- Nov 07, 2020
Distance Quotes
How distance changes what we see and feel.
Several of these quotes treat distance as a matter of perspective - a fairy-land view of literature that loses its charm on closer approach, and a photographer describing every horizon as revealing another beyond it. See Far quotes for a related angle.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hit New York in 1972, I thought I was a sprinter. I thought that I would star in a Broadway show and do a movie and win an Oscar by the time I was 25. It turned out that I'm a long distance runner.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.
- Nov 07, 2020
Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.
- Long Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cuba is only 90 miles from Florida, but for a long time, the distance between our two countries seemed a lot greater.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact that people can predict gravity wave sources that are within shouting distance makes me feel incredibly confident. Compared to monopoles, these sources are not just optimistic thinking.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The waves are subtle, altering spacetime and the distance between objects as far apart as the Earth and the Moon by much less than the width of an atom. As such, gravitational radiation has not been directly detected yet. We hope to change that soon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really rely on watching video monitors. They put you at a certain distance from your actors, and it makes me feel less a part of what's really happening in the scene.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
- Nov 07, 2020