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“New York's not exactly antiseptic. It could be clean and less dangerous, and not horrible, not under a tidal wave of tourists.”

Dangerous New York Clean Wave Horrible Tourists Tidal Waves

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side.”

Ifs Should Humans Sides Feet Judging Elements Wave Earthquakes Your Side Chernobyl Very Cool Simulate Fukushima

Author:Bill Gates

“I've always had mixed feelings. I don't know if it's any better or worse. I do think there's a really boring side of what's going on now - the over-repetitive, oversexualized thing. There's a lot of women that know better, that are really beautiful and sexy, but it's like: We know you can shake your ass in a G-string and wave it around, it's not that risque. It's not dangerous. It's very obvious and boring.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feelings Beautiful Sides Dangerous Wave Obvious Boring Sexy Ass Shakes Strings Repetitive Really Beautiful Mixed Feelings Risque

Author:Neneh Cherry

“The way I listen to music goes in waves depending on a lot of things. How busy I am, if I'm in between composition projects, if I'm starting a new project. So, the only time I listen to the radio for music is with my daughter's when I'm driving them to school, or driving them somewhere.”

Ifs Way School Projects Music Is Daughter Busy Starting Wave Radio Driving My Daughter Composition Only Time Listening To Music New Projects

Author:Tod Machover

“I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.”

Thinking Kind Seems Fans Models Wave Flames Tension Productive

Author:Jessica Valenti

“People seem to think, because of the way that the media has appropriated third-wave feminism or young feminism, that all young feminists are about is like pole dancing and girls gone wild and how empowering it is. Like they'll start calling anything feminist.”

People Thinking Way Seems Young Girl Gone Feminism Media Calling Thirds Dancing Wave Feminist Empowering Pole Dancing

Author:Jessica Valenti

“I saw an article where the manager of the Pussycat Dolls, which is kind of this like striptease band, girl band, said, oh well, the girls are totally third-wave feminist. This is what third-wave feminism is about. Like you don't get to use that word. You don't get to say that something is feminist as a way to sell back sexism to women, as a way to further consumerist ideas.”

Way Wells Kind Said Ideas Use Girl Saws Feminism Like You Band Thirds Sells Wave Feminist Managers Sexism Articles Dolls Oh Well

Author:Jessica Valenti

“The one way, possibly, out of this is for [Bashar] Assad to abdicate and plead, perhaps to Russia or somewhere else. Would save another wave of civilian casualties if we could get him to abdicate.”

Ifs Way Wave Russia One Way Somewhere Else Civilians Casualties Assad Civilian Casualties

Author:Rand Paul

“Surfing is all about living in the moment. When you walk out on the Sydney Cricket Ground to play cricket you're intensely aware of the history of the sport; you're playing on this historic ground surrounded by pictures of the legends. With surfing, you just dive into the water and paddle out and catch waves.”

Play Moments Sports Water Walks Wave Legends Live In The Moment Cricket Historic Inspirational Sports Surfing Sydney

Author:Nick Carroll

“If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order.”

Ifs Knows Trying Moments Bigs Order Sports Happenings Wave Barriers Inspirational Sports Unified

Author:Nick Carroll

“It is well known that the man who first made public the theory of irrationals perished in a shipwreck in order that the inexpressible and unimaginable should ever remain veiled. And so the guilty man, who fortuitously touched on and revealed this aspect of living things, was taken to the place where he began and there is for ever beaten by the waves.”

Men Life Should Firsts Wells Made Order Known Taken He Man Theory Aspect Mathematics Guilt Wave Math Guilty Mathematical Touched Beaten Well Known Living Things Unimaginable Shipwreck

Author:Proclus

“Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

Trying Water Forget Psychology Promise Wave Swim Positive Psychology Treading Promise Me Treading Water

Author:Tyler Knott Gregson

“Sometimes we forget that the top of the wave, the top of the crest is always the bottom, there is no inside without an outside, and there is no up without a down.”

Sometimes Forget Bottom Wave

Author:John Assaraf

“That's what is really cool about this whole new wave of makeup artistry and people on Instagram and YouTube: It's about doing it for yourself and experimenting. People don't wear makeup to impress people or because they'll be seen in public. It's more of a hobby now, just because it's fun.”

People Whole Fun Wave Makeup Hobbies Impress Youtube Instagram Really Cool Artistry

Author:Zendaya

“Oil now, as a result of the Saudi production, is priced so low that there are not going to be new fracking investments made. A lot of companies that have gone into fracking are heavily debt-leveraged, and are beginning to default on their loans. The next wave of defaults that banks are talking about is probably going to be in the fracking industry. When the costs of production are so much more than they can end up getting for the oil, they just stop producing and stop paying their loans.”

Made Ends Next Results Company Talking Gone Industry Cost Lows Investment Wave Productions Debt Oil Loan Default Saudis Fracking

Author:Michael Hudson

“US opposition to Russia and China has entailed sanctions against Russia, and Russia in turn has made counter-sanctions against Europe. So Europe is essentially sacrificing its opportunities for trade and investment in order to remain part of NATO. It is also agreeing to bomb Syria and the Near East, creating a wave of refugees that it doesn't know what to do with.”

Knows Made Order Turns Opportunity Sacrifice Creating Europe Trade Investment Wave China East Russia Bombs Opposition Syria Refugee Sanctions Nato

Author:Michael Hudson

“It's actually a character choice for a movie I've been filming in South Korea called Okja. My director had this idea of having my hair be a very vibrant red/pink/watermelon color. We haven't finished filming so I'm kind of riding the wave of the red hair right now in terms of everything else that I have to do with The Last Tycoon press and you know, regular life. I'm really loving it. It's turning into a thing for me.”

Knows Kind Ideas Character Lasts Choices Term Havens Color Hair Right Now Directors Red Presses South Wave Finished Riding Korea Red Hair South Korea Tycoons Riding The Wave

Author:Lily Collins

“The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.”

Thinking World Writing Helping Problem Political Next Process Feminism Movement Thirds Wave Damage Mentoring

Author:Erica Jong

“As a kid growing up, this was sometimes a little bit intimidating to have a mom who was always, like, speaking up and always saying something that might be kind of controversial . . . . The thing I think that we got out of that that was really good was, like, we weren't afraid to make waves.”

Thinking Kind Littles Sometimes Might Kids Bits Growing Up Growing Mom Little Bit Wave Be Kind Controversial Intimidating Kids Growing Up Speaking Up

Author:Susan Wojcicki

“Stand up for what you believe in even if it causes waves.”

Ifs Believe Causes Wave Stand Up For What You Believe In

Author:Kathryn Budig

“There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.”

Firsts Guy Found Feminism Wave One Direction

Author:Amanda Palmer

“I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.”

Knows Littles Mother Bits Hurt Grief Hell Little Bit Died Wave Survived It Hurts Passed Away Respite Deep Grief Mother Passed Away

Author:Emily Saliers

“I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.”

Years Used Stuff Records Listening Wave Odd Singles

Author:Ian Curtis

“When we have heartbeat and brain waves, we refuse to accept it as the presence of life - this lack of logic of which we approach this issue because we like and we favor convenience over ethics. We favor convenience over the hard parts of life that actually make us grow.”

Hard Grows Brain Accepting Issues Approach Ethics Logic Wave Refuse Favors Convenience Heartbeat Parts Of Life

Author:Tom Coburn

“The raw food wave has swept through, and now it is the superfoods wave. The next thing to happen will be super herbalism.”

Happens Next Wave Raw Food Superfoods

Author:David Wolfe

“I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.”

Way Firsts Done Stories Film Found Directors Scripts Wave Genre Short Films

Author:Ellen Page

“I can always be reminded how small I am when I try to surf a wave that's a little bit out of my league, and I just get pummeled. And, when your life flashes before your eyes kind of stuff, deep down under the water where you don't know what's up or down, and that kind of thing, or just Mother Nature reminding you how small you are compared to it. That's kind of the main thing for me.”

Knows Trying Kind Littles I Can Eye Mother Stuff Bits Water Little Bit Down And Wave League Flash Deep Down Reminding Mother Nature Surf

Author:Aaron Bruno

“I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.”

People Thinking Needs Firsts Happens Right Now Gold Wave Excited Cycling

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“I think USA Cycling really needs to ride this wave and start looking at growing the sport. It's a tough one because cycling is such an endurance sport.”

Thinking Needs Sports Growing Tough Wave Usa Endurance Cycling Endurance Sports

Author:Kristin Armstrong

“Waihi Beach. It's a lovely beach, and we're right on the shore and I get a lot of pleasure out of waking up in the morning and hearing the waves roll in.”

Pleasure Morning Wake Up Wave Hearing Lovely Beach Shore Waking Waking Up In The Morning

Author:Edmund Hillary

“I'm more interested in the meanings and the bands that fill up the spaces known as new wave and post punk.”

Space Known Band Wave Posts Punk

Author:Martin Popoff

“I hope that young people especially will begin to have a better understanding of slavery and its effects, which are still evident today, to understand those parallels and, from there, begin ta be a part of the wave of hope to change things for the better.”

People Stills Today Young Understanding Effects Slavery Wave Evident Parallels

Author:Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

“Christ hath arisen! O mountain peaks, attest- Witness, resounding glen and torrent wave! The immortal courage in the human breast Sprung from that victory-tell how oft the brave To camp midst rock and cave, Nerved by those words, their struggling faith have borne, Planting the cross on high above the clouds of morn!”

Source: The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume

“A broken heart, too much cold beer, ocean waves and a willing man were never a good combination, no matter what the country songs said.”

Men Heart Said Country Matter Song Too Much Willing Broken Cold Ocean Summer No Matter What Wave Combination Beer Broken Heart Ocean Wave Cold Beer

Book:Driftwood Summer

Source: Driftwood Summer

“Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause the same kind of erosion as powerful waves do when they hit the shore”

Love Kind Sometimes Fighting Strong Causes Powerful Marriage Rocks Couple Wave Currents Consistent Shore Stubborn Erosion

Author:Jennifer E. Smith

“Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.”

Mind Achieve Identity Objects Color Pure Wave Concentration Crystals Sameness

Author:Patanjali

“Yoga is mind wave quieting.”

Mind Mindfulness Yoga Wave

Author:Patanjali

“Meekness is an unchanging state of mind, which both in honor and dishonor remains the same. Meekness consists in praying sincerely and undisturbedly in the face of afflictions from one's neighbor. Meekness is a cliff rising from the sea of irritability, against which all the that waves that strive against it break, but which is itself never broken.”

“There's a rumbling with young artists and young filmmakers that are dying to get different points of view, different stories, out there. It's all changing and happening and they're able to maybe not play their movies in theaters but get them on the internet. This is the new wave, the new world.”

World Different Play Stories Able Young Artist Views Dying Internet Happenings Theater Wave Point Of View Filmmaker New World Different Points Of View Young Artists

Author:Alex Stapleton

“Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music.”

Littles Eye Morning Heard Very Good Wave Beach His Eyes

Book:The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Short Novels of John Steinbeck: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are his established property, and he loves in them himself, and the labor he has bestowed on them. The working of revolutions, therefore, misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that it may not be a stagnant marsh. Ever renewed in its forms, the genius of humanity blossoms.”

World May Children Country Form Humanity Language Race Wife Revolution Genius Labor Property Wave Streams Customs One Love Mislead Stagnant Marshes

Author:Johann Gottfried Herder

“There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.”

People Interest Huge Wave Coaching Researchers

Author:Daniel Kahneman

“The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebble in the lake, have their immortality in the acts of future generations.”

Knows Children Stories Forever Generations Our Children Wave Immortality Lakes Expanding Future Generation Unfinished Pebbles

Book:A new morality from science: beyondism

Source: A new morality from science: beyondism

“Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.”

Trying Littles Home Cities Broken Folks Wave Broken Up

Author:Doug Rice

“My first album was called Seven Waves, and was directly inspired by the ocean, and the ocean has been a leitmotif in my music. Nature was my inspiration even in NYC, because I needed that balance - I would travel out to nature. I loved the big city, I loved the energy, but I needed the balance.”

Firsts Has Beens Bigs Inspiration Energy Cities Needed Balance Ocean Seven Inspired Wave Albums Big Cities Nyc

Author:Suzanne Ciani

“There have been waves of reform in the past. I see no reason why they wouldn't happen again.”

Has Beens Reason Happens Past Wave Reform Reason Why No Reason

Author:Jane Mayer

“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.”

Certain Growing Revolution Activity Mass Importance Raised Wave Expected Reactions October Disillusionment Inevitability Factions Vanguard October Revolution

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.”

Littles Shows Feelings America Remember Parent Growing Up Growing Tvs Late Wave Articles Tv Shows Eighty

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.”

Believe Humanity I Believe Century Lessons Draws Wave Appropriate 21st Century

Author:Manmohan Singh

“There are certain scenes you do in a movie that are like catching a wave, and you leave work feeling elated - almost as though you've purged something. That's rare, but you do live for those moments.”

Moments Feelings Certain Scene Wave Catching

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

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