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It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.
I'd be the first to say that I'm a distant individual. I have a tendency to come across as being aloof and dismissive.
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you.
Roy Acuff's from Maynardville, and that's where a lot of my family's from. So he's, I've been told, a distant cousin, as well.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.
When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
It is sound judgment to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star.
Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
When I made 'Voices of a Distant Star,' I wanted to make money from making that movie, of course, but that wasn't my major reason.
I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.
Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.
When people think of slavery, they think of an era from the distant past. Grainy photographs from Civil War times. And yet it goes on.
As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shattering blow when she died. I was 16.
I have never planned my career here in Bollywood, so planning to do Hollywood films is a distant thing. You have to see how things come.
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
Voters don't just want to see detached and distant faces on TV, they want to feel that they know the people that they're trying to vote for.
Hopefully, in not a too distant future, we will see a Latino president, and who knows how's that going to happen. It's just a matter of time.
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
I have always been most drawn to those moments from the past when people from distant lands and different societies made contact with one another.
Start where you are. Distant fields always look greener, but opportunity lies right where you are. Take advantage of every opportunity of service.
Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.
When you stand amid the unending vistas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, it's impossible to remain focused inward. Your mind expands to the distant horizons.
Although the elusive 'cure' may be a distant dream, understanding the true nature of cancer will enable it to be better controlled and less menacing.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
With migration to Mars becoming a not so distant reality one can only hope that there will be more rainbows on Mars and not magma marking territories.
Nothing is more difficult than to recreate in all its complexity than a distant age, and not only to get it right but make it seem fresh and relevant.
For us, when we think about the Middle Ages, it's sort of this rarefied, distant time that we have no connection to, especially if you grew up in America.
I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.
Sometime in the not too distant future, denying gays the right to marry will be viewed as historically corrupt - as corrupt as denying slaves their freedom.
It is only by freeing NASA from routine human transport to low-Earth orbit that we can afford to once again see American astronauts exploring distant worlds.
My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.
Christianity doesn't demand that we worship our ancestors. If we don't remember our ancestors, then, in all likelihood, we cannot also recall the distant past.
We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving away from us.
Hollywood, it seems, recognizes black film and black filmmakers, but like a distant lover, never close enough or long enough to forge a meaningful relationship.
Dad was a distant figure, autonomous, a cross between the Pope and Mussolini. He was very Italian, as were all of my uncles, although they were second generation.
If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be a distant memory.
It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts.
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.
I think the idea of a distant, far off dystopia, where the world is completely different from what we have now, is good, but it's been done. Especially in YA movies.