Affinity Quotes
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I remember Massimo [Pupillo] sending me an email from Tibet saying he was up in a cave somewhere, being very still. We found we had lots of shared affinities that we'd never really talked about before.
Daniel O'Sullivan -
Jerusalem artichokes have a great affinity with nuts. I love them with chopped walnuts or almonds, lemon juice, garlic, herbs and plenty of olive oil.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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I have a strong affinity for animals.
Dana Ashbrook -
I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
John Prine -
I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.
Richard LaGravenese -
My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine -
There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness.
William James -
I never do the dishes, because my husband has an affinity for it. And I'm also not allowed to touch the coffeemaker.
Rachael Ray
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Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.
Scott Bakula -
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
Vincent Van Gogh -
How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.
Sarah Waters -
Disney has repeatedly shown that it is exceptionally resilient, bolstered by the quality of our storytelling and the strong affinity consumers have for our brands.
Bob Chapek -
I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.
Mike Tyson -
I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
Willem Dafoe
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I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Henry Louis Gates -
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead.
P. D. James -
Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
J. G. Holland -
I think that good things will happen in the Middle East, in Israel, and to American progressive Jewry only if we work together to save a progressive Israel that progressive Americans can have affinity with again.
Ari Shavit -
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
Jane Austen
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You must feel an affinity for what you are photographing. You must be part of it, and yet remain sufficiently detached to see it objectively. Like watching from the audience a play you already know by heart.
George Rodger -
Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.
David E. Cooper -
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
Tom Hollander