Zero Quotes - Page 17

• The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

  John Cage

  Attitude, Interesting, Everyday

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• There is so much uncertainty in cricket. One day you can get a hundred, the next day you can be dismissed for a zero. It makes you become practical about things. Teaches you to accept both success and failure. I think I have learnt a lot about life from cricket.

  Mahela Jayawardene

  Thinking, Next Day, One Day

  "I have learnt a lot about life from cricket". S. Dinakar, "Sport Star", Volume 24, No. 38, September 22, 2001.

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• It feels a long way up and down from zero.

  May Sarton

  Long, Way, Feels

  May Sarton (2014). “Collected Poems: 1930–1973”, p.248, Open Road Media

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• The vector equilibrium is the zero point for
  happenings or nonhappenings: it is the empty
  theater and empty circus and empty universe
  ready to accommodate any act and any audience.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Vectors, Circus, Empty

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• The environment and support is one of a kind! A zero judgement, safe place to discuss and achieve goals!

  Melissa M

  Goal, Support, Judgement

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• ...Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences.

  William J. Clinton

  Lying, Criminals, Politics

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• I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

  Dick Morris

  Racist, Politics, Bills

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• The vector equilibrium is the true zero reference of the energetic mathematics. Zero pulsation in the vector equilibrium is the nearest approach we will ever know to eternity and god: the zero phase of conceptual integrity inherent in the positive and negative asymmetries that propagate the differentials of consciousness.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Negative, Asymmetry

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Philosophy, Player

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Minnesota, Panic

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• Zero G and I feel fine.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Fine, Feels

  John Glenn, Nick Taylor (1999). “John Glenn: A Memoir”, p.306, Bantam

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• Eclecticism is the degree zero of contemporary general culture: one listens to reggae, watches a western, eats McDonald's food for lunch and local cuisine for dinner, wears Paris perfume in Tokyo and 'retro' clothing in Hong Kong; knowledge is a matter of TV games. It is easy to find a public for eclectic works.

  Jean-Francois Lyotard

  Clothes, Mcdonalds, Games

  "An A-Z of cultural terms". www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  Hans Blix

  Military, Peculiar, Weapons

  "Iraq Invasion Violated International Law: Blix". www.smh.com.au. August 07, 2003.

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• I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

  Julie Bowen

  Crazy, People, Hollywood

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• A politician plus zero is not equal to zero; it is something minus!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Politician, Plus, Minus

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• You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

  Belinda Carlisle

  Age, Size, Sexually

  "Go-Go's Singer Poses Nude for Playboy". abcnews.go.com.

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, War, Pro Life

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• Almost every one of my various zero numbered birthdays has had a big concert in London and often in Paris.

  Elliott Carter

  Paris, London, Bigs

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• Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

  John Cornyn

  Real, America, Reform

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• Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Important Values, Problem, Neighbor

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Passivity Is, Clay

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

  Leif Garrett

  Kids, Houston, Pluto

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Mean, Reality

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• Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

  Chris Klein

  Careers, Office, Election

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, School, Boys

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