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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• 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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• 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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• A book is not a tweet. A book is not a half-hour television show. A book requires for both reader and writer sustained discipline attention. It asks you to immerse yourself in something and really deeply feel it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Book, Discipline, Half

  Source: www.slate.com

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• In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Business operators that really deeply care about their employees and consumers deliver the right response every day.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Care, Employee, Consumers

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• I loved the Limey [movie]! It's so violent! And yet it's so exquisitely romanticized in a sort of Japanese way, it's a samurai film. Coming out of that, I was really deeply conflicted, because a friend who had seen it said, it's beautiful, but it's not about anything. it's one micron thick.

  William Gibson

  Beautiful, Samurai, Way

  Source: craphound.com

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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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• 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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• I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.

  Charlie Worsham

  Thinking, Roots, Tree

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• I was on Batman with "Superheavy" or "Zero Year" where there was a lot of fun and bombast, but it was also personal. [In All-Star], I wanted to take that to its complete extreme, like the end of the Earth extreme, where it's over-the-top humorous, yet at the same time really deeply about what I think is of this particular moment in time, at least for me. The things I'm terrified of and the things I'm hopeful about. My life is the page.

  Scott Snyder

  Stars, Zero, Fun

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.

  Mike Jackson

  Struggle, Thinking, Race

  Source: deadline.com

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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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• When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.

  Irina Tweedie

  Deep Love, Being Real, Beloved

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• Some of the best cooks that I've cooked with, whether it's in New York or Chicago or even here in Philadelphia, are actually Ecuadorians. And there's something about their palates that really just inspires me, and has a really deep sense of flavor.

  Jose Garces

  New York, Philadelphia, Inspire

  "Chef Jose Garces Follows His 'Latin Road Home'". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. October 4, 2012.

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• Sure, I do wish I sometimes got to play more heroes, but hey, I can't beat the fact that I am working constantly. Anyway, look at me. I'm six-four, three feet wide, have a really deep voice, and this face; I'm not precisely the romantic comedy stereotype, right?

  Brian Thompson

  Hero, Play, Voice

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• Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!

  Rupert Everett

  Cutting, Kissing, Giving

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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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• Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Roots, Goes On

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• People just didn't write songs that were so directly emotional in those days. They still don't. Part of Hank's [Williams] thing was that he was opening up about relationships between men and women in ways that nobody else did, and I think that's something that made him stand out so much. His songs are just so straightforward about these really deep feelings that are universal, but they're so hard to write about without sounding sappy or over the top. You think of men in that era - they didn't express themselves that way.

  Michael McCaul

  Song, Writing, Men

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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 like my baths really deep and hot. But washing everything only takes a few minutes. So I thought it would be a waste to just flush all that water away. So there was nothing else to do but take pictures of myself trying to look as horrendous as possible. Oh my, what have I started?

  Ricky Gervais

  Water, Trying, Waste

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Collaboration is vital to sustain what we call profound or really deep change, because without it, organizations are just overwhelmed by the forces of the status quo.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Profound, Humanity

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