Routes Quotes - Page 5

• I always feel in a funny place when I'm really asked to inform people, so I just try to take the more absurdist route - like, "this is how you could do it, but it's actually turning into a cat now. This might happen at home I guess, but it probably won't."

  Thu Tran

  Home, Cat, People

  "Thu Tran’s Wacky Snacks". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. July/August 2010.

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• The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

  Gilles Kepel

  Views, Middle East, Democratization

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs.

  Jill Biden

  Jobs, College, Years

  Source: on.mtv.com

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• Authenticity is the best route

  Joel Comm

  Authenticity

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• Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.

  Adrian Tomine

  Black And White, Years, Issues

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fun, Black, Dresses

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Perception, Why Not

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• I'm never going back to the past. It is like when I am driving - I never like to do those routes that take you backwards and make you go the long way. I always like to do the shortcuts and go forward.

  Andrea Arnold

  Past, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• There are, after all, approaches to be made other than the dependable routes that massage sentimental expectations and provide easy opportunities for emotional identification.

  Peter Greenaway

  Opportunity, Emotional, Expectations

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• I often think of those marvelous weeks spent in the Waddington Range in 1950. 2 new routes on the northern side of the peak and the 3rd ascent of the mountain as well. Waddington is one of the more beautiful peaks in all of Canada and it's only 175 miles north of Vancouver. B.C.!!

  Allen Steck

  Beautiful, Thinking, Mountain

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• Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.

  Doug Scott

  Eight, Climbing, Years

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• I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they're children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.

  Kim Zmeskal

  Children, People, Understanding

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• Christianity had never been more itself, more consistent with Jesus and more evidently en route to its own future, than in the launching of the world mission.

  Ben F. Meyer

  Jesus, World, Christianity

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• With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!

  Robbie Williams

  War, Mouths, Never Quit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

  Lance Morrow

  Sweet, Home, Crowds

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• Regulation of sexual behavior
  is the preferred route to wider social
  control.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Regulation, Behavior, Social

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• You know how they do that effect in movies, where they make it look like you have a twin, but it's really just the same actor playing both characters in the scene? I knew this would be the best route, but I just wasn't comfortable dressing as a woman, so I had to hire other actors.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Would Be, Looks

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• I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

  David Allan Coe

  Hardest, Stills

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• The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deeper into the self, to go underground, is sometimes necessary, but so is the other route of getting out of yourself, into the larger world, into the openness in which you need not clutch your story and your troubles so tightly to your chest.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Self, Space, Despair

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.22, Granta Books

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• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  Zebulon Pike

  League, Three, Four

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.268

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• In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Marketing, Networking, World

  "Crisis or Opportunity – Your Business Magazine". www.paulzanepilzer.com. July 2006.

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• The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

  Clare Short

  War, Hype, Suffering

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• I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.

  Roger Penrose

  Plato, Ideas, Mind

  Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.554, OUP Oxford

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• The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring. It is the sensation of rearing and peering from the bent tip of a grass blade, looking for a route.

  Janet Burroway

  Book, Writing, Spinning

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• A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent.

  Alice Stone Blackwell

  Success, Pain, Women

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