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“My daughter will say she's hungry, and I'm like, 'Buddy, you're just bored. Do you understand? And you're already starting a pattern of satisfying an internal disconnect with an external stimulation, and that's a dead-end road, sweetie. Courtney Love lives on that road; you don't want to live on that road.”

Want Ends Daughter Starting Patterns Hungry Bored Internals Love Life My Daughter Satisfying Buddy Stimulation Dead Ends Courtney

Author:Dana Gould

“I believe most people are born with the potential to have same-sex and opposite-sex attractions. However, homophobia creates an internal split, locking up a natural part of a person's psyche, sometimes to the point where the person is unaware that part exists.”

People Believe Persons Sometimes I Believe Sex Born Natural Opposites Attraction Internals Splits Homophobia

Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“The internal peace of every country depends upon the knowledge that force is available to uphold law.”

Country Law Force Depends Available Internals Rule Of Law Internal Peace

Author:Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“The suburban landscape is alien and strange and exotic. I photograph it out of longing and desire. My photographs are also about repression and internal angst.”

Desire Strange Longing Photograph Aliens Landscape Internals Repression Angst Exotic

Author:Gregory Crewdson

“We perceive and interpret the outer world through a set of incredibly fine internal receptors. But we are incapable, by ourselves, of grasping or tweezing out any permanent, sharable figment of it. Practically speaking, we ritually verify what is there, and are disposed to call it reality. But, with photographs, we have concrete proof that we have not been hallucinating all our lives.”

World Reality Our Lives Fine Photograph Proof Permanent Perceive Internals Concrete Incapable Grasping Outer Worlds Verify Figments

Book:Photography & Fascination: Essays

Source: Photography & Fascination: Essays

“Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.”

War Country Hands Party Glory Competition Greed Aliens Appeals Internals Socialist Conquest Ruthless European Countries Armament Socialist Party

Book:Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage

Source: Darwin, Marx, Wagner: critique of a heritage

“The fact is that everyone has ki, which is really little more than a technique of visualization allowing one to utilize the internal energy that we all have and letting it flow through the body.”

Littles Facts Body Energy Flow Technique Internals Allowing Visualization

Author:Chuck Norris

“There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly. Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.”

Knows Said Action Humanity Heaven Virtue Return Roots Core Supreme Internals Heavenly

Author:Zhuangzi

“When I hear the president of the United States in a great little rhetorical flourish talk about the leavening hand of the government, everybody knows that leavening hand is attached to the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service. And no one mistakes the Internal Revenue Service with something called liberty.”

Knows Littles Long States Hands Government President United Mistake Liberty United States Arms Internals Revenue Rhetorical One Mistake

Author:Sean Hannity

“Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.”

Needs Writing Kind Book Adventure Balance Internals Chairs Hawaii Floats Sofas Martini Shakers Rafting

Author:Tom Robbins

“A white leftist Mexican activist isn't the same in the media as the son of a farmer in Guerrero, they aren't worth the same. In the same imaginary of the Latin American Left exists a racism, a racism that corresponds to processes of colonialism internal to almost all countries in Latin America.”

Country America Left Process White Media Son Racism Internals Latin Activist Farmers Imaginary Colonialism Mexican Latin America Leftists Latin American

Author:Bocafloja

“In the new alchemy, we have a similar kind of way of thinking. Our internal space includes our intuitions, our thoughts, our senses and our feelings, and from these we construct or build a picture of the outside world. From intuition and thought, we construct time. We also construct space from thought and our sensations. From our senses and our feelings, we experience energy, and from our intuitions and our feelings, we experience motion.”

Thinking World Way Kind Feelings Energy Space Intuition Senses Internals Sensations Our Thoughts Constructs Way Of Thinking Alchemy Outside World

Author:Fred Alan Wolf

“I write very personal songs. Subject matter is usually derived from some internal struggle that I am having.”

Writing Matter Song Struggle Subjects Internals Subject Matter Internal Struggle

Author:Corey Smith

“I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.”

Heart Whole Body Certain Belief Saws Wonderful Rounds Size Sand Internals Grain Extensions Particles Transparent Exceed Grains Of Sand Contractions

Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“A good, real, unrestrained, hearty laugh is a sort of glorified internal massage, performed rapidly and automatically. It manipulates and revitalizes corners and unexplored crannies of the system that are unresponsive to most other exercise methods. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”

Ifs Should Real Night Dies Laughing Exercise Laughter Method Corners Internals Fearful Strain Manipulate Massage Unexplored Hearty Good Laugh Unresponsive

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.”

Internals Underestimate Finches

Author:Charles Darwin

“Most of the writers I know have somehow managed to stay in touch with that inner child who's never heard of such a thing as an internal editor.”

Knows Children Heard Internals Editors Inner Child

Author:JoAnn Ross

“Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.”

Matter Character Voice Stage Pages Wounds Internals Plot Length Seconds Monologues

Book:A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

Source: A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

“There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum of internal stability, each is controlled by an Arafat-type figure - an anti-democratic strongman who is able to crush all challenges to his authority. Likewise, among those Arab countries that aren't ruled by a despot, the political dynamic is also consistent: In Lebanon, Iraq, and now Gaza, sectarian violence is the dominant form of political expression.”

“If you want to change an external part of your life, then you are first required to change the internal beliefs that hold these patterns in place. If you want others to respond to you or your work in different ways and with more appreciation, then examine your expectations for your work and your efforts. When you believe in yourself, chances are others will find your worth also.”

Ifs Way Want Firsts Believe Different Belief Chance Effort Expectations Patterns Appreciation Different Ways Believe In Yourself Internals Believe In You Chances Are

Author:Meredith L. Young-Sowers

“In every moment God expresses Himself in, as, and through you. Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. This is the voice that speaks to you always of your highest choice, that places before you your grandest vision.”

Way Moments Shows Home Choices Speak Voice Vision Highest Built Guidance Internals Way Home

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“We have weathered the worst storms and the safety of the shore, though distant, is in sight. We can look to the future with robust confidence provided we do not relax and fritter away our energies in internal dissensions. There never was greater need for discipline and unity in our ranks. It is only with united effort and faith in our destiny that we shall be able to translate the Pakistan of our dreams into reality.”

“I am a mystic and am directed by an internal compass. I am not outer-directed.”

Internals Compass Mystic

Author:Diane Wilson

“Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.”

“No one can threaten poetry. It's always been there, always will be. Humans need it to live: it has sustaining powers. How could we (anyone) get through adolescence without some form of song? Song is only a version of lyric poetry that is carried more by melody than by internal coherence and unity. but lyric and song - they are the same.”

Needs Humans Form Song Unity Versions Internals Melody Adolescence Sustaining Coherence Lyric Poetry

Author:Gregory Orr

“When you achieve it fully, you create something that's transparent - that people can move into and through their own experiences. As a writer, I don't want people spending time thinking, "What does she mean?" I want, in a way, my text to go away. So that the words on the page become a door to one's own internal investigation. It's just a passage. If the work does its job, it just opens.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Mean Doe Jobs Moving Doors Achieve Pages Spending Internals Going Away Passages Investigation Transparent Spending Time

Author:Claudia Rankine

“Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and more problematic.”

States Results Foundation Dialogue Department Internals Involvement Iranian Cultural Exchange

Author:Mohammad Marandi

“We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear to be to others. Most of the time - when we aren't flat lying about something or playing a particularly stylized role in some heightened dramatic situation - this difference between the internal and the external is modest and manageable.”

Knows Mean Lying Differences Situation Roles Dramatic Internals Flats Modest Manageable Dramatic Situations

Author:Walter Kirn

“My work often begins as little internal dares, wondering if I can pull something off. So I spent a few years drawing these stories together, trying to build a Pangea of what began as separate continents.”

Ifs Trying Years Littles I Can Stories Together Wonder Dare Drawing Internals Continents

Author:Anthony Marra

“I prefer assonance and internal rhyme to end rhyme. I mean, the sonnet already looks like a box. Best not to get too boxed in, though.”

Looks Mean Ends Boxes Internals Rhyme Sonnet Assonance

Author:Anna Journey

“I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.”

Needs Persons Guy Steps Watches Hell Comedy Conflict Tools Internals Happy Person Internal Conflict

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.”

Writing Trying Kind Fiction Scene Argument Logic Intention Internals Assertion

Author:Rachel Kushner

“I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.”

Knows Want Trying Play Character Force Internals Plot Divides

Author:Julianna Baggott

“Why doesn't anyone address the substantive question of why other states blatantly interfere in Israel's internal affairs? Israel does not meddle in the affairs of other states in a similar way, so why do other countries feel entitled to do this to Israel? These actions violate Israeli sovereignty and I expect European Union member states to act differently.”

Way Feels Doe Country States Action Members Unions Affair Israel Addresses Internals Other Countries Entitled Interfere Sovereignty Israeli European Union Internal Affairs

Author:Ayelet Shaked

“The National Security Adviser is supposed to be an arbiter of policy and open minded in internal debates. But the playing field was never balanced. It was always tilted toward Rumsfeld's position, which is obviously the same as Bush's.”

Security Policy Fields Position Debate Supposed To Be Internals Balanced National Security Open Mind Open Minded Adviser Playing Fields Arbiter

Author:Seymour Hersh

“I grew up on welfare in the South Bronx; I had a very tough upbringing in that neighborhood. Reading books like The Four Agreements, A Return to Love, and The Power of Now helped me to overcome many internal battles. Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children”

“I have a sign on my door. I look at it every single day of the week. The sign says, "Attitude is everything, so pick a good one." You need a very strong internal knowing. For instance, when I sat down to write the book The Power of Intention, I had a very strong internal knowing that I call thinking from the end.”

Thinking Needs Writing Looks Book Ends Strong Attitude Knowing Doors Week Picks Intention Instance Sat Internals Very Strong Attitude Is Everything Days Of The Week Power Of Intention

Author:Wayne Dyer

“In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.”

People Way Firsts Two Would Be Energy Dark Race Car Amount Discovery Horse Oil Internals Texas Electric Obscure Steam Gasoline Pennsylvania Density Footnotes Combustion Electric Car Dark Horse

Author:Bill Gates

“By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.”

Steps Our Lives Security Profound Internals Cultivating

Author:Isha Judd

“We're trying to fill something internal with something external. We're trying to fill something real with something illusionary.”

Trying Real Internals Something Real

Author:Isha Judd

“I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.”

Moments Wanted Determined Focused Internals Yearning Determined Woman

Author:Isha Judd

“Happiness is a choice I am making now. Once we understand that and find love consciousness, we learn that this place of internal plenitude needs nothing.”

Needs Choices Consciousness Internals Finding Love Happiness Is A Choice Plenitude

Author:Isha Judd

“I grew up the son of an acting teacher but I've never been really good at articulating what that process is. It was always a bit more internal.”

Bits Process Acting Teacher Son Grew Grew Up Internals Articulating Acting Teachers

Author:Vin Diesel

“Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.”

Wells Character Brain Conscious Property Affair Determined Fixed Internals Subjective Internal Affairs

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.”

World Interesting Brain Ego Models Direct Oneself Philosopher Contact Characteristics Internals Realistic Tunnels Robust Finnish

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Speaking as a phenomenologist, it seems to me that a considerable portion of mind wandering actually is "mental avoidance behaviour", an attempt to cope with adverse internal stimuli or to protect oneself from a deeper processing of information that threatens self-esteem.”

Mind Self Seems Self Esteem Information Protect Oneself Deeper Esteem Wander Internals Portions Behaviour Stimulus Avoidance Processing Adverse

Author:Thomas Metzinger

“Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.”

World Giving States America Views Novel Achieve Europe Jazz Internals Greatest Gifts

Author:Teju Cole

“Internalist approaches to epistemology, I believe, have a great deal of intuitive appeal. Internalists believe that the features in virtue of which a belief is justified must somehow be internal to the agent. On some views, this amounts to the claim that these features must be accessible to introspection and armchair reflection. On others, it amounts only to the claim that they must be mental features.”

Believe Belief I Believe Views Deals Virtue Amount Approach Reflection Claims Agents Appeals Features Internals Introspection Justified Intuitive Epistemology Armchairs

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.”

People Country Government Certain Weapons Affair Aids Internals Regimes Interfere Internal Affairs

Author:Shirin Ebadi

“I like listening to music on a Discman, where the CD spins, and the fact that it's weird to listen to something on a Discman when most people have an iPod, even though those have an internal hard drive that's spinning, too.”

People Hard Facts Listening Internals Listening To Music Spinning Cds Ipods

Author:Alexis Taylor

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