Ben Zimmer Quotes

Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

Ben Zimmer

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• Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Want
  • Emotion
  • Flowers

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
  • Love
  • Art
  • For Her

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Emotion
  • More
  • Show

• Sex is emotion in motion.

  

  Mae West
  • Sex
  • Emotion
  • Motion

• 'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.

  

  Sampha
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Leave

• The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't strong enough when you're just like, 'Let's take a second to sing about lamps!'

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Strong
  • Emotion
  • Talk

• Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Nature
  • Fear
  • Best

• I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Human
  • Emotion
  • Writer

• I think Hillary Clinton could do whatever she puts her mind to. I really do. She's incredibly dedicated to public service, she is smart as a whip, and she's effective.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Mind
  • Smart
  • Effective

• I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.

  

  Pixie Lott
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Song

• I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Remember
  • Health
  • Hillary Clinton

• When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Emotion
  • Stage

• I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That`s no small victory for her going towards a general election.

  

  Joe Conason
  • Men
  • Small
  • Victory

• Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • Music
  • Language
  • Emotion

• Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Words
  • Knowledge
  • Confidence

• The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Emotion

• All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Art
  • Action

• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Think
  • Childhood
  • Protection

• What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face. "Only innocent lives, Peter!" "You don't understand!" whined Pettigrew. "He would have killed me, Sirius!" "THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE DIED!" roared Black. "DIED RATHER THAN BETRAY YOUR FRIENDS, AS WE WOULD HAVE DONE FOR YOU!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Done
  • Friends
  • Black

• When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there. When I was loaded, I was just oblivious.

  

  Scott Weiland Stone Temple Pilots
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Loaded

• Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.

  

  Ben Zimmer
  • Emotion
  • Hillary Clinton
  • Approximate