Long Ago Quotes - Page 15

• Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

  George Harrison

  Home, Good Friend, Life Is

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

  Coco Chanel

  Boys, Moral, Arthur

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• I remember reading in a comedy book very long ago when I first started, a person said there's a difference between a sense of humor and a sense of funny. A sense of humor is knowing what makes you laugh and a sense of funny is knowing what makes other people laugh. The journey of comedy, in a sense, is negotiating those two worlds.

  Baron Vaughn

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of giving up on Africa, saying we're Americans. We are Americans. I'm not arguing that point. So are the Italians. So are the Germans. So are the Jews. We're Americans with an historical geography of origins outside of the United States as all people, maybe except the indigenous Americans who came here so long ago, who have generations of people whose historical origins are right here but whose initial historical origins are somewhere in Asia.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Giving Up, Rights, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I've long ago felt, I have many Jewish friends and I very I think creative Jewish friends, and I've long felt that the average Christian didn't realize the tremendous capacity for civic righteousness among our Jewish people.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Christian, Thinking, Average

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Ideas, Sorrow, Foundation

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

  Mark Twain

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Profound, Feelings

  Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (p. 85), 1956.

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• Not to admire, is all the art I know To make men happy, or to keep them so. Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?

  Lord Byron

  Art, Men, Admiration

  Lord Byron (2017). “Don Juan”, p.263, BookRix

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• We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think about how we stack up, how we sit on top of each other. How we pray that we know what we're up to.

  Wangechi Mutu

  Technology, Thinking, Perspective

  "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. October 12, 2013.

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• Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.

  Billy Corgan

  Creativity, Artist, Expectations

  "A Conversation With Billy Corgan Part II". Interview with Sharon London, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [The dancing] was a challenge. It was fun, though. I was nervous, at first, because I danced so long ago that it was weird picking it back up.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Fun, Dancing, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

  Dalai Lama

  War, Chinese, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity.

  Dalai Lama

  Creativity, People, Society Today

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.

  Nikka Graff Lanzarone

  Song, Night, Musical

  "BWW Interview: The Ensemblist Podcast Returns for a Second Season". Interview with Ashlee Latimer, www.broadwayworld.com. September 4, 2016.

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• I've tried it long ago, with hashish and peyote. Fascinating, yes, but no good, no. This, as we find in alcohol, is an escape from awareness, a cheat, a momentary substitution, and in the end a destruction of it.

  Conrad Aiken

  Alcohol, Peyote, Awareness

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• Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Years, Personality, Said

  "Writing Lessons From the Madly Prolific Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. September 10, 2016.

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• Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

  Max Lucado

  Book, Our World, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Long ago I decided that this program has nothing to do, the success of the program depends nothing at all on who wins or loses elections. "Are you abandoning [Donald] Trump?" No, no, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just explaining. I should have told you. I get emails constantly from people asking me when am I going to Trump Tower. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Should Have, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

  Kate Bush

  Two, People, Saws

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

  Adam Hochschild

  Mother, Talking, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Mistakes were made long ago. It is someone else's fault. We can't be held responsible, but we are very sorry.

  Kyle Minor

  Sorry, Mistake, Faults

  Kyle Minor (2008). “In the Devil's Territory: Stories”

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• I have a big, long episode [in Full Circle] with Calista [Flockhart], and then my character actually carries out through a lot of it because he was a cop investigating this crime. But it is almost hard to remember, even though it wasn't that long ago. We shot it so fast. We literally shot that whole episode in one day.

  Eric McCormack

  Character, Circles, One Day

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'd love to do a musical actually. My background is in music. I have a bachelors in music. I thought that I was going to be a composer, long ago when I first started. So it was amazingly fun to do those two routines in the film.

  Ivan Reitman

  Fun, Two, Musical

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Press Conference, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Falsehoods which we spurn today, were the truths of long ago.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Long, Today, Falsehood

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

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