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“People want poetry and need it - we need what's not honored by the corporate mentality that has taken over. It gives people a language for responding to the violence, the shallowness, the near-nothings, the toys we're all supposed to want. It's a way for people to be able to connect with themselves.”

People Way Want Needs Giving Able Language Taken Violence Corporate Over It Mentality Toys Honored Responding Shallowness

Author:Joan Larkin

“The sick man is taken away by the institution that takes charge not of the individual, but of his illness, an isolated object transformed or eliminated by technicians devoted to the defense of health the way others are attached to the defense of law and order or tidiness.”

Men Way Law Order Individual Taken Objects Sick Institutions Illness Defense Transformed Isolated Devoted Law And Order Technicians Sick Man

Book:The Practice of Everyday Life

Source: The Practice of Everyday Life

“When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.”

Way Should Evil Father Taken Son Complaining

Author:Baal Shem Tov

“the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.”

Source: Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons

“Whatever a scientist is doing - reading, cooking, talking, playing - science thoughts are always there at the edge of the mind. They are the way the world is taken in; all that is seen is filtered through an everpresent scientific musing.”

World Way Mind Science Reading Talking Taken Scientist Cooking Edges Musings

Book:Women in Science: Then and Now

Source: Women in Science: Then and Now

“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.”

“There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.”

Way Play Problem Seems Used Taken Risk Stage New York Picks England Theater Originals Productions Used To Be Justification Cream Tickets Broadway

Author:Arthur Miller

“Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.”

Way Years Walks Taken Journey Streets Fragrance

Author:Daphne Guinness

“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union and I think sharp measures need to be taken against anti-Soviet forces that are trying to make their way into the leadership. In addition, it is vitally important to maintain the lines of communication with Germany through Poland.”

Thinking Way Needs Trying Important Force Lines Taken Communication Citizens Unions Germany Soviet Soviet Union Poland Lines Of Communication

Author:Konstantin Rokossovsky

“When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that weve taken on a role or were acting in some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world.”

World Way Mean Acting Roles Taken Gender Crucial Role Playing

Author:Judith Butler

“A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.”

Way Self Care Artist Bits Careers Taken Progress Everyday Self Worth

Book:Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. You think it isn’t true? The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.”

People Men Way Different Three Black Community Break Taken Strikes One Way Sections Breaking Down Our Community Representing Three Strikes

Author:Snoop Dogg

“No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually.”

Men Way States President United Lord United States Taken Failing Special Comfort Office Thee Strongest Trust In God Faith In God Reliance Fear Not Forsake Dismayed

Author:John F. Kennedy

“There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.”

Way Trying Kind Different Seems Enjoy Pleasure Taken All Time Rebellion Different Kinds Negativity Rebellious

Author:Zac Efron

“In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.”

People Men Way Years Matter States Seems Jobs Realizing United United States Taken Four Fronts Eight Corporations Inexorable

Author:Alice Walker

“No journalist has ever been in my house and no photographs have ever been taken of where I live. I don't parade my family out for display, which is the way it will stay.”

Way House Taken My Family Photograph Journalist Display Parades

Author:Tom Hanks

“Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.”

Way Values Sides Taken Greater Serious Genius Absolutes Tenderness Correlation Confucian

Author:Ezra Pound

“The way in which the photograph records experience is also different from the way of language. Language makes sense only when it is presented as a sequence of propositions. Meaning is distorted when a word or sentence is, as we say, taken out of context; when a reader or listener is deprived of what was said before, and after. But there is no such thing as a photograph taken out of context, for a photograph does not require one. In fact, the point of photography is to isolate images from context, so as to make them visible in a different way.”

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”

“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.”

Men Way Kind Bigs Seems Age Taken Acceptance Cat Old Age All Kinds Irony Ironic Betray Torn Sentimentality Resigned Burroughs

Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms when necessary to make that dream a reality. We can be extremely proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our Nation and our way of life endure. We are free.”

World Way Two Dream Reality Today America Nations Freedom Millions Taken Century Arms Proud Endure Accomplished Republic American Dream Be Proud

Author:Gerald R. Ford

“... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.”

Way Needs Taken Admiration Reverence Another Way

Book:Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Source: Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

“Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.”

People Way Book Reality Spiritual Spirit Taken Share Red Sacred Photograph Chiefs Indian Inadequate Old Time Timer Old Timers

Author:Thomas Yellowtail

“It's pretty simple, the way I look at it. I became a Hall of Famer here (in New York), with my numbers here and what I've done here, and hopefully three-hundred will be another big part of that. When (former Red Sox general manager Dan) Duquette said that I was done, if I'd have taken his advice and went home, I wouldn't have been a Hall of Famer. So it's a no-brainer. It's definitely pretty easy. Reggie (Jackson) spent five years here, and this will be five for me.”

Ifs Way Years Looks Has Beens Said Done Home Bigs Three Easy Simple Numbers Taken Five Advice New York Hundred Red Former Hopefully Managers Five Years Halls No Brainer General Manager

Author:Roger Clemens

“I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.”

Ifs Way Firsts Wells Done Bits Taken Heard Hair Horror First Time Golf Journalism Journalist Pairs Pants Recalls Vague Bicycle Peeking

Author:H. L. Mencken

“Whoever considers the number of absurd and ridiculous oaths necessary to be taken at present in most countries, on being admitted into any society or profession whatever, will be less surprised to find prevarication still prevailing, where perjury has led the way.”

Way Stills Country Numbers Taken Profession Ridiculous Absurd Oath Prevailing Perjury Prevarication

Book:A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated ... by J. Justamond, M. A. The third edition: revised and corrected. With maps adapted to the work and a copious index

Source: A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies. Translated ... by J. Justamond, M. A. The third edition: revised and corrected. With maps adapted to the work and a copious index

“As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.”

Way Mind Heart Self Culture Realizing Differences Common Creative Taken Our Lives Progress Journey Habit Strategy Deeper Common Sense Daily Life Heart And Mind Ambiguity Intercultural

Author:H. Ned Seelye

“An older child, one who possesses a conscience, will be troubled with self-reproaches and feelings of shame for his naughtiness, even if he is not discovered. But our two-year-olds and our three-year- olds experience guilt feelings only when they feel or anticipate disapproval from the outside. In doing this, they have taken the first steps toward the goal of conscience, but there is a long way ahead before the policeman outside becomes the policeman inside.”

“You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.”

Knows Way Trying Believe Moments Life Is Taken Cameras Photographer Chinese Prettiest

Author:Bert Stern

“And the desire to own property, to take for ourselves things which in no way belong to us, does not stop short at the sun. The air is already bought and sold as a commodity, by health resorts. And what of water? Or waterpower? Why should the earth be parceled out into private hands? Is it any different from the sun? No; the earth belongs to the people who live on it. God intended it for them, but it has been taken over by private individuals. Privare means to steal. Thus private property is stolen property - property stolen from God and from humankind!”

Source: Eberhard Arnold: Writings Selected with an Introduction

“While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way. I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother.”

Way Should Mother Turns Taken Silent Affair Very Happy Gross Bans Dave Platonic Monogamous Relationship

Author:Frances Bean Cobain

“The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then consequently the way you breathe. And then, the way you breathe effects the way you think.”

Thinking World Way Film Moving Joy Taken Effects Periods Determine Breathe Costumes Another World

Author:Rhys Ifans

“China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.”

Way Taken Broken Models Fundamentals Western China Chinese Splits Unfair Immoral Going To Work

Author:Francis Fukuyama

“I feel if I wanted to be taken seriously I have to study music the same way someone who wants to be a doctor would study medicine. You have to know your craft and by doing so I had to make sure to ignore what people were thinking as well.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Feels Wells Wanted Study Taken Doctors Medicine Crafts

Author:James Vincent McMorrow

“I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.”

Way Want Years Firsts Two Care Pain Sports Taken Take Care Chairs Two Years Retired Tolls

Author:Eric Dickerson

“I wanted to be a comedian, I wanted people to laugh at what I was saying, not to be staring at my boobs or wearing a skirt and show off my ... I just didn't think that that was the best way to get taken seriously in that world.”

People Thinking World Way Shows Wanted Laughing Taken Best Way Comedian Staring Skirts Showing Off

Author:Chelsea Handler

“I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.”

Thinking Way Self Reality Fiction Watches Technology Taken One Thing Machines Science Fiction Embrace Cameron

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in some other semi-sexual way. It was so bad that I returned an advance to turn the Playboy article into a paperback, even though I had to borrow the money.”

Way Turns Taken Articles Request Playboy

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you're a writer and you are at all inclined to speak as a Christian in some way, you realize very quickly that the conventional language is pretty much useless. It takes a long time to get past that, or it has taken me a long time. People in conventional Christianity have spoken lightly and sometimes frivolously of God for a long time. It's a word that needs to be used sparingly, in my opinion.”

People Ifs Way Needs Long Sometimes Christian Past Used Speak Language Realizing Christianity Opinion Taken Long Time Useless Conventional

Author:Wendell Berry

“The media and even, to some degree, leaders of women's organizations don't understand that the women's movement is an absolute part of society now. It is in the consciousness, it is taken for granted. It is part of the way women look at themselves, and women are looked at.”

Way Looks Consciousness Leader Taken Media Movement Degrees Organization Absolutes Granted Taken For Granted

Author:Betty Friedan

“It is most attractive about the US to people and countries with wealth is that it can provide security, insurance really, against political instability. Nobody is afraid that the money they place in the US is at risk of expropriation or of in some other way being taken away. For this safety, the wealth holders of the world are willing to accept a lower rate of return.”

People World Way Country Political Wealth Accepting Taken Risk Security Willing Return Safety Rate Attractive Instability Political Instability

Author:Milton Friedman

“I've always played music and I've always been in bands and there have been periods in my life where the music has taken a much more front row seat than any acting. For a big period of time the acting work was really a way of raising money to fund my music. And then that all sort of changed around and that's fine.”

Way Has Beens Bigs Acting Taken Fronts Changed Fine Periods Band Seats Fund Raising Money

Author:Jim Sturgess

“I used to have to downplay my sexuality because I wanted to be taken so seriously as a thespian and as an artist and as an actor, so I'd play crack heads and down trotting women and disguise myself, and I think as I've gotten older, I become more comfortable with who I really am and all parts of me knowing that my physical self doesn't diminish me in any way or my talent.”

Thinking Way Self Play Wanted Used Artist Actors Knowing Taken Talent Comfortable Sexuality Cracks Disguise Diminish Thespians Trotting

Author:Halle Berry

“I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I think that request made me more alert to mushrooms, and now they've cropped up in my work, the way mushrooms themselves do after rain, quite a lot. But I've only just now taken up mushroom hunting, after going to a class offered at my local library.”

Thinking Way Writing Made Class Taken Rain Library Locals Hunting Introduction Request Mushrooms Anthology

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.”

Way Should Wells Used Felt Careers Taken Special Capable England Theatre Leap Quantum Quantum Leap

Author:Albert Finney

“There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.”

People Thinking Way Kind Culture Belief Differences Audience Taken Intellectual Entertainment Critical Commodity Garbage Consensus

Author:Chuck Klosterman

“It`s probably fair to say I have taken myself too seriously on some jobs. I`m sure I`m more guilty of being difficult than I`d like to remember. I don`t regret my desires; I`ve regretted the way I would communicate my desires. Maybe I`ve lost a job because of some rumor, I doubt it. But nobody good that I`ve worked with has ever said anything negative about me, because we`ve never had a negative experience. By good, I mean directors who do their homework, people that are passionate, crazy, never sleep, and do like I do and just go after it.”

“All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.”

“I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!”

Way Form Taken Shapes Picture Taken Exhibitionist

Author:Megyn Price

“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.”