Curves Quotes - Page 19

• In "Three Cups of Tea" I was fairly critical of the military. And I mentioned that they're laptop warriors and there's no boots on the ground. But I can say now that they've gone through a tremendous learning curve.

  Greg Mortenson

  Military, Warrior, Tea

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

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• My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a national bestseller, but it was three years of living in the sewer of this guy's mind.

  Tim Cahill

  Dream, Book, Years

  "Wild Life: An Interview With Tim Cahill". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. March 25, 2005.

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Mind

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

  Edward Frenkel

  Stars, Atoms, Shapes

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

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• What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Sea, Sensual, Mountain

  "Oscar Niemeyer, architect of Brazil's capital, dies aged 104" by Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It isn't fair that there's pressure exerted on those who choose to live on the edges of the bell-shaped curve of normal.

  Laurel Lea

  Bells, Pressure, Normal

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• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Fundraising, Upset

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• Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Distance, Ocean, Sharks

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• Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

  Audre Lorde

  America, Black, Ancient

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• I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

  Audre Lorde

  Change, Shifting, Cusp

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.120, Courier Dover Publications

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• The real key to wealth is the gradual accumulation, it's something Jesus talked about I call the law of use and you couple with the exponential curve.

  Pat Robertson

  Jesus, Couple, Real

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Sleep, Eye, Turtles

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

  America Ferrera

  Beautiful, Real, Auditions

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• I want to look my best, but I'm not a model. I'm not an actress. I'm representing normal girls. It's OK to have a little bit of curve. I'm happy with my body. So many girls come up to me and say, "Thank you for being normal," and I'm proud of that.

  Miranda Lambert

  Girl, Looks, Body

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.

  Alan Kay

  Desire, Easy, Results

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". Interview with David Greelish, techland.time.com. April 2, 2013.

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• I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

  H. R. Giger

  Art, Lines, Elegance

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• I love the round, the curves, the undulation, the world is round, the world is a breast

  Niki de Saint Phalle

  World, Breasts, Rounds

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Escaping

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• Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

  Kip Thorne

  Mean, Past, Jargon

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• For girls, something that accentuates the curves looks sexy. It can be a dress, it can be jeans, it can be a tank top, who cares!

  Brody Jenner

  Girl, Sexy, Jeans

  "Brody Jenner Talks About Love". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. December 21, 2007.

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• I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  Fashion, Loving Yourself, Ideas

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• High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. It's at the time where everybody is waking up with different opinions every day, and you're on this learning curve of who you are and who you want to be, and you're comparing yourself with every other male and female around you. There's no sense to it.

  Kristen Bell

  School, Insecurity, Despair

  "Kristen Bell Interview YOU AGAIN". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• It's interesting to be an adult and to have that level of ignorance about something, because the nice part about is you get that discovery. The learning curve is so rich and steep.

  Demetri Martin

  Nice, Ignorance, Discovery

  Source: maximumfun.org

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• 5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.

  Baldwin Spencer

  Numbers, Promise, Transformation

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• Ideas in modern Russia are machine-cut blocks coming in solid colors; the nuance is outlawed, the interval walled up, the curve grossly stepped.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Block, Cutting, Russia

  Vladimir Nabokov (1992). “Pale fire”

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