Magnet Quotes - Page 9

• If people are speaking about something passionately and if they have a level of intelligence about it and if they're sufficiently informed, it's going to be like a magnet to people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Levels, Ifs

  "Rush Limbaugh denies claims he told caller not to watch Fox News". "The Five", Fox News Show, www.foxnews.com. July 10, 2013.

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• I think that I've always written about things that are very personal, but initially, I coded everything. I buried everything under layers and layers and layers of code, but the signifiers of my emotionality were there for me. I knew where the magnets were, behind the gyprock, and the magnets were very powerful. I think they had to be powerful for me, otherwise the reader wouldn't have a reciprocal experience.

  William Gibson

  Powerful, Thinking, Layers

  "William Gibson Globe and Mail Story". Interview with Cory Doctorow, craphound.com. November 23, 1999.

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• Rocks are like wreck magnets and ships run aground today in pretty much the same locations and for the same reasons they did thousands of years ago.

  E. Lee Spence

  Running, Rocks, Years

  "Concordia Not the First Sunk by Treacherous Reef" by Rossella Lorenzi, Discovery News, February 7, 2012.

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• All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and peace, God and man are reconciled; for the cross is the magnet which sends the electric current through the telegraph between earth and heaven, and makes both Testaments thrill, through the ages of the past and future, with living, harmonious, and saving truth.

  Edward Thomson

  Past, Men, Heaven

  Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.304

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• Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions consciously or deliberately, but out of the fear that if we don't act on a need, it will never get resolved. ... But we fail to realize that once we become responsible for something, we may be responsible to it forever.

  Pat Heim

  Responsibility, Sight, Goal

  Pat Heim, Susan K. Golant (2005). “Hardball for Women: Revised Edition”, p.211, Penguin

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• I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

  Ashley Greene

  School, Years, Law

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• When you start loving, your character becomes like the positive side of a magnet and the one you love becomes negative, that pulls people close to you in union, and becomes very difficult to separate.

  Michael Bassey

  Character, Love Is, People

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• Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

  Robin Green

  Father, Cells, Opposites

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Full Upright Position')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, November 07, 1994.

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• A temptation is the universe's gracious way of allowing a soul to evolve without creating negative karma. In other words, a temptation is like a magnet that draws to awareness, negativity, that would otherwise create negative karma if it remained unconscious. A temptation is a dress rehearsal for a negative karmic act.

  Gary Zukav

  Karma, Creating, Negativity

  Source: www.williamjames.com

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• A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Combination, Needed, Labour

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Here's a simple experiment that you might want to try if there is absolutely nothing else going on in your life. All you need is a cork, a bar magnet, and a pail of water. Simply attach your magnet to your cork, then drop it into the water, and voilà (literally, "you have a compass")-you have a compass. How does it work? Simple. Notice that, no matter which way you turn the bucket, the cork always floats on top of the water (unless the magnet is too heavy). Using this scientific principle, early hardy mariners were able to tell at a glance whether they were sinking!

  Dave Barry

  Science, Simple, Water

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• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  Blessing, People, May

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Race, Police

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• I know how I live my life. I have a little magnet brain that attracts the kind of things that obsess me.

  Sophie Calle

  Brain, Littles, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Art, Car, Sound

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

  Rosita Forbes

  Writing, Names, Space

  Rosita Forbes (1928). “Adventure”

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• I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

  John Irving

  Worst Case Scenario, Stories, Kind

  "Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2015.

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• If you were born by the sea, there's always a magnet that draws you back there.

  Marc Almond

  Sea, Born, Draws

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

  Marc Almond

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm just concerned that as long as this caliphate exists, it provides this magnet for radicalization, and we're likely to see more attacks like we have seen in San Bernardino, Chattanooga and elsewhere, and that's the concern I have over pace.

  Adam Schiff

  Long, Pace, Concern

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, none of them were born in Vienna. They all moved there. It became a magnet, but what made it magnetized in the first place? There has to be a seed there. In the case of Vienna of about 1780, it was this deep-seated love of music.

  Eric Weiner

  Firsts, Vienna, Music Love

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

  Steve Irwin

  Thinking, Environmental, Gone

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• Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.

  David Shenk

  Lines, Giants, Microsoft

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• When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law, men will use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they have passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket.

  Ayn Rand

  Believe, Winning, Men

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• I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North!

  Marc Almond

  Up North, Scary, Aggression

  Source: thequietus.com

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