Clear Quotes - Page 15

• My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Patterns, Shows, Unpredictability

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• Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

  Laozi

  Water, Muddy

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• The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Hands, Annihilation

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• If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against.

  Sengcan

  Want, Ifs

  "Xinxin Ming". Poem by Sengcan,

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• Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

  John Calvin

  Views, Giving, Darkness

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• Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Pain, Eye, Joy

  Norman Vincent Peale (1957). “Stay Alive all Your Life”

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• The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Fall, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Obama said, 'Now let me be clear, issues of women's equality are by no means simply an issue for Islam.' No, he said, 'the struggle for women's equality continues in many aspects of American life.' So on one hand, 12-year-old girls are stoned to death for the crime of being raped in Muslim countries. But on the other hand, we still don't have enough female firefighters here in America.

  Ann Coulter

  Girl, Country, Struggle

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• The dependency on the dole, formerly limited in pre-Clinton days to 14 million women and children on AFDC, will now grow to a clear majority of the U.S. population.

  Dick Morris

  Children, Majority, Population

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• A stout heart, a clear conscience, and never despair.

  John Quincy Adams

  Heart, Despair, Stout

  "The works of Charles Sumner". Book by Charles Sumner, 1870.

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• If we clear the air of the fog of catchwords which surround the conduct of war, and grasp that in the human will lies the source and mainspring of all conflict, as of all other activities of man's life, it becomes clear that our object in war can only be attained by the subjugation of the opposing will. All acts, such as defeat in the field, propaganda, blockade, diplomacy, or attack on the centres of government and population, are seen to be but means to that end.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  War, Lying, Mean

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• Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

  Matt Ridley

  Giving Up, Rain, Writing

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• Every liberal initiative, from welfare to antismoking measures, is justified by reference to 'the children.' Yet the clear result of liberal policies is to harm children even more than adults.

  Mona Charen

  Children, Adults, Justified

  Mona Charen (2006). “Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us”, Sentinel

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• When you're working on something where there's usually one sex scene in the film, it all gets a little bit of a gray area and people get a bit uncomfortable and awkward. You just get through it. But, it became very clear on this that that can't happen. There can't be any gray areas on this because there are actors and actresses coming in for a day or a couple of days, as well as people who are there regularly.

  Michael Sheen

  Sex, Couple, People

  Source: collider.com

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• We knew, very early on, that we had to be very, very clear that directors need to speak to actors and actresses and be very clear about what is expected, and find out whether they're comfortable with that. Wardrobe has to be in place. There have to be checks.

  Michael Sheen

  Directors, Needs, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

  Sam Palladio

  Drinking, Trying, Excess

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As an artist, it's been clear that the price of art has nothing to do with you, it has to do with an idea of what the market will tolerate.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Ideas, Tolerate

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As a director, you have to go in with a really, really, really clear picture of what you want. That's the point of my commentaries. It's so difficult because you're the harshest critic.

  David Slade

  Directors, Want, Difficult

  Source: collider.com

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• It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Shirts, Sole, Rules Of Life

  Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1953). “Letters to his wife”

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• I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

  Diana Vreeland

  Thinking, Views, Giving

  Diana Vreeland (1984). “D.V.”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

  Paul Robeson

  War, People, Gentleman

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write phrases that people can't forget as soon as they read them.

  Clive James

  Memorable, Writing, People

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental. Kurtis Blow's earliest stuff was studio musicians playing. Whodini had a real clear sound, things like "five minutes of funk," stuff that you could write really beautiful, lush string and horn arrangements around, stuff that was just music.

  Mos Def

  Beautiful, Real, Writing

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• The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

  Paul Driessen

  Running, Data, Oil

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• I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

  George Kukla

  Ice, Doubt, Age

  "Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years". George Kukla's remarks at the international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, www.columbia.edu. February 25, 2000.

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