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“Autism is a neurological disorder. It's not caused by bad parenting. It's caused by, you know, abnormal development in the brain. The emotional circuits in the brain are abnormal. And there also are differences in the white matter, which is the brain's computer cables that hook up the different brain departments.”

“Who does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.”

Doe Art Security Building Draws Infinite Department Routine Gardening Lowest Engaging Restless

Author:Margaret Fuller

“We need a Peace Department in our national government to do extensive research on peaceful ways of resolving conflicts. Then we can ask other countries to create similar departments.”

Way Needs Country Government Asks Peace Conflict Research Peaceful Department Other Countries Resolving Conflict

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“When a man tells me he's run out of steam in the sex department, I'll tell him, 'Count your blessings; you've escaped from the clutches of a cruel tyrant. Enjoy!”

Men Running Sex Enjoy Blessing Department Tyrants Steam Clutch Count Your Blessings Blessing You

Author:Richard J. Needham

“Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?”

Source: Locations

“The director makes the movie. The director has to have the story in their head, has to know the style of the piece, has to answer questions from actors, design, set, lighting, every department throughout the pre-production, production, and post-production, because they've got it in their mind. They've got to know exactly what they want and what the style and story of the movie is. It's them. They make it.”

Knows Want Mind Stories Actors Answers Pieces Style Design Directors Productions Posts Department Lighting Post Production

Author:Jon Lovitz

“Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.”

Ifs Views Willing Window Customers Organized Department Hats Etc Owners Complaints Cleaning Better Off Small Business Salesman Cleaners Business Owners Small Business Owners Bookkeepers

Author:Tony Evans

“I filmed my first little Super 8 movie by stealing my mum's Super 8 camera where I set some fires to some of the models, which actually caught the drapes of my bedroom on fire! The fire department came. I was grounded for three weeks and it was my very first movie.”

Firsts Littles Three Fire Week Models Cameras Caught Stealing Department Mum Bedroom Grounded Drapes Fire Department

Author:Michael Bay

“I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.”

Found Difficult Stores Chains Department Short Time Department Stores

Author:Philip Green

“Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military genius.”

Art Important War Military Genius Skills Highest Function Strategy Department Art Of War

Book:Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

Source: Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army

“In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.”

Ifs Light Goal Strategy Setting Settings Department Target Yellow Sophisticated Setting Goals Executing Yellow Light

Author:Wang Jianlin

“With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the former subordinate to the latter. But this is not the case. They are co-ordinate departments of one simple and integral whole.”

Thinking States Whole Government Simple Cases Understood Relation Former Department Latter Federal Government Foreigners Subordinates

Book:The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

Source: The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 and '99: With Jefferson's Original Draught Thereof. Also, Madison's Report, Calhoun's Address, Resolutions of the Several States in Relation to State Rights. With Other Documents in Support of the Jeffersonian Doctrines of '98

“The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.”

Men Humans May Country Order Perfect Civilization Degrees Men And Women Equality Human Life Department

Author:Lydia M. Child

“I had an unorthodox high-school experience; I shifted around to different schools. When I got to college and met Larry Sacharow, who ran the theatre department [at Fordham University in NYC], he was the first person to say ‘I believe in you.’ At that point, I just needed someone to say ‘I see you, I get you, let’s go.’ It’s an amazing thing to borrow someone else’s confidence in you; it can change your life.”

“The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.”

Cases Hair Department Lazy Washing Brat

Author:Eden Sher

“There's a lot of things to learn, starting with you'd better caution people just as the State Department cautioned people, especially those of Chinese descent, before they decide to engage in academic research in China.”

People States Research Starting China Chinese Department Academic Caution Descent Academic Research

Author:Jerome A. Cohen

“Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.”

Ifs World Way Believe May Important Ends Jobs Moving Turns I Believe Work Company Position Gold Organization Currents Miles Secure Miserable Department Shops Boss Ashes New Company

Author:Pat Heim

“Saw has been a unique experience in that Ive had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.”

Way Has Beens Different Film Artist Opportunity Saws Unique Different Ways Department Crew Really Great Great Art Great Artist Unique Experiences Film Crew

Author:Tobin Bell

“If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.”

Ifs Way Feels Should Trying Country Hard States Whole Body Political Disease Ministers Officials Department Limbs Curb Administrators

Author:Chanakya

“I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a - she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department.”

Believe Humor Hands Political Asks Chance Interesting Havens Perspective Fine Labor Department Questioning Secretary Political Humor Chavez

Author:George W. Bush

“The constitution is either a superior paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, alterable when the legislature shall please to alter it. It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is. This is the very essence of judicial duty.”

Mean Law Levels Duty Please Ordinary Essence Constitution Superiors Department Legislature Provinces Judicial Paramount Unchangeable

Author:John Marshall

“We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.”

Needs Department Farmers Agriculture Promoting Ranchers Farmers And Ranchers

Author:Jerry Moran

“When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the systems most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.”

Home Care Results Conditions Program Treats Patient Affair Health Care Expensive Department Multiple Veteran

Author:Ron Wyden

“The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.”

Moving Community Advantage Institutions Department Hospitals Pakistan Emergencies

Author:Mark Shields

“After I outlined 'Catering to Nobody,' I went and worked for a caterer. And the other thing I had to do was to talk to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department about how they investigated a crime.”

Crime Department County Sheriffs Catering

Author:Diane Mott Davidson

“I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.”

Ifs Feels Enough Government Wanted Energy Given Oil Department

Author:Robert Orben

“Earlier this month the State Department gave the umpteenth performance of its popular play, Please Tread on Me, with Ceylon as guest star, and the usual cast.”

States Play Government Stars Months Please Performances Casts Department Usual Guests Guest Stars

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Dealing with the State Department is like watching an elephant become pregnant.”

States Government Department Pregnant Elephants

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us ever wants to see one again. It was a horrifying apparition. And ever since Jimmy Carter, all of us rednecks have had to be very careful to be drunk rednecks lest we turn into some kind of awful creature with big buck teeth and a State Department full of human-rights yahoos.”

Want Humans Kind States Bigs Turns Rights Creatures Human Rights Careful Teeth Drunk Awful Department Sober American Politics Bucks Jimmy Redneck Carter Apparitions Landslides

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“The New York Times is the official leak of the State Department.”

States Media New York Officials Department New York Times Leaks

Author:Mort Sahl

“Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution ... and if you abstract it away and send it to the Department of Mathematics they put it in books.”

Ifs Book Reason Mathematics Abstract Contribution Department

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“I've always loved movies but everyone loves movies, so I never conceived of the fact that I could actually be in them. In high school I had some friends in the drama department, but they were just doing plays, and I was like, "Eh, I don't really think that that's me." So I just played sports. Then, a bunch of years later, I'm acting.”

Thinking Years Play Facts School Sports Acting Drama High School Bunch Department One Love Movie Love

Author:Channing Tatum

“Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.”

Thinking States Happens Involved Iraq Definitions Terrorist Department Iran Syria

Author:Alexander Haig

“I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Kindness Teaching Military Findings Our Children Active Peaceful Department What If Resolution Devoted Finding Peace Peaceful Resolution

Author:Dave Matthews

“When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.”

I Can Eye Imagine Hair Directors Lows Aspect Productions Luxury Shooting Budgets Department Part Time Catering

Author:Amber Sealey

“I believe that George Bush won the election through the vote of the people and the way our republic is set up. All we did was follow the law in the Department of State.”

People Way Believe States Law I Believe Vote Election Department Republic

Author:Katherine Harris

“The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.”

Care Jobs Victim Defense Department Providing Assault Sexual Assault Better Jobs

Author:Louise Slaughter

“Surely the Department of Defense can and needs to do a better job of training new and existing first responders to respond to sexual assaults occurring in the military.”

Needs Firsts Jobs Military Training Defense Department Assault Sexual Assault Better Jobs

Author:Louise Slaughter

“From the Medicare prescription drug plan to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the passage of No Child Left Behind, President Bush presided over a major expansion of the reach of government.”

“I was in the equity-trading department at Merrill Lynch. I was there in 1987 when the market crashed.”

Department Trading Equity

Author:Terence Winter

“I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.”

Art Stills Class Worst Taught Painting Chinese Indian Department Facility Art History Still Life

Author:Ad Reinhardt

“If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different”

Ifs Knows Littles Different Would Be Today Beautiful Black Risk Worst Dresses Extremes Stores Expensive Department Worst Things Purple Eccentric Buyers Department Stores

Author:Alber Elbaz

“If the director of the department doesn't even know what the privacy policy is, we are in trouble.”

Ifs Knows Trouble Policy Directors Department Privacy

Author:Jackie Speier

“I have fantasy jobs like working in retail at a department store just selling rich housewives outfits and saying 'this looks fabulous on you! Let me find a matching handbag!' Then, the other is being like some sort of Vice or taskforce, law enforcement, undercover [person]. Or possibly someday becoming a guerilla activist - I'm kind of in-training for that now anyways. So, maybe my retirement will be jumping on ships, kidnapping, and [participating in] espionage. I still fantasize.”

“Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won't want to miss.”

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Author:Johanna Edwards

“I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.”

Writing Believe Wells Stories Speak I Believe Filmmaker Department Back Again Cinematography Subtext

Author:Shane Carruth

“As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.”

Knows World Book Kids Know How Objects Fit Stores Newspapers Comic Department Unusual Bookstores Department Stores

Author:Ben Katchor

“Whatever oppressions man has suffered, they have invariably fallen more heavily on woman. Whatever new liberties advancing civilization has brought to man, ever the smallest measure has been accorded to woman, as a result of church teaching. The effect of this is seen in every department of life.”

Men Has Beens Church Results Liberty Atheism Teaching Effects Civilization Positive Atheism Oppression Fallen Department Smallest Advancing

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“I'm a facist about spoilers. I'm the biggest pain in the ass to the marketing and promotions department. If I had my way, the commercials would be 30 seconds of black with a few words on them.”

Ifs Way Would Be Pain Black Marketing Ass My Way Department Seconds Promotion Few Words Spoilers

Author:Brian Austin Green

“While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, the landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.”