In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
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Related I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recog... MICHELLE DOCKERY Working in film lets me travel, which is one of my passions. I like to visit remote places and see r... LENA HEADEY But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art w... DONALD JUDD I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own... MICHAEL PALIN I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish. ALAN MOORE He who lies hid in remote places is a law unto himself PUBLILIUS SYRUS Living each day as if it were your last doesn't mean your last day of retirement on a remote isl... JACK CANFIELD The effect of change in surroundings is like that of lapse of time in making the past seem remote. EDWARD BELLAMY Lots of science fiction deals with distant times and places. Intrepid prospectors in the Asteroid Be... EDWARD M. LERNER My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being ov... LISA TUTTLE The scale of the data in the remote office is enormous and the solutions for doing it are terrible; ... KRIS HAGERMAN It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years. HARALDUR SIGURDSSON I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like T... LIL' ROMEO The likelihood that I am going to come up with anything different is remote, MICHAEL MUKASEY The most remote place I've been to was in Greenland. I remember setting out for a solo hike from... MICHELLE PAVER There's a lot of use in more remote areas. LYNETTE WILLIE My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house. TOMMY LEE JONES I think the major oil companies are going to be looking for more oil in more remote areas. The more ... BOB POPE very remote risk. HEIDI MURKOFF Remote office consolidation is a business problem that requires a holistic approach. To succeed, ent... JOE SKORUPA Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of... WILLIAM TROGDON Remote forest areas that function as refuges for threatened island species are increasingly rare and... DAVID OLSON But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've ne... JERRY GARCIA I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to tr... PETA WILSON Remote and ineffectual don. HILAIRE BELLOC Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote. JOHN MILTON The criminal justice system is often perceived as remote and unresponsive. Research shows local, vis... BEN ROGERS I wanted them to see how it took place in World War II. They were horrified. They say it couldn't ha... JOANN BERTELO I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wo... ADAM JOHNSON There are still many places I haven't seen that I'd like to travel to. I've never seen t... BJORN ULVAEUS Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight ... FRED HOYLE Here in the Central Valley, we have migrants who come from the most remote parts of Mexico, places w... HUGO MORALES If I was meant to be controlled, I would have come with a remote. GENEREUX PHILIP Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. JOHN MILTON I've done Graham Norton's show three times now. He tackles taboos and subject matter that wo... KYLE MACLACHLAN When my friends talk about childhood, I've never heard of any cartoons or TV they remember. The ... ALEK WEK Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity VOLTAIRE Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. VOLTAIRE Believe me, I don't think (Allen leaving) is a remote possibility. We're too pleased with the way th... BILL ROWE Any technique that improves the performance of radiologists is helpful, but this also means that mam... BRADLEY LUCIER Any technique that improves the performance of radiologists is helpful, but this also means that mam... BRADLEY J. LUCIER I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the wor... MIRA NAIR We are fortunate that this was a fairly remote area. GARY RAINWATER Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. W. H. AUDEN Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy W. H. AUDEN I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote,... STEPHANIE HERSETH The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's ex... ANNE SULLIVAN I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And ... EVA LONGORIA Be neither too remote nor too familiar. PRINCE CHARLES It's pretty remote, but it's pretty cool. JAIME CHARLES The spontaneous understanding of geometrical concepts and maps by this remote human community provid... ELIZABETH SPELKE Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed ... W. G. SEBALD It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote co... DAVID E. KELLEY The one who has the remote has the power. MARC OLIVIER If I didn't believe in myself as a dancer, I wouldn't choreograph. TWYLA THARP Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! virtue
is at hand. CONFUCIUS Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. CONFUCIUS I think the chance of a double-dip recession is remote. We have a lot of stimulus in the pipeline fr... GLENN HUBBARD This mafia not only operates from Miami. It has set up an organization that operates from Mexico, us... FIDEL CASTRO We still have villages in very remote areas that have not been accessed. HANSJOERG STROHMEYER They are pushing people into more remote areas where the chances of being rescued are minimal. All t... CLAUDIA SMITH About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck. JOHNNY RIVERS Rural Australia is now remote in terms of health services but our funding has not reflected that. CLYDE THOMPSON In Nigeria, we do not eat raw meat like in some parts of the world. Therefore the chance of picking ... DORA AKUNYILI Extraordinary creature! So close a friend, and yet so remote. THOMAS MANN Easter Island collapsed in not just an epidemic of civil war but cannibalism. Of all the collapses o... JARED DIAMOND The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still f... ALEX SHOUMATOFF The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. ... EDITH WIDDER I've worked in this area for about 15 years. It's beautiful, but it's remote. THOMAS PAYNE A true remote execution has a tiny footprint and won't need much of a system. JEFF TARTER People come to me and say, 'What'll I do if I go in the water and see a shark?' You don&... EUGENIE CLARK There is no search and rescue campaign that is efficient against a strategy that pushes people into ... CLAUDIA SMITH This would be the first state-owned (remote operation) effort. BRETT WALLACE I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles... LYNN NOTTAGE My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit... GILES FODEN The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. PAUL D. BOYER Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from gre... CHANNING POLLOCK Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from gre... CHANNING POLLOCK I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did. JULIAN CLARY I wouldn't say I've changed my mind. I changed some of my natural habits, some of my natural... KURT MASUR Medical devices and EHR systems are notoriously vulnerable to remote compromise JAMES SCOTT If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me,... ANNE ROIPHE It's such a long fire and the head of the fire is in a very remote and a hard area, EDWARD CALLAHAN Having these devices readily available provides reassurance to a community. In purchasing these devi... ELIZABETH JONES I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we ... HANNES ALFVEN That's very remote. Anything is possible, but it is highly unlikely based on the way it was done. LOUIS SCHLESINGER I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control. LISA SCOTTOLINE Life is like a very long TV show, without a remote control. ANONYMOUS We designed Apple Remote Desktop 3 to take advantage of the innovations we introduced in Mac OS X Ti... ERIC ZELENKA Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! MARK A. COOPER The smugglers are moving the groups laterally in Mexico and then crossing them in very desolate, rem... MARIO VILLARREAL As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas,... HERMAN MELVILLE Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like... NICOLAS CAGE Sometimes I forget some of the things I've done. I recently recalled that after Watergate I went... DIANE SAWYER Even the largest of the global companies often have hundreds of remote locations that have just a fe... ARUN TANEJA It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physica... CHARLYNE YI The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is ext... CARTER BURWELL Get up out of your chair and go change the channel instead of using the remote control. DONITA STEWART Fluke Networks and CA have teamed up to provide a broader and deeper enterprise systems management a... LISA SCHWARTZ There's a film that I wrote that I want to do called 'The Grey,' which is about a group ... JOE CARNAHAN
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