I Quotes
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“In Mother, our hearts break with compassion for ourselves and the world. And when our heart breaks, it expands to hold all of life. We can now hold ourselves and the other. In Mother, we learn to live more deeply, sensually awakened, and connected to our bodies and the Earth.”
Source: Maiden to Mother
“In motherhood, where seemingly opposite realities can be simultaneously true, the role of nurturer invariably conflicts with the role of socializer. When trouble came as it surely must, was I the good cop who understood, the bad cop who terrorized, or both?”
“In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter.”
“In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.”
“In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.”
“In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.”
“In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.”
“In Moulin Rouge I could not change the name of Toulouse-Lautrec obviously to Toulouse-Lautrec- Martinez. But in ER I did that, my name is Dr Victor Clemente, so sometimes it is possible.”
“In Moulin Rouge, Baz Luhrmann takes the most thrilling moments in a movie musical-the seconds before the actors are about to burst into song and dance, when every breath they take is heightened-and makes an entire picture of such pinnacles.”
“In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.”
“In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself.”
Source: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: On the history of psycho-analytic movement, papers on metapsychology and other works
“In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.”
“In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out.”
“In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.”
“In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.”
“In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.”
“In movies, makeovers were treated like a triumph of the human spirit.
It suggested we'd had a low bar for triumph, in recent history. A dash of lipstick qualified, a haircut and some styling gel. A new outfit.
That was what the human spirit had turned into.”
Source: A Children's Bible
“In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.”
“In movies, they show hero as a victim first to make his violence look heroic. Similarly, all groups that incite violence make you feel victimized first so that you can feel like a hero when you do violence.”
“In movies, they use exaggeration to stimulate your mind, Reverse is also true, When your mind is stimulated (by a sad or happy event), you start exaggerating things. Your problem is not as big as your mind makes you believe. To get real perspective, go out, take a walk. observe life around you.”
“In movies, war only looks romantic. “Tell my gal I love her…” close-up shot, and fade out. It doesn’t work as beautifully and neat in real life. Flying chunks of human flesh and screaming orphans really put that Hollywood take into perspective and there is nothing clean or sterile about any of it. When people die, it’s fucking horrible.”
Source: The Desert Warrior
“In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.”
“In movies you can shoot a guy 3,000 times and get a 'PG-13', but if you say the 'F' word twice it's automatically an 'R'. I'll let that be its own comment.”
“In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?”
“In movies, comedy and tragedy are all the same.”
“In movies, I have had the opportunity of working with some of the people that I respect very much.”
“In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.”
“In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.”
“In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.”
“In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.”
“In movies, you can basically buy the audience into the theater. If you spend enough money on visual effects, even if you are lacking in story and character, you might still pull it off.”
“In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'”
“In movies, you get to explore parts of yourself that in real life, people shy away from, like looking stupid or embarrassing yourself or getting too angry, anything inappropriate. As an actor, you walk into those moments.”
“In movies, you have a production assistant carrying your chair around and getting you coffee. In theater, no one carries your chair, no one gets you your coffee, there's no craft service, there's no per diem. The only thing that is provided for you is coffee, tea, sugar and milk. It doesn't matter how big a star you are or whatever.”
“In movies, you just see somebody close their eyes, and you go on to the next scene.”
“In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it”
“In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work.”
Source: Contact
“In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.”
“In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called:
'Listen'
The last lines were -
I know you know you do it,
it doesn't matter to you at all
you just want to keep on
talking
a verbal waterfall”
Source: Harold
“In Muay Thai, the true essence lies not in defeating our opponents but in conquering our own selves and being the best version of ourselves that we can be.”
“in much knowledge there is also much grief.”
“In much of Africa, labor, not land, constituted the sole form of property recognized by law, a form of consolidating wealth and generating revenue, which meant that African states tended to be be small and that, while European wars were fought for land, African wars were fought for labor.”
Source: These Truths: A History of the United States
“In much of our thinking, singleness, if not downright bad, is certainly not seen as good. One writer has noticed the difference between Christian books on marriage and those on singleness. In the books on marriage, marriage is assumed to be a great thing and all that remains is to understand it better, and perhaps be aware of one or two potential pitfalls that might arise. But books on singleness typically have a different starting point. Singleness is assumed to be pretty much awful. The point of the books is, therefore, to see if we might to eke out something just about tolerable from it. Even the way we describe singleness reflects this. It is almost always defined in the negative, as the absence of something. It is the state of not being married. It is the absence of significant other. This defining by negation reinforces the idea that there is nothing intrinsically good about singleness. It is merely the situation of lacking what is intrinsically good in marriage.”
Source: 7 Myths about Singleness
“In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.”
“In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions.”
“In much of the Southern Hemisphere, neo liberalism is frequently spoken of as "the second colonial pillage": in the first pillage, the riches were seized from the land, and in the second they were stripped from the state.”
Source: The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
“In much of the western world, the general effect of the 1980s has been to move back the feminist gains of the 1960s and 1970s. It has encouraged a style rather than a politics of resistance, in which an expressive individualism has taken the place of collective political challenges to power. And in the process it has de-politicized gender by de-politicizing feminism. The new gender outlaw is the old gender conformist, only this time, we have men conforming to femininity and women conforming to masculinity.”
Source: The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male
“In much of the world the U.S. is regarded as a leading terrorist state.”
Source: 9-11 [neuf-onze]
“In much of the world today there are no more chilling words than "I'm from the United States and I'm here to help you."”
“In much of the world, the most dangerous thing a woman can do is become pregnant.”