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• I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.

  Yanni

  Writing, Frustration, Waiting

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• What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Chinese, Faces

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• I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

  Richard Rohr

  Self, Years, Shadow

  Richard Rohr (2011). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.128, John Wiley & Sons

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• Sometimes,doing nothing is the best reaction.

  Bob Woodward

  Doing Nothing, Sometimes, Counterinsurgency

  Bob Woodward (2011). “Obama's Wars”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

  John Avlon

  Opposites, Lines, Action

  John Avlon (2014). “Wingnuts: Extremism in the Age of Obama”, p.30, Beast Books

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• Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.

  Lodewijk Prins

  Games, Remembrance, Brain

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• I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

  Laurence Housman

  Healthy, Trying, Orthodoxy

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• I think it's one of the most natural things for any human to do is to be able to run because it's that flight or fight reaction you have. You either fight or you run away. It's just a natural way for us to move.

  Zola Budd

  Running, Moving, Fighting

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• I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.

  Richard Ernst

  Air, House, Parent

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• People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

  LaToya London

  People, Emotion

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Switzerland, Germany

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• John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough, and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. Regardless of whether one agrees with his conclusions, his work is mandatory reading for anyone who is open-minded and serious about the gun control issue. Especially fascinating is his account of the often unscrupulous reactions to his research by gun control advocates, academic critics, and the news media.

  Gary Kleck

  Reading, Gun, Media

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• The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

  Samuel Alexander

  Perception, Mind, Objects

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• Perhaps the more "operatic" video pieces were a reaction to my knit sculpture, which kept me isolated for so long in the studio that the videos were a way for me to be social and flamboyant and to change my mind all the time. Because when I did the knit pieces, once I committed myself to a piece, I was locked into an idea, and the only thing that could really move was my mind. The early video pieces were a way for me to express what was going on in my mind.

  Oliver Herring

  Moving, Ideas, Long

  "Collaborating with Strangers". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• When I come across writing that really moves me and inspires me, my reaction is twofold. I want to share it with others and I want to draw something that is worthy of it. I love finding quotes that stop people-that really make them think. And I love the idea that my work, combined with meaningful words, can provide comfort or inspiration to someone.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Meaningful, Moving, Inspiration

  Mary Engelbreit, Patrick Regan (2006). “Artful Words: Mary Engelbreit and the Illustrated Quote”, p.53, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Many people do not distinguish between something that happens to them and their reaction to it.  Yet it isn't the event or situation that holds the emotional charge; it's our beliefs that create our response.

  Chip Conley

  Emotional, People, Events

  Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• I really was very impressed with DMX during the whole experience on 'Romeo Must Die.' I like working with him. I liked him. And I was very impressed with the reaction of the audience when he was in the picture.

  Joel Silver

  Audience, Whole, Dies

  "Interview with Exit Wounds Stars Steven Seagal, Jill Hennessy and Producer Joel Silver". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 15, 2001.

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• How many snapshots in the world were actually just-after shots, the moment that elicited the shooter to press the button never captured; instead, the detritus just following, the laughter, the reaction, the ripples.

  Reif Larsen

  Laughter, Buttons, Snapshots

  Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.137, Penguin

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• Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.

  John Anthony West

  Ideas, Mind, World

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• Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

  Tim McIlrath

  Chance, Action, Planets

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

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• My own reaction from a distance is that Pol Pot's demise as the leader of the Khmer Rouge was inevitable, and that his own paranoia did him in as much as anything else.

  Sydney Schanberg

  Distance, Leader, Demise

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• To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the possibilities in life are endless, and you cannot be prepared for every single thing. Therefore it's better to be able to move in a natural way, and not even physically but intuitively.

  Vladimir Vasiliev

  Art, Moving, Different

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• You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

  Gyorgy Konrad

  Courage, Believe, Thinking

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• So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.

  June Allyson

  Husband, Wife, Roles

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• When people have been traumatized, they are stuck in paralysis-the immobility reaction or abrupt explosions of rage.

  Peter A. Levine

  People, Rage, Explosions

  Peter A. Levine (2008). “Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body”, p.55, Sounds True

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