#disturb

Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being. ↗

— John Grierson

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I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#child #contrary #difficult #director #disturbing

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#disturbing #elements #find #i #inevitable

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#constructed #deeply #determined #differences #disturbing

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment! ↗

— Max Beckmann

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Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop? ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

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