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#tension

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tension




I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.


Norman Mailer


#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.


Lester B. Pearson


#conditions #continuing #deeper #distress #important

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.


Richard Powers


#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

I have to say that my husband and my children are so tough, there really is no space for pretension.


Miuccia Prada


#husband #i #pretension #really #say

People are learning to feel more comfortable hearing one another's dreams. It used to be that if you told a dream in public, someone had to make a joke to relieve the tension introduced by that alternative reality.


Henry Reed


#another #comfortable #dream #dreams #feel

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.


Ron Jaworski


#agreement #bargaining #collective #collective bargaining #costs

If you walk down the street and see someone in a box, you have a choice. That person is either the other and you're fearful of them, or that person is an extension of your family. And that makes you at home in that world and not fearful. So really it's very self-serving.


Susan Sarandon


#choice #down #either #extension #family

The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded; and the second, that they are involved in a profound mistake in their confusion of the good with the pleasant.


Friedrich Schleiermacher


#called #confusion #entirely #first #good

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.


John Sexton


#back #became #being #camera #explore

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.


Amanda Seyfried


#because #everyone #feel #feels #going






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