Introducing Quotes - Page 21

• I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.

  Luc Delahaye

  Distance, Heart, Views

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• It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.

  George W. Bush

  Adversity, Written

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• Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the issue of gender to construct an image of oppression or to describe the 'silenced' Iranian woman, western intellectuals, policymakers, and publishing houses are all quick to introduce them as presenters of the authentic Iranian experience.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Issues, Publishing House, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Charles V used to say that "the more languages a man knew, he was so many more times a man." Each new form of human speech introduces one into a new world of thought and life. So in some degree is it in traversing other continents and mingling with other races. As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Race, Wings

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• The human mind thinks but to complicate. As soon as one problem is solved, that solution introduces new complications, other problems that perhaps did not exist before. That was one of my great troubles when I was younger, I invented many things that were very fine, but always I was getting into complications. I have had to work very hard to overcome that.

  Nikola Tesla

  Thinking, Mind, Overcoming

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• My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.

  Miles Teller

  Senior, Mom, School

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

  Stephanie Mills

  Spiritual, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Introducing Tac-os! It's meat, cheese, and lettuce flavored O's in a tortilla bowl... it even makes the milk taste like tacos!

  Harry Styles

  Taste, Tacos, Milk

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• We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1974). “Toward the one”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.

  Gish Jen

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Children, People, Transition

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• I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.

  Patrick Stewart

  Promise, Trying, Want

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• We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it. It was gratifying to see the people who embraced it immediately and understood it and got into it. They have tracked the characters through the six episodes, so it felt that now we can launch into the journey element of it. And really explore more of the Badlands.

  Miles Millar

  Confused, Character, Journey

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Cat cleared her throat in the tense silence that followed. "Uh, before this goes any further, let’s at least introduce ourselves to your friend. I’m Cat, and this is my husband, Bones. We’re part of Mencheres’ twisted little fang family."

  Jeaniene Frost

  Husband, Cat, Silence

  "Eternal Kiss of Darkness". Book by Jeaniene Frost, July 27, 2010.

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• Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

  George Eliot

  Order, Chaos, Harmony

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.233, Penguin

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• [My novels] introduce levels of intelligence ... moral doubt [and] self-doubt, which may not pertain [to real-world espionage].

  John le Carre

  Real, Self, Doubt

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• After Cannes every year, I end up going to some foreign country I've never been to before and introducing myself to a new religion - I'll go to Bali and research Hinduism, or I'll go to Thailand and get another tattoo from Thai tattoo artist Ajarn Noo Kanpai.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Tattoo, Country, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm drawn to the stuff that's maybe a little bit on the fringe. Part of that is just practical sometimes. We can't compete with the major labels for some acts, so you figure, "Okay, what could I introduce to people, or what do I like that is within my means?"

  David Byrne

  Mean, People, Sometimes

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• The goal of a definition is to introduce a mathematical object. The goal of a theorem is to state some of its properties, or interrelations between various objects. The goal of a proof is to make such a statement convincing by presenting a reasoning subdivided into small steps each of which is justified as an "elementary" convincing argument.

  IU?. I. Manin

  Goal, Definitions, Steps

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• Let me introduce you to Jesus.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Let Me

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• When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

  David Mazzucchelli

  Artist, Groups, Designer

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• The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping.

  John Naisbitt

  Technology, Rocks, Shopping

  John Naisbitt (1983). “High tech/high touch”

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• If I can introduce someone to something new, as is constantly happening to me, then I am elated

  Trevor Dunn

  Something New, Happenings, Ifs

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• The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Plato, Order

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.

  Virginia Graham

  Two, People, Elements

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