Wonder Quotes - Page 34

• The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

  Philip Kitcher

  Taken, Thinking, Judgment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Perspective, Lasts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

  Jodie Foster

  Acting, Sometimes, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

  Kate Bush

  Country, Thinking, English History

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread... is not always about what the patent is like, or what the factory is like - it's about can you get your idea to spread, or not.

  Seth Godin

  Ideas, Patents, Bread

  "How to get your ideas to spread". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2003.

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• I think up to this point, it's been difficult to suggest a world where Batman and Superman and Wonder Woman and others could exist in the same universe. That was one of the things I really wanted to try and get at. Not to mention, the amazing opportunity to bring those characters and have those characters tell an important story, their own story, within the confines of a film.

  Zack Snyder

  Character, Thinking, Opportunity

  "Zack Snyder to 411: 'Batman V Superman Makes the DC Film Universe Possible'". Interview with Jeffrey Harris, 411mania.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

  Beck

  Curiosity, Culture, Taste

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• That's the wonder of the internet. It's the power of numbers: get enough people to retweet something, someone might see it.

  Aaron Paul

  Numbers, People, Might

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There's a lot of terminology, like "washes whiter than snow," and these things which when they're said in a uniracial congregation, they just go fine. But when they're said in a mixed congregation, some people will get offended and wonder, "Why are you saying that? What are you saying?"

  Michael Emerson

  People, Snow, Said

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I mean, so if I've talked to whites in City of Refuge, sometimes they'll wonder, "Why do we do things a certain way, and why do we make a big deal out of events?" And what's happening is they're falling back on their understanding of the way that church should work. It's not always working exactly like that, and they feel frustration or confusion. Sometimes people leave. That's certainly common in mixed churches.

  Michael Emerson

  Fall, Mean, Frustration

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Stevie Wonder doing [carpool karaoke] it was a massive turning point because he's Stevie Wonder. Like, there's no one else in the world who can go, I don't really want to do it. And you go oh, so it's good enough for Stevie Wonder but it's not good enough for you?

  James Corden

  Not Good Enough, World, Want

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• All my kids love superheroes, but my middle daughter in particular is obsessed with Wonder Woman and Batgirl.

  Mark Millar

  Daughter, Kids, Superhero

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.

  Dan Bejar

  Waste, Likes, Sabotage

  "Destroyer" by Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. June 12, 2006.

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• I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.

  Doseone

  Meaningful, Art, Records

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005.

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• Maybe the American Dream is too rich for us now in the U.S. Maybe we're losing it because we are not like our Swedish grandmother who came across the plains, hacked down the trees, and took the Spanish words she encountered and made them hers. Now her great-great-grandchildren sit terrified, wondering what to do with all these Mexicans. The American Dream is an impossible affirmation of possibility. And maybe native-born Americans don't have it anymore. Maybe it has run through their fingers.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Running, Dream, Grandmother

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I had no intention of providing any answers or solutions, because you'd only look a fool, but I did want to talk about what it's like to be in a state where you're wondering. And perhaps I was also receptive to the fact I was entering middle age and those thoughts come - to pretend that they don't come is just crazy.

  Peter Morgan

  Crazy, Age, Looks

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm in that very preliminary stage of wondering how exactly to "pressurize" the novel in some way I've never considered before.

  Mark Leyner

  Way, Stage, Novel

  "The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Mark Leyner". Interview with Brian Spears, therumpus.net. March 16, 2016.

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• I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

  Malachy McCourt

  Stupid, War, Destiny

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a child. It's not only a joyous wonder, it's sometimes a grief stricken wonder.

  Edward Hirsch

  Children, Grief, Sometimes

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

  Edward Hirsch

  Looks, Firsts, Sometimes

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and you are feeling and breathing in a way that you're really aware of your muscle and bone and the breath and the body and the movement and all of those things that just you take for granted in the urban landscape.

  DJ Spooky

  Breathing, Space, Silence

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

  Mike Pesca

  Speak English, Musical, Population

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• To wonder where the mind goes after the brain decays is as silly as asking where the 70-miles-per-hour have gone after a speeding auto has crashed into a tree.

  Frank Zindler

  Silly, Tree, Brain

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• On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, ‘Life will never be the same.’ Because there had never been anyone like you ever in the world.

  Nancy Tillman

  Stars, Moon, Night

  Nancy Tillman (2006). “On the Night You Were Born”, p.3, Feiwel & Friends

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• I hear all the time that 'unemployment is greatly reduced, but the people aren't feeling it.' When the media, talking heads, the White House and Wall Street start reporting the truth - the percent of Americans in good jobs; jobs that are full time and real - then we will quit wondering why Americans aren't 'feeling' something that doesn't remotely reflect the reality in their lives. And we will also quit wondering what hollowed out the middle class.

  Jim Clifton

  Jobs, Wall, Real

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