“Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.” PeopleWayHumansDifferentFactsTodayFormEasyConflictHappeningsEndlessManipulationDividesDogmaHuman HistoryDifferent PeoplesOpposing Book:--and the Truth Shall Set You Free Source: --and the Truth Shall Set You Free
“I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.” ThinkingWayFeelsHumansHas BeensArtEndsFormLife IsNovelMagicSorrowHappeningsJokesTragedyMovedDetailsTheatreAbsurdComicHuman LifeTruthfulBeing TruthfulMuddleComic Art Author:Iris Murdoch
“I actually hear into life - seeing everything that's occurring as a conversation with God in some form. So it really is the next song on the radio - a chance utterance of a friend on the street - it really is what's happening right now. I stop and think, 'What is life trying to tell me right now?' And "What does my soul know about this?'” ThinkingKnowsTryingDoeSoulFormSongNextChanceSeeingStreetsRight NowConversationHappeningsRadioMy SoulUtteranceWhat Is LifeConversations With God Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“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.” ArtRealStoriesFilmFormFictionPureCreatingHappeningsTheaterArchitectureNarrativeCinemaFilmmakingSculptureReal ThingsArt HistoryCulminationCelluloid Author:George Hickenlooper
“War in its essence is another form of capitalism. Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them. So much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group.” PeopleWarFormPoorRichGroupsHappeningsCapitalismResourcesEssence Author:Bell Hooks
“I've always written songs to use music as a form of therapy or as a way to look at my obstacles or my memories from a different perspective. It's always helped me realize the grass isn't always greener and how I need to live more in the moment. My songwriting is a documentation of whatever's happening in my life at that point in time.” WayNeedsLooksDifferentMomentsUseFormSongRealizingMemoriesWrittenPerspectiveHappeningsObstaclesGrassTherapySongwritingDifferent PerspectiveGreenerDocumentation Author:Chuck Ragan
“So you can see what is happening in the New Testament. Worship is being significantly deinstitutionalized, delocalized, de-externalized. The whole thrust is being taken off of ceremony and seasons and places and forms and is being shifted to what is happening in the heart - not just on Sunday but every day and all the time in all of life.” HeartWholeFormTakenWorshipHappeningsSeasonsSundayTestamentCeremonyNew TestamentThrust Author:John Piper
“Sometimes you got to a point where it wasn't happening and you had to figure out another way to do it, particularly in terms of making the jaguar do what you wanted. That was not CG, a real guy had to run really fast and not trip. There was a form of restraint on the creature that you can't see. so it was all very safe - but it is real.” WayRealSometimesRunningWantedFormGuyTermFiguresSafeCreaturesHappeningsRestraintAnother WayJaguars Author:Mel Gibson
“If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge for the novelist is to stretch his art and his language, to the point where it can finally describe what's happening around him.” IfsArtFilmFormCultureLanguageChallengesNovelHappeningsContemporaryNovelistsEssaysAccommodate Author:Don DeLillo
“We need the political will, and that often comes from the will of the people. So if celebrities or personalities can help to educate the people - not influence them, not tell them (what to do) - just tell them the truth about what's happening and let them form their own opinion, that will strengthen them and they will push their politicians.” PeopleIfsNeedsHelpingFormPoliticalOpinionInfluencePersonalityPoliticianHappeningsEducatePolitical Will Author:Angelina Jolie
“Ramp skating has become the most popular televised form of skating because they can constrain it. They can judge it based on what's happening within this box of a ramp.” FormJudgingHappeningsBoxesSkatingConstrainRamp Author:Jeffrey Deitch
“Well hip hop is basically the whole culture of the movement. There's the rap which is a form of hip hop culture. It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that's happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.” WellsWholeFormCultureBlackCommunityWhiteMovementTypeHappeningsDancingHip HopRapHipsHopsHispanicFreestyleBreakdancing Author:Afrika Bambaataa
“There's so many things happening with computers and what-not, where we may be able to live until 150 and even longer, but if the planet's not here for us to live on it, if we burn ourselves out from global warming and everything else, if we don't figure that out, if we don't figure out an alternative form of energy, I think we're in big, fat trouble.” IfsThinkingMayBigsAbleFormEnergyTroubleFiguresPlanetsComputerHappeningsThings HappenFatsAlternativesGlobal Warming Author:Lisa Rinna
“The only thing we took out was the Constitution of the State of Mississippi and the interpretation of the Constitution. We had 63,000 people registered on the Freedom Registration form. And we tried from every level to go into the regular Democratic Party medium. We tried from the precinct level. The 16th of June when they were holding precinct meetings all across the state, I was there and there was eight of us there to attend the meeting, and they had the door locked at 10 o'clock in the morning. This is what's happening in the State of Mississippi.” PeopleStatesFormLevelsPartyMorningDoorsHappeningsConstitutionDemocraticMeetingsEightMediumsClockInterpretationLockedJuneDemocratic PartyMississippiRegistration Author:Fannie Lou Hamer
“I hate to keep repeating my mantra, but, boy, there are things happening that we did not expect to happen in any way, shape, manner, or form.” WayHappensFormHateBoysShapesHappeningsI HateThings HappenMantras Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.” WayFormUniverseEnergyUnderstandingCommunityRolesPlanetsHappeningsRevelationsCommunionPreciseAccordAcceleration Author:Christine McCormick Day
“What ends up happening is people form images and the image they form is, in some ways, what they want it to be. The idea of trying to correct the image is something I'm not interested in doing.” PeopleWayWantTryingIdeasEndsFormHappeningsNot Interested Author:George W. Bush
“It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box.” TryingYearsEnoughBigsFormUsedFightingProcessRealizingHalfTechnologySecurityDangerComfortableHappeningsToolsBoxesTerrorismWarfareNational SecurityCiaDetachedPentagon Author:Barack Obama
“We know from many forms of suffering that what is important first is a witness - people want to know that someone else knows what's happening, that they're not alone - and someone who listens to what is needed and tries to help.” PeopleKnowsWantTryingFirstsImportantHelpingFormSufferingNeededHappeningsWitnessNot Alone Author:Gloria Steinem
“I felt that the world, and in particular this country, were going in circles. What had happened 40 or 50 years ago was happening again, but even in a worse form - that we were sinking into a lot of ignorance and a lot of superficial change.” WorldYearsCountryFormFeltHappenedIgnoranceParticularHappeningsYears AgoCirclesSuperficialSinkingHappening Again Author:Raoul Peck
“What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.” LooksLongHas BeensMadeIdeasMatterDoneFormCultureStepsGoneTakenHappenedMediaStyleMassLong TimeHappeningsSellsAdvertisingMade ItAdoptedFringeDissentMass Media Author:Mark Hosler
“I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.” MindMeanMadeFormStrongSidesMistakeTeamFootballHappeningsResilienceMechanismBounceFootball TeamInspirational TeamStrong MindStrong Minded Author:Gary Neville