#attracted

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#elite #itself #masses #mob #momentum

The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that. ↗

— Jolene Blalock

#bones #girl #i #kirk #little

You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#better #changed #day #different #emotionally

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service. ↗

— Julian Bond

#gratification #immediate #justice #many #need

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person. ↗

— Jon Favreau

#irony #men #more #movies #person

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me. ↗

— Christine Keeler

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I get in trouble when I say things like, 'I'm attracted to violence.' I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#angry #attracted #came #down #focus

I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold. ↗

— John Dyer

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