Avoided Quotes

• Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

  Annie Dillard

  Memories, Work, Writing

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• You have friends who actually care about you and speak the language of the inner self. You have avoided them of late. Your soul is as disheveled as your apartment, and until you can clean it up a little you don't want to invite anyone inside.

  Jay McInerney

  Self, Soul, Care

  Jay McInerney (2011). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.32, Vintage

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• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

  R. D. Laing

  Pain, Bipolar, Trying

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• Life, like poker has an element of risk. It shouldn't be avoided. It should be faced.

  Edward Norton

  Risk, Elements, Should

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• The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Religious, Believe, Equality

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• Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Clever, Player, Knowing

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• Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

  Nat Turner

  Prayer, Mixing, Fasting

  Nat Turner “The Confessions of Nat Turner”, Lulu.com

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• The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

  Jean Piaget

  Gaps, Novelty, Problem

  Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.354, Routledge

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• Even during the years of the Cold War, the intense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, we always avoided any direct clash between our civilians and, most certainly, between our military.

  Vladimir Putin

  Military, War, Years

  Interview with Matthew Chance, edition.cnn.com. August 29, 2008.

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• Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Opportunity, Giving, Film

  "Q&A: Daniel Radcliffe, Less Potter Than Ever". Interview with Logan Hill, www.esquire.com. January 22, 2013.

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• Part of me is drawn to the nature of sadness because I think life is sad, and sadness is not something that should be avoided or denied. It's a fact of life, like contradictions are.

  Robert Redford

  Sadness, Thinking, Facts

  "American Dreamer". Interview with Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2004.

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• The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hitting, Unforgivable, Crime

  1913 Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography.

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• Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Peace, War, Kind

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

  Robert E. Lee

  Peace, War, Two Sides

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• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

  Bertrand Russell

  Realist, Results, Idealism

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript”, p.6, Routledge

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• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

  Kate Beckinsale

  Sex, Years, Partnership

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

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Destiny, Self

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• As far as the lack of hits goes, I think perhaps it's because I've played a lot of different roles and have not created a persona that the public can latch on to. I have played everything from psychopathic killers to romantic leading men, and in picking such diverse roles I have avoided typecasting.

  Jeff Bridges

  Romantic, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

  Steve Carell

  Nerd, Adults, Enough

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• I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

  Margaret Cho

  Reflection, Mirrors, Trying

  "You Are Not Ugly, So Don’t Make Those ‘Am I Ugly?’ Videos" by Margaret Cho, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2012.

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• If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

  William Safire

  Reading, Editing, Repetition

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• I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.

  John Steinbeck

  Long, Tools, Literature

  "Writers at Work". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.

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• There was no real gender definition in the sense of how you treat people in those days with gender differences. You avoided them. My parents always told me that you do not make fun of anybody, and so I didn't see anything funny about it.

  David C. Driskell

  Fun, Real, Differences

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

  Ida B. Wells

  Lynching, Should Have, Spirit

  Ida B. Wells (2014). “The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader”, p.256, Penguin

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• Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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