David Abram Quotes
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.David Abram
Quotes to Explore
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When you are in a small rural place with cold weather and a lot of granite, you need people who are going to work hard, and you really stop worrying about what gender they are.
Maggie Hassan -
Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
Nas -
You go from thinking of yourself as primarily an individual to suddenly being a mother, first and foremost.
Kate Middleton -
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson -
This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
Ralph Nader -
If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.
Randi Weingarten
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
Vernon Wells -
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
My dad is an excellent grandfather. He loves kids. He loves to kiss them to death.
Laila Ali -
If there are malpractices in sports, part of the solution lies in the organisations themselves taking a very strong view and cleaning up the mess from within.
Kapil Sibal -
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
P. J. O'Rourke -
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He's literally crazy.'
J. J. Watt
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
Rachel Bloom -
I live like a scumbag, but it's cheap.
Mac DeMarco -
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
Anthony de Mello -
A small act is worth a million thoughts.
Ai Weiwei -
My first significant break was when I was 15, going on 16, and my cousin Courtney 'Bear' Sills told me you can make a career out of writing songs. He was the one who put me in with 112. The first song I did with 112 was 'We Can Do It Anywhere.'
Jason Boyd
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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
Jerry Saltz -
I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.
Doug Ose -
To a liar, the most dangerous individual is the person who catches lies but doesn't say anything about it. Then the liar isn't sure which lies are compromised.
Jesse Ball -
I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.
Daniel Baldwin -
Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.
George Eliot -
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.
David Abram