Phenomenon Quotes - Page 20

• Death, the real simile for disease - for when we are ill, do we not always feel like we are dying, even if it's only a little? - remains, despite our secularism, the most metaphoricised phenomenon of all.

  Will Self

  Real, Dying, Disease

  "Will Self: The trouble with my blood" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

  Edmund White

  Sex, Hate, War

  States of Desire: Travels in Gay America "Afterword - AIDS: An American Epidemic" (1986)

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• I think everyone is very surprised at how matrix has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Thinking, Culture, Pops

  "Laurence Fishburne for 'The Matrix Reloaded'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. May 5, 2003.

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• Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

  Daniel Dennett

  Illusion, Found, Humans

  Daniel C. Dennett (2004). “Freedom Evolves”, p.269, Penguin

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• I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I think he is very astute. McEwan, I read a bit. But I suppose it's more the ideological phenomenon that they represent together that interests me.

  Terry Eagleton

  Reading, Thinking, Together

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• Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Civilization, America, Secret

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.

  Wim Wenders

  Cinema

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Evil, Good And Evil, Humans

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• Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.

  William Crookes

  Writing, Law, Pills

  Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Society for Psychical Research (London, England), Henry Sidgwick, Balfour Stewart, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (Earl of) (1912). “Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911”

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• As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Neurosurgeons, Near Death

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• Lost' was a phenomenon, like Elvis.

  John Cho

  Lost

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• I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

  Stockard Channing

  Technology, Thinking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because all of biology is connected, one can often make a breakthrough with an organism that exaggerates a particular phenomenon, and later explore the generality.

  Thomas Cech

  Biology, Breakthrough, Connected

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". Interview with Holger Breithaupt, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Just because you're a star on television doesn't mean that you can be a music phenomenon or an artist. You have to have the material to back it, and it's all about hit songs. I can name you every "Idol" winner and why they didn't go on to have success - their songs. The ones who have - their songs.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Song, Stars, Mean

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.

  John Doerr

  Vanity, Reader, Wells

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• The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

  Leon Foucault

  Invisible, Unstoppable, Born

  "Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science". Book by Amir D. Aczel, 2000.

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• Because of social media, a lot of people think they can be, like, a rapper or a singer or a musician because they can put something on YouTube and it might become a thing because there's - like - YouTube phenomenons and whatnot, you know? It's not like they dedicated years to it or anything. It's annoying.

  Sky Ferreira

  Thinking, Rapper, Media

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  Ed Gillespie

  Maybe Tomorrow, Office, President

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• Perhaps 'Big Bang' fans feel so protective of the show because it is, despite being a hit show on a big network, something of a word-of-mouth phenomenon.

  Johnny Galecki

  Bangs, Fans, Mouths

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• I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

  Alice Englert

  Thinking, People, Quality

  "Alice Englert, Alden Ehrenreich on 'Beautiful Creatures' and Teenage Sexuality". The Moviefone Interview, www.moviefone.com. February 14, 2013.

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• Both life-planning and the adoption of lifestyle options become (in principle) integrated with bodily regimes. It would be quite short-sighted to see this phenomenon only in terms of changing ideals of bodily appearance (such as slimness or youthfulness), or as solely brought about by the commodifying influence of advertising. We become responsible for the design of our own bodies, and in a certain sense noted above are forced to do so the more post-traditional the social contexts in which we move.

  Anthony Giddens

  Moving, Adoption, Design

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.107, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear them here. I can't tell you what that phenomenon is.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Europe, Opera, I Can

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• Every phenomenon of nature was a word, - the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas.

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Ideas, Community, Energy

  "Sämtliche Werken, vol. III". Book by Josef Nadler, 1949-1957.

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• The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Oddities, Ideas

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