Stripping Quotes

• Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Energy, Finishing

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off.

  Julie Burchill

  Covering, Behaviour, Shameful

  "Modesty be damned. If you've got it, you've got every right to flaunt it" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.

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• But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Art, Children, People

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• Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.

  Grace Jones

  Mean, Clothes, Depth

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• Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

  Glenda Jackson

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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

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• Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

  Barbara Johnson

  Patience, Optimism, Gears

  Barbara Johnson (2008). “When Your Child Breaks Your Heart: Help for Hurting Moms”, p.134, Revell

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• Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door.

  Luis Bunuel

  Couple, Doors, Eggs

  "My Last Sigh". Book by Luis Bunuel, 1983.

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• Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  J. K. Rowling

  Failure, Mean, Stripping Away

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.

  Adyashanti

  Self, Inquiry, Answers

  Adyashanti (2009). “Emptiness Dancing: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Die before you die and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Power Of Now, New Earth, Secret Life

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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• Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

  Bill Gothard

  Gears, Feels, Motor

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• I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone.

  Heather Nova

  Dream, Philosophy, Crazy

  Song: Truth and Bone, Album: Oyster

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• Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

  Lillian Wald

  War, Women, History

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• I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Giving, Tears

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Nov 02, 2011

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• To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Heart, Mean

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• Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.

  Janet Lembke

  Acceptance, Water, Skins

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• I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

  Stevie Smith

  Food, Vegetables, Knives

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• The most likely way to kill a tradition is to over-formalize it, which is to carry it on in the same way after everyone has ceased to defer to it. The way to revive it is to show that it has grown out of and is still related to our most cherished values. But this requires radical insight and the stripping away of many things which are mere accretions.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Way, Tradition, Radical

  Richard M. Weaver, Ted J. Smith (2000). “In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Feelings, Literature, Covering

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• Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Able, Complacency

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

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• The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American mob, stripping away the constitutional shield outside our bedrooms.... How tragically ironic that an Administration that promised to get Government "off our backs" is now so active in draping Government gumshoes over every part of our anatomies.

  Carl T. Rowan

  Passion, Government, Hatred

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• The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains.

  Meredith L. Young-Sowers

  Struggle, Reality, Apples

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• I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

  Tiger Woods

  Hurt, Lying, People

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state moves to promote renewable energy and championed laws that would enshrine taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels while stripping them from wind and solar.

  Jeff Goodell

  War, Moving, Reality

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