George Plimpton Quotes

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

George Plimpton

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• I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Doctor

• I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Just

• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Health
  • Serious
  • Gun

• If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Conflict
  • Scripture
  • Then

• I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • Fan
  • Type
  • Biggest

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Like
  • Things
  • Dissecting

• Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Doing
  • Hell

• We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Race
  • Silly
  • Exist

• In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Attention

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Think
  • You
  • Saying

• I think I've always wanted to be different from everybody else. I get really annoyed when I do something and everybody else does it too, or if I'm doing something that everybody else is doing.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Different
  • Think
  • Doing

• Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Real
  • Imagination

• That little, small voice in your mind and in your heart that makes you curious about being vegan is something you should listen to, because that’s the sound of your conscience making you be compassionate.

  

  Bellamy Young
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Small

• Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Technology

• There are so many amazing plant-based foods out there that I don't feel the urge to eat tofu bacon.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Amazing
  • Plant

• I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions.

  

  James Randi
  • Done

• The fact is the American people want men and women to stand up and represent them and to put their interests ahead of the party interests.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• Some guys dig ditches, I have a band. It's what I do

  

  Woody Herman
  • Guy
  • Band

• Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Great
  • Power
  • Past

• It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Art
  • Attention
  • Distraction