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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly… — Camille Paglia
Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about… — Iain Duncan Smith
Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk… — Pete Townshend
It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that… — Emma Watson
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. — Simone Weil
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of… — Mao Zedong
A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an… — Young-Ha Kim
She felt detached from her family, and thought it strange how they had lavished so much attention on her, as a child, and then at… — John Irving
Give me lust, baby. Flash. Give me malice. Flash. Give me detached existentialist ennui. Flash. Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism. Flash. — Chuck Palahniuk
She couldnâ€™t picture anyone falling madly in love with such a person as Fish. What a name, Fish...Fish: think cold, slippery, detached. Benedict: think dry… — Regina Doman
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone… — Patrick White
There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't… — Hunter S. Thompson
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation. — Rebecca Solnit
Past and future monopolize the poetâ€™s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immediate spectacle. These two philtres become utterly clear the moment one stops… — Andre Breton
But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start. — Ernest Hemingway
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and… — Scott Hahn
...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states… — Hermann Hesse
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're… — Mitch Albom
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher,… — Agatha Christie

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