Dangerous Quotes - Page 20

• The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which is what I think is discovered as that longish sentence at the end of the poem comes to its conclusion. But here I am interpreting my own poem, which is kind of like making out with one's own high school yearbook photo.

  Matthew Zapruder

  School, Yearbook, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• So much of rock lyrics is just a mirror of real feeling. It doesn't feel dangerous to me. They just feel like "rock lyrics."

  Stephen Malkmus

  Real, Mirrors, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached in fiction than in fact. There are risks for the reader, because after reading certain books you find you have changed irreversibly. There are risks for writers: in China, now, and Ethiopia and other countries right now, writers face real persecution.

  Chris Abani

  Country, Real, Book

  Interview with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

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• Los Angeles is more hospitable to writers [Than NY]. It's less claustrophobic. It feels more unpredictable and dangerous, and the landscape is less structured. You see coyotes lurking all over the place. It just feels wilder and more dangerous.

  Nick Antosca

  Coyotes, Landscape, Los Angeles

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You've never seen anything in the Marvel universe that's as grounded, as gritty, as authentic, and as raw as what these guys did last year [in Season 1 of Daredevil]. What an amazing place to bring this character into, to attempt to up the stakes and to make it more dangerous. Hopefully, we were able to do that. But as far as those movies, my concern is this show.

  Jon Bernthal

  Character, Years, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us dangerous.

  Tom Barbash

  Thinking, Different, Messages

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you [Donald Trump] do visit this country [UK], take time to visit the Mosques. Take time to reflect on how dangerous that kind of rhetoric is.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Country, Mosques, Kind

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Donald Trump is a fool, but he is not free to be a dangerous fool in Britian.

  Jack Dromey

  Fool, Trump

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement.

  Derek Ridgers

  Encouragement, Validation, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Growth, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• On the other side, you have the conservative intelligentsia - magazines like National Review, which has a big anti-Trump issue; Weekly Standard editor, conservative talk show hosts - they're mounting a big anti-Trump effort, pro-Cruz effort because they think [Donald] Trump is dangerous and he's not qualified to be commander in chief.

  Mara Liasson

  Thinking, Editors, Issues

  "As Iowa Race Nears, Anti-Establishment Leaders Hold Strong". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2016.

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• I've always had mixed feelings. I don't know if it's any better or worse. I do think there's a really boring side of what's going on now - the over-repetitive, oversexualized thing. There's a lot of women that know better, that are really beautiful and sexy, but it's like: We know you can shake your ass in a G-string and wave it around, it's not that risque. It's not dangerous. It's very obvious and boring.

  Neneh Cherry

  Beautiful, Sexy, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you ask which of the scenarios I think is most dangerous, though, I will give a different answer. In that form of the question, I regard a nuclear attack, terrorist-generated or otherwise, as the most threatening combination of likelihood and long-term damage to modern life today.

  John L. Casti

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the nearer term, the likeliest source of risk is a conflict between China and the U.S. These are now the two largest economies in the world, and the combination of their economic interdependence, the sharp differences in their political and economic values, and the growing divergence in their interests makes this relationship potentially dangerous for everyone who might be affected by it - which means pretty much everyone.

  Ian Bremmer

  Mean, Two, Differences

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the Arab Spring was merely the prelude to a deeper and much farther-reaching upheaval in the region that has greater impact on countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

  Ian Bremmer

  Country, Spring, Iran

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There are some people in occult history who warned against using the Ouija Board, who said: "This is a dangerous door to the unconscious. Don't approach this thing."

  Mitch Horowitz

  Doors, People, Boards

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Age, Lawyer

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

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• I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Believe, Struggle, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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• One of the lessons that I hope people will take out is the extreme dependence simply on the financial sector is really dangerous.

  Juan Enriquez

  People, Lessons, Financial

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It took a long time for me to walk. I was falling down all the time. But I ended up being one of the dangerous men, who broke so many people's noses, which is bad.

  Dikembe Mutombo

  Fall, Men, Long

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Beautiful, Difficult

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• Now since man is naturally inclined to avoid pain - and since labor is pain in itself - it follows that men will resort to plunder whenever plunder is easier than work. History shows this quite clearly. And under these conditions, neither religion nor morality can stop it. When, then, does plunder stop? It stops when it becomes more painful and more dangerous than labor. It is evident, then, that the proper purpose of law is to use the power of its collective force to stop this fatal tendency to plunder instead of to work. All the measures of the law should protect property and punish plunder.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Pain, Men, Law

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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• Which are you? Are you the single woman who is just barely getting by who will become an insignificant spinster one day? Or are you the kind that's more dangerous, leading the lost further into their lostness? Or is your singleness fueled by the power of the Spirit so that you are one who uses it for good, leaving a legacy of lives changed?

  Dannah Gresh

  Life Changing, Leaving, One Day

  FaceBook post by Dannah Gresh from Dec 24, 2016

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• When High and Mighty people want to make us believe that they possess some good quality which they in fact do not have, it is dangerous to show that you doubt them; because, by removing their hope of deceiving the world, you also remove their desire to perform the good acts that might have arisen from their very pretensions.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Lying, Believe, People

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