Remarkable Quotes - Page 31

• Given that the dreaming brain must perform these remarkable contortions - creating a world, living in it, responding to it, and then carefully blocking all the responses in a manner that does not cross the threshold of awareness - it is no wonder that this dreaming brain seems to be more active than the waking brain.

  William C. Dement

  Dream, Block, Creating

  William C. Dement (1996). “The sleepwatchers”

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• I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.

  Donatella Versace

  Fashion, Thinking, People

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

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• Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back. Remember writing doesn't love you. It doesn't care. Nevertheless, it can behave with remarkable generosity. Speak well of it, encourage others, pass it on.

  A.L. Kennedy

  Love You, Writing, Remember You

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• When I saw music as a means to an end - more fame, more money, dating celebrities - that's when things have gone terribly wrong. Now my life is focused on just trying to keep making music. Because when it's really good, it's just the most remarkable feeling on the planet.

  Moby

  Mean, Dating, Feelings

  "'The Humility That Comes From Being Hated': Moby Interviewed". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. May 09, 2011.

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• Even thought this is a remarkable story [The danish Girl] and these are two fascinating people in their own right, Lili's story had been in the public domain but this had somehow slipped out of sight. It seemed bizarre then but I couldn't have imagined releasing the film in a climate like today around trans issues and the comfort people have about it in the public eye.

  Lucinda Coxon

  Girl, Eye, Sight

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I talk about my grandmother a lot, because she's an amazing person - not in some dramatic, distinct, unique way, but anybody who is the daughter of enslaved people and who has found a way to be hopeful and create love and value justice and seek peace is a remarkable person.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Daughter, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.

  Julia Stiles

  Country, New York, Believe

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• New York has inspired more remarkable music than any other city I can think of.

  Moby

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.

  Garth Greenwell

  Book, Gay, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are fewer Arabs in Tel Aviv, one of the largest cities in the Middle East, than there are in Chicago, the largest city in the American Midwest. How do you accomplish such a remarkable feat of social engineering without massive violence?

  Max Blumenthal

  Engineering, Cities, Violence

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We`re seeing something fairly remarkable happen on the political train. We`re seeing the Washington establishment abandoning Marco Rubio. I think they`ve made the determination that Marco can`t win. And they`re rushing to support Donald Trump.

  Ted Cruz

  Determination, Winning, Thinking

  "All In" with Chris Hayes, www.msnbc.com. January 21, 2016.

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• The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white paper bag. And yet, I did some remarkable things. And later on, there were periods where I got this mission to find an articulate voice with rewrites and all. There were periods where I was as dense as Faulkner.

  Richard Meltzer

  Writing, Years, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the Twenties, it wasn't a remarkable thing for a singer to be an actor, or even to be involved in politics. If this is our roots, how can you blame the branches for following the course of the roots.

  Terrence Howard

  Roots, Twenties, Actors

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• When you really do feel like an alien, and you really do feel like a space creature, and you really do feel you want to experiment and dress up and be different every day, to find what looks best but never stick to one thing... Just the fact that that was offered to those kids during that time is pretty remarkable.

  Todd Haynes

  Kids, Space, Dresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One thing about Andy Warhol that was remarkable and also key to his widespread appeal is that he was so open! He would get on the phone and talk to the kid who called to say he was a fan - you know, Andy would walk from his house every morning down to the Factory carrying a bunch of Interviews - people would stop him and he would sign them, and what have you.

  Bob Colacello

  Morning, Kids, Keys

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.

  Aaron Brookner

  New York, Thinking, Years

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in.I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.

  Stephan James

  Beautiful, Hero, Cutting

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• Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

  Ted Cruz

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis.

  Ted Cruz

  Two, Trump, Evidence

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• In quantum mechanics there is A causing B. The equations do not stand outside that usual paradigm of physics. The real issue is that the kinds of things you predict in quantum mechanics are different from the kinds of things you predict using general relativity. Quantum mechanics, that big, new, spectacular remarkable idea is that you only predict probabilities, the likelihood of one outcome or another. That's the new idea.

  Brian Greene

  Real, Ideas, Issues

  "Professor Brian Greene answers everything you wanted to know about string theory and the multiverse". "Lateline", www.abc.net.au. February 26, 2016.

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• Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.

  Philip Kitcher

  People, Tragedy, Males

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• But if the cow is purple, you'd notice it, OK? The thing that's going to decide what gets talked about, what gets done, what gets changed, what gets purchased, what gets built is, is it remarkable? And remarkable's a really cool word 'cause we think it just means neat, but it also means worth making a remark about, and that is the essence of where idea diffusion is going.

  Seth Godin

  Mean, Thinking, Essence

  "What Makes An Idea Go Viral?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. March 4, 2016.

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• I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.

  Frederick Buechner

  Real, Healing, Term

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Looks, Shapes, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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