Starks Quotes

• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• I'm bipolar, but I'm not crazy, and I never was. I'm stark raving sane.

  Emilie Autumn

  Crazy, Bipolar, Sane

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• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Issues, Long

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion that history, far from being made by the great mass of individuals - as Marx averred - is rather unmade by a single massive individual, a collective Other, who stands in stark contrast to you and he.

  Will Self

  Comfort, Crowds, Strange

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• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  June, Degrees, Sitting

  "Alexander Skarsgard: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I should have kissed more than your hand...thought I'd have more time," he whispered between liquid, panting breaths. "...too late now." I looked into his eyes and completely forgot the rest of the world. In that moment, all I knew was that I was holding Stark in my arms, and I was going to lose him very, very soon.

  P. C. Cast

  Eye, Hands, Should Have

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• Despite the fact that in America we incarcerate more juveniles for life terms than in any other country in the world, the truth is that the vast majority of youth offenders will one day be released. The question is simple and stark. Do we want to help them change or do we want to help them become even more violent and dangerous?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Country, Simple, America

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• There could not be a more stark contrast between Wisconsin and Illinois.

  Scott Walker

  Illinois, Wisconsin, Contrast

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• There's a reason Tony Stark makes fun of 'Thor,' and mentions 'Shakespeare' in the park in 'The Avengers.' It's great to play high drama and comedy alongside a modern story.

  Joss Whedon

  Fun, Drama, Play

  "Joss Whedon Compares 'Avengers' To Shakespeare" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. September 06, 2012.

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• My style hero was Batman. Now it's Tony Stark.

  Pharrell Williams

  Hero, Style, Stark Reality

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

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• I think it's a very stark marker of what kind of president we have that, from all available evidence, Donald Trump has not read a book, as an adult. This is not someone who sits down in the evening to consider the latest bestseller, let alone Tolstoy - but who is very very active on this medium that requires no discipline and no attention and no empathy. It is all about retweeting praise of oneself or very quickly or poorly considered, ill-typed, misspelled diatribes against other people.

  Ben H. Winters

  Book, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Night, Light

  Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.61, Routledge

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• I have been brought up open-minded. If I didn't know any people from other countries, I'd think everyone was evil based on news stories. But I know a lot of people, and know that there is no such thing as stark good and evil. Isn't it possible there is the same amount of evil everywhere?

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Thinking, News Stories

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• I'm out there arguing the Labor case. I will do it anywhere and everywhere that I can. I do it within various communities across Australia where I am able to make a positive contribution. And let me tell you, my voice won't be silenced in the public debate because the issue at stake for Australia are so stark.

  Kevin Rudd

  Voice, Australia, Issues

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

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• There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Party, Kids

  "Elon Musk's mission to Mars". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2013.

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• Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

  Beck

  Growing Up, Lines, Comedy

  "Catching Up With Beck". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 02, 2010.

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• This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

  Ted Cruz

  Responsibility, Government, Choices

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• My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

  Robin McKinley

  Zebras, Chocolate, Hot

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• I was given baby doll toys myself, and they proved a stark reminder that my life was expected to revolve around childbearing - just as my mom's had before me, and her mom's had before her.

  Beth Ditto

  Mom, Baby, Dolls

  "I'm 30 and feel under huge pressure to have kids. What should I do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2007.

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• Tony Stark in 'Iron Man' helped wider audiences finally embrace the enormous talent of Robert Downey Jr.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Iron, Talent

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• Antarctica is otherworldly, like nothing I've ever seen before. Stark, cold, beautiful desolation.

  Mark Hoppus

  Beautiful, Cold, Desolation

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• She was bedridden falling a fall which broke her hip. X-rays showed that she had cancer of the colon which had already spreed. To my surprise I found her cheerful and free of pain, perhaps because of the small doses of morphine she was being given. She was surrounded by neighbours and friends who congregated at her bedside day and night. In this cosy, noisy, gregarious world of the "all-chinese" sickbed, so different from the stark, sterile solitude of the American hospital room, her life had assumed the astounding quality of a continuous farewell party.

  Adeline Yen Mah

  Pain, Cancer, Farewell

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• Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

  R. D. Laing

  Hero, Medusa, Stones

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• There are very few really stark black and white stories.

  Jim Lehrer

  Black And White, Stories, White

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". "CJR Daily" with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.

  George Martin

  War, Thinking, Land

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