Intriguing Quotes - Page 5

• An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.

  Becky Freeman

  Powerful, Mind, Aphrodisiac

  Becky Freeman, Becky Freeman Johnson (1996). “Marriage 911”, B & H Publishing Group

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• The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.

  Imre Lakatos

  Philosophy, Guidance, Blind

  Imre Lakatos (1976). “Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery”, p.2, Cambridge University Press

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• The criteria [to take or refuse the role] is that I would love to have some kind of dialogue or communication with the director. I need to understand that we can communicate and that we like communication. That's something I have to have a strong feeling about. Secondly, I have to find the script intriguing or interesting. I don't have to understand the whole script, but I do have to find it intriguing. If those two things are present, that would probably be a yes.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Strong, Communication, Two

  Source: collider.com

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• One of life's intriguing paradoxes is that hierarchical social order makes cheap rents and outré artists' colonies possible. Raffish bohemian neighborhoods flourished in the days of racial segregation; under integration the artistic poor have no safe places in which to create.... If America lacks a vigorous culture it is partly because studios and ateliers have become crack houses.

  Florence King

  Artist, America, Order

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• Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his motherfor rootedness and anchoring. He can count on his father to be just different enough from a mother. Fathers embody a delicious mixture of familiarity and novelty. They are novel without being strange or frightening.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Mother, Baby, Father

  Louise J. Kaplan (1978). “Oneness and separateness: from infant to individual”, Simon & Schuster

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• The idea of Rambo is kind of intriguing as a closing chapter. When you shoot a film as a sequel to do another sequel it's a whole other tone. But when you know it's the final chapter you try and put in there as much emotion, understanding and closure as you can. So, whereas Rocky is a lighter character and optimistic, Rambo is much darker.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Optimistic, Character, Ideas

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.

  Paulette Jiles

  Home, Character, Stories

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• I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.

  Glenn Turner

  Team, Games, Interesting

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• I couldn't draw anything that was too outlandish or too horrible. I never did that. What I did draw was something intriguing. There was something about this monster that you could live with. If you saw him you wouldn't faint dead away.

  Jack Kirby

  Monsters, Saws, Horrible

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

  RuPaul

  Night, Masculine And Feminine, Opposites

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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• I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me. It's not just clothing or style that I had interest in, it was more the marketing side of things that I had intrigue in.

  Ashley Purdy

  Fashion, Style, Marketing

  Source: marleymagazine.com

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• As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.

  Glenn Kotche

  Player, Rocks, Typical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing.

  Joe Torre

  Way, Yeah, Revenue

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• Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.

  Kurt Angle

  Sports, Real, Wrestling

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. June 23, 2005.

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• I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.

  Simon Jenkins

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

  David Levinthal

  Way, Toys, Levels

  David Levinthal, Charles Stainback, Richard Woodward, International Center of Photography (1997). “David Levinthal, work from 1975-1996”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• I wouldn't say I'm fixated on describing any kind of relationship whether it is a father and a son, or a family. I don't like it when people say that I'm particularly following the same line or that I'm only interested in family dramas. I'm interested in human relationships. The most intimate, the most delicate, and the most intriguing relationships are those within a family.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Father, Drama, Son

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There is something about the Himalayas not possessed by the Alps, something unseen and unknown, a charm that pervades every hour spent among them, a mystery intriguing and disturbing. Confronted by them, a man loses his grasp of ordinary things, perceiving himself as immortal, an entity capable of outdistancing all changes, all decay, all life, all death.

  Frank Smythe

  Men, Unseen, Ordinary

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• I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Interesting, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It constantly amazes me that men and women wander the earth marveling at the highest mountains, the deepest ocean, the whitest sands, the most exotic islands, the most intriguing birds of the air and fish of the sea - and all the time never stop to marvel at themselves and realize their infinite potential as human beings.

  Matthew Kelly

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.16, BookBaby

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• But if you don't understand that story is character and not just idea, you will not be able to breathe life into even the most intriguing flash of inspiration.

  Elizabeth George

  Inspiration, Character, Ideas

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• ..every Man has a Property in his own Person. This no Body has any Right to but himself. The Labour of his Body, and the Work of his Hands, we may say, are properly his. .... The great and chief end therefore, of Mens uniting into Commonwealths, and putting themselves under Government, is the Preservation of their Property.

  John Locke

  Men, Hands, Liberty

  Second Treatise of Civil Government ch. 9, sec. 124 (1690)

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• I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Party, Believe, Knitting

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• The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Liberty, Libertarian

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.146, Vintage

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• I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheist, Religion, President

  "Christianity: the One, the Many: What Christianity Might Have Been and Could Still Become, Volume 1". Book by John F. Nash (p. 11), February 14, 2008.

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