T Quotes
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“There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.”
“There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do”
“There are any number of players with extensive jazz backgrounds who haven't been able to fit into other styles," "It all boils down to taste, to playing what's appropriate for the context in which you're working.”
“There are any number of things that survive great, and don't need any kind of consciousness, so why bother going through all the trouble of evolving monkeys that don't run very well or climb very fast or have particularly sharp teeth, but have big heads.”
“There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.”
“There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.”
“There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own inhibitions restricts what it might bring back when it reenters the home country of everyday consciousness.”
Source: Jitterbug Perfume
“There are apparently two hypotheses about jealousy: that it is a product of civilization and that it is a basic instinct of animals.”
Source: The Face of Another
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)”
“There are approximately ten thousand species of birds on the planet and no single individual has seen them all.”
“There are approximately twenty thousand detox facilities for drug and alcohol abusers nationwide. I understand that withdrawal from all forms of chemical dependency is a more dangerous and difficult process than gambling withdrawal and that it often requires medical assistance. But still – twenty thousand to zero? I believe this: The weeks following a major slot machine relapse episode are dangerous for the compulsive gambler. I'm certain that a significant number of suicides have happened to compulsive gamblers who faced this withdrawal period without any help, or without even any awareness of what was happening to them.”
Source: Gambling Addiction: The complete guide to survival, treatment, and recovery from gambling addiction.
“There are Arab countries providing arms I don't know who they are, nobody comes and tells you 'we are providing arms', but what I say is providing arms and ammunition started with certain countries, I'll name them: Russia and Iran to Syria, so it's normal the other side will seek help .... The last resolution adopted less than three weeks ago said all assistance [to the opposition fighters], all assistance including military, it was added.”
“There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.”
“There are areas of music that I've never been to before, so that's always nice thing to have in life. That there are other areas you haven't been to. You haven't covered all the ground, and there's plenty more uncharted territory to cover as well.”
“There are areas of official life in the United States that are similar to Russia. For example: disbursement of protest, and the way American prisons are run, which is pretty tough.”
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.”
“There are arguments for atheism, and they do not depend, and never did depend, upon science. They are arguable enough, as far as they go, upon a general survey of life; only it happens to be a superficial survey of life.”
“There are armies of women who kill men in battles so fierce the moon itself hides from the ribbons of shed blood. They cut off their right breasts to ease the arrow shots of their long bows to lethal precision. For this they are called No-Breast or A-Mazon and must remain virgins until after the first time they kill a man. With male blood they stain their hair and with his bone they sharpen their arrowheads. Whole regiments fall before them. They rule wooded nations and desert kingdoms. Waters and precious stones have their names. I have seen them and marveled at their war skills.”
Source: Desdemona
“There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.”
“There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.”
“There are artists who are writers, but there was no such thing as cartoons that were written by somebody who couldn't draw.”
“There are artists with palettes and easels selling the kind of modern art that Soviet art critics used to critique with bulldozers. Judging by the paintings I saw, the Soviets were right the first time.”
“There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.”
“There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!”
Source: A Way of Being
“There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.”
Source: West with the Night
“There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.”
“There are as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life. Endless repetition has engraved these experiences into our psychic constitution, not in the forms of images filled with content, but at first only as forms without content, representing merely the possibility of a certain type of perception and action.”
“There are as many atoms in each molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. This is true for dogs, and bears, and every living thing. We are, each of us, a little universe.”
“There are as many atoms in one molecule of DNA as there are stars in a typical galaxy.”
“There are as many attitudes to cooking as there are people cooking, of course, but I do think that cooking guys tend - I am a guilty party here - to take, or get, undue credit for domestic virtue, when in truth cooking is the most painless and, in its ways, ostentatious of the domestic chores.”
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
“There are as many different religions as there are individuals.”
“There are as many different ways to write a novel as there are varieties of human consciousness, so I am totally delighted if people want to use words that come from genres to describe how this book functions because those words are accurate.”
“There are as many foolhardy ways to grow as there are to downsize.”
Source: Competing for the Future
“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”
“There are as many forms of advice as there are colors of the rainbow. Remember that good advice can come from bad people and bad advice from good people. The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.”
Source: Oh, the Things I Know!
“There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.”
“There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time.”
“There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.”
Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“There are as many guys in coaching who do a lousy job as there are in the media. Those are two professions that are a lot alike. There aren't a hell of a lot of really good coaches or writers.”
“There are as many jealousies in life as there are different flowers or trees or animals.”
“There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in political campaigns. Campaigns are very labor intensive and volunteer dependent.”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
Source: Baudelaire as a literary critic
“There are as many kinds of kisses as there are people on earth, as there are permutations and combinations of those people. No two people kiss alike—no two people fuck alike—but somehow the kiss is more personal, more individualized than the fuck.”
Source: Memoirs of a Beatnik
“There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and their needs are all the same.”
Source: All I Did Was Shoot My Man: A Leonid McGill Mystery
“There are as many kinds of missionaries as there are human beings. There are the terrible, colonialist power-grabbers, still, and there are plenty of the sort of well-intentioned villains who do great harm and don’t understand that they are doing great harm.”
“There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.”
Source: Notes on Paris
“There are as many loves as there are hearts.”
“There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.”
“There are as many metaphorical subtleties in architecture as there are in language, maybe more. The metaphorical power of architecture is inescapable and has many dimensions.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture