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“So the technology that does the least alteration of nature, the least harm to other species and systems, and provides the greatest intimacy of human with nature, is the best. We could make a scale with that in mind, and judge any technology by its place on that scale: speech and eyeglasses, say, would rank low; nuclear bombs and coal plants, high.”

Mind Humans Doe Technology Judging Speech Lows Plant Species Harm Nuclear Scales Intimacy Bombs Coal Alterations Nuclear Bomb Eyeglasses

Author:Kirkpatrick Sale

“The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.”

Intimacy Lasting Misfortunes Infancy

Book:Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

Source: Common Sense: and The American Crisis I

“When I write, I lose time. I'm happy in a way that I have a hard time finding in real life. The intimacy between my brain and my fingers and my computer... Yet knowing that that intimacy will find an audience... It's very satisfying. It's like having the safety of being alone with the ego reward of being known.”

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Author:Jill Soloway

“The superior man is not seeking fulfillment through work and woman, because he is already full. For him, work and intimacy are opportunities to give his gifts, and to be vanished in the bliss of giving.”

Men Giving Opportunity Seeking Superiors Intimacy Fulfillment Bliss Superior Man

Book:The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

Source: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition

“As a producer, I'm an objective observer, helping a band form their ideas into a cohesive album. It's a step back from the intimacy of creation.”

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Author:Mark Hoppus

“Intimacy is important in my work because I don't understand existence without intimacy. All of us are dependent on other people - and in ways we don't know. You cross the street and assume that person isn't crazy, they don't want to mow me down with their car. I don't know that person but I am already in a relationship with them. I am asking them to abide by the traffic laws. If they decided not to, I'd be dead. Even in those anonymous ways, we're in relationships.”

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Author:Claudia Rankine

“To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.”

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Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote.”

Self Faces Song Stars Rocks Late Distance Intimacy Eras Generosity Irony Sincerity Rock Star Arrivals Absorption Bowie Self Absorption Counterculture

Author:David Bowie

“As a practical matter, I like the dramatic monologue for its compelling intimacy. To be inside one's character, to register his or her every vagrant thought, emotion, and response - the first-person viewpoint grants this privilege and immediacy.”

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Author:Norman Lock

“The messiness [in my books] is nothing like an Atwood novel. For me, the deeper subjects are secrets versus intimacy, and how both beget safety but also threaten it. And there is a lot for me about loss, too.”

Book Loss Secret Novel Subjects Safety Deeper Intimacy Versus Begets Messiness

Author:Edan Lepucki

“I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque.”

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Author:Anna Journey

“I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.”

Thinking Wells Inspire Draws Curiosity Intimacy Awe Cabinets Grotesque

Author:Anna Journey

“I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.”

People Thinking Hard Achieve Connections Intimacy Hard Things

Author:Chelsea Martin

“There's a kind of intimacy that happens between a mother and an only child. Which only gets more intimate when it's between a mother and only daughter.”

Kind Children Happens Mother Daughter Intimacy Intimate Only Child Only Daughter

Author:Leigh Newman

“I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.”

Thinking Levels Reader Vices Intimacy Vice Versa High Level Narrators

Author:Tom Barbash

“I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.”

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Author:Gary LeVox

“Being in love makes me vulnerable. Intimacy on that level can be so exposing. Accepting that vulnerability and allowing myself to be completely transparent is an ongoing process for me.”

Process Levels Accepting Vulnerable Intimacy Vulnerability Allowing Ongoing Being In Love Transparent Exposing

Author:Danielle Cormack

“If I can be more efficient, I'm actually being more respectful to the reader, which then implies a greater intimacy with the reader.”

Ifs I Can Greater Reader Intimacy Efficient Respectful

Author:George Saunders

“Intimacy is really good. But then again, the first disk on the record is not intimate in the least. It's a really good CD.”

Firsts Records Intimacy Intimate Cds Disk

Author:Scott Aukerman

“We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."”

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Author:Scott Aukerman

“: But the people on the CD are famous. Those people were coming out to see those people. I don't think they need that kind of intimacy with those people.”

People Thinking Needs Kind Intimacy Coming Out Cds

Author:B. J. Porter

“Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.”

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Author:Rem Koolhaas

“Being on the same level as everybody is really important to me. I'm trying to do really basic stuff like communicate, convey, talk, see, and invite joining and intimacy. What I'm trying to do is attach. It's not about being separate.”

Trying Important Stuff Levels Communicate Intimacy Invites Joining

Author:Sue Tompkins

“Small spaces allow me the intimacy, but make it more of a challenge for the more theatrical pieces.”

Challenges Space Pieces Intimacy Theatrical Small Spaces

Author:Karen Mason

“When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."”

Men Looks Eye Jobs Stuff Poor Study Issues Ethics Commitment I Realized Intimacy Related Work Ethic Good Job Fear Of Commitment Fatherlessness

Author:Donald Miller

“I don't miss the ministry, because I'm completely engaged in it. In terms of parish ministry, I miss the intimacy with a group of people.”

People Term Groups Missing Intimacy Engaged Ministry Parish

Author:Barbara Brown Taylor

“There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.”

People Feelings Intimacy Closeness Venues Great Feelings

Author:Mavis Staples

“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.”

“Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy.”

Men Kissing Good Things Intimacy

Author:Thomas Haden Church

“Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.”

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Author:Bill Jay

“It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.”

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Author:Isabel Allende

“I think early on I avoided singing because it was so personal and I didn't know how to sit in that intimacy. I wrote songs when I was little and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.”

Thinking Knows Littles Song Know How Singing Intimacy Journal Avoided Truth Comes Out

Author:Juliette Lewis

“I've done collaborations in all my movies, and I think it's part of what I enjoy about the process. This kind of intimacy that you create. Because it becomes very intimate.”

Thinking Kind Done Process Enjoy Intimacy Intimate Collaboration

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“When you are doing portraits, you have that intimacy with someone for a few minutes. For a really good portrait, you don't take the portrait - it's given.”

Given Minutes Intimacy Portraits

Author:Giles Duley

“I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.”

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Author:Esther Perel

“In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?”

Persons Our Lives Honest Higher Connections Vulnerable Intimacy Transparency Love Relationship

Author:Rachael Yamagata

“Communication within the couple includes the open, clear, and honest sharing of feelings, desires, thoughts, interests, and creative ideas. It is in this sharing of the deepest parts of ourselves with another that true intimacy in the relationship is cultivated.”

Ideas Feelings Desire Interest Creative Clear Honest Communication Couple Intimacy Creative Ideas True Intimacy

Author:John Friend

“The more knowledge one person has of the other, the greater the intimacy within the relationship.”

Persons Greater Intimacy More Knowledge

Author:John Friend

“The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.”

Believe I Believe Audience Intimacy

Author:Val Kilmer

“Matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves.”

Matter Individual Decision Moral Intimacy Realms Reproduction Contraception Moral Decisions

Author:Tim Kaine

“Tangentially, Americans, despite many of us being prone to sometimes-eyebrow-raising disclosures about our private lives on social media, still retain what I think of as reactionary views about sexuality and intimacy.”

Thinking Stills Sometimes Social Views Media Social Media Sexuality Despite Intimacy Eyebrows Private Life Reactionaries Disclosure

Author:Christine Sneed

“We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.”

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Author:Ann Patchett

“There are some actresses who cannot function on the set without having a close relationship with their directors. Their way of communicating with the director is through intimacy. It doesn't necessarily have to do with any physical act; it has more to do with achieving a closeness that they find very valuable.”

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Author:Peter Stone

“The [Frank] Sinatra interpretation of the music, as opposed to some other music that you were listening to - where you felt like they were singing at you - you felt Sinatra was singing to you. It's a very intimate art form, and that's what I responded to - the intimacy of his performance.”

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Author:Robert Davi

“You're working so hard and so many hours, you simply don't get to visit with everybody when you're gone for five months. That's part of the trade in we make with this career. You don't get to maintain the intimacy you would like to.One of the big things I was doing was working on reestablishing that.”

Hard Bigs Hours Careers Gone Five Months Trade Intimacy Big Things Working So Hard

Author:Patrick Heusinger

“We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.”

Kind Real Nice Intimacy Substitutes Nevertheless Shallow Superficial Friendliness

Author:Erich Fromm

“This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man was played to the back of the house. When we turned the cameras on that, it changed a bit with close-ups, but we got just as much power in that beautiful intimacy.”

Men Way Play Beautiful House Bits Stage Changed He Man Cameras Versions Intimacy Bryan

Author:Jay Roach

“I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.”

Want Honest Cameras Intimacy

Author:Laura Vandervoort

“I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.”

Feels Littles Enough Comfortable Intimacy Rough

Author:Kenneth Lonergan

“We want to be in open, loving communion with each other and our greatest fear is intimacy. That it won't work and we'll be rejected.”

Want Intimacy Rejected Communion Greatest Fear Our Greatest Fear

Author:Tara Brach