Secret Quotes - Page 24

• In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
       culture.

  Adrienne Rich

  Powerful, Lying, Culture

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution”, p.198, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Extremes, Polarity

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• Government should be of the people, by the people, for the people. What part of that do politicians and government bureaucrats not understand? Government has no right to keep secrets from the people. The people are paying for it. It's THEIR government. They have a right to know everything going on.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Government, People, Politician

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• Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

  Anne Enright

  Children, Nice, Names

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Chad Michael Ward is a master of the storytelling craft. His imagery, both still and moving, reaches deep into the darkest corners of the mind, combining the macabre and the sensuous Revealing humanity's secret daydream atrocities. CMW taps into our most excitable of emotions with a blend of fear and human sexuality. Like an erotic car accident we can not look away from.

  Dave Navarro

  Moving, Car, Erotic

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• The secret of keeping young is to read children's books. You read the books they write for little children and you'll keep young. You read novels, philosophy, stuff like that and it makes you feel old.

  John Cheever

  Children, Philosophy, Book

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Self, Want, Littles

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• Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. I believe I have read it through at least a hundred times. It is a volume of which I never seem to tire; and the secret of its freshness is that it is so largely compiled from the Scriptures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Book, Believe, Progress

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• A kiss! When all is said, what is a kiss? An oath of allegiance taken in closer proximity, a promise more precise, a seal on a confession, a rose-red dot upon the letter i in loving; a secret which elects the mouth for ear; an instant of eternity murmuring like a bee; balmy communion with a flavor of flowers; a fashion of inhaling each other's hearts, and of tasting, on the brink of the lips, each other's soul!

  Edmond Rostand

  Fashion, Flower, Taken

  Edmond Rostand (1899). “Cyrano de Bergerac”

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• Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Successful, Resources

  "Michael Ignatieff: from The Late Show to Prime Minister in waiting?". Interview With Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2009.

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• I know that when I like music, when it touches my heart, that it will touch your heart, too. That, I think, is the secret to my success.

  Andre Rieu

  Heart, Thinking, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Reconsidering Happiness captures all the contradictory impulses of falling in and out of love-the lust and wanderlust, the contentment and restlessness, the secret loyalties, the hard compromises. Sherrie Flick has written a wise and elegant novel.

  John Dalton

  Wise, Loyalty, Fall

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• The secret of karma yoga which is to perform actions without any fruitive desires is taught by Lord Krishna in the Bhagavad-Gita.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Karma, Yoga, Desire

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• The Secret Language of Your Body truly is the essential guide to restore your body to its healthiest state and assist you to heal your life. Inna Segal offers invaluable insights into the underlying causes of illness and disease and provides practical advice which will undoubtedly empower many to self-heal. So read on and learn from the wisdom of this book, which can guide you to the life you were truly meant to live.

  Bernie Siegel

  Book, Self, Advice

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• Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

  Tatsumi Hijikata

  Lying, Essence, Important

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• I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

  Jack Kerouac

  Strong, Thinking, Self

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

  Harper Lee

  Doors, People, House

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  Drama, Believe, Scrutiny

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• We have certain things where we know they exist or "everybody knows they exist," but naturally nobody can photograph them, because they are so super secret. For example, the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center exists, but nobody knows how it looks, but it's a so called bunker where he can survive a nuclear attack.

  Roland Emmerich

  Presidential, Example, Nuclear

  Source: collider.com

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.I put my family last. Because if you don't, if you put them first, they never thank you. You'll never get a word of thanks from them.

  Barry Humphries

  Lasts, Firsts, Thanks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.

  Michelle Mone

  Jobs, Trying, Passionate

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Dream, Thinking, Dancing

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• It`s great to be able to drive around and spy on people, which I do when I'm writing. People tell me the most personal things about their lives for no reason - on airplanes, everywhere I go. People just blurt out secrets. I'm not sure why. I think that they see in my films that nothing will make me uptight. I'm not going to judge them.

  John Waters

  Airplane, Writing, Thinking

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• My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Mom, Dad, Stupid

  Interview with Allston Pudding, allstonpudding.com. April 7, 2015.

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