Trivia Quotes - Page 3

• It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

  Clifford Stoll

  Flames, Hobbies, Acrimony

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• Our political press has just been captured by trivia.

  Hillary Clinton

  Political, Captured, Presses

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.

  Susan Griffin

  Stories, Sides, Shame

  Susan Griffin (2011). “What Her Body Thought: A Journey Into the Shadows”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• My whole creative career is a product of the Internet. ...I'll take that back. To some degree. My fascination with cultural esoterica and trivia and so on was well-formed long before I got my first AOL account.

  John Hodgman

  Careers, Long, Creative

  Interview with Greg Hunter, therumpus.net. October 21, 2013.

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• These are the technicalities. The jetes and pirouettes.. but the music of the dance lies in the subtle signals between the steps: the fish's delivery of them, the fisherman's read of and response to them, which, if she's good, must be near telepathic. That's what takes a death-grip on your concentration. That's why your mind empties of all trivia, which, when playing a fish, includes just about everything else you could possible think of. That is what anglers live for.

  Jessica Maxwell

  Lying, Thinking, Lakes

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• Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

  Dee Hock

  People, Risk, Peers

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• I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear time as we experience it on something that exists outside of linear time as well as keeps new readership away by keeping comics a matter of trivia and history rather than actual stories.

  Matt Fraction

  Thinking, Devil, Stories

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• Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In the meantime, the public is lulled into a perilous somnolence, spoon-fed pap, and palpable untruths, many of which are turned out by special-interest and pressure groups and well organized propaganda machines.

  J. Paul Getty

  Dark, Pressure Groups, Focus

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• Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

  J. G. Ballard

  Art, Generations, Safari

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• What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Fashion, Interesting, Novelty

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I think democracy's undermined when those who own newspapers fill them with trivia rather than real issues.

  Ken Livingstone

  Real, Thinking, Issues

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• The passage of time eliminates some of the more intimate details of one's existence. The routine trivia like passing water and shitting and the amount of food and alcohol consumed in the course of daily survival. Sure, there were girls. Lots of'em. It's inevitable.

  Ray Davies

  Life, Girl, Water

  Ray Davies (2007). “X-Ray: The Unauthorized Autobiography”, p.92, The Overlook Press

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• I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, People

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• Spiritual balance is the ability to remain happy, to not be hostile to your neighbor when they are being hostile, and not to get caught up in the trivia.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Balance

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• I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!

  Charlotte Arnold

  Character, Boys, Games

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• There is nothing, under present conditions, that can be more easily and exactly reproduced than a technically good black-and-white photograph, and it is utter rot to burden those interested in them with irrelevant biographical trivia and pet longwinded theory.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Black And White, Pet, Photograph

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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• Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

  Dan Simmons

  Life, Loss, Way

  Dan Simmons (1996). “Endymion”, Spectra Books

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• Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective on their lives. The important things are really important, and the trivia of life is trivialized.

  Irvin D. Yalom

  Perspective, People, Rejection

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• I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

  George Michael

  Ideas, Perspective, Confusing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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