Miles Away Quotes
207 quotes by 182 authors
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
— Thomas Beecham
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My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if…
— Carol Burnett
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It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special…
— Ivan Illich
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The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
— Stephanie Mills
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Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen…
— Al Gore
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Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!
— Billy Connolly
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In the press grandstand where I watched Discovery rise against the cloudless sky, the media hit the abort button on cynicism. The Earth shook to…
— Jonathan Alter
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I may be flying a complicated airplane, rushing through space, but in this cabin I'm surrounded by simplicity and thoughts set free of time. How…
— Charles Lindbergh
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We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive…
— Andy Rooney
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One of the best moments is right here (during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997). Right here. It’s right in the middle…
— Michael Jackson
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The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars,…
— Frank Borman
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I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . .…
— Frank Borman
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I sat down to think things over a bit. While I was sitting there, a little kid about eleven or twelve years-old came bumming around.…
— Carl Panzram
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The reality, sitting ten thousand miles away, is that we remain the country that inspires. We remain that shining city on a hill.
— Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the -…
— James Cameron
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I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.
— Geraldine McCaughrean
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Because operators are based thousands of miles away from the battlefield, and undertake operations entirely through computer screens and remote audio feed, there is a…
— Philip Alston
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At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges. A…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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You cannot underestimate the sharpness of people’s BS radar. They can spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everything as a kid…
— Guy Lafleur
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