Concrete Quotes - Page 12

• Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

  Chris Milk

  Emotional, Video, Interaction

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

  Matthea Harvey

  Thinking, Ideas, Mixing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Use emotional awareness and pay attention to your body - look [and locate] concrete physical sensations - like stabbing, aching, throbbing - and [distinguish and define them] by saying things like, "it is the size of a golf ball or it is the size of a baseball" - do whatever you can do to find painful physical sensations.

  Gary Zukav

  Baseball, Golf, Emotional

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• The real thing is the heart, you know the heart shouldn't be covered with concrete.

  Chuck D

  Real, Heart, Covered

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I was part of the sort of avant guard tradition of John Cage and music concrete and pushing back the boundaries of avant garde classic pop rhythms. I think everyone brings something completely different to it.

  Anne Dudley

  Thinking, Different, Avant Garde

  Source: www.chaoscontrol.com

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• This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent a division of Europe, this will lead to Russia's isolation."Bahr, a wise man, had a very concrete suggestion as to how this danger could be averted.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wise, Men, Europe

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I was born and raised here [in Florida], so I still have tremendous affection for the state - especially the few wild places that haven't disappeared under concrete. What's left is still worth fighting for, and that's why I stay.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fighting, Florida, Wild Places

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.

  Bill Mollison

  Home, Organization, Mud

  "Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

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• Once you stop talking about the female body empowering itself vis-à-vis male forays or invasions or male demands or the necessity to respond to husband and son to bring the issue down to a more concrete level, the body is a different manifestation physically.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Husband, Son, Issues

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female, and the book comes from a separate gender dimension than the concrete male world that, as you pointed out, has been surrounding me since I was an infant.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Writing, Males

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Cities, Addresses, Stones

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

  Bell Hooks

  Daily Life, Circumstances

  Source: nefac.net

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• To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

  Bell Hooks

  World, Shapes, Influence

  Source: nefac.net

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• What I think the appeal of the [Donald] Trump program has been is that it offers some kind of concrete, specific, historically rooted, a familiar image of how ordinary Americans, regular Americans can earn their living.

  Judy Woodruff

  Thinking, Ordinary, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• [Albert Camus] started thinking through sensation. He could never think with artefacts or with cultural models because there were none. So it's true to say that his morality was extremely 'lived', made from very concrete things. It never passed by means of abstractions . It's his own experience, his way of thinking.

  Catherine Camus

  Mean, Thinking, Way

  Source: www.spikemagazine.com

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• Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.

  Barack Obama

  Technology, Media, People

  Source: time.com

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• When I'm in a city that's just clean, concrete lines, I get really short of breath and confused. It's much more interesting to me when nature is creeping back and tearing the mortar apart between the bricks.

  Feist

  Confused, Cities, Interesting

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.

  Nicholas Royle

  Two, House, Personality

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think what's important and extraordinarily practical about Buddhism, is that it offers very concrete methods for people to work with.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Buddhism, Thinking, People

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• I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.

  Ziggy Marley

  Running, Jamaica, Cities

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Kindness, Justice, Action

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• When I was still at school, I'd help Dad at the concrete yard he had prior to the garden centre. I was doing things there, like driving the tractors and forklifts, that most kids my age couldn't.

  Rick Astley

  Dad, School, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Art, Lying, Tragedy

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.84, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation. The tendency toward the specialization of images-of-the-world finds its highest expression in the world of the autonomous image, where deceit deceives itself. The spectacle in its generality is a concrete inversion of life, and, as such the autonomous movement of non-life.

  Guy Debord

  Reality, Expression, Forever

  Guy Debord (1994). “The Society of the Spectacle”, Zone Books (NY)

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• An idol is not necessarily something concrete, like a golden calf. It can also be something abstract, like matter. Is matter part of the created order? Sure it is. So the philosophy of materialism qualifies as an idol in the biblical sense.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Biblical, Order

  "Finding Truth". Interview with Jonathan Petersen, www.biblegateway.com. December 10, 2015.

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