Contact Quotes - Page 24

• One of the advantages of my profession is I come into contact with many people.

  Gerard Depardieu

  People, Advantage, Profession

  "The big cheese: The crazy life of Gérard Depardieu" by James Mottram, www.independent.co.uk. April 30, 2011.

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• I went to a very academic school that actually - when I got to the point of wanting to pursue acting, they just had no idea how to do that, because all of their contacts were very academic.

  Freema Agyeman

  School, Ideas, Acting

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. May 15, 2008.

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• We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.

  Hannes Alfven

  Conjecture, Enterprise, Imaginary

  Hannes Alfvén, Gustaf Arrhenius (1976). “Evolution of the Solar System”

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• Italian girls are famous for being snobby and expecting men to make the first move. In America, if I don't make eye contact, the guys won't come over and talk. American girls just go for it. You men are spoiled.

  Silvia Colloca

  Girl, Moving, Eye

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• I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

  Simon Callow

  Theatre, Way, Facts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am very superstitious about toasts. I never toast with water, and I'm very careful to make eye contact with everyone I toast with.

  Maggie Grace

  Eye, Water, Careful

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• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

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• Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

  Clifford Stoll

  Communication, Science, Technology

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• Times have changed since 2002 when I won a spot in the group 'Popstars.' Back in the day we would get fan letters in the mail, now you can find anyone and contact people. It's incredible how fans can have a personal connection, share photos, stories.

  Josh Henderson

  Times Have Changed, People, Connections

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• My poor vision gives me a soft-focus morning. For the first half hour, I kind of wander through my house, and everything is a blur. I put my contacts in when I'm ready to deal with the world.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Morning, Giving, House

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• People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

  Eric Kripke

  Eye, People, Eye Contact

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

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• I literally change my phone number 10 times a year and I don't ever save my contacts.

  Rob Kardashian

  Phones, Years, Numbers

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

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• Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Adults

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• There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.

  Indra Nooyi

  Thinking, People, Faces

  "Indra Nooyi on How to Find Your Voice". Interview with Rachel Bowie, www.goodhousekeeping.com. August 5, 2011.

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• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Frustrated, Would Be, Chance

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• It could be a stupid thing to say, but people should realize that it is easy to get concerned about yourself and to lose contact.

  Miranda Otto

  Stupid, People, Realizing

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• We have the EURO as a currency, which means a lot. It has not just stabilized the situation in Kosovo politically and economically, but also facilitated the direct contact that we have with Europe.

  Ibrahim Rugova

  Mean, Europe, Currency

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• There's not as much oxygen in that hot gym and I think it's great for conditioning. I believe in a lot of boxing. You can train and work on the speed bag and heavy bag, but when you get in the ring with another fighter, it's a different story. Punches are coming at you, there's physical contact, muscle against muscle.

  Emanuel Steward

  Believe, Thinking, Oxygen

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• I have had no contact with the Chinese government ... I only work with journalists.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, Chinese, Journalist

  "Edward Snowden flatly denies Chinese spy claims" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2013.

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• In sexual contact a doorway opens between people, and it is very possible for someone to be abusive at that time with energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Doorways, Energy

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• Christ himself came down and took possession of me. . . I had never foreseen the possibility of that, of a real contact, person to person, here below, between a human being and God. . . in this sudden possession of me by Christ, neither my sense nor my imagination had any part: I only felt in the midst of my suffering the presence of a love.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Imagination, Christian Love

  Simone Weil (1977). “The Simone Weil Reader”

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• If you can be agreeable to each and every person or situation with which you come into contact - no matter how "difficult" it is or how much you think you are in the "right" - then you are demonstrating control.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Balance

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• You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of inter-dimensional phone line between yourself and our various selves, when you have become aware of that, that's when magic begins.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Other Worlds

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• The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Successful

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• All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Kids, Reality, Childhood

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