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- Nov 07, 2020
Heady Quotes
On intensity, idealism, and feeling almost overwhelmed.
These heady quotes examine attention as something invoked and manipulated rather than earned, capable of feeling powerful yet fleeting. See Excitement quotes for related energy.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tuscany is so full of history and beauty - you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region's homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.
- Ideal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
- Fame
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
America, to me, is this enormous contrast between the heady idealism of founding fathers such as Thomas Jefferson, who said, 'All men are created equal,' and the reality that he was himself a slave owner.
- Cooking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attention isn't really earned. It's invoked; it's manipulated. It can be heady and make you feel powerful, but it isn't something you accomplish; you get it - or you don't.
- Boring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you must be running away from something pretty enormous if you don't want to see a person more than once or twice. I think relationships don't get interesting for quite a while. When the initial heady rush fades, that's when it gets really exciting.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for people to get their hands around fame, because it's heady stuff, and you have to look at it as being dangerous explosives, and you have to handle it with care.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.
- Liberal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did comedy and parody television in the '70s. I was a liberal Democrat, and it was a very heady year.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020