Deliberate Quotes - Page 15

• If a reader believes that everything in nonfiction or history is just objectively true, I don't really know what to tell them, except that at least in fiction, the choice of what perspective and bias to tell a given story from - which is always a deliberate choice - is foregrounded and clear.

  Kathleen Rooney

  Believe, Perspective, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

  Michelle Stuart

  Art, Feminist, Made

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'd become very involved in the production, so the albums were taking longer. So it was never a deliberate decision not to do live shows. A few times, I've thought about doing them again, but it's just kind of never happened. I've just sort of gone the path of becoming a recording artist I guess.

  Kate Bush

  Artist, Decision, Path

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Perfection, Desire, Want

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Fun, Character, Differences

  Alexandra Stoddard, Marc Romano (2013). “Making Choices”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening as deliberate policy in Europe and the United States. Falling or stagnant prices are simply the result of having less income to spend.

  Michael Hudson

  Fall, Mean, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.

  Russell Brand

  Drug, Consciousness, Agree

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• I don't go into any album with a concept or a deliberate direction. It's more letting the best music that really appeals to me at the time, the best songs that I find after many months and years of search and sifting through my collection, and asking radio people and journalists. It's really an ongoing search that's as much daunting as it is somewhat exciting.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Song, Years, People

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• The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall short of the mark.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Fall, Effort, Conscious

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

  John Dewey

  Growing Up, Pain, Thoughtful

  John Dewey (2004). “Democracy and Education”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• My only deliberate attempt has been to act, to do good work. Thereafter, the medium has been choosing me.

  Indraneel Bhattacharya

  Good Work, Mediums, Has Beens

  Source: www.ibtimes.co.in

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• The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

  Tennessee Williams

  Unforgivable Sin, Cruelty, Sin

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• I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.

  Miguel

  Thinking, Style, Pronunciation

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• Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Real, Silence, Speech

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• What stunned me was the regular assertion that feminists were "anti-family." . . . It was motherhood that got me into the movementin the first place. I became an activist after recognizing how excruciatingly personal the political was to me and my sons. It was the women's movement that put self-esteem back into "just a housewife," rescuing our intelligence from the junk pile of "instinct" and making it human, deliberate, powerful.

  Mary Blakely

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Son

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• That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on the merits of our intentions.

  Publilius Syrus

  Delay, Merit, Protection

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• The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Giving Money, People, Church

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• No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

  Daniel Levitin

  Regret, Past, Events

  Daniel J. Levitin (2014). “The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload”, p.36, Penguin

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• In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Poetry, Very Good, Ideals

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• The life of the artist should be distinguished from that of all other people, even in external habits. They are Brahmins, a higher caste, not ennobled by birth, however, but through deliberate self-initiation.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Artist, Self, People

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, Pennsylvania University Press, 1968.

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• The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpose, of a civic duty, which embraced the greatest hazards to themselves and to all the people from whom they held this deputed discretion, but which, to their sober judgments, promised benefits to that people and their posterity, from generation to generation, exceeding these hazards and commensurate with its own fitness.

  William M. Evarts

  Men, Light, People

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• to deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

  Dessa Darling

  Music, Lying, Ignorant

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• Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Wisdom, Ignorance, Mind

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Chap. 2 : The Creative Power of a Free Civilization, 1960.

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• Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

  Rajneesh

  Vegetarianism, Effort, Earth

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Twitter is a deliberate abstention. Somehow I hate the idea of there always being, in the back of my mind, this little voice saying: 'Oh, I should tweet about this.'

  George Saunders

  Hate, Ideas, Voice

  "George Saunders: My desktop". Interview With Ben Johncock, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2013.

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