Closest Quotes - Page 2

• What kind of influence did my parents have on my life? Well, they had the most influence. These are the people who are closest to me. My parents are very positive people. They've been supportive. They're always there.

  Derek Jeter

  Inspiring, Yankees, People

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• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Long, Mentor

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• My closest friends in the league are Dirk Nowitzki and Rex Chapman. Although I think Michael Finley and I will be friends forever.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Thinking, League

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• The closest friends I made all through life have been people who also grew up close to a loved and loving grandmother or grandfather.

  Margaret Mead

  Grandmother, People, Grandparent

  Margaret Mead (1992). “To Grandmother with Love: A Special Tribute”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, Get back to who you were meant to be. This is the heart spot, the center. Your whole life the skin on that place will stay closest to being a baby's skin, as close as you can get anymore to the way you started, the way you once thought you'd always be.

  Monica Drake

  Suicide, Baby, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.65, Hawthorne Books

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• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.

  Bono

  Artist, Rolling, Albums

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• It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.

  Halle Berry

  Character, Self, People

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• Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

  Karl Barth

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

  "The Harper Book of Quotations". Book by Robert I. Fitzhenry, 1993.

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• I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.

  Alan Ball

  Stories, Storytelling, Process

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• Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

  Neil Armstrong

  Bird, Flying, Sailing

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• The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Relationship, Friends, Marriage

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• People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

  Margaret Cho

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• 'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

  Eric Clapton

  Father, Eye, Son

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• It's very hard to lose someone who's the closest person to you in your life.

  Lauren Conrad

  Persons, Hard, Loses

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• I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

  Kenny Guinn

  Children, Believe, Abuse

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• The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'

  Jennifer Grant

  Memories, Dad, Father

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It has actually been suggested that warfare may have been the principle evolutionary pressure that created the huge gap between the human brain and that of our closest living relatives, the anthropoid apes. Whole groups of hominids with inferior brains could not win wars and were therefore exterminated.

  Jane Goodall

  War, Winning, Brain

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• To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Growing Up, Singers

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• I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Hurt, Want, Causes

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Way, Facts

  "The Pope: how the Church will change". Interview with Eugenio Scalfari, www.repubblica.it. October 1, 2013.

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• When I go to a sci-fi convention, oh God, it's the closest thing to being a rock star I will ever know in this life. I want to be a rock star, don't you? It's a good thing to be, a rock star.

  Nathan Fillion

  Stars, Rocks, Want

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• Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

  Tom Felton

  Nice, School, People

  "Tom Felton Talks About Reading, Collecting, and Being Draco". Interview with Marie Morreale, www.scholastic.com.

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• As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  New York, Book, Bags

  "Venice star Jesse Eisenberg on fame, film and politics". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. September 1, 2013.

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• Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

  Kevin Costner

  Beautiful, Beautiful Women

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