Indirectly Quotes
134 Indirectly quotes by 109 unique authors
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All my movies have an autobiographical dimension, but that is indirectly, through the characters. In fact I am behind everything that happens and that is…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who…
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political…
— Vaclav Havel
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other…
— Immanuel Kant
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
— Vance Packard
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I feel like I'm indirectly showing people, not that there's another way, but just that if you really have a dream, you should try and…
— Tinie Tempah
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I do get my pizzas paid for by Linux indirectly.
— Linus Torvalds
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A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man…
— James Allen
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.
— Erin Gruwell
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Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly…
— Paulo Freire
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Actions seems to follow feeling, but really actions and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of…
— William James
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To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us…
— Albert Einstein
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It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively.
— Walter Pater
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It was not that ladies were inferior to men; it was that they were different. Their mission was to inspire others to achievement rather than…
— E. M. Forster
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The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,…
— Michael Pollan
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Not all Muslims become involved in acts of violence. Yet all might be held culpable. THis is because that section of Muslim--in fact, the majority--who…
— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
Who Wrote These Indirectly Quotes
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