Location Quotes

I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. That is an electron has spin, location and so forth even when it is not being measured. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

Albert Einstein

Independent, Reality, Thinking

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I'm easy. Put me in an interesting location with good people and I'm there.

Jane Curtin

People, Interesting, Easy

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A child's geographic location, race or parent's income level should not predetermine their life's course and it's up to us to see that they don't.

Joe Manchin

Children, Race, Parent

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I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.

Ernst Mayr

Population, Found, Isolated

Ernst Mayr (1988). “Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist”, Harvard University Press

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Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be.

Pedro Almodovar

Real, Moving, Work Out

Interview with Jose Arroyo, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2002.

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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

Flannery O'Connor

Peculiar, Problem, Eternity

Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.59, Macmillan

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When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

Satyajit Ray

Ideas, Important, Shooting

Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

Franz Beckenbauer

Heart, Germany, World

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Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.

Herb Ritts

Light, Two, Shadow

Herb Ritts, Paul Martineau, James Crump (2012). “Herb Ritts: L.A. Style”, p.3, Getty Publications

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The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.

Steve Buscemi

Care, Trends, Canada

Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2001.

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The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

James MacArthur

Night, Years, Shooting

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No, there are some location shoots in Vegas, maybe four trips a year. It's shot in Santa Clarita, CA.

George Eads

Years, Vegas, Four

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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash

Choices, Competition, Fellowship

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To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

Tom Berenger

Thinking, Vacation, Expression

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I like to drink to suit my location.

Tom Jones

Suits, Drink

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I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.

Wilford Brimley

Moving, Utah, Secret

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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.

Gavin MacLeod

Stars, Cutting, Ships

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A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

Sarah Palin

Men, Alaska, Global Warming

"Palin on global warming". www.theguardian.com. October 06, 2008.

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In the photographs themselves there's a definite contrast between the figures and the location - I like that kind of California backyard look; clapboard houses, staircases outdoors.

Helmut Newton

California, House, Backyards

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I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

Amber Tamblyn

Beach, Venice, Long

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Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Reid Hoffman

Valleys, Mindset, Silicon

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Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within our brains. And it is something that the individual alone can feel and experience. Each of us cherishes it highly, yet it is private.

Dalai Lama

Brain, Cherish, Awareness

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Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes.

Bette Davis

Years, Sound, Tough

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Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.

Conan O'Brien

Museums, African American, Republican

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I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

Janet Napolitano

Long, United States, Would Be

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