Behinds Quotes - Page 25

• He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Dark, Civilization

  1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.19.

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• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  Brandi Carlile

  Song, Together, Belief

  "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew "That Wasn’t Me" Was Our "Let It Be". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.

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• From my studies of old and recent reports, and from direct involvement with several UFO investigations, I have become convinced that there is something real and new behind the UFO phenomenon.

  Bruce Maccabee

  Real, Study, Investigation

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• By remaining behind the scenes, they (the Rothschilds) were able to avoid the brunt of public anger which was directed, instead, at the political figures which they largely controlled. This is a technique which has been practiced by financial manipulators ever since, and it is fully utilized by those who operate the Federal Reserve System today.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Political, Technique, World

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• I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

  Emmy Rossum

  Birthday, Kids, Gymnastics

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• To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Giving, Envy, Together

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• More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins of mainstream society, banished to a political and social space not unlike Jim Crow, where discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education was perfectly legal, and where they could be denied the right to vote.

  Michelle Alexander

  Space, Mainstream Society, Racism

  Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.58, The New Press

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• If you were surprised when Nixon resigned, just watch what happens when I whup Foreman's behind!

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Watches, Happens

  "When We Were Kings", 1996.

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• If a bullfrog had wings it wouldn't bump his behind every time he
  hopped.

  Don King

  Funny, Wings, Boxing

  "The Daily Show" with Stephen Colbert, www.imdb.com.

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• Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

  Tadeusz Borowski

  Soccer, Games, Two

  Tadeusz Borowski (1967). “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen: and other stories”

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• The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Wall, Shelter, Lovers

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible”, p.32, North Atlantic Books

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• We Jews have put issue upon issue to the American people. Then we promote both sides of the issue as confusion reigns. With their eye's fixed on the issues, they fail to see who is behind every scene. We Jews toy with the American public as a cat toys with a mouse.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Cat, Eye, Issues

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• We turned onto the last landing. Going out with this guy, I thought, would involve a lot of silly laughter, some wit--the buzz of his whispered wisecracks in my ear. But there would be as well his willingness to reveal, or more his inability to conceal, that he had been silently rehearsing my name as he climbed the stairs behind me. There would be his willingness to bestow upon me the power to reassure him. He would trust me with his happiness.

  Alice McDermott

  Laughter, Silly, Names

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone”, p.163, A&C Black

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• My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons reversed and out of order, dogs barking from behind fences meant to keep out intruders. It's not the place that impoverishes me but I who bring my own sense of poverty, of loss, to the place. It's a sense of near nothingness, as though I were not so much a blank slate as an erased chalkboard, still bearing illegible smudges of smoothed-over writing.

  Marco Roth

  Dog, Loneliness, Writing

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• It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.

  John Toshack

  Men, Easy, Holes

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• Missing someone is like hearing
  a name sung quietly from somewhere
  behind you. Even after you know
  no one is there, you keep looking back.

  Tim Seibles

  Missing Someone, Names, Behind You

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• Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiqués assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.

  Peter Watts

  Wise, Intelligent, Analysis

  Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus

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• I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Character, Tragedy, Abnormal

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

  Chris Colfer

  Writing, Long, Cameras

  "Glee’s Chris Colfer". Interview with Amanda Sims, www.timeout.com. July 17, 2012.

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• It's nice to be able to directly speak to fans and thank them for their support. The only time that it can get tricky is when they are unkind or say things that may not be so easy to say if they weren't behind a computer. Bullying is never ok. I personally have only experienced it very infrequently so overall I enjoy Twitter and Instagram but I'm definitely aware of it.

  Claire Holt

  Bullying, Nice, Support

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it.

  Lisa Edelstein

  Passion, Needs, Not Worth It

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• There are some indications of how the character should behave based on the script, and then as actor makes it his or her own.  I got to know one of the writers, Chris Terrio, and we were able to discuss things at length and figure out who this person is to create a real psychology behind what is, perhaps, in a comic book, a less than totally modern psychology. I can only say I've been asked to play an interesting role. A complicated, challenging person.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Real, Book, Character

  "Jesse Eisenberg talks Lex Luthor". www.gamesradar.com. August 29, 2014.

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• What's to keep somebody from getting all potted up on weed and then getting behind the wheel?

  Steve Doocy

  Weed, Wheels

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• Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Wheels, Looks, Driving

  "The GQ&A: Mark Wahlberg". Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. January 11, 2012.

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• When you talk about emotional, chemical imbalances in people, there is no science behind that.

  Tom Cruise

  Emotional, People, Imbalance

  "Diary" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2005.

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