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“What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.”

Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?

“In fact, Bill Clinton's an excellent example of what he should be doing when he realizes that he's not invulnerable. He realized two things: his invulnerability was contextualized in two things: junk food, and he had a problem with certain kinds of women.”

Should Kind Two Facts Problem Certain Realizing Example Bills Clinton Excellent Two Things Junk Junk Food Invulnerability

Author:Walter Mischel

“It's not crazy to want to have certain songs be developed harmonically and still want to make noise with the guitar. And you can have both.”

Want Stills Certain Song Crazy Guitar Noise

Author:Elvis Costello

“Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.”

Years Mind Has Beens Certain Song Natural Written Continuity

Author:Elvis Costello

“Across all of the universe of creative lying, whether you believe in the art of it or the entertainment of it, or both, a certain foundation in the basics allows you to kind of jump out into the unknown.”

Believe Kind Art Lying Certain Universe Creative Foundation Entertainment Basics

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”

Writing Years Has Beens Made Certain Effort Comfortable Areas Nervous Avoided

Author:Merrill Markoe

“I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.”

Feels Feelings Kids Young Certain Stuff Water Crazy Amount Stores Feel Good Hops Bike Liquor Curb Bunnies Going Crazy Liquor Stores

Author:Matt Skiba

“Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And I agree with him in certain ways, you know. They can be fun. I don't mind going to see them. I went and saw Phantom of the Opera. I thought hey, that's cool. Look at the mask and all that.”

Knows Way Years Mind Looks Said Real Play Certain Fun Saws Taught Years Ago Agree Theatre Hey Mask Opera Phantoms

Author:Billy Bob Thornton

“I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.”

People Mind School Certain Memories Happened High School Trusted Of My Mind

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“You know, when you do standup there are certain requirements that you have to do like you have to go on stage and when you get introduced you have to say "Hey,how ya doin'? How are ya?" I couldn't do it. It was false.”

Knows Certain Stage Like You Goes On Hey Requirements

Author:Larry David

“I grew up in somewhat of a war zone in West Philadelphia in 1985, '86. It wasn't as extreme as someone coming in the classroom and just unloading on a class, but I knew to take the scenic route to go to the grocery store to avoid certain elements.”

War Certain Class Grew Elements Grew Up West Extremes Stores Zone Classroom Routes Groceries Philadelphia Grocery Stores War Zones Scenic

Author:Questlove

“Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

Seems Certain Values Color Architecture Planes Outlines Energetic Great Value

Author:Antonio Gaudi

“That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.”

Way Doe Certain Attention Vision Painting Civilization Function Paid Organize

Author:Jasper Johns

“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.”

Ifs Thinking Littles I Can Certain Bits Talking Little Bit Tone Timing

Author:David First

“I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists.”

Ifs Mean Long Certain Song Enjoy Pieces Lists Titles Helpful Rehearsal One Piece Drones Over The Top Opulence Song Titles

Author:David First

“I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie era and the punk era, both of which had a set of codes and rules that you had to look and dress and think a certain way, and for sure, to be of a certain age.”

People Thinking Knows Way Looks Two Age Young Certain Dresses Eras Code Punk Hippie Dogmatic

Author:David First

“Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual art, you can look at something ugly, brutal and in your face, but it's kind of - there it is. It doesn't take you over in the same way that putting on the music at a certain volume does.”

Way Looks Kind Doe Art Faces Certain Pieces Groups Music Is Ugly Mediums Visuals Your Face Brutal Volume Listeners Obscure Visual Art

Author:David Byrne

“Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries.”

Film Certain Modern Television Theater Library Modern Day

Author:David Strathairn

“I hate to see anybody be unemployed, but if there's a certain segment of society I think it's political consultants and operatives.”

Ifs Thinking Political Certain Hate I Hate Unemployed Consultants

Author:Rob Zerban

“I should say we know that there are many, many other Earths out there. We're almost certain that there will be upwards of a billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone, so there is no lack of real estate where life might happen, but what we don't know is how likely it is given the real estate, given a wonderful pristine planet like Earth how likely is it that life will pop up inhabited? We don't know the answer to that.”

Knows Should Real Might Happens Earth Certain Given Answers Wonderful Planets Pops Billions Estates Galaxy Pristine

Author:Paul Davies

“There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.”

Seems Certain Subjects Taught Online

Author:David Gelernter

“I was born in Rome on March 11, 1923. Because of my age, I've become a piece of this country's history, but it's also true that a certain strand of Italy's film history has passed though me.”

Country Age Film Certain Born Pieces March Rome Strands Film History

Author:Giovanna Cau

“What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.”

Art Certain Break Honor Art Is Tradition Works Of Art Good Work

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.”

People Certain Letting Go Collaboration Filmmaking

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.”

Want Years Artist Certain Song Responsibility Band Singing Sticks Solo

Author:Christopher Owens

“Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.”

Way May Littles Dream Body Certain Girl Morning Circumstances Terrible Wake Up Beaten Invasion

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.”

Feels Should Believe Children Certain Values House Dog Cat Should Have Conservative Lifestyle Believe In God Capitalist Conservative Values

Author:Steve Coogan

“I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.”

People Giving Kind Age Certain Interest Loses Trouble Giving Up

Author:John Mellencamp

“I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.”

Thinking Way Character Problem Certain My Own Situation Serious Outsiders Going To Work Craziness

Author:Jonathan Coulton

“My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.”

Seems Certain Song Aim Lifestyle Eras Glamorous Cinematic

Author:Lana Del Rey

“I don't want to do one of those records where it's like a compilation of a bunch of all sorts of rappers on my beats. I don't find those to be focused albums. I'd like to sit and work a whole record with a certain person, to come up with a concept and see it through that way.”

Way Want Persons Whole Certain Records Beats Concepts Come Up Albums Focused Bunch Rapper Compilation

Author:Flying Lotus

“What always attracted me to [Bob] Dylan, and what has sustained me as a Dylan listener, or has always continued to surprise me, is his voice, the way he sings, the way he wraps his voice around certain words, the way he backs off from melodic moments, the way he moves forward to grab something in a song that, were anybody else performing it, they would have no idea it was even there.”

Way Ideas Moments Moving Certain Song Voice Surprise Moving Forward No Idea Performing Bob Listeners Dylan Wraps Surprise Me

Author:Greil Marcus

“The original answer defines certain conditions. Anything else is a different question.”

Different Certain Answers Conditions Originals

Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“I beg the reader not to go in search of messages. It is a term that I detest because it distresses me greatly, for it forces on me clothes that are not mine, which in fact belong to a human type that I distrust; the prophet, the soothsayer, the seer. I am none of these; I'm a normal man with a good memory who fell into a maelstrom and got out of it more by luck than by virtue, and who from that time on has preserved a certain curiosity about maelstroms large and small, metaphorical and actual.”

Men Humans Facts Certain Force Term Memories Virtue Mines Type Reader Normal Messages Clothes Luck Curiosity Prophet Distress Distrust Good Memories Detest Metaphorical Seers Maelstrom

Author:Primo Levi

“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary or congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely transformable, and its proximate origin is of no importance whatsoever. Nitrogen is nitrogen, it passes miraculously from the air into plants, from these into animals, and from animals into us; when its function in our body is exhausted, we eliminate it, but it still remains nitrogen, aseptic, innocent.”

Stills Matter Body Certain Animal Teach Cases Air Overcoming Function Importance Remains Trade Plant Noble Innocent Exhausted Chemist Auschwitz Revulsion Nitrogen

Book:The periodic table

Source: The periodic table

“It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.”

Men May Certain Mathematics Faults Mere Being True Occupation Mathematician Exclusive Shortcomings

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the irresistible effect - to intoxicate, or overwhelm. They looked to analysis to provide them with the keyboard on which to play, with certainty, on man's emotions, and they sought in abstract meditation they key to sure and certain action upon their subject - man's nervous and psychic being.”

“To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.”

Might Certain Occupation Idle Divorced Exclusive Shortcomings

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.”

Men Seems Certain Painting Masters Paint Old Man Masterpiece

Author:Alex Katz

“One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.”

Feels Play Film Certain Comedy Television Amount Drama Entertainment Spontaneity

Author:Glenn Howerton

“There have been concerns about the long-term prospect that we lose control of certain kinds of intelligences. I fundamentally don’t think that’s going to happen.”

Thinking Kind Long Has Beens Happens Certain Term Loses Concern Long Term

Author:Eric Horvitz

“I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there.”

Ifs Kind Two Sometimes Shows Would Be Certain Theatre Two Things

Author:Hal Price

“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.”

People Thinking Persons Real Hard Use Certain Turns Stuff Events Clothes Making Money Real Friends

Author:Sophie Monk

“Black professors make more than white professors. That's because we are in demand. I'll tell you, give me two blacks in institutions of higher learning, one has a Ph.D. from an elite institution and has a certain publication record. You give me a white scholar with the same credentials, and I will take that black scholar.”

Giving Two Certain Black White Records Higher Demand Give Me Institutions Professors Elites Scholar Publication Credentials Higher Learning

Author:William Julius Wilson

“Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.”

Knows Art Able Certain Suffering Deals Art Is Satisfaction Insecurity Paranoia Overrated

Author:Beth Gibbons

“I'm actually surprised how technical a lot of commercial wine production is. Things are done very much from an industrial chemistry point of view at certain price points, but that's not the impression you get with wine.”

Done Certain Views Wine Productions Point Of View Impression Chemistry

Author:Brian Schmidt

“In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.”

Moving Certain Natural Outsiders Exile

Author:James Salter

“Pure generosity emerges when we give without the need for our offering to be received in a certain way. That’s why the best kind of generosity comes from inner abundance, rather than from feeling deficient and hollow, starved for validation.”

Way Needs Giving Kind Feelings Certain Pure Generosity Abundance Offering Hollow Validation

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Money is not an invention of the state. It is not the product of a legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the state.”

States Government Political Certain Results Money Existence Power Economic Products Authority Economics Independent Invention Commodity Legislation Sanctions

Author:Carl Menger

“If you spend enough time reading or writing, you find a voice, but you also find certain tastes. You find certain writers who when they write, it makes your own brain voice like a tuning fork, and you just resonate with them. And when that happens, reading those writers ... becomes a source of unbelievable joy. It’s like eating candy for the soul. And I sometimes have a hard time understanding how people who don’t have that in their lives make it through the day.”

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