Introducing Quotes - Page 2

• And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

  Caitlin Moran

  Party, Book, Library

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.74, Random House

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• One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Passion, Confusion, Understanding

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• What would they talk about? Hi, my name's Vane and I howl at the moon late at night in the form of a wolf. I sleep with your daughter and don't think I could live without her. Mind if I have a beer? Oh and while we're at it, let me introduce my brothers. This one here is a deadly wolf known to kill for nothing more than looking at him cross-eyed, and the other one is comatose because some vampires sucked the life out of him after we'd both been sentenced to death by our jealous father. Yeah, that would go over like a lead balloon.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Brother, Father

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Night Play”, p.304, Macmillan

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• And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.

  Kid Rock

  Song, People, Together

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• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  Harold Ramis

  Gun, Play, Criminals

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May - November 2005.

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• I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor.

  John Prescott

  Thinking, Mph, Two

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• Introducing 'Lite': the new way to spell 'Light'; but with twenty per cent fewer letters.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Hilarious, Light, Twenties

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• I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something.

  Matt Groening

  Sorry, Party, People

  "The Creative Gang Behind The Simpsons Movie Speak!". Interview With B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Organization, History, Historical

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• I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Different, Use

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• We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...

  Richard Branson

  Sleep, Night, People

  "Travel: Bigger, faster, fancier". Interview with Kalin Thomas-Samuel, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2000.

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• A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening. It must make them dream and pleasantly introduce them to the universe of love.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Dream, Song, Listening

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• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Cameras, Doe

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

  Roseanne Barr

  Israel, Pay, Bills

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Propping the mirror against the wall near the door, he waved a hand at it and clipped, "Drustan: Cian MacKeltar. Cian: Drustan MacKeltar." "Dageus," Drustan's voice was soft as velvet, never a good sign, "why are you introducing me to a mirror?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Wall, Mirrors, Doors

  Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1651, Dell

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• Let me introduce my friend, Cat.’ The redhead, and for some reason, she looked familiar. ‘Her husband Bones’ – here Vlad smiled coolly at the short-haired brunet – ‘is not my friend.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Husband, Cat, Bones

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• When Rudy Giuliani became mayor of New York in 1993, his belief in the 'Broken Windows' theory led him to implement the 'Zero Tolerance' crime policy. Crime dropped dramatically, significantly, and continued to for the next ten years. Personally, I feel the time has come for women to introduce their own Zero Tolerance policy on the Broken Windows issues in our lives - I want a Zero Tolerance policy on 'All The Patriarchal Bullshit'.

  Caitlin Moran

  New York, Zero, Issues

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  Henri Poincare

  Order, Giving, Unity

  "Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics". Book by Rahul Sarpeshkar (p. 3), 2010.

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• Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

  Shimon Peres

  Israel, People, Weapons

  "Shimon Peres: what you need to know about Israel's outgoing president" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2014.

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• In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

  Shimon Peres

  Country, Iran, Order

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• Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Girl

  Jane Austen, J. B. Austen Leigh (1898). “Mansfield Park”

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• By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.

  Antonin Artaud

  Suicide, Suicidal, Reality

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• I didn't introduce thug life to America. Thug life is America. I don't get why the whole world is fearing me. I am scared, but so are they. It's like I am having a panic attack cause I have 15,000 people wanting to do what I want, listing to everything I say.

  Tupac Shakur

  Thug, Rapper, America

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• Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

  Frantz Fanon

  University Degrees, Expression, Common Sense

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• Be ordinary, but bring a quality of awareness to your ordinary life. Bring God to your ordinary life introduce God into your ordinary life. Sleep, eat, love, pray, meditate, but don’t think that you are making or doing something special—and then you will be special.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Thinking, Special

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