Baggage Quotes - Page 6

• All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

  Lucille Clifton

  Children, Growing Up, People

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• I guess I dont come to the work without baggage. I have an idea of what I want my pictures to look like in my head, and if they dont match up, I find it frustrating.

  Graeme Base

  Ideas, Looks, Want

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• If you believe in what you're doing, and someone criticizes that, it's likely that they're just coming from a different place and they're bringing their own baggage and it's basically projection. I try not to let it get to me.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Believe, Trying, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

  Alice Walker

  Past, Race, Talking

  "Obama is the change that America has tried to hide" by Alice Walker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2008.

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• It is up to my spirit to find the truth. But how? Grave uncertainty, each time the spirit feels beyond its own comprehension; whenit, the explorer, is altogether to obscure land that it must search and where all its baggage is of no use. To search? That is not all: to create.

  Marcel Proust

  Creativity, Knowledge, Land

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• The process of finding an actor is always difficult and there's always so many variables that come into play. Also, actors sometimes carry baggage, fans associate actors with certain parts.

  Franck Khalfoun

  Play, Fans, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gentleman, Looks, Today

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.42, 谷月社

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• I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities. Especially for independent filmmakers, it's always good to try the international market because it doesn't have the same kind of baggage.

  Haile Gerima

  Independent, Thinking, Names

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!

  Thabo Mbeki

  Fashion, Loss, Past

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• There's a lot more historical baggage to deal with as a wife than as a partner.

  Alison Pill

  Wife, Historical, Partners

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Poland didn't experience a groundbreaking moment in 1989. We didn't storm the secret police building. The squads of secret police, with all their political baggage, remained unscathed.

  Wladyslaw Bartoszewski

  Squad, Political, Police

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

  Evan Davis

  Decision, Brain, Example

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• All socio-political phenomena in the U.K. come laden with the baggage of a class-based theory or two attached to them. In the case of gay Tories, there is one particularly silly variant of the category, which asserts that gayness is bred in public schools and thus fits with Conservatism like hand in glove.

  Evan Davis

  Love, Silly, School

  "Glad to be gay, glad to be Tory" by Evan Davis, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2012.

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• But, I do think, on a very simplistic level, that we can project onto dogs because they are so innocent. They don't come with a lot of baggage.

  Kevin Kline

  Dog, Thinking, Levels

  "Kevin Kline Talks DARLING COMPANION, Charlie Kaufman’s FRANK OR FRANCIS, and His Oscar Short with Mike Myers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

  Robert Wright

  Mean, Trying, Peculiar

  "The Moral Animal". Book by Robert Wright, www.wired.com. 1994.

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• Every relationship has its drama and baggage.

  Alejandra Deheza

  Drama

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

  Sara Gruen

  Horse, Smell, Car

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• For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

  Terence McKenna

  Issues, Kind, Christianity

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• I realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.

  Christopher Castellani

  Writing, Interesting, Eras

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

  John Seagall

  Creativity, Fighting, Emotional

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• And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let go of superfluous intellectual baggage - all of which is a good lesson for hyper-agitated multi-tasking goal-focussed contemporary human beings.

  George Pattison

  Letting Go, Goal, Waiting

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I found a lot of animators bring a lot of baggage to the party, just that there's a certain way of doing things in that world that's a little hard to unlearn.

  Steve Dildarian

  Party, World, Littles

  "HitFix Interview: ‘The Life and Times of Tim’ creator Steve Dildarian". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. February 17, 2010.

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• The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.

  Isabel Allende

  Pain, Children, Excess Baggage

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• I'm having a mid-life crisis, so I thought instead of having sex with a stranger, I'd just get a new haircut. It's good clean fun without all the messy emotional baggage. It's just a haircut folks! It's not like I had an eye removed, or a leg added on! Live a little... it'll grow back!

  Ed Robertson

  Sex, Fun, Eye

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• I'm not saying certain illnesses don't come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all about emotion, but yeah, so many times, I've been to doctors trying to pinpoint what it was exactly and finally it just went away.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Doctors, Trying, Would Be

  Source: www.avclub.com

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