Closest Quotes - Page 28

• I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Home, Animal, Pet

  "Ellen DeGeneres On Life & Dogs". Modern Dog Interview, moderndogmagazine.com.

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• Final Destination was the closest thing I've done to a teen movie but it certainly had an edge to it.

  Devon Sawa

  Teenager, Finals, Done

  "“Slackers”: Devon Sawa Interview". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com. February 1, 2002.

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• Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Moving, Law, Perspective

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.199, Vintage

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• The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.

  Jonathan Coe

  Country, Book, Two

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• The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Voice, Deeper, Feels

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I believe devoutly that the national election is the closest thing we have to a civic sacrament of democracy. And I really do think that heed must be paid, and when people make a decision, those who are on the other side, including me, accept it, for that reason.

  Mark Shields

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Bethann Hardison has been my collaborator, my closest friend, we've gone through starting businesses, losing businesses, kids, divorces, marriages, and she was my maid of honor when I married my husband, David Bowie. And she's still such a part of my life. This is the person when it's totally dark, outside and inside, this is the person I would call.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Husband, Kids, Divorce

  Source: time.com

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• Go into business, sell a product, sell a service, you're automatically a suspect to people like Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - unless you donate to them, and then you become their closest friends, and then we get cronyism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Clinton, Cronyism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The artists always reflect the times, so there's a lot to think about, a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that are describable. This is the closest I've seen to the kind of ambience that made the '60s happen. It's not about the artist having a responsibility to do anything. They have to be artists and express themselves and everything will work out fine.

  Neil Young

  Responsibility, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.

  Barack Obama

  Eight, Years, Leader

  Source: time.com

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• We can still publicly post a message to Facebook that's globally readable. But we could also adjust things so that they can only be shared with those closest to us, and the confident that this is enforced through both legal and a systemic standards-based protection.

  Edward Snowden

  Messages, Protection, Standards

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.

  Philip Glass

  Real, Trying, Different

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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• I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Thinking, Cities

  Source: craphound.com

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• The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their lives to making things better for others. These are people whose names you never hear, people who work for Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and other humanitarian groups. They're just out there in the world, doing stuff.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Hero, Doctors, Names

  Source: progressive.org

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• For me, fantasy and speculative science fiction are the genres that feel closest to how I feel about being alive. Like, when I feel the most invigorated by just even a walk down the block in twilight, when the street lamps are just coming on and there's mist and some shadowy thing in silhouette in a window, I naturally invest all of those things with deep mythology and mystery and meaning. I think I need to believe in that version of reality because I get very scared when I don't.

  Brit Marling

  Block, Twilight, Believe

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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