Really Deep Quotes

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.

  Christina Aguilera

  Funny, Ocean, Dumb

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• I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

  Diana Ross

  Positive, Dream, Believe

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• If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.

  Sonia Braga

  Kids, What Is Love, House

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• I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Technology, Numbers, People

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.

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• You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  People, Novel, Knows

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.

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• Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

  Utada Hikaru

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

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• I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

  Emma Bell

  Dark, Ghost Stories, Russia

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• At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

  Charles Duhigg

  Weakness, Moments, Behavior

  "Habits: How They Form And How To Break Them". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 5, 2012.

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• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple, to truly understand the underlying challenges and come up with elegant solutions. [...] It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep. [...] You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

  Steve Jobs

  Hard Work, Simple, Order

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• Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.

  Jennifer Beals

  People, Identity, Culture

  "The Chicago Code: Interview With Jennifer Beals". Interview with Lynn DeVries, tvdramawatch.com. February 04, 2011.

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• I've always worked to find really deep meaning of song and also at the same time having it covered in sugar, so it can be taken two or three different ways.

  Jack White

  Song, Taken, Two

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Expression, Appreciate, Style

  Charles Kingsley (1877). “Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.56

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• When someone is beautiful, that gives people an excuse to go out of their way to be mean, as if someone who's beautiful isn't really deep, doesn't really hurt and isn't really a human being.

  Cybill Shepherd

  Beautiful, Hurt, Mean

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• The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Ignorance, Benefits, Levels

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• Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence in Voltaire seems to advance the story, and yet stand alone as a sound-bite.

  Mark Ravenhill

  Appreciation, Writing, Stories

  Source: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com

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• You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?

  Ian Bogost

  Play, Ideas, Asking

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Music has always moved me really deeply, and it's always been more about that than about the desire to rebel or annoy people (although, I've had my moments of that as well). I think it was just years of maybe moving slightly away from it but always coming back to it as the thing that I'm best at.

  St. Lucia

  Moving, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.planetnotion.com

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• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Gone, Levels, May

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• All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another.

  William Saroyan

  Dirty, People, Comedian

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• AMANDA: I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives.

  Noel Coward

  Thinking, People, Normal

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.209, Vintage

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• In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

  June Jordan

  Way, Serious, Telling The Truth

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• Now, all the movies are for teenagers. It's very difficult for an actress to find really deep, beautiful characters to play.

  Monica Bellucci

  Beautiful, Teenager, Character

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• I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

  Laurie R. King

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Boys, People

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