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“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.”

“I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

Knows Way Feels Writing Littles Stills Hard Lost Bits Process Example Little Bit My Way Familiarity

Author:Sara Zarr

“Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad and my brother are the most important men in my life and I would do anything for them. I feel like I should be the one cooking and looking after them.”

Men Feels Should Stills Important Example Brother Dad Tradition Cooking My Dad Chinese My Brother Inferiors Swans

Author:Katie Leung

“Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.”

Stills Country Use Past Term Example Involved Conversation Gun Forgotten Engaged Appropriate

Author:Stephen Daldry

“Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.”

“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.”

Thinking Knows Want Stills Wanted Lasts Example Evidence Threat Folks Iraq France Paris Flags Last Time

Author:David Letterman

“Our principles were revolutionary. We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. That is our purpose in the world - nothing more and nothing less.”

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as "the powerful," "the masters," "the commanders") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as "the rich," "the possessors" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic).”

Men Stills Important Felt Powerful Virtue Rich Example Masters Higher Shining Noble Visible Superiority Be A Man Commanders Nuance Iranian Corresponding

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).”

Humans Stills Light Eye Today Form Century Example Degrees Skins Blue Wave Population Regions Fifth Invasion Blue Eyes Prehistoric Constantine Nordic Vandals

Author:Alfred Rosenberg

“There are a lot of products still to be discovered in the world and experimentation, for example with seafood and fish. There are thousands of products that we're not eating right now that maybe will be cultivated in a good agriculture situation, a sustainable, ecological way. Maybe there will be textures or flavors we hadn't even thought of. In the Amazon there are 400 fruits that are not cultivated right now. They're just incredible fruits. Textures, tastes that we don't know right now.”

Knows World Way Stills Situation Example Food Products Taste Right Now Eating Fruit Incredibles Fishes Agriculture Flavor Texture Ecological Amazon Experimentation Seafood Eating Right

Author:Ferran Adria

“Though some still see the Internet, for example, as a democratic structure for international individual expression, it is more realistic to recognize it as only the latest technological vehicle to be turned, sooner or later, to corporate advantage - for advertising, marketing and general corporate aggrandizement.”

Stills Individual Example Expression Internet Advantage Structure Democratic Marketing International Advertising Corporate Realistic Vehicle Sooner Or Later Technological Individual Expression

Author:Herbert Schiller

“But the argument is still unsound, because the first premise is false: there are other unmentioned alternatives, for example, that Jesus as described in the gospels is a legendary figure, so that the trilemma is false as it stands.”

Firsts Stills Religion Jesus Figures Example Argument Alternatives Premises Legendary

Author:William Lane Craig

“It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.”

Stills Political Economy Example Remains China Communist Political Systems Market Economy Retaining

Book:Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

Source: Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy

“The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.”

People Knows Stills States Able Community Ability United United States Example Bills Clinton Athlete Cancer Woods Speed Fallen Britain Tigers Bans Great Britain Michael Vick

Author:Lance Armstrong

“The way you write dialogue is the same whether you're writing for movies or TV or games. We use movie scriptwriting software to write the screenplays for our games, but naturally we have things in the script that you would never have in a movie script -- different branches and optional dialogue, for example. But still, when it comes to storytelling and dialogue, they are very much the same.”

Way Writing Stills Different Use Games Example Tvs Scripts Dialogue Storytelling Branches Software Screenplays Optional

Author:Sam Lake

“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.”

People Ifs Made Stills Different Suffering Left Example Bears Raises Jew Holocaust Doomed

Book:The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

Source: The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition

“My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."”

“Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.”

Knows Men Stills Young Fall Girl Marriage Example Youth Falling In Love Young Man Classic Kicks Folly Hats Conventions Expecting Delightful Departure Chorus Conventionality Hats Off

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Basically, you're still sitting there using just the muscles of your hand, really. Of one hand, actually. It's another example of the transfer of literacy to making music because the assumption is that everything important is happening in your head; the muscles are there simply to serve the head. But that isn't how traditional players work at all; musicians know that their muscles have a lot of stuff going on as well. They're using their whole body to make music, in fact.”

Knows Wells Stills Important Whole Facts Body Hands Stuff Player Example Musician Music Is Happenings Sitting Traditional Assumption Muscles Literacy Transfers

Author:Brian Eno

“French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.”

Thinking Trying Stills Shows Interesting Powerful Example Cinema Very Interesting Very Powerful Emulate French Cinema

Author:Louis Leterrier

“But I still have him in the form of the finest and highest standard of what it means to be a journalist and critic. All my life, Roger Ebert has always been the bar I've tried to reach. I never will. But his example has made me stronger through failure.”

Mean Made Stills Form Example Highest Standards Stronger Critics Bars Journalist Finest Roger

Author:Andy Ihnatko

“The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore. The relationship that I had with my father did not stop when he passed away. An example is me doing the Pacific swim. If I didn't have the father that I had I wouldn't be doing this. We had a close connection in life, and I still carry that connection in following my dream. This is because of my parents, the closeness that we had and what we share together.”

Ifs Persons Stills Moments Dream Together Father Parent Share Example Connections Following Swim Pacific Closeness Passed Away Following My Dreams

Author:Benoit Lecomte

“The sanctuary of peace dwells within. Seek it out and all things will be added to you. We're coming closer and closer to the time when enough of us will have found inner peace to affect our institutions for the better. And as soon as this happens the institutions will in turn, through example, affect for the better those who are still immature.”

Stills Enough Happens Turns Found Example All Things Institutions Inner Peace Sanctuary Immature

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.”

Thinking Believe Stills Mother Belief Achieve Example Flying Planes Crash

Author:Joe Bastianich

“...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.”

“I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.”

Thinking Stills Growing Up Growing Example Hero Musician Musical Locals This Day

Author:Dave Grohl

“In Christianity, it's very clear that the god we worship is equal to love. The bible says, 'God is love'. The god we worship was sacrificed, crucified on the cross, tortured, spit on, and was still forgiving. This is our highest example.”

Stills Christianity Clear Example Equal Worship Highest Crosses Forgiving Spit God Is Love

Author:Mosab Hassan Yousef

“There is no excuse for a billion dollar industry to have somebody who's pushing papers on an administrative level - which is still very important in terms of getting projects done - it's imbalanced and completely illogical and example of how badly this art form has been rapped... for them niggas to have health care benefits but for themselves to share in no part to that? It's very telling about the climate of the music industry.”

“Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.”

Ifs Stills Young Lost Goal Example Prime Credibility Shredding

Author:Mac DeMarco

“Google or other search engines are examples of AI, and relatively simple AI, but they're still AI. That plus an awful lot of hardware to make it work fast enough.”

Stills Enough Simple Example Awful Plus Engines Google Hardware Search Engine

Author:Stuart J. Russell

“A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.”

Men World Has Beens Stills Today Example Battle Female Prejudice Conductor Good Examples Conducting Today's World

Author:Lara St. John

“We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations.”

Humans Stills Support Rights Example Program Tests International Human Rights Terrorism Obligation Iran Violation Sanctions Missiles Violation Of Human Rights

Author:Barack Obama

“I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.”

“People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.”

People Stills Political Used Games Causes Ability Talent Example Industry Gay Progressive Allies Milk Really Great Gay Marriage Props Sean Harvey

Author:Margaret Cho

“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”

Thinking Men World Stills Care Kids Christian Young Mother Father Strong Inspiring Example Taught Six Take Care Good Man Mothers Day Be Young Young Ladies

Author:Magic Johnson

“I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.”

Stills Book Matter Facts Fiction Novel Example Speech Grateful Critics Critical Likes Conventional Complaints Machinery Great Novels Compilation Coetzee

Author:Teju Cole

“I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.”

Trying Stills Song Perfect Example Emotional Grunt

Author:Ian Christe

“We have not destroyed al Qaeda, so we still have that to worry about. We have its traditional allies, the Kashmiri groups, the groups that are operating now in Iraq, and now we have a third tier of threat amongst the Muslims that live in the West and who are inspired to do something against the West by the example of the other two tiers.”

Stills Two Worry Groups Example Thirds Threat West Inspired Iraq Traditional Destroyed Als Allies Al Qaeda

Author:Michael Scheuer

“I think the fact that they all served under her as a president is a strong pull. Here's a perfect example: George Stephanopoulos. He has a full on career in the media of his own, and yet on some days he's still George Stephanopoulos who worked for the Clintons. As much as he's done on his own, he's still in the Clinton orbit and it comes back up all the time.”

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Author:David Mandel

“Train passengers may be astonished to learn how many working practices still seem rooted in the age of steam. For example, the majority of Sunday services rely on staff working overtime - an antiquated and expensive arrangement given the seven-day society in which we now live.”

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Author:Simon Calder

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