Different Quotes - Page 9

• Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

  Philip K. Dick

  Unique, Solitude, World

  Philip K. Dick (1985). “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon”, Doubleday Books

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• In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Order, Elements

  Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). “Conversations with Julian Barnes”, p.65, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It's no longer good enough for us to tell kids who are different that it's gonna get better. We have to make it better now.

  Rick Mercer

  Kids, Get Better, Good Enough

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• Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Couple, Thinking, Acting

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• The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.

  George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham

  World, Way, Path

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• There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Might, Way

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• Ocean people are very different from land people. The ocean never stops saying and asking into ears, which don't sleep like eyes.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2011). “China Men”, p.107, Vintage

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• When a system is considered in two different states, the difference in volume or in any other property, between the two states, depends solely upon those states themselves and not upon the manner in which the system may pass from one state to the other.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Change, Two, Differences

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.27, Univ of California Press

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• Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.

  Deborah Tannen

  Men, Focus, Independence

  Deborah Tannen (2013). “You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  Warren Zevon

  Water, Towns, Singles

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• Despite the hours spent debating different models of general education, the choices faculties make rarely lead to any significant difference in the cognitive development of undergraduates.

  Derek Bok

  Differences, Choices, Development

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• There are some decision-makers in the world whose version of sanity is a little different from what I consider the right one.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Decision, World, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I used to be teased for the way I wore my hair at school. I used to do things like wear a different-colored sock on each leg.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  School, Hair, Legs

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• I initially wanted to be a teacher and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.

  Lou Gerstner

  Teacher, Bridges, World

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• Our show is different, because it's not about law and order, it's about psychology, the intent of somebody.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Order, Law, Psychology

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• Old cranks have practiced all their lives, just as old saints have likewise practiced all their lives. They just practiced different life principles.

  John Powell

  Principles, Saint, Crank

  John Powell (1995). “A Life-Giving Vision: How to Be a Christian in Today's World”, Thomas More Press

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• Often a successful problem-solver is one who creates a new context in which to view the problem. This can often be done by directing one's attention away from the distracting details of the difficulty. From a detached perspective, we may examine the situation in a new or different light and, after exploring information and options, choose an appropriate course of action.

  John Templeton

  Successful, Light, Often Is

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• Maybe we didn't even have a chance. The message of American Pop Art was so powerful and so optimistic. But it was also very limited, and that led us to believe that we could somehow distance ourselves from it and communicate a different intention.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Powerful, Distance

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• The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich - it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.

  Gerhard Richter

  Running, Art, Thinking

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mistake, Order

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• I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Struggle, Doctrine

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. Initially I was attracted by the typical Pop Art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; I preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of Albers, Bill, Calderara, Lohse, etc.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Illustration, Ideas

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Years, Ideas

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• My kind of gay, meeting a woman and falling in love, is a different experience because it wasn't anything about 'Oh, I've always been gay and I'm breaking the chains.

  Carol Leifer

  Falling In Love, Gay, Love Is

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• Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

  Carol Leifer

  Girl, Father, Acceptance

  "When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win". Book by Carol Leifer, www.today.com. March 2009.

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