Attending Quotes - Page 8

I don't think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing's inherently believable about any kind of fiction, because all of it's untrue.

Heidi Julavits

Fake People, School, Thinking

"The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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So yes, this is a show about an adolescent girl, her friends, and various vampires. Vampires writing in diaries, vampires attending high school, vampires investigating various mysterious supernatural events, vampires tormenting each other, vampires eavesdropping on each other, and vampires being sarcastic about other vampires' hairstyles. Vampires embracing every possible opportunity to take off their shirts.

Kelly Link

Girl, Sarcastic, School

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Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

Alan Hirsch

Cancer, Support, Community

Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.117, Baker Books

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President Obama and Vladimir Putin are both in China attending the same economic summit. Obama saw Putin and said, 'After those midterms, it's nice to finally see a friendly face.'

Conan O'Brien

Nice, Friendly, President

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President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.

Jimmy Fallon

Nice, Doors, White

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Our acts of voluntary attending, as brief and fitful as they are, are nevertheless momentous and critical, determining us, as they do, to higher or lower destinies.

William James

Destiny, Higher, Critical

William James (2013). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.92, Courier Corporation

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Yesterday Gary Condit spent the whole day attending an agricultural meeting. Boy, that's when you know a congressman's in real trouble: when he spends the whole day actually working.

Jay Leno

Real, Boys, Yesterday

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I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.

Axel Alonso

Girl, Book, Hero

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Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

John Jay Hooker

Integrity, Talking, Law

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Fantasy is seductive and much more wonderful than reality, but you can't take it to the bank. It's always an escape. And if used as an escape, as in attending a movie or a show for a circumscribed period of time, it's fine. When it starts to become undifferentiated from reality, it leads to big trouble.

Woody Allen

Reality, Seductive, Fantasy

"Woody Allen by Moonlight". Interview with Uzoamaka Maduka, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 16, 2011.

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In Venezuela, which doesnt have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

Juan Pablo Galavis

Jobs, Moving, Home

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While I was pregnant, I had dozens of checkups. They covered everything from blood tests to ultrasounds, and I even had the option of attending birthing classes with my husband.

Liya Kebede

Husband, Blood, Ultrasounds

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Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him.
[Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes,
Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.]

Plautus

Country, Children, Safety

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Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

William Shenstone

Color, Choices, Style

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The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor-apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly-man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book, Men, Elderly

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1852). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.9

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There is unspeakable pleasure attending the life of a voluntary student.

Oliver Goldsmith

Students, Pleasure, Unspeakable

Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.239

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My abortion was so long ago I didn't think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn't realized I didn't forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

Barbara

Thinking, Long Ago, Abortion

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Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Jesus, Prayer, Heart

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Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business.

Aristotle

Men, Progress, Complaining

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2004, Princeton University Press

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Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

Emily Oster

College, Return, Economic

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If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, youll see something of the difference between Homers poetry and anyone elses. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the Iliad, real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

Alice Oswald

Real, Animal, Light

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Putting prize-fighting altogether aside as one of the unavoidable evils attending on this manly exercise, the inestimable value of boxing as a training, discipline, and development of boys and young men remains.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Fighting, Exercise, Boys

John Boyle O'Reilly (1888). “Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport”

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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes.

George Washington

Men, Thinking, Voice

George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.303

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People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids?
A man cannot know himself better than by attending to the feelings of his heart and to his external actions, from which he may with tolerable certainty judge "what manner of person he is." I have therefore determined to keep a daily journal.

James Boswell

Heart, Kids, Men

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I moved to Chicago and began attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The students and teachers I met in Chicago were politically active and also passionate about the same things that I was interested in. It was a great match for me.

Stephen Beal

Teacher, Art, School

Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. Novemeber 19, 2010.

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