Shows Quotes - Page 31

• To teach is to show what is possible; to learn is to make yourself possible.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Teach

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• Seems the seance has become the most complained-about show. It received 700 complaints. I might add that the prospect of me blowing my head off on live TV last year attracted only twenty. Fair enough, I suppose.

  Derren Brown

  Years, Twenties, Add

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all get intimidated by showing ourselves, for whatever reason, we think, If I really show who I am, and someone goes [pfftt] then it's gonna crush me. Well, it's not gonna crush me. It doesn't crush you if somebody does that- somebody will do that. Many times. And once you accept that that's not why you're doing it, you're doing it because that's your form of expression.

  Tori Amos

  Crush, Thinking, Who I Am

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• See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.

  Galileo Galilei

  Firsts, Glances, Experiments

  Galileo Galilei (1914). “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”, p.164, Courier Corporation

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• When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very fact that they have to be drilled shows that they are alien to the natural workings of the language system. One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with language than the criteria for judging cats at a cat show have to do with mammalian biology.

  Steven Pinker

  Cat, Judging, Ordinary

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.409, Penguin UK

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• And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others is often more beneficial than is receiving help. . . . We need the give and the take, we need to belong. An ideology of extreme personal freedom can be dangerous because it encourages people to leave homes, jobs, cities and marriages in search of personal and professional fulfillment, thereby breaking the relationships that were probably their best hope for such fulfillment.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Jobs, Home, Caring

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• Every time somebody ever told you that you weren't gonna amount to anything, you know, that's your time to shine, you know? You can show everybody and prove to yourself what you're doing is real and that it counts and that it makes a difference.

  Frank Iero

  Real, Differences, Shining

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• My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

  Frank Iero

  School, Class, Juniors

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• Poor countries are being forced to deal with an unprecedented health crisis without the means to tackle it . Governments can only show how seriously they are taking this crisis by taking immediate action to provide four million extra health workers and to grant those in need access to affordable medicines.

  Annie Lennox

  Country, Health, Mean

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• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

  Huston Smith

  Healing, Government, Association

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• With a woman I try to photograph her beauty; with a man I try to show his character. Once I photographed a man with a big nose (Jimmy Durante), and emphasized his nose, and he was very pleased with the picture. That could not happen with a woman. The most intelligent woman will reject a portrait if it doesn't flatter her.

  Philippe Halsman

  Character, Intelligent, Men

  "The Mask Falls: Psychological Portraits by Philippe Halsman".

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• The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.

  Alfred Jarry

  Artist, Unique, Theatre

  Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”

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• We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.

  Adrienne Rich

  Greed, May, Littles

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• In a 'wheat and tares' world, how unusually blessed faithful members are to have the precious and constant gift of the Holy Ghost with reminders of what is right and of the covenants we have made. 'For behold, ... the Holy Ghost ... will show unto you all things what ye should do.' (2 Ne. 32:5.) Whatever the decibels of decadence, these need not overwhelm the still, small voice! Some of the best sermons we will ever hear will be thus prompted from the pulpit of memory—to an audience of one!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Memories, Blessed, Voice

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• No matter the specific techniques involved, historically mass surveillance has had several constant attributes. Initially, it is always the country’s dissidents and marginalized who bear the brunt of the surveillance, leading those who support the government or are merely apathetic to mistakenly believe they are immune. And history shows that the mere existence of a mass surveillance apparatus, regardless of how it is used, is in itself sufficient to stifle dissent. A citizenry that is aware of always being watched quickly becomes a compliant and fearful one.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Country, Believe, Government

  Glenn Greenwald (2014). “No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Want, Today, Next

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• Governments have always tried to crush reform movements, to destroy ideas, to kill the thing that cannot die. Without regard to history, which shows that no Government have ever succeeded in doing this, they go on trying in the old, senseless way.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Crush, Government, Ideas

  Emmeline Pankhurst (2016). “My Own Story”, p.187, The Floating Press

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• Pots can show malice, the patterns of linoleum can leer up at you, treachery is the other side of dailiness.

  Alice Munro

  Sides, Patterns, Pot

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.155, Vintage

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• People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon....This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred scripture tells us [Joshua 10:13]that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.

  Martin Luther

  Moon, People, Heaven

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• Im also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

  George Duke

  Npr, Track, Theme

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• If I had a daughter, I would tell her certain things. I would tell her that it’s great to be smart, really smart - that being smart makes you strong. I would tell her that emotions are powerful, so don’t be afraid to show them. I would tell her that some people may judge you on how you look or what you wear - that’s just how it is - but you should keep your focus on what you say and do. I would tell her that she may see the world differently from boys, and that difference is essential and good.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Daughter, Strong, Powerful

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• All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  People, World, Way

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stanley Sadie, Fiona Smart (2016). “The Letters of Mozart and his Family”, p.749, Springer

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• I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

  Vince Neil

  Heart, Real Life, People

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• Wherever one encounters members of the human race, they always show the traits of a being that is condemned to surrealistic effort. Whoever goes in search of humans will find acrobats.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Race, Effort, Encounters

  Peter Sloterdijk (2014). “You Must Change Your Life”, p.23, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.

  Tim Pawlenty

  People, President, United States

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