Fringe Quotes - Page 9

• There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Movement, Forward Movement, Lunatic

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.305, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 'Fringe' is one of my favorite television shows, from its inception. I absolutely love all of the science fiction of it, the mystery of it, and the science in it.

  Jill Scott

  Fiction, Television, Mystery

  "Jill Scott Talks FRINGE, Why She Wanted the Role, Hopes for Her Character, Being Part of the Final Season, Working with the Cast and Future Guest Spots". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2012.

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• There are always rebels and radicals, I suppose,' McCleethy allows. 'Those who live on the fringes of society. But what do they contribute to the society itself? They reap its rewards without experiencing its costs. No. I submit that loyal, hardworking citizens who push aside their own selfish desires for the good of the whole are the backbone of the world. What if we all decided to run off and live freely without thought or care for society's rules? Our civilization would crumble. There is a joy in duty and a security in knowing one's place...It is the only way.

  Libba Bray

  Running, Selfish, Civilization

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• A geek is like a dork. Someone who’s on the fringe, who you wouldn’t want to hang out with. A nerd is someone too weird and smart to fit in with the masses. Like me.” “You’re not a nerd!” “It’s okay. I know who I am. I consider it a compliment. I like when people tell me I’m weird.” I cram four Cheez Doodles into my mouth. “I mean, why be normal?

  Susane Colasanti

  Smart, Mean, Who I Am

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• Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, Order, Ideas

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.

  Ilona Andrews

  Horse, Hands, Looks

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Bites: A Special Edition of the First Kate Daniels Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• And, indeed, is there not something holy about a great kitchen?... The scoured gleam of row upon row of metal vessels dangling from hooks or reposing on their shelves till needed with the air of so many chalices waiting for the celebration of the sacrament of food. And the range like an altar, yes, before which my mother bowed in perpetual homage, a fringe of sweat upon her upper lip and the fire glowing in her cheeks.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Air, Glowing

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• This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.

  Sara Zarr

  Memories, Hands, Years

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• The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.

  John Mott

  Christian, Prayer, Giving

  John Raleigh Mott (1905). “The Evangelization of the World in this Generation”

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• I've hidden behind my hair more than clothes. Sometimes having long hair with a fringe is very useful when you don't want to look at people. I used to have very short hair, but long hair is my thing - a black nocturnal shield.

  Bat for Lashes

  Clothes, Hair, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No one doubts that pure libertarianism is simple, but that's just why it remains on the ideological fringe - because it boils down the most difficult questions in human affairs to a simple equation, a What Would the Market Do bumper sticker.

  Ross Douthat

  Simple, Difficult Questions, Doubt

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• Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence. Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes. This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to be.

  Bill Bryson

  Clever, Believe, Cities

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close.

  Gerald Durrell

  Humble, Butterfly, Eye

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• Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Germany, Minorities, Election

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Gay, Rights

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.

  Cassie Steele

  Attitude, Hair, Long

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• I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Flavor Of The Month, People

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• For centuries, as pope and emperor tore each other apart in their quarrels over power, the excluded went on living on the fringe, like lepers, of whom true lepers are only the illustration ordained by God to make us understand this wondrous parable, so that in saying 'lepers' we would understand 'outcast, poor, simple, excluded, uprooted from the countryside, humiliated in the cities.' But we did not understand; the mystery of leprosy has continued to haunt us because we have not recognized the nature of the sign.

  Umberto Eco

  Simple, Illustration, Cities

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.215, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always in the short story there is this sense of outlawed figures wandering about the fringes of society.... As a result there is in the short story at its most characteristic something we do not often find in the novel--an intense awareness of human loneliness.

  Frank O'Connor

  Loneliness, Stories, Awareness

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• If a kid is really interested in wanting to have a career in aviation, he's actually learning and getting some of the [basics], not even just fringe. There are things in here that movie [Planes] about like the pulp of an engine, and it's the actual engine, the actual parts and pieces. So I felt like I got schooled as well. I learned a lot just being in there and doing that.

  Dane Cook

  Kids, Careers, Just Being

  "Dane Cook Talks PLANES, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and PLANES Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• I sense a general hostility toward Christianity among the literary and media establishments in our country. There is a tendency to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream, to marginalize it and make it look like a product of 'fringe' groups.

  Cal Thomas

  Christian, Country, Religious

  Cal Thomas (1983). “Book burning”, Good News Pub

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• I'm truly grateful to the writers of Fringe for giving me that because, over the years, when I've spoken about the character with them, I've always felt that this would be the perfect way to end and complete his journey, and to complete the journey of this series, and they gave it to me.

  John Noble

  Grateful, Character, Journey

  Source: collider.com

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• Particularly in the final season [of Fringe], when we were shooting seven-day episodes with a reduced budget and big special effects, the team was so polished, by then, that we were able to do it and, I think, with incredible results.

  John Noble

  Team, Thinking, Special

  Source: collider.com

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• [Fringe] was just about doing the job, or trying to do the job, properly. It was never a job that you could rest on your laurels. It was a very challenging 43 minutes of television that we were shooting, every week.

  John Noble

  Jobs, Challenges, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.

  John Noble

  Fun, Avid, Talking

  Source: collider.com

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