Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
If I practice I'll really alienate people.
If he [Uncle Sam] can't do this [integration], then they will - it will alienate them. And all of the hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars that he has sent abroad trying to buy the friendship of the dark world will go right down the drain.
You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It’s the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I’m alienated from society.
To do something perfectly, you must not think about what you are doing at all. . . Your thoughts are what create imperfections in your actions. They alienate you from the true reality of any action you perform.
You have a race problem that must be solved, or else you will alienate every non-white person on this earth within the next few years, or within the next few months.
You can't make a movie for everybody. You can't go into it trying to alienate people, but you have to assume that you're going to.
Names generate meaning in a short amount of space — they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.
There's a version of Tony [from "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] that I think could be heightened. Trying to find the balance. A lot of that comes from "Who is he?" I think we've all kind of met that dude. The comic book enthusiast, or someone who gets too excited about things, but his own enthusiasm tends to alienate him. I relate to it because I've seen that guy.
You don't spend ten years appealing to middle-aged women and then suddenly turn around and start trying to connect with 25-year-old women. You're almost certainly going to alienate the people who have an investment in your brand, and there's no guarantee you're going to be successful with the new group.
We hasten to alienate the very fates we intended to woo.
Find friends who ALIGN with your destiny & lose friends who ALIENATE you from destiny!
Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.
I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.
Any Democrat running is trying to get that Barack Obama coalition, which is an increasingly diverse voter base. It's young folks. It's minorities, as well as white women. I don't think we as a party can afford to alienate or not try to speak to the concerns, fears, insecurities, aspirations of white men. We should not give up that ground.
When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people
The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.
The most stupid mistake a counter-insurgency operation can make is alienating the population. If you alienate the population, you're finished.