Refreshing Quotes - Page 5

• The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

  Frederick Rolfe

  Wall, Liars, Students

  Frederick Rolfe (1931). “A History of the Borgias”

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• That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.

  Brandon Boyd

  Morning, Fall, Sea

  "Interview with Incubus Frontman Brandon Boyd". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think all of us would agree that a lot of Christian radio sounds the same. A lot of music that comes out of Nashville kind of has a little bit of the same vibe. Because I don't live in Nashville, I surround myself with a culture and an influence that's outside that bubble. So when the church hears it, it's refreshing, and when the world hears it, it sounds like something they want to listen to.

  Dominic Balli

  Christian, Thinking, Nashville

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I like the way that American has become a kind of spiritual home even for people who have never seen it. American dreams are strongest of all in the hearts of people who have only seen America in their dreams. I think it's refreshing and reviving to go around the world and see how America still occupies this special place.

  Pico Iyer

  Spiritual, Dream, Home

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I thought immediately this is someone who is writing for the cinema. Not having to go through the tedious business of taking something from literature and making that awful leap that is so difficult to make anyway, from literature to cinema. It's refreshing to be able to deal with a subject like that, to be written where the driving force is the image on screen and you don't need any words. The more that we can do that [in film], the better.

  John Hurt

  Writing, Able, Awful

  Source: www.filmslatemagazine.com

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• We're doing a bunch of shoots with kids about the election, about politics, about racism. I like to talk about heavy topics with kids because you find out what their parents are feeding them at home, and then you find out their quick reactions to things. It's so refreshing when kids are so honest.

  Chelsea Handler

  Home, Kids, Racism

  Source: variety.com

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• It was simultaneously refreshing and a bit shocking to see how cavalierly most Aussies toss out slurs and insults about nonwhites.

  Jim Goad

  Toss, Insult, Aussies

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I remember seeing Stand by Me, when I was around 12, and just feeling like, "This is so refreshing to see kids swear and smoke cigarettes like my friends." It just felt much more real than the Sesame Street version of childhood that I'd been spoon-fed.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Real, Kids, Childhood

  "Paper Girls: Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang talk Volume 2". Interview With Nivea Serrao, ew.com. November 29, 2016.

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• You may find somebody refreshing until they drop the N-word on you and then you're no longer feeling refreshed, you're just feeling offended. And where we draw that line as a society is sort of akin to what the Supreme Court said on pornography, you know, you know it when you see it. And it's different for each person.

  Megyn Kelly

  Feelings, Different, Lines

  "Megyn Kelly On Trump And The Media: 'We're In A Dangerous Phase Right Now'". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. December 7, 2016.

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• We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."

  B. J. Porter

  Stupid, Writing, Stuff

  Source: www.dead-frog.com

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• Refreshing honesty has been getting me in trouble since I was five, but it's probably had some positive effects - like not being a liar.

  William Monahan

  Honesty, Liars, Trouble

  Source: collider.com

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• I listen to everything. As I told you, sometimes I just want to shut off from music and be silent. Then I play a song and it's refreshing. It's almost like initializing yourself. Recently I was in South Africa doing a press day for my tour. I listened to this band called "Freshly Ground." They were doing a live gig there so that's the last thing I've heard.

  A. R. Rahman

  Song, Play, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the most refreshing changes I've seen in recent years is the blending of genres - the pushing past the hard-and-fast lines of specific publishing categories.

  Andrea Davis Pinkney

  Past, Years, Pushing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The biggest challenge [for movie Agnus dei] - working in a foreign country with a predominantly Polish cast and crew - also proved to be the biggest blessing. Being surrounded by all this change , [both] culturally [and] linguistically, was a new and refreshing inspiration.

  Anne Fontaine

  Country, Inspiration, Blessing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• A man in trouble laments that he did not listen to his teachers, and thus he finds himself in a sad state, utter ruin. A candid admission of a blunder is refreshing and not often heard in human affairs. It is the saint alone who is large-minded enough to think and speak in this way. This is part of his authenticity.The person who is swift to hear and slow to respond is a stranger to an all-knowing illuminism. He believes that others, too, have some truth, and he is willing to be instructed by them. He is ready for the mind of God.

  Thomas Dubay

  Teacher, Believe, Men

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• How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

  Jon Stewart

  Lapd, Beaten, Suspects

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• It's refreshing, honestly, to be able to have more intellectual conversations about sex and the meaning of sex, and intimacy and what that means in relationships. As a person in the world, it's on your mind. It's a part of your life, after a certain age until you're dead. So, to be able to examine it in a different way is really fulfilling.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Sex, Mean, Intellectual

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 2, 2013.

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• For me becoming a filmmaker was about taking back my voice - crafting stories that would move away from the problematic narratives that the studio system would put out about Latinos. I think this is why people like my films. They're refreshing. They feel more real.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.

  Pope Gregory I

  Heart, Luxury, Joy

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• It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is to see the young people who make up the membership of the Federalist Society. Earnest, intelligent, and unpretentious, these are the young men and women of whom any nation and any age could be proud.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Men, Intelligent

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• We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really discovered who Danny McBride was, as an actor. When I say we, I mean me and a crew and a small audience that would hit the art house. He'd never acted before, and it was a really refreshing, eye-opening experience to watch him unleash, in front of the camera, all this comedic potential that we knew he had, as a human being and as the guy doing keg-stands at the party.

  David Gordon Green

  Girl, Art, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• Leigh Bowery created outfits that made him look deformed, which was very brave. I believe this was the main thing that gave Leigh his edge. His designs were often breath-taking, but it was the way he used his body that was so utterly new and refreshing.

  Boy George

  Believe, Design, Brave

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play.

  Philip Glass

  Writing, Play, Symphony

  Interview with Bryce Dessner, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 3, 2014.

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• I think staying away from labels is what makes my films refreshing.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Thinking, Labels, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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