Easy Quotes - Page 24

• One of the things that Jon Kabat-Zinnn talks about is that everyone wants to figure out how to live longer. But this actually is a very easy way for you to live longer, maybe you're not extending your life, but you are present and living more of the moments of your life.

  Anderson Cooper

  Want, Way, Moments

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• I feel like I always had an ear. I have the ability and the gift to hear a song and really play it in a matter of five to 10 minutes and make my own version out of it. So it's always been easy playing by ear.

  Jeremih

  Song, Play, Ears

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• It's easy for people to mistake most musicians as living the easy life. It takes a while to get to that point. I'm sure it's like that for acting and television.

  Chaz Bundick

  Mistake, People, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If it's too easy it's probably not love.

  Iimani David

  Ifs

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• Ideas are the easy part. The hard part is writing them down.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Writing, Ideas, Hard

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• Even an evil man can have principles—he can be true to his own evil, which is not always so easy.

  Norman Mailer

  Men, Evil, Principles

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Years go by Will I still be waiting For somebody else to understand Years go by If I'm stripped of my beauty And the orange clouds Raining in head Years go by Will I choke on my tears Till finally there is nothing left One more casualty You know we're too easy Easy Easy

  Tori Amos

  Rain, Clouds, Years

  Song: Silent All These Years, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• There's a tremendous popular fallacy which holds that significant research can be carried out by trying things. Actually it is easy to show that in general no significant problem can be solved empirically, except for accidents so rare as to be statistically unimportant. One of my jests is to say that we work empirically -- we use bull's eye empiricism. We try everything, but we try the right thing first!

  Edwin Land

  Eye, Trying, Firsts

  "The Journal of Imaging Science and Technology", (Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 537), 1992.

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• Only ambition is fired by the coincidences of success and easy accomplishment.

  Stefan Zweig

  Ambition, Accomplishment, Coincidence

  "Sternstunden der Menschheit". Book by Stefan Zweig, p. 280, as translated by Marion Sonnenfeld, 1935.

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• It's very easy for me to just encourage people in their family life and in their children. It's just very natural to me. It's what I feel comfortable doing, and so I enjoy it.

  Victoria Osteen

  Children, People, Natural

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Cooking, Roles, Scripts

  "Archipelago - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.

  Mike Tyson

  School, Kids, Getting High

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Three, Tomorrow, Kind

  "Neil Gaiman Talks AMERICAN GODS, DOCTOR WHO, Writing a Musical, Ray Bradbury, China and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2011.

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• Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

  Tony Robbins

  Failing, Building, Easier

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Our whole message is it's easy to just keep preaching to the church and people that already come.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Church, Messages

  "Pastor Joel Osteen on 'FNS'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

  Jon Pareles

  Jobs, Stress, Artist

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• Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Art, Practice, Tasks

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• A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly difficult once you actually read him with any depth.

  Joshua Ferris

  Depth, Surface, Pins

  "Joshua Ferris Reads George Saunders" by Sally Law, www.newyorker.com. August 10, 2009.

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• Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.

  Adam Gopnik

  Choices Made, Mind, Currents

  "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

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• Let me mention that not all sun-like stars host planets - perhaps about 30% of them are planet-builders. It's not so easy to form a planet!

  Garik Israelian

  Stars, Sun, Host

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• When I illustrate a cover or a book, I draw upon what the author tells me; that's how I see my responsibility as an illustrator. J.K. Rowling is very descriptive in her writing — she gives an illustrator a lot to work with. Each story is packed full of rich visual descriptions of the atmosphere, the mood, the setting, and all the different creatures and people. She makes it easy for me. The images just develop as I sketch and retrace until it feels right and matches her vision.

  Mary GrandPre

  Book, Writing, Responsibility

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• There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.

  Robbie Robertson

  New York, Bookstores, Vivid

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Intelligent, People, Ignorant

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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