A Quotes
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“As a filmmaker, you want your work seen by the widest audience possible.”
“As a filmmaker, you're always supposed to be with your characters, in all movies, even if they're villains.”
“As a filmmaker, you've got to have a nose for what's going on culturally. You have to feel it. It doesn't have to be manga or music, but you need some kind of antenna. That's very important.”
“As a filmmaker‚ like any artist‚ when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts‚ my fears and my hardships. I think the same can be said with any artist. For a musician‚ you're going to write a song about something that affects you emotionally.”
“As a final crash of self-indulgent nonsense, when the incontrovertible truth of your panoramic and murderous deceit has even begun to cost your political party seemingly perpetual congressional seats....When somebody asks you, sir, about the cooked books and faked threats you foisted on a sincere and frightened nation; when somebody asks you, sir, about your gallant, noble, self-abnegating sacrifice of your golf game so as to soothe the families of the war dead; this advice, Mr. Bush: Shut the hell up! Good night and good luck.”
“As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.”
“As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.”
“As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in all its majesty when the ashes of desire are scattered by the practice of pranayama.”
Source: Astadala Yogamala Volume-2: Collected Works
“As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true.”
“As a first baseman, hitting home runs is what's expected of me. But I don't really try to hit home runs.”
“As a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant, Sheba had lived in Charleston since she turned five years of age. She was Ethiopian by birth, but American by preference. She had worked hard, studied and sacrificed plenty to get where she was today, no easy feat for someone who had just celebrated her twenty-sixth birthday. According to her friends, Sheba was a beauty, though when she looked in the mirror, she saw inevitable flaws; her cheekbones were too pronounced, her mouth a little too wide, her nose with that perturbing slant to it. Still, she accepted compliments gratefully, especially from her roommate, Janelle. Janelle was the true beauty, Sheba thought, with dark ebony skin so smooth that she could be a walking ad for Ghirardelli Dark Chocolate.”
Source: My Song Of Songs: Solomon's Touch
“As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.”
“As a first step in test automation, it is important to learn how to
build an automation framework”
Source: Software Automation Testing Secrets Revealed Part 1 Revised Edition
“As a first step there must be an offer to achieve equality of rights in disarmament by abolishing the weapons forbidden to the Central Powers by the Peace Treaties.”
“As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.”
“As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling of an exotica, I knew there were entire racial/national/cultural/sexual-preferenced groups, many of whom find each other as alien as mainstream America apparently finds me.”
“As a first-order approximation, I would say that phenomenality is "availability for introspective attention": Consciousness is a property of all those mental contents to which you can in principle direct your attention.”
“As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.”
“As a first-time director, you cannot have final cut. But as a producer, you can have final cut.”
“As a firstborn I also had a duty to succeed my father and look after my mother and siblings. Although school taught me that this was an outdated practice and that I would have been better off focusing on inheriting my father's assets for my own benefit, it was the strong emphasis on family values that ultimately prevailed. This was not because they had sounded good on paper or had been presented by a world-famous researcher, but because I saw they worked through my experience.”
Source: The Homeschooling Father, How and Why I got started.: Traditional Schooling to Online Learning until Homeschooling
“As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.”
“As a fit body takes outstanding actions so is a fit mind make sharp decisions”
“As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.”
“as a flower, she knew he was no god, because he existed. he just was. and he was always there for her. his being was the heart-shaped light from the way-beyond. and when she saw his glow, felt his warmth, and absorbed his energy into her delicate petals, she now touched magic. and she knew with such a certainty, finally, what love truly was”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.”
“As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.”
“As a flute to the music, you open up, as a flower to the sun, you unfurl when your soul aches in a burning desire.”
“As a flying seed will debauch a whole meadow with flowers, one kiss, one caress not even wished for, had spoiled her peace of mind, even her good health.”
Source: The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
“As a follower of Islam, I hold a firm belief in the existence of Allah as the Creator. Let us focus on the intricacies of the world around us, from the smallest blade of grass to the graceful flight of birds. Consider, for instance, the unique traits of different creatures, such as the tail of a cow and its absence in humans. The tail serves as both a means for modesty and protection against pests for the cow, while God thought that the possession of a tail is unnecessary for humans and He gave us the ability to craft and put on clothing!”
“As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.”
“As a football player, you just deal with injuries. It's all part of the football game. I've dealt with injuries as much as everybody else. People have dealt with worse injuries than I've dealt with. It's all part of the game, all part of getting that tackle.”
“As a football player, you're really an actor. I spent all Sunday getting into character. Sunday at 10 a.m., I have to be upset with someone who didn't do anything to me. By 11 a.m. I have to be angry. And by noon, I have to be furious.”
“As a footballer I can't imagine life without the use of one of my legs... Sadly this is exactly what happens to thousands of children every year when they accidentally step on a landmine.”
“As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.”
“As a footballer's wife, I take great exception to the way we are portrayed in Footballers' Wives.”
“As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.”
“As a foreign worker in Haiti, speaking for myself, speaking for the workers, our organization is about 95 percent Haitian, but even foreign workers driving through, we have had very minimal security issues.”
“As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.”
“As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fated, or written in our DNA, or forced upon us by shitty parents, or careless teachers, or cruel friendships. Evil is not a state, it is a ‘property’, and when a person is in possession of enough ‘property’, it sometimes begins to define them.”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Girl
“As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.”
Source: Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth
“As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.”
Source: Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope
“As a form of love, compassion allows for unconditional acceptance of a person, situation, or personal experience. And the more difference and separation between us there is, the more compassion is needed.”
Source: How to Live a Magnificent Life: Becoming the Living Expression of Higher Consciousness
“As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.”
“As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.”
“As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.”
“As a former career intelligence professional, I have a profound appreciation for the value of intelligence. Intelligence disrupts terrorist plots and thwarts attacks. Intelligence saves lives.”
“As a former Catholic, and as someone who even today is not opposed to being called a Christian, I felt I had every right to use the symbols of the Church and resented being told not to.”
“As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've dedicated their lives to serving others as well as those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.”
“As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.”
“As a former educator, I believe every child’s imagination blooms when stories help them notice the small wonders of nature and the world around them, growing with kindness, curiosity, and resilience.”