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• As an actor, I don't have any politics. As an actor, I'm driven more by an authentic - I would say an obsessive-compulsive-disorder level-fixation on mimicry, tonality of voice, to literally imitate something until I can just disappear into it.

  Edward Norton

  Voice, Obsessive Compulsive, Actors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you have a culture based on hunting and fishing and all the animals are disappearing and the fish are sick, then you can't live traditionally. Then your treaty is being violated. Obviously there are degrees of choice in terms of that decision to fight.

  Avi Lewis

  Fighting, Hunting, Animal

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• As much as there are intellectual choices to be made and all the rest of it, a great actor has the ability really, to disappear and lose themself in a kind of mystical fashion. My appreciation and fascination with true acting is really all over the book, definitely.

  Rebecca Miller

  Fashion, Appreciation, Book

  "Author Rebecca Miller Talks Male Perspective, Piecing Together a Novel, and Fly Sex in Jacob's Folly". Interview with Kayla Tanenbaum, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2013.

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• Well, as resources inevitably disappear [in Africa], people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

  Damon Albarn

  Perfect, People, Sandwiches

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dream, Couple, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions.

  George Carlin

  Sex, Two, Criminals

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

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• One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love Life, Console

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• The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation,... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

  Noam Chomsky

  Hero, People, Interesting

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• Movie actors disappear - any young person wouldn't know Cary Grant. They're going to disappear. Fifty years ago, you thought film was here to stay. But nothing is here to stay, actually - except perhaps paintings and drawings.

  David Hockney

  Years, Drawing, Actors

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I don't get depressed. When I feel an attack, I withdraw. I disappear, I replenish, and then I come back.

  Naomi Campbell

  Feels

  Interview with Tony Shafrazi, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2010.

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• Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Ignorance, Foundation, Purpose

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• When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

  Nhat Hanh

  Regret, Sorrow, Wonder

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Happiness (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.42, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No matter how close we got to a station or a disc jockey ... they could disappear into the ether without so much as a wave goodbye or a farewell song.

  Ben Fong-Torres

  Goodbye, Song, Farewell

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• The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

  Robert Bresson

  Hands, Useless, Economy

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.6, New York Review of Books

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• In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.

  Nhat Hanh

  Rivers, Water, Feelings

  Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.48, Souvenir Press

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• Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Any gay person understands at some point that he or she has to disappear, to become invisible. That's very difficult. You somehow have to kill yourself. This is asked of people who haven't got the tools to understand that it's all a social construction, and that they shouldn't inferiorize themselves. This is asked of little kids. But I still live in the same outcome.

  Abdellah Taia

  Kids, Gay, People

  "No one is capable of freeing oneself from society". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 7, 2014.

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• I'm thinking of doing everything now, including this stupid act of waiting for someone in front of their house so you should do the same. You have no thoughts of becoming the little mermaid, so that's why I'll be come the little mermaid instead. I'll be right next to you as if I am not there and disappear like foam. So right now, I am the one shamelessly hanging on to you.

  Joo

  Stupid, Thinking, House

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• My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Personal Opinions, Pocket Watches, Pockets

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• Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shining, Darkness, Needs

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• Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Clever, Men, Hands

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• Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.

  Clay Guida

  Fighting, Loss, Ufc

  Interview with Elias Trejo, www.askmen.com.

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• I lose things. I write things and they disappear from my desk, my life. I move a lot. I wanted to gather them and put them under one roof, under one cover, so I could document my life in a series of snapshots.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Moving, Writing, Snapshots

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• In matters of goodness, never expect any compliment or appreciation; just do your goodness and disappear!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Appreciation, Matter, Compliment

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