T Quotes
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“This idea of popular culture became something that belonged to us rather than something that we looked at from far away. We realized we could be part of it and create it, instead of just being consumers only.”
“This idea of purity, and you’re never compromised, and you’re always politically ‘woke’ and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly. The world is messy; there are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws. People who you are fighting, may love their kids and, you know, share certain things with you.
There is this sense sometimes of: ‘The way of me making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people, and that’s enough.’
…That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you’re probably not going to get that far. That is easy to do.
--Speech at the Obama Foundation Summit, October 2019.”
“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.”
“This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.”
“This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like Günter Brus, and then you have Salvador Dalí of course, then much later, Marina Abramović and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about Méret's Oppenheim piece.”
“This idea of tying me to Giuliani is quite unique. I know Rudy Giuliani. I like Rudy Giuliani. I worked with him during his administration. But we're completely different people.”
“This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.”
“This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.”
“This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.”
“This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't true. I don't want to be an 'ageless beauty.' I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.”
“This idea that children won't learn without outside rewards and penalties, or in the debased jargon of the behaviorists, "positive and negative reinforcements," usually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we treat children long enough as if that were true, they will come to believe it is true. So many people have said to me, "If we didn't make children do things, they wouldn't do anything." Even worse, they say, "If I weren't made to do things, I wouldn't do anything."
It is the creed of a slave.”
Source: How Children Fail
“This idea that clumsy, stumbling people are real bright is ridiculous, because intelligence is related to neurologic function, and really intelligent people are very well-coordinated.”
“This idea that dimensions are negative information is essential to learning how to manipulate physical reality as if it were a virtual reality.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“This idea that failure is not an option: It makes failure invisible, inconceivable and inevitable.”
“This idea that it’s intolerant to object to anyone else’s position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else’s point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.”
“This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.”
“This idea that once you get into politics you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.”
“This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.”
“This idea that the employment of women, the movement of women outside the home into the work world, and their demand for equality is somehow responsible for increasing juvenile delinquency or the increase in divorce rate, is just so much bullshit.”
“This idea that the open exchange of information can have a positive global impact is being proven over and over again around the world nearly on a daily basis - and for Secretary Clinton to recognize that, I think, is a huge step.”
“This idea that the person who kisses you first gets, with that kiss, a little piece of your soul. And they have a hold over you. Most people don't ever use it against you. But some people do.”
Source: The Unexpected Everything
“This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.”
“This idea that things are designed to go back to nature or industry for ever which is our articulation of these two metabolisms are actually a discovery not an invention.”
“This idea that voting is the full extent of our power is actually disempowering in my view, because what it tells people is that their only time, their only avenue for participating in politics is when they vote.”
“This idea that we just sort people into baskets of good and evil ignores the central fact of human existence, which is that each of us is a basket of good and evil. The job of politics is to summon the good and beat back the evil.”
“This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War” conflicts. We all want to be good parents. We want our choices to be the right ones. So, after we make the choices, there is a temptation to decide they are the perfect ones. Psychology has a name for this: avoiding cognitive dissonance. If I choose not to breastfeed, I don’t want to acknowledge that there are even small possible benefits to breastfeeding. So I encamp myself in the position that breastfeeding is a waste of time. On the other side, if I spend two years taking my boobs out every three hours, I need to believe that this is what it takes to deliver a life of continued successes to my child. This is a deeply human temptation, but it is also really counterproductive. Your choices can be right for you but also not necessarily the best choices for other people. Why? You are not other people. Your circumstances differ. Your preferences differ. In the language of economics, your constraints differ.”
Source: Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
“This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist hacks who don't stand for anything and are impatient with people who do. It's possible to do this job with honor and dignity.”
“This idea that you’re undeserving, a fraud—that you’re not as smart or talented or “together” as people might think makes you an “imposter” and therefore unqualified in whatever it is you want to do and someday you’re going to be found out. By whom? The imposter police? You’re not an imposter, you’re a human being.”
Source: Unstuck: A Life Manual On How To Be More Creative, Overcome Your Obstacles, and Get Shit Done
“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.”
“This idea where, in this safe haven for Jews, Jews will threaten to kill other Jews, it wasn't in the brochure.”
“This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.”
“This ideal of global communication is, in fact, the ideal of every great artist. Contrary to current prejudicial ideas, the people who do not have the right to stand alone are precisely the artists. Art cannot be a monologue.”
Source: Create Dangerously
“This idealization of motherhood is essentially a means of keeping women from developing a sexual consciousness and from breaking through the barriers of sexual repression, of keeping alive their sexual anxieties and guilt feelings. The very existence of woman as a sexual being would threaten authoritarian ideology; her recognition and social affirmation would mean its collapse.”
Source: The Mass Psychology of Fascism
“This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do.”
Source: How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
“This ignorant beast of a girl had consumed his every thought whether it be waking or dreaming, and he couldn't shake her no matter how hard he'd tried. Blythe was a sponge for the world and all its delights, and day by day Aris found himself craving her.
He wanted her. Her mind, her body, her time. He wanted her.”
Source: Wisteria
“This illness has negatively impacted my life and its progress. I cannot continue living like this. This is THE END.”
“This illusion is reality, and we shall acknowledge it as such. The interdependence of secondary and primary qualities, the dependence of our senses on the world, and the formation of our impressions are all realities. But, if reality is not reality, as we see it or understand it, this does not mean it is not a reality. Without these “illusions,” there would be no meaningful reality. Reality as it is, in its ultimate and absolute state, without transformations, is equal to nothing.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.”
Source: History of Western Philosophy
“This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive.”
Source: Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
“This image of herself as a not ordinary women, an image which was trembling now in his eyes, might suddenly disappear. Nothing more difficult to live up to than men's dreams.”
“This imaginary gift is a journey for your imagination.
I send you...
A luxury train ride. On this train are all the inspiring people you've ever wanted to meet or talk to. You glide from car to car, sitting or lying down on velvet lounge chairs, listening and asking questions. There is also a voluminous library on the train, with every book you've ever wanted to read or look at. Kind people bring you delicious tidbits to eat and nourishing liquids to drink. If you take a nap, time stands still until you return so you never miss anything. You receive a large journal filled with photographs, drawings and descriptions of your journey to take with you when you leave. You realize that you can board this train at any time.”
“This imagined beyond, which the scientist has proved he cannot penetrate, will become the playground of the imagination of eery mystic and dreamer. The existence of such a domain will be made the basis of an orgy of rationalizing. It will be made the substance of the soul; the spirits of the dead will populate it; God will lurk in its shadows; the principle of vital processes will have its seat here; and it will be the medium of telepathic communication.”
“This imitation Elvis may not be the king, but baby I'm the next best thing.”
“This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.”
Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“This immediately reminds me of a thought I had about you months ago, during that miserably frenzied period when I thought you weren’t coming back: sat on the subway and musing over all the various adaptations of you that existed in other people’s anecdotes…a great composite of identities, none of them ever entirely capturing the whole. I’d wondered what they would have talked about if they’d sat down together – all those versions of you – whether they would have recognized each other if they’d met in the street.”
Source: The Shape of Me Will Always Be You
“This immigration business has been going on in the UK much in advance of the European Union making an issue of it.”
“This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.”
“This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.”
“This implies that the art of life is more like navigation than warfare, for what is important is to understand the winds, the tides, the currents, the seasons, and the principles of growth and decay, so that one's actions may use them and not fight them.”
“This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.”
Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness