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• The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

  Alex Prager

  Distance, Eye, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

  Harriet Quimby

  Attitude, Women, Annoyed

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• The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants

  Richard Eberhart

  War, Enemy, Hours

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• America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, War, Responsibility

  "Some Notes On My American Impressions". selftaughtcoders.com. 1921.

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• Rule One: Whenever a spectator seeks out a really good vantage point and settles down on shooting stick or canvas chair, the tallest and fattest golf watcher on the course will take up station directly in front.

  Peter Dobereiner

  Golf, Shooting, Vantage Point

  Peter Dobereiner (1981). “The World of Golf: The Best of Peter Dobereiner”

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• I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

  Jean-Pierre Melville

  Moving, Fantasy, Realism

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• I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Fighting, Watches, Bills

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• If you plagiarize others' techniques, you steal their emotions and tell your spectators a lie with your work. Works as such equal zero.

  Wu Guanzhong

  Zero, Lying, Technique

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• When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn't explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so naturally. Only a few times have I managed to creep inside. Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure - The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, Face to Face and so on.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Dream, Moving, Eggs

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

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• Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

  John Berger

  Passion, Hair, Needs

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• A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

  Bernard Malamud

  Eye, Alaska, Critical

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• Science, math and engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.

  Susan Hockfield

  Math, Engineering, Giving

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• It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

  Red Smith

  Football, Player, Cold

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• I think words come between the spectator and the picture.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Thinking

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• It is not possible to be regarded with tenderness, except by a few. That merit which gives greatness and renown diffuses its influence to a wide compass, but acts weakly on every single breast; it is placed at a distance from common spectators, and shines like one of the remote stars, of which the light reaches us, but not the heat.

  Samuel Johnson

  Stars, Distance, Greatness

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.217, Harvard University Press

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• In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.

  Duane Michals

  People, East, Looks

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• Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Design, Secret

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226, Literary Character, Chapter XII. Last lines, 1922.

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• Will an intelligent spectator not admire the prodigeous structures of Stone-Henge because he does not know by what law of mechanics they were raised?

  Elizabeth Montagu

  Intelligent, Law, Stones

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• One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Theatre, Acting, Half

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2179, Delphi Classics

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• I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather than being a spectator to it and if you do that, if you participate in the world, in your community, your school, your company, or your country, whatever.. they you will be useful and hopefully leave the planet a little better.

  Janet Holmes a Court

  Life, Country, Encouragement

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• Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by

  Lou Holtz

  Volleyball, Nfl, Action

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• One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands, Mercy, Euthanasia

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• In-depth studies have an influence on general ideas, whereas theories, in turn, in order to maintain themselves, push their spectators to search for new evidence. The mind's activity that is maintained by the debates about these works, is probably the source of the greatest joys given to man to experience on Earth.

  Louis Agassiz

  Science, Men, Order

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• The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

  Bernard Berenson

  Art, Helping, Justification

  Bernard Berenson (1958). “Essays in Appreciation”

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Space

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan : 'No God but Cinema'” by Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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