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“Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die”

Way Dies Amount Findings Horrible Pioneering

“There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.”

Ifs Should Jobs Amount Photography Photographer Photograph Finished Visible Manipulation Print Transparent Printmaking

Author:John Sexton

“The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.”

Inspiring Accepting Willing Amount Degrees Direct Proportion About Yourself

Author:Robert Anthony

“The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had.”

World War Country States America Certain United United States Amount Periods Civil War Brutal Casualties Junkie

Author:Al Lewis

“My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.”

Amount Tests Suits My Time Take Me

Author:William Scranton

“People in the news media after I got caught said how could you have not caught this guy? He had 50 corrections in four years. That's a lot of corrections. Well what they failed to look at is how many stories there were and out of 700 plus stories, 50 corrections is not a high amount.”

People Years Wells Looks Said Stories Guy Four Media Amount News Caught Plus Four Years This Guy Corrections News Media

Author:Jayson Blair

“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.”

Technology Amount Minimum

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Compatibilism amounts to nothing more than an assertion of the following creed: A puppet is free as long as he loves his strings.”

Long Amount Following Strings Creeds Assertion Puppets

Book:Free Will

Source: Free Will

“The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success”

Facts Amount Raises Series Rounds Seeds Fundraising

Author:Fred Wilson

“You can start over again! Don't even think about quitting now! It is easy to replay in your mind how things did not work, how much you lost, what you are going through, how angry you are. There is no amount of conversation or magic that is going to wipe the slate clean. You are wasting valuable time and energy that could be used to regain a new normal and start another version of your life. Even though you are hurt and you may be feeling down — stop kicking yourself! Face what has happened. Make the decision to start over again.”

“No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.”

Levels Source Amount Protect Code Scrutiny Protect You Verification

Author:Ken Thompson

“Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.”

Thinking Men Humans Human Beings Views Deals Amount Civilization Point Of View Insects Fleas Mosquitoes

Book:The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

Source: The lives and times of Archy and Mehitabel

“Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.”

Humans Able Values Causes Greater Personality Amount Creatures Minors Insects Irritation

Author:Don Marquis

“My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.”

Made Used Amount Made It Old Life

Author:Scott Adams

“I had already been into my professional career for six years and had not won an individual gold medal at the Olympics. There was a tremendous amount of pressure going into 1996 to get it done.”

Years Done Individual Careers Amount Six Gold Pressure Olympics Medal Gold Medals Get It Done Professional Career

Author:Michael Johnson

“Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years”

Years Firsts Moments Time Hours Loss Amount Stealing Calendars

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c

“I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.”

People Knows Mean I Can Imagine Amount Mets Fame Who I Am Awful Obscene

Author:Jason Isaacs

“Every major communication tool on the Internet has spam and abuse problems. All email services, blogging services and social networks have to dedicate a significant amount of resources and time to fighting abuse and protecting their users.”

Problem Fighting Social Communication Amount Internet Majors Resources Tools Abuse Significant Users Email Blogging Social Network Spam

Author:Evan Williams

“Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.”

Needs Mean Pieces Amount Sells Considering

Author:Paul Kane

“I think it's very difficult, and it requires a tremendous amount of spiritual integrity and discipline, to not be a narcissist in a culture that encourages it every step of the way.”

Thinking Way Spiritual Culture Difficult Steps Amount Discipline Integrity Every Step Narcissist Spiritual Integrity

Author:Alan Ball

“Our experience of love is more of a measure of whether we're connected with the universal source of this energy. In other words, there's some life energy that we have and sort of share with people we might be relating to that takes place, that operates whether we're sort of feeling in a state of love or not. But love is the measure of whether we're really connected with the internal source of this energy where we can consciously sort of fill up and amplify the amount of energy that we're able to take in from the inside.”

People Love States Feelings Might Able Energy Love Is Share Source Amount Universal Connected Internals Amplify

Author:James Redfield

“Managers are to information as alcoholics are to booze. They consume enormous amounts, constantly crave more, but have great difficulty in digesting their existing intake.”

Information Amount Difficulty Enormous Managers Crave Alcoholics Booze

Author:Robert Heller

“When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family.”

Wells Order Amount Taxes My Family Paid Safety Well Being Guarantees

Author:Lauryn Hill

“All jobs are created in direct proportion to the amount of capital employed.”

Jobs Amount Direct Investing Proportion Employed

Author:Adam Smith

“The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.”

Should Enough Effort Movement Amount Cat Cameras Tables Jumping

Author:Steve McQueen

“The first film I directed (Explicit Ills), I did when I was like 27 years old. I had been an actor for a certain amount of time, and then I was like, "I want to start directing."”

Want Years Firsts Film Certain Actors Amount Explicit

Author:Mark Webber

“Two billion people watched the royal wedding. Clearly, they're interested in that - the outside of what appears to be lives that have a certain amount of privilege. They have gifts, they have history, they have a sort of unusual and separate position, which maybe involves paying a price.”

People Two Certain Position Amount Privilege Billions Unusual Royal Royal Wedding

Author:Kenneth Branagh

“I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.”

Long Moving Hate Cutting Amount Directors Long Time Shots Labor I Hate Coverage

Author:Stanley Tucci

“With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem.”

Needs May Use Problem Body Earth Force Loses Space Amount Exercise Solve Bones Your Body Muscles Use It Or Lose It

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Sometimes, if you're shooting a complicated scene, you have to stay in a position and wait for the technician to do his job, and then you have to be where you're supposed to be, right on the spot. You don't rehearse all that much on films. If I think of the amount of time I spend on set compared with the time spent shooting, it's ridiculously short.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Jobs Film Waiting Position Amount Scene Complicated Spots Supposed To Be Shooting Time Spent Technicians

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner.”

Home Lasts Desire Worry Mystery Amount Partners Tension Unpredictable Losing Yourself Small Amounts Elusiveness

Author:Esther Perel

“I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.”

Thinking Real Done Wanted School Games Fun Wall Amount Statistics Architect Archaeology Archaeologists Calculators

Author:Sloane Crosley

“If you're seen as beautiful or sexy then your only options in terms of character descriptions are beautiful, sexy, cute - and that's it. And that affords you a certain amount of opportunity but that opportunity ultimately leads to a spark, never a flame.”

Ifs Character Beautiful Certain Opportunity Term Amount Sexy Cute Flames Description Sparks

Author:Amber Heard

“I think it's quite good to have an amount of unavailability.”

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Author:Max Irons

“A character like Wonder Woman is so iconic and yet, over the course of her history, there have been lots of subtle changes. We couldn't stray too far from the comic book look, but you do have a certain amount of leeway in terms of how you interpret those elements for animation.”

Looks Has Beens Book Character Certain Courses Term Wonder Amount Elements Comic Subtle Comic Book Animation Iconic Wonder Woman

Author:Bruce Timm

“They said: "Make it in this amount of time and go for it now..." Which is why I was suddenly ambushed and we all found ourselves doing it. I suspect this wasn't quite recognisable in its genre to give people the confidence just to throw money at it.”

People Giving Said Found Amount Genre Suspects They Said

Author:Colin Firth

“Think about the physical act of pulling a trigger. The amount of pressure it takes to pull a trigger or the speed it takes to shove a sharp object into somebody. The psychology behind it. Why people kill? Why people don't kill?”

People Thinking Behinds Psychology Objects Amount Pressure Speed Pulling Triggers

Author:Milo Ventimiglia

“Having a sense of humour is really key. You have to have a sense of humour with these things and I've just tried to remain who I am. My life has changed. It's changed in the fact that I don't have the freedoms I did before, but I've also got a huge amount of other freedoms that came along with it.”

Facts Changed Humour Huge Keys Amount Who I Am Life Has Changed

Author:Daniel Craig

“Apart from The Holiday, I haven't really spent a huge amount of time in LA. Not that I avoid it, it's just that I don't often go there unless I'm doing press. The one thing I have discovered about LA with kids is that it's really great for children. They really like the sun and making sand castles.”

Children Kids Sun One Thing Havens Huge Amount Presses Sand Holiday Really Great Castles Sand Castle

Author:Kate Winslet

“I left the studio at 5:30 in the morning. It's an incredible mind exercise. You have to, obviously, have stamina, but you really feel like you're kind of feeding your mind. It's a challenge of learning lines very fast and then you have to be lose enough to hopefully make good choices in a much shorter amount of time that it takes to film certain scenes.”

Feels Mind Kind Enough Film Certain Choices Left Loses Challenges Lines Morning Like You Amount Exercise Scene Incredibles Studios Hopefully Feeding Stamina Good Choices

Author:Glenn Close

“I begged my mom for a beat machine, she spent a crazy amount of money - so there were no more Christmases, no more basketball camps, no more birthday gifts. I always knew that's what I wanted to do.”

Wanted Crazy Mom Amount Basketball Beats Machines My Mom Camps

Author:J. Cole

“Us gals need to stay in and just change the way it works, so men aren't being workaholics and avoiding life and relationships, and they can make films in a reasonable amount of time, so you can have a family and a life outside of work. And have more balanced, content-driven, enjoyable movies.”

Men Way Needs Film Amount Driven Reasonable Balanced Avoiding Enjoyable Workaholic Gals Avoiding Life

Author:Joan Cusack

“Eventually, if it's on your mind, you stumble on it. You need a certain amount of luck and persistence.”

Ifs Needs Mind Certain Amount Luck Persistence

Author:Jules Feiffer

“What does surprise me, though, is the amount of attention this band [Guns'n'Roses] has garnered 11 years after the original lineup broke up. That's an interesting phenomenon. It was even interesting back in the day. I mean, [we were] this glorified garage band. It was a great band, but it was not the kind of band you expected to become what it has.”

Years Kind Mean Doe Interesting Attention Amount Band Gun Originals Rose Surprise Expected Broke Phenomenon Garage Surprise Me Broke Up Back In The Day Guns N Roses

Author:Slash

“Having done Spaced, I can't even remember it being that difficult on Spaced, but we know what the end's going to be like. We know why we're putting in this amount of work, or why a shot might be particularly tricky, because we know that what we do is create a whole package. It's the writing, the performances, and the style of camerawork, that's what we're working toward, and we're prepared for that.”

Knows Writing I Can Ends Done Whole Might Remember Difficult Style Amount Shots Performances Prepared Packages Tricky

Author:Simon Pegg

“No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.”

People World Want Stills Matter Stuff Successful Growing Amount Internet Vices Backgrounds Faithful Supportive Vice Versa Demographics

Author:Andy Samberg

“I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of what could be going on. There's an infinite amount of places for so many things, so you have to figure out how to do your job.”

Thinking Jobs Choices Figures Amount Infinite Cameras Sticks

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.”

Thinking Able Actors Can Do Successful Plans Position Amount Planning

Author:Christian Bale

“At its core, health is simple: eat the right amount for your body, don't ingest chemicals or fake foods, and move more.”

Body Moving Simple Amount Your Body Core Fake Chemicals

Author:Jillian Michaels

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