Intense Quotes - Page 33

• The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

  Ian MacKaye

  Trying, Sound, Band

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• The Lilith Fair thing was Bummer Town - hey, hop aboard the marginalizing train. I guess you had people come out of that and have careers, but I think there was a pretty intense backlash, too.

  St. Vincent

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it.

  Tony Visconti

  Fun, Vintage, Brain

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• I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

  Michael K. Williams

  Different, East, Culture

  "Omar Little is the gay stick-up man who robs drug dealers for a living in The Wire" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2008.

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• I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Years, People

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• To watch THE WAITING ROOM is to wish it would never end. This is human drama at its most intense and universal. The rare film that can change the way you think and see the world.

  Mick LaSalle

  Drama, Thinking, Waiting Rooms

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• The passage is free for those who think you are not good enough for them: at your level, I think the best option is to sit back, relax and listen to a cool music, while watching them pack out of your life, and that's when you feel the intense release from the pit of hell.

  Michael Bassey

  Thinking, Not Good Enough, Relax

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• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

  George Friedman

  War, Life And Death, Matter

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

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• When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

  Criss Jami

  Finding Yourself, Looks, Purpose

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.49, Criss Jami

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• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  Zoe Kazan

  Periods, Wells

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• If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job - it's your life. This is a very intense and hard business. But don't worry, trust life. Anything you want, you are capable of getting, it just takes a combination of effort and grace.

  Lori Goldstein

  Fashion, Jobs, Worry

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• As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make moments more intense.

  Victoria Legrand

  Depressing, Forever, Doe

  "Beach House and the curse of the big time". Interview with Sian Rowe, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

  Brady Anderson

  Relax, Needs, Sometimes

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• I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

  Iris DeMent

  People, Feelings, Imagine

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• If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Wisdom, Islamic, Religion

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• Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Land, Impossible, Paradox

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• There is, indeed, a most dangerous passage in the history of a democratic people. When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education and their experience of free institutions, the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint at the sight of new possessions they are about to obtain. In their intense and exclusive anxiety to make a fortune they lose sight of the close connection that exists between the private fortune of each and the prosperity of all.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Sight, Self

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• My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.

  David Plotz

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.

  Donal Logue

  Hbo, Pieces, Pilots

  "Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James Interview Terriers". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Weather, People, Curiosity

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline.

  John F. Kennedy

  Artist, Discovery, Discipline

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• What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Mistake, Passion, Stronger

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• The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Art, Eye, Autumn

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• Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Joy, Sorrow, Novelists

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.1744, Delphi Classics

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• Temperance, in the nobler sense, does not mean a subdued and imperfect energy; it does not mean a stopping short in any good thing, as in love and in faith; but it means the power which governs the most intense energy, and prevents its acting in way but as it ought.

  John Ruskin

  Mean, Acting, Energy

  John Ruskin (1860). “The Stones of Venice...”, p.5

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