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“Knowing what I do now, I don't know if I'd ever have the balls to go to film school, with no connections and no knowledge of the business side at all.”

Ifs Knows School Film Sides Knowing Connections Balls Film School

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept. We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.”

Feels Mind Humans May Hard Feelings Beautiful Strong Sides Accepting Wall Terrible Connections Construction Reciprocity One Sided Strong Connection

Author:Alan Lightman

“Hillary Clinton's younger brother Tony is facing criticism for using the Clintons' political connections to help his career. So on the down side, she has a sketchy brother named Tony. On the up side, she just locked up every vote in New Jersey.”

Helping Political Sides Careers Brother Criticism Connections Vote Clinton Locked Jersey New Jersey Locked Up Younger Brother Sketchy

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“For all of my patients sensuality is a giving in to 'the low side of their nature.' Puritanism is powerful and distorts their life with a total anesthesia of the senses. If you atrophy one sense, you also atrophy all the others, a sensuous and physical connection with nature, with art, with food, with other human beings.”

Ifs Giving Humans Art Sides Human Beings Powerful Lows Connections Patient Senses Sensuality Giving In Sensuous Atrophy Puritanism Anesthesia

Author:Anais Nin

“Natural good is' so intimately connected with moral good, and natural evil with moral evil, that I am as certain as if I heard a voice from heaven proclaim it, that God is on the side of virtue. He has learnt much, and has not lived in vain, who has practically discovered that most strict and necessary connection, that does and will ever exist between vice and misery, and virtue and happiness.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“I will content myself, Mr. Speaker, with those principal motives to union; first, that we are in the rapids and must go on; next that our neighbours will not, on their side, let us rest supinely, even if we could do so from other causes; and thirdly, that by making the united colonies more valuable as an ally to Great Britain, we shall strengthen rather than weaken the imperial connection. (Cheers.”

Source: Speeches and Addresses Chiefly on the Subject of British-American Union

“It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.”

“... each gratification points to the ultimate one, and that all happiness has some connection with eternal beatitude. Some connection, if only this: that every fulfillment this side of Heaven instantly reveals its inadequacy. It is immediately evident that such satisfactions are not enough; they are not what we have really sought; they cannot really satisfy us at all.”

Ifs Enough Heaven Sides Eternal Connections Ultimate Satisfaction Fulfillment Evident Gratification Inadequacy

Author:Josef Pieper

“Thanks to music I have found a deeper connection to an otherwise elusive God. Thru music I get to commune directly, and daily. On a side note to readers, any service or craft you give your heart to will give you the same effect. Don't be afraid to work less and play more! We are human. We didn't come here to hold down a dayjob. We came here to live and learn!”

Giving Humans Heart Play Found Sides Effects Reader Connections Notes Deeper Crafts Thanks Elusive Live And Learn Communes

Author:Jason Mraz

“There are moments when it's unbelievable how people who work on the hair or on the little bit of skin here, they have no other care or interest since this part of their job is the only thing that needs to look good. So you have to push everybody to the side so that you can have a connection with your actor and give some air to your actor.”

People Needs Giving Looks Littles Moments Care Jobs Actors Bits Sides Interest Air Hair Little Bit Connections Skins Unbelievable

Author:Audrey Tautou

“It doesn't surprise me that aspect of the black nationalist movement, the cultural side, has triumphed because that is the aspect of the movement that was most commodifiable and when we look at the commodification of blackness we're looking at a phenomenon that's very profitable and it's connection with the rise of a black middle class I think is very obvious.”

Thinking Looks Sides Black Class Middle Movement Aspect Connections Surprise Obvious Middle Class Phenomenon Profitable Blackness Surprise Me Commodification

Author:Angela Davis

“Sometimes I feel like I'm making a connection with a stranger, but then it turns out I'm not. Like, I was in a mall, and I saw this lady hitting her kid. So I went up to her, and I was like, "Yeah, get him!" She got all mad at me. I was like, "I'm on your side here."”

Feels Sometimes Kids Funny Turns Sides Saws Comedy Connections Yeah Mad Stranger Hitting Malls Your Side

Author:Demetri Martin

“Ever since I was a child I've had a passion for colors and a sixth sense and known how to use it. I started in fashion, but I got side-tracked by psychology and its color connection. I went back to school and got both my degrees in psychology, but I kept studying design. Color has an application in all of those fields.”

Children Use School Passion Sides Known Study Psychology Fashion Design Fields Color Degrees Connections Application Sixth Sense

Author:Leatrice Eiseman

“I think that it drives from an emotional connection with everybody that pulls you through all of those events, whether it's the events or what would be more the action, or I guess the visual effects side of it. So it always starts with me from - emotionally - 'Why do you care about the people who are going through what they're going through?' Because it takes a hell of a lot to put them through that. So you better care for them when they're doing it.”

People Thinking Would Be Care Action Sides Hell Effects Events Emotional Connections Visuals Emotional Connection Visual Effects Do You Care

Author:Len Wiseman

“In American tradition a certain kind of, I would say, desperate American friendliness in which the poet tries to reach out through the page to make a connection by the side of the road with some other person.”

Trying Kind Persons Certain Sides Poet Pages Tradition Connections Desperate Reach Out Friendliness American Tradition

Author:Edward Hirsch

“We have to start at ground zero and ask what it means to have a real connection with God and what it means to pray. We have to recast our whole understanding of God. We live on the other side of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Steven Hawking, a whole group of people who have recast the way we think about reality.”

People Thinking Way Mean Real Whole Reality Asks Understanding Sides Groups Praying Connections Zero Newton Isaac Copernicus Kepler Ground Zero Real Connection

Author:John Shelby Spong

“I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.”

“While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.”

People Ifs Feels Should Believe Use Pain Sides Decision Emotion Leader Sacrifice Empathy Connections Intention Clinton Careful Vulnerability Companion Be Careful Shorthand

Author:Dee Dee Myers

“I just have this deep kind of connection to reality of being like... in a way, I feel like a dock worker. I want to stay in connection with my dock-worker side, 'cause that's how I grew up.”

Way Want Feels Kind Reality Causes Sides Grew Grew Up Connections Workers Docks

Author:Eddie Vedder

“When he nodded, the physician disappeared into thin air, and then a moment later, Payne felt a warm palm encompass hers. It was Vishous's un-gloved hand against her own and the connection between them eased her in ways she couldn't name. Verily, she had lost her mother . . . but if she lived through this, she still had family. On this side.”

Ifs Way Stills Moments Hands Mother Names Lost Felt Sides Air Connections Warm Physicians Palms Thin Air Vishous

Author:J.R. Ward

“To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them.”

Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More

“I believe it's our loss of connection with our instinctual side that prevents us from being effective pack leaders for our dogs. Perhaps it's also why we also seem to be failing at being positive guardians of our planet.”

Believe Seems I Believe Sides Loss Leader Failing Dog Planets Connections Packs Guardian Our Planet Being Positive

Book:Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

Source: Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life

“Creating a close connection to those you do business with has its many risks, rewards and consequences. There are few things in business I have encountered that are more difficult than firing someone, particularly if that someone has always been, or has become a friend. On the flip side, I have been rewarded with many friends.”

Ifs Inspirational Has Beens Difficult Sides Friendship Business Risk Creating Consequence Connections Rewards Flip Firing Many Friends

Author:Mark Cuban

“If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.”

Ifs Children Self Use Light Spirituality Sides Divine Color Serious Musician Connections Scientist Notes Creator Deny Access Block Painter Feminine Chords Hunches Juxtaposition Divine Light

Author:Stuart Wilde

“There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say.. it makes life. It gives us fulfilment. It makes us whole human beings. And without it, we make mistakes. And, boy, are the leaders of the world making mistakes at the moment.”