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“Fox opposes a Syria peace plan because its modus operandi is to foment dissent in the form of a relentless and irrational contrarianism to Barack Obama and all things Democratic, to advance its ultimate objective of creating a deliberately misinformed body politic whose fear, anger, mistrust, and discontent is the manna upon which it sustains its parasitic succubus-like existence.”

Body Form Existence Plans Creating All Things Ultimate Democratic Objectives Barack Irrational Syria Foxes Dissent Relentless Discontent Mistrust Succubus Modus Operandi

Author:Jon Stewart

“Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.”

Spiritual Form Poetry Crazy Special Expression Creating Mediums Bridges Poetry Is Closest

Book:Crazy Wisdom

Source: Crazy Wisdom

“In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.”

Thinking Needs Form Culture Fiction Conflict Creating Science Fiction Western Aliens Robots Suspicious Hubris Western Culture Creating Something

Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?”

Men Art Soul Shows Form Degrees Creating Awe Show Me Ceremony Adoration

Book:King Henry V: Third Series

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“If they succeed in creating an inclusive structure in virtually any peaceful form, Iraq succeeds. If they fail, the U.S.-led coalition fails almost regardless of its military success and that of the new Iraqi forces, and Iraq will move towards division, paralysis, civil conflict and/or a new strongman.”

Ifs Moving Form Force Failing Military Civilization Succeed Conflict Creating Structure Iraq Peaceful Division Coalitions Paralysis

Author:Anthony H. Cordesman

“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.”

Beautiful Form Song Growth Acceptance Building Creating Endless Allowing Destroying Pulling Chasing

Book:JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

Source: JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays

“How lavish is Nature building, pulling down, creating, destroying, chasing every material particle from form to form, ever changing, ever beautiful.”

Beautiful Form Nature Building Materials Creating Destroying Pulling Chasing Particles

Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“You can really bring so much more to rock'n'roll. Rock'n'roll is the most accepting, is the most fertile ground for creating hybrid forms of music and hybrid forms of show, if you draw from many, many different wells. It's just unfortunate so many rock'n'roll stars only bother to learn how to play like Led Zeppelin and/or the Rolling Stones and that's what you get, disc after disc and show after show.”

Ifs Wells Different Play Shows Form Stars Accepting Rocks Creating Draws Stones Bother Rock N Roll Unfortunate Rolling Fertile Rolling Stones Hybrid Zeppelins Discs Fertile Ground

Author:David Lee Roth

“I'm so happy that James Baraz's AWAKENING JOY class is now available in book form. His class has been helpful to thousands of people. I plan to give it to all my clients who are struggling with creating a life of meaning and happiness. Joyfulness is our birthright. This book shows you how to reclaim it.”

People Giving Has Beens Book Shows Form Joy Class Struggle Plans Creating Available Awakening Helpful Clients Birthright Joyfulness

Author:M. J. Ryan

“In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.”

Art Form Wonder Creating Pages Starting Storytelling Blank Creating Something Blank Pages

Author:David Copperfield

“I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.”

People Thinking Should Children Form Poverty Violence Creating Racism Overcoming Spending Evolve Sexism Homophobia

Author:Eve Ensler

“The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own.”

World Writing Facts Pain Form Literature Creating Originals Ghost Recognition Peculiar Composition Composing Outcast Translators Writing Words

Author:Lydia Davis

“Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.”

Thinking Ideas Government Might Form Literature Roles Authority Creating Atmosphere Skepticism Suspicious Anarchism Anarchist Transcendentalism

Author:Howard Zinn

“Modern building has become so universally conditioned by optimized technology that the possibility of creating significant urban form has become extremely limited.”

Form Technology Modern Possibility Building Creating Significant Urban

Author:Kenneth Frampton

“What I was doing when I was creating my werewolves is really basing them on a wild wolf pack, as much as possible. It's not as if being bitten brings you in, but what it does is that it strengthens that instinct for pack. It strengthens that instinct to need to be with others who are like you, and to form tight bonds, as an actual wolf pack does.”

Ifs Needs Doe Form Like You Creating Instinct Packs Werewolf Wolf Packs

Author:Kelley Armstrong

“The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.”

Source: Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller

“Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verité is film in its purest form. You're taking random images and creating meaning out of random images, telling a story, getting meaning, capturing something that's real, that's really happening, and render this celluloid sculpture of this real thing. That's what really separates the power of doc filmmaking from fiction.”

Art Real Stories Film Form Fiction Pure Creating Happenings Theater Architecture Narrative Cinema Filmmaking Sculpture Real Things Art History Culmination Celluloid

Author:George Hickenlooper

“People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.”

People Looks Art Ends Sometimes Form Certain Cases Technology Creating Crafts Movie Business

Author:George Lucas

“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.”

Wells Art Use Moving Form Sound Magic Creating Art Is Sight Traditional Landscape Combination Colour Gestures Art And Science Invocation

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.”

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.”

“We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due. Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.”

Life Doe Art Age Jobs Form Next Process Work Pay Race Practice Habit Victory Creating Art Is Dues Quitting Posts Payment Lifelong Mortgage Compliance Creating Art

Author:Seth

“First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.”

Firsts Kind Book Form Felt Challenges Responsibility Particular Periods Creating My Family Artistic Slums Creating Something

Author:Frank McCourt

“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

“Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.”

Needs Firsts Humans Earth Form Space Rooms Steps Technology Creating Acknowledge Logical First Steps Living Things

Author:John Lindsay

“If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.”

Ifs Giving Art Book Ideas Form Creating Selling Yield Currency Lectures Creating Something Selling Books

Author:Shepard Fairey

“The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.”

“In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern in the world of scarce materiality and a hybridity becomes a way of creating a new authenticity. Sometimes there is a certain kind of nobility of a group of materials literally of the earth, which had a certain nobility of presence, but is very different from the materials we have now.”

World Way Kind Different Sometimes Earth Form Certain Groups Conditions Materials Creating Patterns Architecture Authenticity Relevant Nobility Scarce Textiles Materiality Hybridity

Author:David Adjaye

“Humanity seems bent on creating a world economy primarily based on goods that take no material form. In doing so, we may be eliminating any predictable connection between creators and a fair reward for the utility others may find in their works.”

World May Seems Form Humanity Economy Materials Creating Fairs Connections Rewards Creator Goods Bent Utility Predictable Eliminating World Economy

Author:John Perry Barlow

“The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?”

Ifs Done Form Millions Citizens Taxes Creating Ordinary Red Income Complexity Tape Penalties Bureaucracy Income Tax Accountants Red Tape Perjury Ordinary Citizens

Author:Thomas Sowell

“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.”

Form Impossible Subjects Creating Interaction Viewers Confrontation Portraiture

Author:Martin Schoeller

“You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.”

Ifs Enough Play Happens Form Environment Identity Creating Possession Expenses Sanity Possessed

Author:Stephen Lang

“When we form heart-centered beliefs within our bodies, in the language of physics we're creating the electrical and magnetic expression of them as waves of energy, which aren't confined to our hearts or limited by the physical barrier of our skin and bones. So clearly we're speaking to the world around us in each moment of every day through a language that has no words: the belief-waves of our hearts.”

World Heart Moments Body Form Belief Energy Language Expression Creating Skins Wave Bones Physics Barriers Confined Electrical Magnetic Skin And Bones

Author:Gregg Braden

“As a writer, I was deliberately creating an alternate world, and then populating it with experiences and people that I knew in this world, but I'd shake up the mix considerably. And about the same time that the memoir was becoming the dominant popular literary form in the mid to late 90s, I started reading writers who were deliberately playing with the notion of "truth" and "fiction" - that struck me as a much more interesting way to tell certain stories, particularly in the realm of comedy.”

People World Way Stories Form Certain Reading Interesting Fiction Comedy This World Becoming Late Creating Notion Memoir Realms Shakes Dominant Interesting Ways

Author:Kevin Keck

“I was always making things. I made model airplanes and did a number of hands-on activities. I liked creating in some form or another, not realizing what it was all about.”

Made Hands Form Realizing Numbers Activity Creating Models Airplane

Author:Paul Smith

“As for climate change, it's by now widely accepted by the scientific community that we have entered a new geological era, the Anthropocene, in which the Earth's climate is being radically modified by human action, creating a very different planet, one that may not be able to sustain organized human life in anything like a form we would want to tolerate.”

Want Humans May Different Able Action Earth Form Community Planets Creating Climate Climate Change Accepted Eras Human Life Organized Tolerate Human Actions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“With living wage jobs, basically 20 million of them to help jump-start a sustainable and healthy economy, with an insured, just transition, for example, for workers in both the fossil fuel and in the weapons industry, because they all need to transition to sustainable forms of production. This is also our answer to the departure of manufacturing jobs and good jobs by creating the manufacturing base here for clean renewable energy and the efficiency systems and public transportation to put these workers to work in jobs that are actually good for them.”

“The government also has to get the public rules right. That means putting a price on carbon, so the cleaner forms of energy become more competitive. As soon as that happens, a tidal wave of new capital, innovation and entrepreneurship will flood into the clean energy space - creating new jobs and opportunities for Americans of all walks of life. We did that for the internet, with public investments in the basic system through the Pentagon, followed by rules that encouraged innovation and competition. And that is why the internet took off in the United States first.”

“Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?”

Knows Mean Form Creating Albums Studios Tangible

Author:G-Eazy

“Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.”

Art Form Comedy Wonderful Drama Creating Entertainment

Author:Jason Reitman

“Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.”

Form Color Creating Garden Guitar Relax Gardening Gardener Gardening And God

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment. But the point from which we started out still exists and can be seen, although it appears smaller and forms a tiny part of our broad view gained by the mastery of the obstacles on our adventurous way up.”

“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.”

“Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.”

Thinking Children Form Joy Wind Creating Lightning Unlimited Thunder Melville

Author:Ray Bradbury

“There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?”