Elsewhere Quotes - Page 21

• The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

  John Fowles

  Comforting, Abhorrent, News

  1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

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• Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

  Barbara Holland

  New York, Prayer, Attitude

  Barbara Holland (1999). “Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories”, Harcourt

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• A white truffle, which elsewhere might sell for hundreds of dollars, seemed easier to come by than something fresh and green. What could be got from the woods was free and amounted to a diurnal dining diary that everyone kept in their heads. May was wild asparagus, arugula, and artichokes. June was wild lettuce and stinging nettles. July was cherries and wild strawberries. August was forest berries. September was porcini.

  Bill Buford

  Food, June, July

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• To me, performing means trying to do the most you can with the partner in front of you, with the story you're telling. There are actors who have carried me, who have brought me elsewhere or with them.

  Clemence Poesy

  Mean, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the research shows that the presence of that phone will do two things to the conversation. It will make the conversation go to trivial matters, and it will decrease the amount of empathy that the two people in the conversation feel toward each other. That phone is a signal that either of us can put our attention elsewhere.

  Judy Woodruff

  Two, Phones, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Japanese management practices succeed simply because they are good management practices. This success has little to do with cultural factors. And the lack of cultural bias means that these practices can be - and are - just as successfully employed elsewhere.

  Masaaki Imai

  Mean, Practice, Good Man

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• I investigated reported Japanese atrocities committed by the Japanese Army in Nanking and elsewhere. Verbal accounts of reliable eyewitnesses and letters from individuals whose credibility is beyond question afford convincing proof that the Japanese Army behaved and is continuing to behave in a fashion reminiscent of Attila and his Huns. Not less than 300,000 Chinese civilians were slaughtered, many in cold blood.

  Koki Hirota

  Fashion, Army, Blood

  "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing". Book by Robert Sabella, p. 56, 2002.

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• Church hoppers are like wandering dogs. If they are not regularly patted on the head, they will go elsewhere until they are.

  Steven J Lawson

  Dog, Church, Wander

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• I foresaw my life unfolding as an interminable stretch of nothingness and so I spent my years on Tinos floundering, feeling like a stand-in for myself, a proxy, as though my real self resided elsewhere, waiting to unite someday with this dimmer, more hollow self. I felt marooned. An exile in my own home

  Khaled Hosseini

  Real, Home, Self

  Khaled Hosseini (2013). “And the Mountains Echoed”, p.292, A&C Black

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• Throughout my career, I've realized that there are a lot of great opportunities out there to be associated with programming. It may have started elsewhere, as Crimson Petal did in the UK. So, our main strategy for Encore is to go through those types of partnership acquisitions.

  Chris Albrecht

  Opportunity, Careers, Acquisition

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition.

  Albert Camus

  Lying, Men, Decision

  Albert Camus (2007). “Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

  David Mamet

  Religious, Believe, Men

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• One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

  Hilarie Burton

  Opportunity, Tree, Hills

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• It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

  Peter Doig

  Thinking, Painting, Take Me

  "Peter Doig: the art of the foreign". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

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• I suppose there was never yet a woman who had not somewhere set up on a pedestal in her brain an ideal of manhood. ... He never is finished till the brain of his creator ceases to work, till she has added her last touch to him, and has laid down the burden of life and gone elsewhere, perhaps to some happy land where ideals are more frequently realised than ever happens here.

  Humphry Davy

  Burdens Of Life, Land, Brain

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• It is only the happy who are hard, Gilles. I think perhaps it is better for the world if - if one has a broken heart. One is quick to recognise it, elsewhere. And one has time to think about other people, if there is nothing left to hope for any more.

  Helen Waddell

  Heart, Thinking, Compassion

  Helen Waddell (1965). “Peter Abelard”

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• But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).

  Reza Aslan

  War, Home, Fighting

  Reza Aslan (2008). “No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam”, p.84, Random House

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• The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

  Evo Morales

  Fighting, Drug, United States

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• The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it's likely to harm them.

  Noam Chomsky

  Doe, Lebanon, Territory

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• The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.

  N.K. Jemisin

  Shadow, Nightmare, Never Forget

  N. K. Jemisin (2012). “The Killing Moon: Dreamblood:”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Children, Reading, Glowing

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Eternal life should be sought elsewhere, perhaps in the religious community, not politics.

  Matt Salmon

  Religious, Community, Should

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• Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

  Stan Brakhage

  Mean, Honor, Quality

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• If man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do. If, for instance, Siddhartha had not learned to fast, he would have had to seek some kind of work today, either with you, or elsewhere, for hunger would have driven him. But as it is, Siddhartha can wait calmly. He is not impatient, he is not in need, he can ward off hunger for a long time and laugh at it. Therefore, fasting is useful, sir.

  Hermann Hesse

  Intelligent, Men, Long

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.51, Om Books International

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• For all we know, the aliens have already done this and unwittingly concluded that there was no intelligent life on Earth. They would now be looking elsewhere. A more humbling possibility would be if aliens had become aware of the technologically proficient species that now inhabits Earth, yet they had drawn the same conclusion.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Intelligent, Would Be, Done

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