Somewhere Else Quotes - Page 8

• I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

  Paul Scholes

  Spring, Eye, Thinking

  "Lionel Messi Is a Genius and It Only Takes a Second for Him to Trick You Into Doing Something Daft – I Should Know!". Paul Scholes Column, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• What people in the U.S. have to understand is that there is sometimes a deep political content in my work that's rooted in the postwar reconfiguration in Europe. I'm still a foreigner in America. I'm someone who's bringing nuanced stories from somewhere else that will always be harder to take.

  Liam Gillick

  Europe, America, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I sometimes forget that life is fragile. The fact that I have more time to dream my dreams and take my ease is no reason at all to disregard the moment I'm in by preferring to be somewhere else. I have to remind myself that wherever I am. . . fast lane or slow lane, in traffic or out of traffic, racing or resting . . . God is there. He is in me, abiding in me, thus making it possible for me to be all there, myself.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Dream, Racing

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• Know that wherever you are in your life right now is both temporary, and exactly where you are supposed to be (otherwise you would be somewhere else). Be at peace with where you are while taking your next step toward where you want to be.

  Hal Elrod

  Thinking, Next Steps, Would Be

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• When I stepped back from the gallery I was in a phase where I thought I wasn't going to be making work for a gallery context for a while. People were like, "You should never leave a gallery if you didn't have somewhere else to go," but I wasn't trying to disrespect the gallerists in that way.

  Kalup Linzy

  People, Disrespect, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

  Maynard Webb

  Zero, Giving Up, Hard Work

  "The “Spirit of And”: Part 2" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 20, 2010.

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• Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

  Poppy Montgomery

  Hollywood

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• They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Bmw, Years

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• I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.

  Steven Morrissey

  Artist, Thinking, Discovery

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In July everybody you telephone is somewhere else - either on the beach or on vacation, and half the time you're somewhere else too.

  Jean Hersey

  Beach, Vacation, July

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• Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

  Jean Hersey

  Want, Size, Peas

  Jean Hersey (1967). “The Shape of a Year”

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• The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else first.

  Unita Blackwell

  Wall, Work, Remember You

  Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

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• Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Events, Today, Realizing

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• If I'm having relentless thoughts, I just won't shut up in my head. I know that if I put myself on the mat and just focus on a flow that I will transmute or I will transform, transfer the energy into some other act or put my attention somewhere else, I'll be back. I'll feel stronger not only in my body but most certainly in my brain.

  Jason Mraz

  Focus, Brain, Stronger

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• Getting old in America ... best to do it somewhere else.

  Nicole Hollander

  America, Age, Getting Old

  Nicole Hollander (2007). “Tales of Graceful Aging from the Planet Denial”

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• I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

  Darcey Steinke

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

  Fred Rogers

  Loss, Feelings, Growth

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.106, Penguin

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• The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

  Joan Didion

  Past, Land, California

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.14, Zola Books

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• Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blood, Finding Yourself, Mind

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.134, Random House

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• When you try to attain something, your mind starts to wander about somewhere else. When you do not try to attain anything, you have your own body and mind right here.
  In Buddhism it is a heretical view to expect something outside this world. We do not seek for something besides ourselves.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Buddhism, Views, Mind

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• My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Home, Philadelphia

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• What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Now And Then, Should, Found

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• I admire people who overcome obstacles or who have to commit - I've always really admired commitment, whether it be a commitment to living or a commitment to love. People who commit to a moment. People who are not somewhere else, but in the room with you.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Commitment, People, Rooms

  Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.

  Tara Brach

  Beautiful, Offering, Stopping

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• As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha

  Bodhidharma

  Long, Mind, Looks

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