#separate

My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#cancer #despite #died #efforts #happened

A weird sort of awareness set in, like, 'Wow. My standup isn't just separate from everything else I do anymore.' With Twitter and Face book, everything is universal that everything everybody says gets seen. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#awareness #book #else #everybody #everything

There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other, human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are being devalued and destroyed. ↗

— David Simon

#americas #being #beings #cultural #day

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other. ↗

— Eric San

#always #call #cut #each #generation

Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical. ↗

— Phillip Adams

#dangerous #diabolical #men #politicians #separated

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way. ↗

— John Knowles

#gene #john-knowles #phineas #tree #age

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. ↗

— Voltaire

#human #human spirit #ignorance #infantile #knowledge

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues. ↗

— Martha Beck

#clients #issues #look #looks #most

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#civilized #earth #great #herman #literature