When I started out, the idea of wearing interesting clothes seemed to contradict the idea of being a serious artist. The first Moloko record, ‘Do You Like My Tight Sweater?’ was kind of a reaction to all that.
The years of the economic depression have been years of political reaction, and that is why the economic crisis has generated a world peace crisis.
Very often, when you get into a conversation that’s more of a debate, you’ll pick up that the other person is venting at you. And when someone vents at you, it triggers a reaction. You get defensive and vent back.
I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I’m able to then go, ‘Oh, okay, let’s do this again.’
I had high hopes for ‘Moonlight,’ just off the reaction I had while reading the script.
You don’t know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about ‘The Lake of Dreams.’
I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. ‘Lolita’ is that book for me. Nabokov’s love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
As an artist, I want a reaction.
In ‘Diary,’ the motto really is: ‘Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?’ It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.
When I first envisioned ‘Funny Games’ in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.
Mention the name George W. Bush in mixed company, and you’re likely to spark a lot of debate and emotion – hot and cold, good and bad. Not a lot of neutral reaction. He was elected in the most controversial contest in American electoral history and governed during one of the most tumultuous decades.
I don’t get why people love to hate John Cena. But as long as he gets a reaction that’s positive or negative, he’s doing his job.
My best pitch is my fastball. It’s probably the most difficult pitch to hit. In my case, batters have very little reaction time.
My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we’re in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration’s course ignores reality.
I’m not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it’s just a reaction that kids have, that you don’t really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn’t think it was cool.
So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I’m going counter to my own development. It’s more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
The WWE is based on, I think, reaction. You know, if you can’t get a reaction, that means you can’t put butts in the seats.
Lula’s foreign policy goal was to turn Brazil into a sub-imperial power, with a presence in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This strategy must be understood as a reaction to his concerns that the extractive sector would threaten Brazil’s industrial tissue.
The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
Now if I go back home with an Olympic medal, the reaction of my family will give me immense satisfaction.
I think somebody getting repulsed is a positive reaction. Any reaction is positive.
You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
She is like a monkey virus and will infect you and bleed you dry after you’ve given her too much personal information, and no reaction, word or deed from Courtney Love should surprise anyone.
I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it’s being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.
It’s funny to watch sometimes. You’re walking through a crowd of people or whether you’re just out there for driver intros, the amount of reaction you get and the people you’re affecting is pretty funny.
The PC rebellion is about a reaction against the media academic complex, which tells us what to say – or else.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Of course there’s a technical element but nine times out of 10 when you’re having a bad day it will mainly be mental: the mistake you’ve made, the comment you’ve heard, the crowd’s reaction to a shot over the bar – fter that the fear’s coming in.
I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
Surely, it’s one of terrorism’s intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and the reaction is hard to counter.
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
I think that battle that you have almost never goes away. You’re always questioning and hoping that stuff goes a certain way, that you get a certain reaction.
My natural reaction is to smile through things.
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
That’s the extraordinary thing about opera: it has the power to elicit a physical reaction. I don’t know if I’d have been any good or not, but I do know that I was never committed enough to find out.
When you’re a musician, one of the things that comes to you in the beginning that is quite unexpected is the reaction from your fans, and to the way your music plays an important part in their life in figuring things out.
I guess I’m fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn’t matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.
I seem to get a general reaction at just, like, ‘Oh! A mustache!’ but mostly people are fine with it. But I don’t actually do it for the ladies. It’s more a guy thing, an appreciation. All the dudes want to do it, but they don’t have the balls to do it, so they just give me the nod.
When I’m making music… or writing a bar… I’m not thinking, ‘Ah, I can’t wait to put this on Spotify! I can’t wait to put this on Apple Music!’ I don’t make music for that. I make music so I can see it – I need to see the reaction. I need to feel it.
I’m very aware of the presence of a reader, and that probably is a reaction against a lot of poems that I do read which seem oblivious to my presence as a reader.
Instead of the wacky morning show that sounds canned, my team is sitting over there, waiting for me to say something or ask something. And sometimes the reaction is awesome, and sometimes it’s terrible. But they’re reacting as humans instead of as DJs.
I don’t believe there is anti-Semitism in Europe. There is a reaction against the policy of Sharon and Bush. I think it’s artificial to think there is a new anti-Semitism. It’s an excuse. It’s a way to avoid self-criticism.
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization.
It is a feel-good factor when you get an instant reaction from the audience.
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It’s a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It’s very often discomfort. It’s some sort of explosive reaction. It’s very complex.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
More negatives write than call. It’s a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.
I’m going to shock you with the truth. I’m just going to give it to you raw, and however you take it, I’m just going to watch your reaction.
He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they were great songs. And then he went out and sang them for the audiences that we found, and he found a tremendous reaction to that.
Some people come out going, I don’t get it. And I don’t quite know what they’re trying to get, what they’re struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn’t our intention.
I don’t know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn’t want to learn an instrument – because I couldn’t have been that incompetent!
