Traps Quotes - Page 20

• I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically English form of humour. It's a piece with such jokes as the one about the man who was being led to the gallows to be hanged. He looked at the trap door in the gallows, which was flimsily constructed, and he asked in some alarm, 'I say, is that thing safe?

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Humor, Men, Doors

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• The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To such prophecies the human race, as presently bred and educated and situated, is incapable of listening. So some dance and some immolate themselves as human torches; some take drugs and some artists spill their creativity in sets of randomly placed dots on a white ground.

  Margaret Mead

  Creativity, Men, Artist

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• There is no such thing as a value trap. There are investing mistakes.

  Mohnish Pabrai

  Mistake, Investing, Values

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• I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

  Leo Kottke

  Thinking, Sound, Tuning

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• Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Heart, Gun, People

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• Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

  Bob Dylan

  Philosophy, Flames, Ideas

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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• The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, People, Mind

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• In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

  Karl Marlantes

  Military, Nice, Exercise

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like to Go to War”, p.131, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.

  Tommy Lee

  Wise, Animal, Two

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• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Misery, Hinduism

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• Success and failure are terrible traps.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Success And Failure

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• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

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• The trap of the self is the trap that causes unhappiness. We define ourselves too much; whereas the infinite, the pure radiant spirit, is not so definable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Self

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• Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to get the real news out of those relatively sterile environments. But you've got to deal with the obscure people as well as the names.

  Tom Brokaw

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "New Again: Tom Brokaw". Interview with Gale Lopez, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2015.

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• I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

  Thomas Howes

  Drama, Fall, School

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• The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases.

  Nicholas Stern

  Simple, Climate, Heat

  Nicholas Stern (2009). “The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity”, p.33, PublicAffairs

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• I do everything I think possible or acceptable to escape from this trap.

  Jacques Derrida

  Thinking, Acceptable

  Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.115, Stanford University Press

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• It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Fall, Talking, Worry

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• Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'

  Amelie Nothomb

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "The outsider" by Richard Lea, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3033, Delphi Classics

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• Reason is a terrible trap because you will be satisfied with answers. And if you are satisfied with answers, you'll never come to know what life really is.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Answers

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• All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat Avoid foreign entanglements. All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Mean, Entanglement, Hoover

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• Don’t judge yourself by others’ standards…have your own. And don’t get caught up into the trap of changing yourself to fit the world. The world has to change to fit you. And if you stick to your principles, values and morals long enough, it will.

  Berry Gordy

  Change, Long, Judging

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• The truth is a trap: you cannot get it without it getting you; you cannot get the truth by capturing it, only by its capturing you.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Truth Is

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• Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Judging

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