Stripping Quotes

76 Stripping quotes by 68 unique authors

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but… — Robert Duvall
You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface… — Richard Avedon
Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters. — Pope Francis
Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear. — Bill Gothard
The Reagan Administration has fostered a climate in which a barest majority of the Supreme Court caters to the passions and hatreds of the American… — Carl T. Rowan
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers
In reality, Republicans have long been at war with clean energy. They have ridiculed investments in solar and wind power, bashed energy-efficiency standards, attacked state… — Jeff Goodell
I've got this crazy dream of stripping down to truth and bone. — Heather Nova
I feel good doing it. It's not like guys are stripping me at half-court or I'm just losing the ball dribbling. I think I'm handling… — Kevin Durant
The human condition is all about us pretending to be something sometimes that we're not. When you get into the core of people kind of… — Charlize Theron
Lost is a mystery show, so I think that would be stripping the franchise of sort of its essential nature. — Damon Lindelof
In the end, science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense… — Loren Eiseley
Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives. — Pope Francis
You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians,… — Pope Francis
Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. — Barbara Johnson
But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're… — Jonathan Kozol
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass… — Matt Taibbi
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that… — Eckhart Tolle
To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to… — Charles Bukowski
They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger… they are driven by greed, if their enemy be rich; by ambition, if… — Tacitus
If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t… — Bell Hooks
I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he… — Justina Chen
For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was… — Diablo Cody
Salvador Dalí seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs,… — Luis Bunuel

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