Distract Quotes
217 quotes by 201 authors
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Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they…
— Lynda Barry
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel,…
— Conrad Black
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You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a…
— Claude Chabrol
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A house means a family house, a place specially meant for putting children and men in so as to restrict their waywardness and distract them…
— Marguerite Duras
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Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the…
— Rajneesh
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Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise…
— Hans Arp
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A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
— Roger McDonald
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An inner life and inner enemies to conquer, battle and destroy. These enemies are the various desires that seek to distract our concentration by causing…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a…
— George Eliot
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And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind.…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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People are under the illusion that it's easy...Technically, it is complex. You have a million options with equipment to distract you. I tell my students…
— Brett Weston
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Human beings are compelled to adopt a belief system; some paradigm to provide meaning, purpose, and understanding to our lives. A quick survey of the…
— Terry Rossio
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In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage…
— Joseph Addison
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Far from being reluctantly propelled into hostilities by popular war fever, leaders incite that fever in order to gather support for their war policies. Thereby…
— Michael Parenti
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Affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken…
— Tracy Morgan
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If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that…
— Tilda Swinton
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When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's…
— Cicely Tyson
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Let me now ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. ... The common and continual…
— George Washington
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In the political environment that exists today, the opposition research of the Obama campaign is looking for anything they can use to distract from the…
— Mitt Romney
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The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea and an unmistakable…
— Antonin Artaud
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