Outlets Quotes

• Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Motivational Sports, Workout, Stress

  Arnold Schwarzenegger (2012). “Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.

  Terrell Owens

  Strong, Stress, Moving

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• If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

  Angelina Jolie

  Two Sides, Different, Mental Health

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• Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hunting, Impulse, Ancestor

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.452, Routledge

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• The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. As for myself, I'm not really sure who I am. I change every day.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Change, Character, Who I Am

  "Leonardo DiCaprio storms ‘The Beach’". Interview with David Neil, lasvegassun.com. February 16, 2000.

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• Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

  John Burroughs

  Fun, Work, Blessed

  John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.

  Don Cheadle

  Opportunity, People, Obsession

  "14 Questions With Don Cheadle". Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• The handful of corporations that own most of the media outlets have an interest in reflecting establishment views.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Views, Media, Corporations

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• I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

  Sidney Poitier

  I've Learned

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• Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Being Yourself, Media, Way

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• If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Education, Kids, School

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• I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Talking, Games

  "Anna Kendrick Talks PITCH PERFECT, Singing Live on Set, Interacting More on Twitter, Her Love of Reddit, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 5, 2012.

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• If I didn't have to worry about money, I would be doing the same thing I'm doing now. Additionally, I would maintain other creative outlets -- glassblowing and woodworking. I would operate a salon-format venue geared towards deviation; a destabilization of the audience/rock star dynamic.

  Jean Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Worry

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• People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.

  Jim Lehrer

  News Stories, People, Different

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". "CJR Daily" with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I want to be different, and fashion gives me that outlet to do that.

  Ryan Lochte

  Fashion, Giving, Different

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• I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

  Judd Nelson

  Frustration, Relax, Difficult

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• I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

  Christina Aguilera

  Hurt, Anger, Frustration

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• 'SNL' is probably one of the premiere outlets that a musician can perform on that isn't obviously a music outlet.

  Miguel

  Musician, Snl, Premieres

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• The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.

  John F. Kennedy

  Real, Events, Purpose

  Speech at the Mormon Tabernacle, delivered 26 September 1963, Salt Lake City, Utah

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• I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.

  Tinsel Korey

  Art, Kids, Sensitive Person

  Source: collider.com

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• For being able to use language was a critical skill that could carry one far. One could use it professionally, as a crafter of everything from political speeches to modern novels. One could use it personally, as a tool of discovery or a means of staying connected to others. One could use it as an outlet that would feed the artistic spirit of the creator, which existed in everyone.

  Elizabeth George

  Mean, Modern Novel, Skills

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• Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.

  Kevin Munroe

  Sketching, Lawyer, Found

  Source: collider.com

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• The best thing about the Internet is that it's limited to however you want to do it. You don't gotta talk to everybody, just use it as a outlet.

  E-40

  Use, Want, Internet

  Source: licensed2ill.wordpress.com

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• It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

  David Byrne

  Art, Emotional, Ideas

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.

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