Stranger Quotes - Page 17

• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  Haniel Long

  Drama, Friendly, Watches

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• Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

  Patti LuPone

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• Good things happen when you meet strangers.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Good Things, Happens, Things Happen

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• The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Friendship, Travel, Fear

  "Don't fall off the mountain". Book by Shirley MacLaine, 1985.

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• By linking with friends and ultimately strangers and building those relationships, social media is reweaving the social fabric that can then be used to scale your non-profit efforts.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Media, Effort, Fabric

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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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• Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

  John Mayer

  Way, Danger, My Own

  Song: Why Georgia, 2001

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• The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don't meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it's essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you're going to be an actor.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Believe, Challenges, Soul

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• You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

  Phil McGraw

  Needs, Rope

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

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• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  Ian Mcewan

  Want, Helping, Distress

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• Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

  Arthur Miller

  Fighting, Boys, Way

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.33, Heinemann

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• Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

  Max Muller

  Children, Cease

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.

  Ralph Nader

  Community, Brotherhood, Acting

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• I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

  Liam Neeson

  Asking, Scripts, Sometimes

  "Liam Neeson - 'A sex symbol? Flattering, but I don't think so'" by Gill Pringle, www.independent.co.uk. April 5, 2012.

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• In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Interesting, Mutts

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Hands, Names

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Thinking, Roles

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

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• People say, 'Don't you get tired of people coming up to you all the time?' But what's wrong with strangers saying they love you?

  John C. Reilly

  Love You, Tired, People

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• I don't really get off on the anonymous love of strangers, which I think a lot of actors do. They're lacking something in their own personal lives, so they want the adoration of autographs and all that stuff.

  John C. Reilly

  Thinking, Actors, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. September 15, 2004.

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• He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

  Ernest Renan

  God, Men, May

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• The Iraqi people are some of the warmest people you'll meet in your life. They are extremely receptive to strangers. Their hospitality is immense.

  Scott Ritter

  People, Hospitality, Receptive

  "Ex-weapons inspector berates war plans". Interview with David Wallis, www.sfgate.com. September 14, 2002.

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• Never floss with a stranger.

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Life

  "Words of Wisdom" edited by W. Safire & L. Safir, (p. 358), 1990.

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• Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Communication, Challenges, Together

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• No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Soul, Events, Would Be

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

  Jerry Saltz

  People, Haunting, Photograph

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