Spectrum Quotes - Page 7

• I like to look at scenarios and see how people interact with each other. That's why I'm an actor because I try to recreate that. Since our daughter joined us the spectrum has widened.

  Colin Hanks

  Mother, Daughter, People

  "Colin Hanks gets "Lucky" with killer film, TV show". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. July 15, 2011.

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• At the moment I am occupied by an investigation with Kirchoff which does not allow us to sleep. Kirchoff has made a totally unexpected discovery, inasmuch as he has found out the cause for the dark lines in the solar spectrum and can produce these lines artificially intensified both in the solar spectrum and in the continuous spectrum of a flame, their position being identical with that of Fraunhofer's lines. Hence the path is opened for the determination of the chemical composition of the Sun and the fixed stars.

  Robert Bunsen

  Determination, Stars, Sleep

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• Each arc of color may be lovely to behold, but it is the full spectrum of our woman rainbow that glows with the brightest promise of better things to come.

  Merlin Stone

  Color, Rainbow, Lovely

  Merlin Stone (1979). “Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood: Our Goddess and Heroine Heritage”

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• It's not just the over $8 billion that we would be saving in law enforcement; it's also the over $8 billion that we would be making by taxing marijuana... We are filling our jails with nonviolent drug offenders - predominantly young, predominantly African American... It's a great beyond left and right issue. It has support across the political spectrum and also the support of the majority of the American people.

  Arianna Huffington

  Marijuana, Law, Jail

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• It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Mind, Too Late

  Temple Grandin (2011). “The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger's”, p.99, BookBaby

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• Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

  Ann Northrop

  Justice, Diversity, Normalcy

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• We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the very small, we can't see the very far. So we compensate for these short comings with technological scaffoldings. The microscope allows us to extend our vision into the microsphere. The telescope allows us to extend our vision into the macrosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope extends our optic nerve into space, and it allows us to mainline space and time through our optic nerve.

  Jason Silva

  Mean, Space, Vision

  "Are We All Cyborgs? Talk With Futurist and Filmmaker Jason Silva About RoboCop". Interview With Alejandro Rojas, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2014.

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• [Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.

  William Wilson Morgan

  Stars, Hard Work, Science

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• Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

  Rumi

  Wine, Thoughtful, Sight

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• People on the autism spectrum don't think the same way you do. In my life, people who made a difference were those who didn't see labels, who believed in building on what was there. These were people who didn't try to drag me into their world, but came into mine instead.

  Temple Grandin

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Juliana?” the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that he had experienced it. “Yes?” “What are you doing twenty feet in the air?” “Looking for a book.” “Would you mind very much returning to the earth?” “What are you thinking, climbing to the rafters in your condition?” “I am not an invalid, Simon, I still have use of all my extremes.” “You do indeed—particularly your extreme ability to try my patience—I believe, however, that you mean extremities.

  Sarah MacLean

  Husband, Believe, Book

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• Technically, on the spectrum of very bad things, they did nothing truly wicked. But of course, that spectrum has no measure for the greatest of all carnal sins, the kind that occurs before skin touches skin, before wondering turns to yearning, yearning to having, having to holding for dear life, when two people cling to each other so desperately that even when they lie, inches apart, neither is fully satisfied until the light between them turns to darkness.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Lying, Light, Two

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.204, St. Martin's Press

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• The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.

  Robert Lanza

  Law, Existence, Grows

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Athlete, School, Covered Up

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• Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

  Brian Greene

  Jobs, Doe, Fantastic

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• Now, bipolar disorder, it goes on a spectrum. There's very severe conditions of it and there are milder ones. I'm lucky enough that it's reasonably mild in my case.

  Stephen Fry

  Bipolar, Lucky, Goes On

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• Having an actual income can expand your romantic horizons toward the more appealing end of the spectrum.

  Al Franken

  Income, Horizon, Ends

  Al Franken (2002). “Oh, the Things I Know!”, p.45, Penguin

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• I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.

  C.E. Morgan

  Circles, Political, Taught

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

  Rita Dove

  Rap, Play, Pleasure

  Interview with Jesse Kornbluth for "The Book Report", www.math.buffalo.edu. April 8, 1997.

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• I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

  Dick Cheney

  Thinking, People, Political

  Dick Cheney, Richard B. Cheney, Liz Cheney (2012). “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.

  Nicolas Cage

  Feelings, Needs, Actors

  "Nicolas Cage: 'People think I'm not in on the joke'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2013.

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• There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.

  Jeb Bush

  Believe, Race, Ethnicity

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• Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Flavor, Asia, Firsts

  "The Hot Seat: No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain". Interview with Sarah Bruning, www.timeout.com. September 3, 2012.

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• You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum. Parents and kids come and they're all punked out, and there are these other guys in John Deere caps.

  Lewis Black

  Kids, Thinking, America

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• In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from Seattle. But in Vegas, you have six from Seattle, a bunch from L.A., some local Las Vegans and maybe a farmer from Iowa. In Vegas, you learn the ins and outs of holding a room because of that great spectrum of folks.

  Lewis Black

  Country, Vegas, Iowa

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