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“Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.”

Way Needs Social Goal Who You Are Constructs Stay True

Author:Tinashe

“A brand is an emotional construct. It helps you to project an image to the world which you'd like to own.”

World Helping Emotional Projects Brands Constructs

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“You set your reality and carefully construct it so that it has a certain feeling, an energy. That's the vital, visceral thing about making an illustration.”

Feelings Reality Certain Energy Constructs Illustration Visceral

Author:Mark Alan Stamaty

“There's a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don't give you. It's the two hour construct. You're in there and it needs to climax and finish.”

Needs Giving Two Film Hours Audience Constructs Climax

Author:Will Smith

“Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.”

Way Giving Ideas Hands Reality Might Able Computer Constructs Virtual Reality

Author:Owsley Stanley

“Major efforts have to be undertaken to bring the general public to understand the real reasons for their plight, and the possibilities for radical social and political change to construct meaningful popular control of all institutions - in communities, in the workplace, in the larger society, and on to the international order.”

Real Reason Political Order Social Community Effort Possibility Majors Institutions International Meaningful Radical Workplace Constructs Plight General Public Political Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There was a time, with the Berlin Wall down, that [it looked as if] the UN finally could do what it was set up to do, the rivalry between the two camps would dissipate, and we could all co-operate. And then, of course, Iraq came and blew it all apart. These upheavals will always take place in the world, and the design and construct of the UN ideally should be such that it can deal with these upheavals, and possibly influence them, and survive and thrive, but it doesn't work out that way, because as an organisation we are so dependent on the same member states.”

Ifs World Way Should Two States Courses Deals Influence Design Wall Members Iraq Work Out Dependent Thrive Camps Constructs Berlin Organisation Places In The World Rivalry Upheaval Berlin Wall

Author:Kofi Annan

“If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.”

Ifs Looks Turns Asks Attractive Reasonable Accurate Constructs Custodians

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think the Electoral College is an absurd 18th-century construct. But that is the law.”

Thinking Law Century College Absurd Constructs 18th Century Electoral College

Author:David Remnick

“I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that.”

Country Remember Given Black Walks Deals Policy Higher Taxes Degrees Folks Data Chicago Combat Coming Out Constructs Remember When Collecting

Author:Barack Obama

“What I was trying to construct was relative symmetry, where it seems clear that the shapes have arrived through consideration.”

Trying Seems Clear Shapes Consideration Relative Constructs Symmetry

Author:Kerry James Marshall

“There is no American history. There is no French history. There is no John Wideman. There are all these dreams that are floating around. People construct them and fight with them and criticize them, and the world goes on. I don't think the stars pay much attention.”

People Thinking World Dream Fighting Stars Pay Attention Goes On Criticize American History Constructs Floating

Author:John Edgar Wideman

“The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.”

Down And Constructs Transparency Glasnost

Author:William Gibson

“We're being asked to continually be "authentic" and "honest" with the world through social media. There's a demand to post our wedding pictures, baby pictures (only minutes after the birth), our relationship status, and our grief and joys on Facebook and Instagram. Similarly, we construct persona through dating apps and networking sites. All of these social media networks exert pressure on us to share the personal details of our lives with unknown masses. So the pressure on the characters in "Openness" isn't merely romantic, but public/social as well.”

“['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.”

Thinking Needs Years Book Country Conversation Scripts Selling Helpful Massive Constructs Assassination Ingenious Why Now Selling Books

Author:Rob Lowe

“My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.”

Firsts Comedy Lessons Jokes Timing Constructs Unbelievable

Author:Rob Lowe

“You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.”

“When we remember something, we're taking bits and pieces of experience - sometimes from different times and places - and bringing it all together to construct what might feel like a recollection but is actually a construction. The process of calling it into conscious awareness can change it, and now you're storing something that's different. We all do this, for example, by inadvertently adopting a story we've heard.”

“To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.”

Made Generations One Thing Accents Constructs My Generation Brits Falsity

Author:Hilary Mantel

“My job as a film editor is to construct a dramatic narrative because otherwise it's just a chaotic arrangement of sequences.”

Jobs Film Narrative Dramatic Editors Arrangements Constructs Sequence Chaotic

Author:Frederick Wiseman

“Absorbing foreign capital and technology and even allowing foreigners to construct plants in China can only play a complementary role to our effort to develop the productive forces in a socialist society. Of course, this will bring some decadent capitalist influences into China. We are aware of this possibility; it's nothing to be afraid of.”

Play Courses Force Effort Roles Technology Influence Possibility Plant China Productive Allowing Capitalist Socialist Constructs Foreigners Absorbing Complementary

Author:Deng Xiaoping

“When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe that just tells the truth: Look, it's a violation of international law. But most have to construct complex arguments to justify it as defense counsel. That's basically their job, defense counsel for state power.”

Looks States Jobs Law Argument Tasks Complexes International Iraq Complicated Defense Telling The Truth Justify Constructs Invasion Fringe Violation International Law

Author:Noam Chomsky

“To construct a scientific theory from the data and to be able to recognize that it is a reasonable theory is possible only if there are some very sharp restrictive principles that lead you to go in one direction and not in another direction. Otherwise, you wouldn't have science at all, merely randomly chosen hypotheses.”

Ifs Able Principles Theory Chosen Data Reasonable Constructs Hypothesis One Direction Scientific Theory

Author:Noam Chomsky

“When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.”

People Men Way Looks America Young Imagine Hero Tiny Terrorist Backgrounds Commit Narrative Young Man Minorities Zero Constructs Almost Zero

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“These narrow-footed forms I was making, I thought, gosh, I could push those further, not to construct them the way [Hans] Coper did but to work in my own manner but push it more toward that form. And I learned to do that and enjoyed it for a number of years.”

Way Years Form My Own Numbers Enjoyed Constructs

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“I think there are times when human beings open our psychic field: when they're in love, when they're with another person that they resonate with, when they're having a wonderful experience of any kind. We feel the essence of life in a different way that allows us to experience the presence of God as, I would call it, a functioning, physical reality and not just a mental construct or conceptualization.”

“I always see these landscapes in my dreams, and feel happy. I desperately try to transform these dreams into artwork, so that even while napping, I construct and reconstruct various images.”

Feels Trying Dream Various Landscape Constructs Artwork

Author:Yayoi Kusama

“The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I've realized as I've gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I'm telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?”

Stories Life Is Choices Our Lives Narrative Constructs Find Me

Author:Jason Segel

“You know so many documentaries now are very carefully scripted before you start, and then people are sort of put in chairs which are beautifully lit, and they tell their stories and you do that with another 10 people and you then construct a story from what they say. You do a sort of paper thing, and then you put some images in-between, and that's your film. And that's so not what I think is a good documentary. It can be so much more than that, it should be much more of an adventure and much more uncertain... like real things are.”

People Thinking Knows Should Real Stories Film Adventure Paper Chairs Uncertain Documentaries Constructs Lit Real Things

Author:Nick Broomfield

“Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick to them.”

Stories Term Discipline Sticks Enormous Nonfiction Constructs

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.”

Different Reality Able Universe Space Imagine Information Logic Evolve Constructs Time And Space Information Systems Future Science

Author:Robert Lanza

“A story is how we construct our experiences.”

Stories Constructs

Author:Doris Lessing

“I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.”

Thinking Lord Rings Satisfying Constructs Trilogies

Author:Damon Lindelof

“For myself, the only way I know how to make a book is to construct it like a collage: a bit of dialogue here, a scrap of narrative, an isolated description of a common object, an elaborate running metaphor which threads between the sequences and holds different narrative lines together.”

Knows Way Book Different Running Together Bits Lines Common Know How Objects Metaphor Dialogue Narrative Description Isolated Thread Constructs Sequence Scrap Collages

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Depression is the inability to construct a future.”

Psychology Sadness Future Sad Depression Mental Health Existentialism Depressing Constructs Inability Overcoming Depression Being Depressed Feeling Depressed Help With Depression Depression Inspirational

Author:Rollo May

“What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist.”

Knows Order Know How Economic Asking Constructs Economist Economic Order

Author:Michael Moore

“Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.”

Character Age Universe Creation Accounts Theology Doctrine Cosmic Constructs

Author:John Polkinghorne

“Time is a mind construct. It's not real.”

Mind Real Constructs

Author:Prince

“Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.”

Spiritual Form Culture Memories Emotion Psychology Intellectual Artistic Collectives Communion Constructs Collective Memory Collective Intelligence

Book:Islam and the Arab Awakening

Source: Islam and the Arab Awakening

“A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.”

Records Events Discovery Finished Drawing Remembered Constructs Finished Work

Author:John Berger

“We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

Trying Country Left Society Constructs Left Out

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”

Humans Reality Given Fiction Air Acceptance Morality Imperfect Constructs

Book:Is nothing sacred?

Source: Is nothing sacred?

“In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century, we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude, helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.”

Thinking Should Helping Might Together Order Social Century Inspire Solitude Conversation Debate Generous Belonging 21st Century Constructs Gracious Social Order

Author:Jonathan Sacks

“I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Wells Would Be Running Moving Opportunity Interest White Clear Republican Conservative Socialism Voting Our Future Frustrated Constructs If You Believe

Author:Tim Scott

“Character and emotionality don't always have to be relegated to quieter, more simple constructs.”

Character Simple Directors Filmmaking Constructs

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.”

Pain Painting Photography Photographer Photograph Painter Constructs Capturing A Moment Photography

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

Use Reality Seems Forget Concepts Constructs Coins Midway

Author:Abdolkarim Soroush

“What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.”

Trying Quality Building Endure Flash Constructs Ephemeral

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Athens will again be the host of the Games in 2004, but there are rumors that they might be switched if the Greeks don't begin to construct the sites faster.”

Ifs Might Games Faster Greek Host Site Constructs Rumor Athens

Author:Bill Toomey

“If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other is a lie. There are no other people. Race is a social construct.”

People Ifs Lying Social Race Progress Poet Realising Favourite Constructs

Author:Saul Williams

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