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“One of the hardest things I've had to deal with in my career is keeping my material topical even though I only release albums every three or four years.”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.”

Song Next Four Materials Albums Finished New Songs

Author:Scott Putesky

“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.”

Mind Doe Body Moving Four Awareness Materials Elements Stones Plant Four Elements

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.”

“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.”

People Needs Different America Choices Four Week Materials Hundred Variety Mustard Days Of The Week Deodorant Different Day

Author:George Carlin

“I personally developed the Academy training program. All our training is based on solid educational principles. We present the material in four training formats: lecture, demonstration, drill, and implementation.”

Principles Four Materials Training Program Educational Lectures Academy Demonstration Format Drills Implementation Training Programs

Author:Jim Evans

“It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.”

Causes Knowledge Four Materials Finals Establishment Efficient Formal True Knowledge

Book:The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

Source: The Novum Organon,: Or a True Guide to the Interpretation of Nature

“Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.”

Enough Moments Hands Kids Four Materials Chess Prose Waking Continents Bookstores Fischer Gist

Author:Ronald Gross

“The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.”