T Quotes
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“The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.”
“The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.”
“The 'well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the 'well-amused audience'.”
Source: The Assault on Reason: How the Politics of Blind Faith Subvert Wise Decision-Making
“The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.”
Source: What Is Cinema?
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
“The 'where' doesn't really matter for me. It's whenever I get time to spend with the people that I treasure the most in my life, that's when I am at my happiest. I don't get to see them as much anymore, so the times that we actually get to meet up and just hang out together mean a lot to me.”
“The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.”
“The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.”
“The 'Women' had to do with the female painted through all ages, all those idols, and maybe I was stuck to a certain extent; I couldn't go on. It did one thing for me: it eliminated composition, arrangement, relationships, light - all this silly talk about line, colour and form - because that was the thing I wanted to get hold of.”
Source: De Kooning: a centennial exhibition
“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”
Source: Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
“The 'you' who you think you are does not exist.”
“The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.”
“The (atomic) soul is mortal, and the best life is the one with the least pain and the most pleasure.”
“The (campaign) ads all have the same tone - the voice is hushed and amazed when talking about The Enemy, as if you should worry how this amoral, power-mad, extremist puppy-strangler clawed his way out of hell and landed in your district. And the voice is happy and relieved when talking about The Most Noble Candidate, as though he's Santa, Will Rogers and Lincoln all rolled into one.”
“The (capital punishment) controversy passes the anarch by. For him, the linking of death and punishment is absurd. In this respect, he is closer to the wrongdoer than to the judge, for the high-ranking culprit who is condemned to death is not prepared to acknowledge his sentence as atonement; rather, he sees his guilt in his own inadequacy. Thus, he recognizes himself not as a moral but as a tragic person.”
“The (Catholic) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler.”
“The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down to its innards, tears streaming from your eyes as more and more beautiful reductions became possible.”
“The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.”
Source: The Tao Te Ching, Eighty-one Maxims from the Father of Taoism
“The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.”
“The (post) structuralist temper requires too great a depersonalization of the writing/speaking subject. Writing becomes plagiarism; speaking becomes quoting. Meanwhile, we do write, we do speak.”
Source: The Right Promethean Fire: Imagination, Science, and Cultural Change
“The (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) stories were great, for one. The thing that makes him a remarkable character is how he can withstand all of these different interpretations and different styles and, that's what makes a classic character a classic character; they keep coming back and you see them in a new way every time.”
“The (stock) market is there only as a reference point to see if anybody is offering to do anything foolish. When we invest in stocks, we invest in businesses.”
“The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who's arrested -- even accidentally -- can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the searches coming from the Court's five conservatives. You know -- the 'defending personal liberty' guys. Which is weird because I'm not a constitutional scholar, but I'm willing to bet Big Government feels it's biggest when it's inside your anus.”
“The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.”
“The ***** is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent.”
“The - the sort of thing that I want to do is to strike a resonant chord of universality in other people, which is best done by fiction.”
“The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.”
“The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.”
Source: The Impact of Science On Society
“The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.”
Source: The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan
“The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.”
“The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.”
“The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental illness should be cured by drilling holes in the skull, the better to let the demons out. ...This is the Orwellian fashion in which the medical establishment throws its weight around.”
“The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America (Third Edition)
“The 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, is turning into a fascinating case study detailing how many government officials are conspiring to enable a harmful company to damage the health of many workers to pursue its biologically toxic agenda.”
“The 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, must ignore the current and emerging science on High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) to build to biologically toxic project.”
“The 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, needs to be shut down and the money reallocated to the Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) fund for damaged summit workers.”
“The 1/6 MAGA attack on the Capitol was the biggest terrorist attack in America since 9/11.”
Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America
“The #1 friendship challenge women have is finding time to spend with each other.”
Source: Friendship Interrupted: Challenges and Practical Solutions - What You Can Do
“The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.”
“The 1,000 tasting portions were to be served over a period of six hours, starting at noon, so we would have to prep those another way, to keep them as fresh as possible.”
“The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.”
“The 10/12 Theory: If you're just like 10 out of 12 people in a room, you add no value.”
“The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:
1. Leadership without character.
2. Followership without servant-being.
3. Brotherhood without integrity.
4. Affluence without wisdom.
5. Authority without conscience.
6. Relationship without faithfullness.
7. Festivals without peace.
8. Repeated failure without change.
9. Good wealth without good health.
10. Love without a lover.”
“The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.”
“The 10 or 12 artists I have known really well all my life are at least as competitive as professional athletes. They may express it in slightly different terms, but you look at the Jackson Pollocks et al., and they are as interested in wall space in the galleries as Joe Montana is in the percentage of completed passes. So the notion that symphonic conducting, or stage play, or pure art, is not a competitive business is real bullshit.”
“The 10% between 90% done to 100% done takes most of the time, causes most of the stress, but is all of the value.”
“The 10,000-hours rule says that if you look at any kind of cognitively complex field, from playing chess to being a neurosurgeon, we see this incredibly consistent pattern that you cannot be good at that unless you practice for 10,000 hours, which is roughly ten years, if you think about four hours a day.”
“the 10,000hr rule is a definite key in success”
“The 100 Tv-series" Clarke, who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things”
“The 100 tv series " Who we are and who we need to be survive are very different things”