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Quotes About Sources

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man.
~ Brendan Fraser
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Choice of sources can shield extreme bias behind a façade of objectivity.
~ Noam Chomsky
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love without any acumen of normalcy. There is no normal, because everyone is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door because they're probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no "normal," because everybody is being twisted by the same sources simultaneously. You can't compare your relationship with the playful couple who lives next door, because they're probably modeling themselves after Chandler Bing and Monica Geller. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake.
~ Chuck Klosterman
But if we pay heed to the ancient sources, we will recognize that the virtues are related to a much thicker and deeper moral reality. We will see the virtues as the qualities of character that we need in order to steer our way through the complicated and mysterious sea of morality into which we all have been placed. For such journeying a pocketful of values is neither sufficient ballast nor a substitute for sails, compass, or sextant. C
~ Vigen Guroian
there's still info leaking from the Vampire Nation at a pretty high level and not just in your territory but in others as well. Which means a powerful individual who'd have access to some pretty sensitive intel from a variety of sources. That's not a good thing." If Theo hadn't figured it out yet, he soon would and then there'd be hell to pay. "We need to figure out who it is so when The First wants blood, we can toss them his way.
~ Lauren Dane
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable, or more cruel.
~ Charles Dickens
This is what's happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I knew it existed. Which is why I avoided it. Because it leads to the other-life, deep, underground, the fluvial, the painful.) We are in the process of descending into the depths of the heart. To where bodies communicate with each other.
~ Helene Cixous
The writer is a secret criminal. How? First because writing tries to undertake the journey toward strange sources of art that are foreign to us. "The thing" does not happen here, it happens somewhere else, in a strange and foreign country. The writer has a foreign origin; we do not know the particular nature of these foreigners, but we feel they feel there is an appeal, that someone is calling them back.
~ Helene Cixous
The need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.
~ Agnes Gund
Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
~ Madeleine Stowe
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
~ Alfred de Vigny
The women in my family - my grandmother and my mother - have been both sources of comfort and terror. Protection was not always available.
~ Wendy C. Ortiz
The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be.
~ Lindsey Graham
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
~ Lakshmi Mittal
For those readers who want to do additional reading in the subject, I might suggest starting with the references that are listed at the end of some of the chapters. Here I identify important sources from which I drew much of the information for the chapter in question. These sources often offer theoretical focuses that some readers may find useful or interesting. These sources
~ Courtney Brown
When people take insights from multiple sources and put them together, it's natural for them to think that the resulting ideas are their own—as
~ Walter Isaacson
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.
~ Jane Austen
The Internet is a decentralized network with unlimited sources of creativity.
~ Peter Sunde
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this biography is based.
~ Jonathan Dimbleby
It's unwise in business to have one client or two clients. It's unwise in electricity to have one source or two sources.
~ Scott Pruitt
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.
~ Lynn Shelton