Variety Quotes - Page 10

• We all have the people we follow on Tumblr whose opinions or taste we respect. And I think because you see so much more variety of opinions and everything on the internet, it's less decided that something is good or bad. It's more like we all just sort of like what we like.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Thinking, People, Taste

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different stories spun different ways and different sources that they're going to cite as their facts.

  Jon Foreman

  Different, News, Stories

  Source: www.scenepointblank.com

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• The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control on a wide variety of issues. Increasingly, from the left's perspective, there is just one acceptable viewpoint.

  David Limbaugh

  Issues, Perspective, Political

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• I think everybody should see ('The Star Wars Holiday Special') to realize how bad something can be. There are some cool things in there, but it's two hours long, and you could probably cut it down to about two minutes and twelve seconds of cool material. The animated Boba Fett sequence is great, and there's some cool stuff, but overall, the whole format of a variety show in the 'Star Wars' universe is just a train wreck.

  Kyle Newman

  War, Holiday, Cutting

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• Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need of control than the economic variety.

  Trevor Nunn

  Needs, Language, Economic

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• This is why it might be more useful to understand the proliferation of interactive media as an opportunity for renaissance: a moment when we have the ability to step out of the story altogether. Renaissances are historical instances of widespread recontextualisation. People in a variety of different arts, philosophies and sciences have the ability to reframe their reality. Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'. It is the rebirth of old ideas in a new context.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

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• If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

  Bill Gates

  Creating, Design, Competition

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• I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.

  Christopher Wren

  Uniformity

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• Johnny Depp's performance is quite remarkable. Sweeney's desire for revenge and the simmering anger and hurt that he feels carry the story forward, and Johnny finds the most remarkable variety within that narrow set of emotions. The intensity is at a boil all the time and he never drops it. It's real anger.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Hurt, Revenge, Real

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• I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

  Cornel West

  Philosophy, Thinking, Different

  Source: genius.com

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• When you start and you're taking the character seriously, it's going to lead down a variety of paths.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Character, Path

  Source: collider.com

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• I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

  Robert Loggia

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Feet, Years

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1989.

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• The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fashion, Psychics, Choices

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.143, Penguin

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• I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

  Lauren Graham

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  "Lauren Graham Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Prayer, Attention

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Diversity, Heaven, Grace

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

  John Ralston Saul

  Insecure, Class, Cities

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Character, Mean, Topography

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• Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Educational, Mean, Views

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• Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

  Larry Trask

  Cities, Long, Divergent

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• I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Sarcastic, Giving, Want

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Expectations, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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