in some cases, I think more often than not it's a question of priority. I feel it's one of the most important areas of concern ecologically, because the petrochemical giants - DuPont, Monsanto - make huge money by poisoning us.

  Woody Harrelson

  Thinking, Priorities, Important

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• I grew up in Ann Arbor, about 25 miles west of Detroit. And when you grow up in that area, you get a healthy dose of Motown automatically.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Growing Up, Healthy, West

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• My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.

  Robin Hayes

  Two, Different, Rural Areas

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• This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones.

  Jesse Helms

  Political, North Carolina, Doe

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• I lived in an area where there were a lot of rock musicians, and we got together regularly in our studios.

  Ken Hensley

  Rocks, Together, Musician

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• I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Southern, Mountain

  Interview with Trevor Johnston, www.timeout.com.

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• Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

  Etty Hillesum

  Peace, World, Moral

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

  Hugh Hopper

  Art, Thinking, People

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