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Actors should be timeless and impersonal.
Anne Parillaud / Actress
Actors
Should
Timeless
Impersonal
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emil Cioran /
Refuge
Among
Impersonal
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.
George A. Moore / Novelist
Tomorrow
Today Tomorrow World
Impersonal
Yours
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The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.
Hubert H. Humphrey / Former Vice President Of The United States
Friendship
Family
Government
Hands
Helping
Helping Hand
Neighbor
Hand
Impersonal
Replace
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche / Philologist
Women
Contempt
Behind
Woman
Impersonal
Personal
Themselves
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Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.
Bo Derek / Film Actress
Sex
Terrible
Violence
Glorifying
Impersonal
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An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.
Simone Weil / Philosopher
Love
Faith
Atheism
Atheist
Love God Faith
Love God May
Aspects
Concentrated
Simply
Impersonal
Whose
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I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither 'good' or 'bad', and who knows neither love nor hatred.
Savitri Devi / Activist
Worship
Love Nature Good
Impersonal
Neither
Nor
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People say I'm cold, that I'm impersonal on the court. Well, let me tell you, it's blood and guts out there.
Reggie Miller / Basketball Player
Guts
Impersonal
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
Dennis Kucinich / Former U.s. Representative
War
Hypocrite
Names
Impersonal
Match
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One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.
William Hull / American Politician
Active
Ideas
Problem
Static
Dynamic
However
Impersonal
Valid
Whereas
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Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand.
Fiona Bruce / Journalist
Malls
Sand
Shopping
Buildings
Impersonal
Mosque
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
Zadie Smith / Novelist
Died
Exactly What
Impersonal
Suppose
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What better example than the World Cup is there of the fact that individual people are irrelevant while impersonal structures are invariant?
Mark Fisher /
Example
Irrelevant
World Cup
World Better People
Better World People
Cup
Impersonal
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Fear hems us in, stops us from thinking clearly, and prevents us from either challenging oppression or engaging calmly with the impersonal fates.
George Monbiot / Writer
Engaging
Oppression
Thinking
Calmly
Clearly
Either
Fates
Impersonal
Stops
Prevents
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The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
Herbert A. Simon /
Awe Inspiring
Demand
Fascinating
Beautiful World Me
Vast
Impersonal
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What needs to be kept in mind is both that capitalism is a hyper-abstract impersonal structure and that it would be nothing without our co-operation.
Mark Fisher /
Co-Operation
Impersonal
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You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But 'Love, Simon' is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti.
Becky Albertalli /
Making Money
Impersonal
Simon
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
B. D. Wong / Actor
Complicated
No Idea
Weird
Amazing People Way
Impersonal
Reach
Seemed
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Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Georg Simmel / Philosopher
Integration
Life Is
Metropolitan
Mutual
Punctual
Schedules
Stable
Technique
Unimaginable
Activities
Impersonal
Relations
Schedule
Thus
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Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.
Martin Luther King, Jr. / Civil Rights Activist
Sympathy
Concern
Giving
Mailing
Pity
True Friend
Check
Represent
Demands
Impersonal
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Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
Georg Simmel / Philosopher
Culture
Energy
Entirety
Individual
Modern
Modern Culture
Subjective
Subjectivity
Absorb
Grow
Less
Constantly
Energies
Impersonal
More And More
Objective
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Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this.
Roy Lichtenstein / Artist
Believe
Looks
Thinking
Work Look Believe
Impersonal
Personally
Programmed
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Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology.
Grace Gealey /
Connecting
Impersonal
Transcends
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God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.
Stephen Hawking / Physicist
Relationship
Physics
Reason
Laws
Name
Impersonal
Personal
Personal Relationship
Rather
Whom
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When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.
Ben Howland /
New York
Boston
Streets
City People New
Becomes
Nobody
Big City
Walk
Impersonal
Says
So Many People
York
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The fact that the underlying laws of physics are deterministic and impersonal does not mean that at the human level we can't talk about ideas about reasons and goals and purposes and free will.
Sean M. Carroll / Scientist
Free Will
Physics
Impersonal
Purposes
Underlying
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By the '50s and '60s, war movies had become big and impersonal. They almost never bothered to characterize the Japanese enemy as particularly evil; in fact, they never bothered to characterize him at all.
Stephen Hunter / Novelist
Bothered
Enemy
Characterize
Japanese
Impersonal
War Movies
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The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
Alfred Jarry / Writer
Character
Conflict
New Life
Passion
Theater
Theatre
Bringing
Complete
Impersonal
Masks
Passions
Virile
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In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
Daniel H. Wilson / Author
Arms
Manners
World Will True
Flee
Impersonal
In The End
Nerds
Romantics
Simpler
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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
Jaron Lanier / Writer
Communication
Interaction
Practice
Pranks
Vapid
Video
Anonymous
Blog
Comments
Fragmentary
Harmless
Widespread
Impersonal
Lightweight
Trivial
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Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Yusef Komunyakaa / Poet
Aim
Gun
Heart
People
Terror
Traps
Vietnam
Me Look People
Guns
Hearts
Helped
Impersonal
Realize
Spoken
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We all know that little words or phrases can mean a lot, yet so few of us know just what to say. Phrases, such as 'chin up,' or 'it could be worse,' usually have the opposite effect; they feel tired and impersonal, even dismissive.
Susie Dent / Lexicographer
Phrases
Chin
Impersonal
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I know that organic farms can be industrial and just as large and impersonal as conventional farms. Sometimes the free-range chickens aren't even allowed outside, and so they cluck-walk packed tight in a dim lit barn. But organic farms use fewer chemicals.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs /
Chemicals
Chickens
Conventional
Farms
Fewer
Lit
Allowed
Barn
Dim
Impersonal
Industrial
Large
Organic
Packed
Tight
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For example, I was discussing the use of email and how impersonal it can be, how people will now email someone across the room rather than go and talk to them. But I don't think this is laziness, I think it is a conscious decision people are making to save time.
Margaret J. Wheatley / Writer
Conscious
Decision
Discussing
Example
Laziness
People
Thinking
Time Decision People
Time People Will
Conscious Decision
For Example
Impersonal
Save
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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Average
Corporate
Entity
Executives
Embraces
Impersonal
Member
Overpaid
Owned
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The Maori culture is different than our culture where we're most likely to introduce ourselves by email or fax and we conduct a lot of business in an impersonal way, whereas for Maori, the only way to do it is to make the pilgrimage and sit down face-to-face and have some tea.
Niki Caro / Film Director
Face To Face
Fax
Pilgrimage
Tea
Conduct
Impersonal
Introduce
Likely
Sit
Whereas
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'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
Mark Frost / Novelist
Chance
Scene
Life Work Good
Craft
Great Place
Impersonal
Obsessions
Personal
Shape
Themes
Visitor
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
Laura Esquivel / Novelist
Cold
Critical
Essays
Rational
Subjects
Above
Impersonal
Personally
Readers
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Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.
Gretchen Rubin / Author
New York
Travel
Awe Inspiring
Beautiful
Cities
Clouds
Elegant
Eternal
Natural
New York City
Perfect
Setting
Tiny
Backyard
Case
City
Far
Gigantic
Impersonal
Lining
Observe
Skyscrapers
Trees
York
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Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do so, the reason being, I take it, that writing, even of the most impersonal sort, is for me a divestment, a striptease, even, so that if I start off undressed, I have nowhere to go.
Alan Bennett / Playwright
Shorts
Nowhere
Myself Me Start
Impersonal
Shirt
Summers
Unable
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.
Andrew Weil / Medical Doctor
Technology
Accounts
Belief
Choices
Dangerous
Expensive
Hurt
Lazy
Lifestyle
Machines
Medicine
Progress
Real
Safety
Safety Net
Self Reliance
Shadow
Sophisticated
Spirit
Below
Side
False
Impersonal
Net
Risky
Undermined
Ways
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When the TSA was established, it was never envisioned that it would become a huge, unwieldy bureaucracy which was soon to grow to 67,000 employees. As TSA has grown larger, more impersonal, and administratively top-heavy, I believe it is important that airports across the country consider utilizing the opt-out provision provided by law.
John Mica / U.s. Representative
Airports
Believe
Bureaucracy
Country
Tsa
Utilizing
Across
Airport
Established
Believe I Believe Law
Consider
Employees
Envisioned
Grown
Impersonal
Larger
Provided
Soon
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