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> [I think what I was unconsciously expressing in 'Black Rainbow' was a very abstract and metaphorical grief, in the way I had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/panos-cosmatos/i-think-what-i-was-unconsciously-expressing-in-black-rainbow-was-a/)

[Panos Cosmatos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/panos-cosmatos/)

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> [Playing to resentment and using a lot of, you know, grand abstract phrases like make America great again is - it just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-packer/playing-to-resentment-and-using-a-lot-of-you-know-grand-abstract/)

[George Packer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-packer/)

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> [ Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. Right now we \[americans\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-brooks/conservatives-are-better-talking-about-opportunity-and-growth-in-the/)

[Arthur C. Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-brooks/)

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> [As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-barber/as-for-my-own-music-i-ve-never-written-a-book-about-it-i-m-not/)

[Samuel Barber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-barber/)

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> [I think that one of the ways that Americans will come to want to look at history is by looking at their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adele-logan-alexander/i-think-that-one-of-the-ways-that-americans-will-come-to-want-to-look/)

[Adele Logan Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adele-logan-alexander/)

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> [It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-elkins/it-is-the-fertile-hallucination-that-makes-paint-so-compelling-paint/)

[James Elkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-elkins/)

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> [Writing is still a bit of a miracle - the whole process: I see the world, filter the world, write down abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rebecca-miller/writing-is-still-a-bit-of-a-miracle-the-whole-process-i-see-the-world/)

[Rebecca Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rebecca-miller/)

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> [Modern man has a very abstract idea of what a wood is. I guess that if you stopped anyone on the street…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/monty-don/modern-man-has-a-very-abstract-idea-of-what-a-wood-is-i-guess-that-if/)

[Monty Don](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/monty-don/)

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> [When you fight, you don't fight for abstract values like the flag, or the nation, or democracy. You fight for your buddy.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-marcinko/when-you-fight-you-don-t-fight-for-abstract-values-like-the-flag-or/)

[Richard Marcinko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-marcinko/)

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> [Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacques-barzun/can-an-idea-a-notion-as-abstract-as-relativism-produce-by-itself-the/)

[Jacques Barzun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jacques-barzun/)

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> [Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-lynch/life-holds-many-many-many-mysteries-abstract-things-we-all-think/)

[David Lynch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-lynch/)

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> [And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chuck-klosterman/and-it-s-kind-of-my-own-fault-too-in-the-sense-that-i-ve-used-my-own/)

[Chuck Klosterman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chuck-klosterman/)

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> [Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/sam-okay-what-words-would-you-use-then-i-leaned-back-in-the-seat/)

[Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/)

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> [Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-bloomberg/other-ways-of-looking-at-the-environmental-or-climate-change-stuff-is/)

[Michael Bloomberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-bloomberg/)

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> [I love monsters. If I go to a church, I'm more interested in the gargoyles than the saints. I really don't care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guillermo-del-toro/i-love-monsters-if-i-go-to-a-church-i-m-more-interested-in-the/)

[Guillermo del Toro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guillermo-del-toro/)

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> [As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/as-a-writer-i-ve-always-believed-that-while-my-work-and-i-myself-are/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

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> [The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-vietnam-war-required-us-to-emphasize-the-national-interest-rather/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-simon/i-like-working-with-sound-sound-and-rhythm-i-like-the-abstract-more/)

[Paul Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-simon/)

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> [How can you say one style is better than another? You ought to be able to be an Abstract Expressionist next week,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-warhol/how-can-you-say-one-style-is-better-than-another-you-ought-to-be-able/)

[Andy Warhol](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-warhol/)

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> [patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazel-henderson/patriarchal-academic-hierarchies-in-science-and-technology-are-now/)

[Hazel Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hazel-henderson/)

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> [I quite like the idea - just as an abstract idea - of 12 people's collective life experience and wisdom being this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-morgan/i-quite-like-the-idea-just-as-an-abstract-idea-of-12-people-s/)

[Peter Morgan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-morgan/)

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> [I grew up a faithful person. I never lost faith. I prayed every day all throughout my life. But at some point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carly-fiorina/i-grew-up-a-faithful-person-i-never-lost-faith-i-prayed-every-day-all/)

[Carly Fiorina](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carly-fiorina/)

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> [I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wynton-marsalis/i-m-not-a-person-who-writes-really-abstract-things-with-oblique/)

[Wynton Marsalis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wynton-marsalis/)

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> [Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-stalin/mankind-is-divided-into-rich-and-poor-into-property-owners-and/)

[Joseph Stalin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-stalin/)

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> [When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caio-fonseca/when-i-have-a-creative-block-i-take-walks-i-like-to-see-what-shapes/)

[Caio Fonseca](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caio-fonseca/)

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> [At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lee-krasner/at-that-point-it-certainly-would-be-called-abstract-that-is-to-say/)

[Lee Krasner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lee-krasner/)

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> [We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/we-must-trust-infinitely-to-the-beneficent-necessity-which-shines/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zac-goldsmith/climate-change-for-so-long-an-abstract-concern-for-an-academic-few-is/)

[Zac Goldsmith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zac-goldsmith/)

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> [Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-marcuse/nobody-really-thinks-who-does-not-abstract-from-that-which-is-given/)

[Herbert Marcuse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-marcuse/)

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> [We value the individual. We probably put too much emphasis on the individual, if it comes right down to it. How many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephenie-meyer/we-value-the-individual-we-probably-put-too-much-emphasis-on-the/)

[Stephenie Meyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephenie-meyer/)

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> [“Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-chopin/spring-days-and-summer-days-and-all-sorts-of-days-that-would-be-her/)

[Kate Chopin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-chopin/)

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> [They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/constantin-brancusi/they-are-imbeciles-who-call-my-work-abstract-that-which-they-call/)

[Constantin Brancusi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/constantin-brancusi/)

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> [I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-nicholson/i-m-such-a-perfectionist-i-always-feel-overpraised-or-whatever-in-the/)

[Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-nicholson/)

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> [Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/leigh-hunt/beauty-too-often-sacrifices-to-fashion-the-spirit-of-fashion-is-not/)

[Leigh Hunt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/leigh-hunt/)

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> [The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-taylor-gatto/the-truth-is-that-schools-don-t-really-teach-anything-except-how-to/)

[John Taylor Gatto](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-taylor-gatto/)

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> [If things are too similar, the dialogue is not very interesting. If you put in contrast, big and small, abstract and representational,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-craig-martin/if-things-are-too-similar-the-dialogue-is-not-very-interesting-if-you/)

[Michael Craig-Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-craig-martin/)

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> [It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tim-burton/it-s-very-nice-to-have-someone-that-you-can-have-a-completely/)

[Tim Burton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tim-burton/)

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> [When I was a little kid, I was a huge fan of 'The Kids in the Hall.' They were like my boy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/weyes-blood/when-i-was-a-little-kid-i-was-a-huge-fan-of-the-kids-in-the-hall-they/)

[Weyes Blood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/weyes-blood/)

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> [As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/noam-chomsky/as-far-as-marx-s-analysis-of-capitalism-there-s-a-lot-of-very-useful/)

[Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/noam-chomsky/)

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> [There are things that I don't like to talk about directly. There are relationships that I am in and have been in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-leth/there-are-things-that-i-don-t-like-to-talk-about-directly-there-are/)

[Kate Leth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-leth/)

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                        "text": "Life holds many, many, many mysteries, abstract things we all think about. In a film when things get abstract, some people don't appreciate that and they want to leave the theater. Others love to dream, get lost, try to figure things out. I'm one of those people. I like a film, a story that holds concrete things but also abstractions. So when ideas come along that have those things, I'm falling in love and going to work.",
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                        "text": "Sam:\"Okay, what words would you use then?\" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me doubtfully. He was right to look doubtful. My head didn't work with words very well- at least not in this abstract, descriptive sort of way. Grace:\"Sensitive\" I tried. Sam translated: \"Squishy\" Grace:\"Creative\" Sam:\"Dangerously emo\" Grace:\"Thoughtful\" Sam:\"Feng shui.\" I laughed so hard I snorted. Grace:\"How did you get feng shui out of thoughtful?\" Sam:\"You know, because in feng shui, you arrange funiture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways.",
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                        "text": "Other ways of looking at the environmental or climate change stuff is to frame it in the context that it is simultaneously a public health issue. One out of eight premature deaths worldwide happens because of air pollution. The worst power plant in America kills 278 people a year and causes 445 heart attacks. So, when we improve air quality we improve our lives, and at the same time we improve the climate as well. We must see climate policy from this perspective and not as an abstract threat that may threaten our survival in 100 years.",
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