“I genuinely was just such a fan of the books. When I heard that this was on the cards, I've got to do this; I've got to get involved with this. I'm such a Philip Pullman fan and actually his philosophies, morals and the way he looks at the world. He does what he does brilliantly as a writer. He writes children's stories with major adult themes and major ideas about making the right choices.” WorldWayWritingLooksChildrenDoeBookIdeasPhilosophyStoriesChoicesMoralHeardFansInvolvedMajorsAdultsCardsThemeGet InvolvedPhilipRight Choices Author:Daniel Craig
“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.” IfsWayMatterCharacterFilmSongSituationWrittenChangedFitSceneElementsMajorsMoodEtcSequenceDiscardedWalt Author:Richard Sherman
“You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.” WayWellsMayEnjoyKnownMajorsSmartSeasonsSightEnjoyedExtrasDestinationClothingsLayersLocationWell KnownTouristsOff SeasonOvercrowding Author:Arthur Frommer
“I do believe that one of the major ways that we're out of alignment with our souls is in our disconnect from nature. I feel that we have kind of lost our natural way of being connected to the planet. We need to be rooted on the planet. We experience ourselves as kind of isolated from that, and I actually think that's a great cause of the suffering that many of us are experiencing, whether consciously or unconsciously.” ThinkingWayNeedsFeelsBelieveKindSoulSufferingLostCausesNaturalPlanetsMajorsConnectedIsolatedRootedAlignment Author:Shakti Gawain
“There's no difference in dealing with the music business with the majors than any other competition. The music business is way more cutthroat than any other business.” WayDifferencesMajorsCompetitionMusic Business Author:Suge Knight
“NIE presents a major obstacle to those who are pushing for military confrontation. In many ways it is a severe blow to their agenda. However, I wouldn't go as far as to say that the risk has been significantly reduced or eliminated.” WayHas BeensRiskMilitaryMajorsBlowObstaclesAgendasPushingSevereConfrontation Author:Trita Parsi
“Whether we experience it or not, grief accompanies all the major changes in our lives. When we realize that we have grieved before and recovered, we see that we may recover this time as well. It is more natural to recover than to halt in the tracks of grief forever. Our expectations, willingness and beliefs are all essential to our recovery from grief. It is right to expect to recover, no matter how great the loss. Recovery is the normal way .” WayWellsMayMatterBeliefRealizingNaturalLossGriefForeverOur LivesEssentialsNormalMajorsExpectationsTrackRecoveryWillingnessHaltAccompanyMajor Change Author:Judy Tatelbaum
“It ain't this big I, little You. Music is to be shared. Music is not a hustle. [Hip hop's become] cultural stripmining [by the major labels]. Some people get into this music to make a killing but music is a way to make a living.” PeopleWayLittlesBigsMajorsMusic IsKillingHip HopHipsLabelsHopsHustle Author:Chuck D
“I've had a very different career than a lot of other musicians. I went through the major labels. I was signed to two major labels and bands. I've toured with Aerosmith, and I've had records on the charts, songs in the movies. If you had checklist of things a person wants to accomplish in music...I've done a lot. And I don't mean that in an egotistical way; I never take it for granted. But you can't think outside the box unless you know what's in the box.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantMeanPersonsTwoDifferentDoneSongCareersRecordsBandMajorsMusicianBoxesAccomplishGrantedLabelsEgotisticalOutside The BoxThink Outside The BoxChecklistsAerosmith Author:Michael Angelo Batio
“Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I certainly grant the existence of the phenomenon of faith; what I want to see is a reasoned ground for taking faith seriously as a way of getting to the truth , and not, say, just as a way people comfort themselves and each other” PeopleIfsWayWantHumansHas BeensReasonPlayBeliefExistenceFireSpecialComfortOffersMajorsToolsStonesSpeciesWorthyDefenseInventionExtrasConsiderationGrantsPhenomenonCategoriesTechnologicalAmbiguousHuman Species Author:Daniel Dennett
“All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I feel that every fighter is an artist and they all take pictures their own way. I'm just one of the very best artists.” WayFeelsHas BeensHardArtistFightingEasyKeysMajorsFighterErasJust OneBest ArtistMayweather Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.” WayEndsDoneWholeStuffWaitingTermMajorsProductionsUnusualEditingLiftingYou Re Pretty Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I believe the only way a writer can keep himself up to the mark is by examining each story quite coldly before he starts writing it and asking himself if it is all right as a story. I mean, once you go saying to yourself, 'This is a pretty weak plot as it stands, but I'm such a hell of a writer that my magic touch will make it okay,' you're sunk. If they aren't in interesting situations, characters can't be major characters, not even if you have the rest of the troop talk their heads off about them.” IfsWayWritingBelieveMeanCharacterStoriesI BelieveInterestingSituationHellMagicMajorsWeakOkayMarkAskingPlotExaminingInteresting Situations Author:P. G. Wodehouse
“The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.” WorldWayFirstsMeanTwoWarEndsTodayLawEvilBeliefNationsDarknessPositionConflictMajorsOvercomingHarmonyDuesOfficialsJustifyOur WorldWorld TodayOpposingDisintegrationEnds Justify The Means Author:Peace Pilgrim
“Baseball in Canada is like soccer in the U.S. It is growing, and some people are starting to gain interest. The way that there are Americans playing high-level soccer, there are Canadians breaking into the Major Leagues.” PeopleWayInterestLevelsGrowingMajorsGainsBaseballStartingSoccerLeagueCanadaHigh LevelMajor League Author:Joey Votto
“In the United States today we have the most unequal wealth and income distribution of any major country on earth - worse than at any time since the 1920s. This is an economy that must be changed in fundamental ways.” WayCountryStatesTodayEarthWealthUnitedUnited StatesEconomyChangedMajorsFundamentalsIncomeDistributionIncome Distribution Author:Bernie Sanders
“Working with children is very different than the way in which I work with adults. I never tell the children the actual truth of the thing that I want them to act. Although children are really into play and play acting, and this is a major part of their existence, they never actually find the playing or acting of adults credible.” WayWantChildrenDifferentPlayActingExistenceMajorsAdultsCredibleWorking With Children Author:Asghar Farhadi
“What happened to me in the Sixties was so major and so worldwide and so huge, there's no way I can repeat it. But in a way, I had nothing to do with it, it just took me over. It was bizarre, it was weird, and I had no control over it. I don't think anyone could have planned what happened to me.” ThinkingWayI CanHappenedHugeMajorsRepeatsOver ItSixtyBizarre Author:Twiggy
“I feel very strongly that we need to change the way we do trade because it has been one of the major factors that lead to decline of middle class incomes.” WayNeedsFeelsHas BeensClassMiddleMajorsTradeIncomeFactorsMiddle ClassVery StrongDeclineNeed A Change Author:Charles Schumer
“George W. Bush is very vulnerable but not if you campaign the way the major candidates - except for Dean and Kucinich - are campaigning.” IfsWayMajorsCampaignsVulnerableCandidatesDeanCampaigning Author:Ralph Nader
“As a director, your job is to make sure no one for any reason is taken out of the film. Sometimes it's impossible and sometimes things don't come out the way you want them to, but I think you have to work really hard at making the world engrossing and details are a major part of that.” ThinkingWorldWayWantSometimesHardReasonJobsFilmTakenImpossibleDirectorsMajorsDetails Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.” PeopleWayWritingTryingIdeasDifferentEyeActingSeeingInfluenceMajorsMethodAddressesPreachingChoirThrough The EyesDifferent IdeasMethod ActingPreaching To The Choir Author:Jello Biafra
“The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way.” WayNeedsYearsPersonsDifferentCareersRolesTalentCollegeDramaMajorsFatsDifferent ThingsOld WomanYale Author:Meryl Streep
“It's undeniable there's been remarkable progress for African-Americans in this country. They've been elected senators and governors and running major corporations. But obviously we still have a long way to go.” WayLongStillsCountryRunningProgressMajorsAfrican AmericanCorporationsRemarkableGovernorsSenatorsLong WayLong Way To Go Author:Dana Bash
“We should think about what we mean by literacy. If you say, "He's a very literate person," what you really mean is that he knows a lot, thinks a lot, has a certain frame of mind that comes through reading and knowing about various subjects.The major route open to literacy has been through reading and writing text. But we're seeing new media offer richer ways to explore knowledge and communicate, through sound and pictures.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayShouldWritingMindMeanPersonsHas BeensCertainReadingSoundKnowingSeeingSubjectsMediaOffersMajorsVariousCommunicateRoutesLiteracyReally MeanReading And WritingFrame Of MindNew Media Author:Seymour Papert
“You have to be able to grow and move with the organism that is the music industry. You need to maintain flexibility. Ownership of your own stuff is key and then you're able to dictate on a present-terms basis what would be the most effective way to protect yourself and what you've created. You also don't want to lock yourself into a situation where a major label owns part of your touring and merchandise.” WayWantNeedsWould BeAbleMovingGrowsStuffTermSituationKeysIndustryProtectMajorsBasesLabelsOwnershipLocksOrganismsFlexibilityTouringMusic IndustryProtect YourselfMerchandise Author:Eddie Vedder
“I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was Egypt. I've written a few books on the subject. There's no doubt that the best way to resolve Israel's problems is to negotiate peace between Israel and its immediate neighbors, particularly the Palestinians. And that's something that's not going to be achieved, in my opinion, without the strong involvement of the American president.” WayNeedsBookProblemStrongPresidentOpinionDoubtWrittenSubjectsMajorsThreatIsraelStrikesNeighborBest WayNo DoubtResolvePalestinianEgyptInvolvementAmerican President Author:Jimmy Carter
“There is a major problem of unsustainability of our environment, and we're seeing it in our natural resources, peak oil is probably upon us, and it can't be sustained. We're on an unsustainable path, and at this point in history we are responsible for that. We're going to have to change our ways. We're going to have to think through this problem.” ThinkingWayProblemNaturalPathEnvironmentSeeingMajorsResourcesResponsibleOilOur EnvironmentNatural ResourcesMajor ProblemsPeak Oil Author:Edgar Mitchell
“The people at the label were great but at the end of the day our visions didn't match up and I knew I had to do it my way. The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn't quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made. It was a hard decision to make, but I've never regretted it for a second and it's only become more clear to me after making and releasing Stairwells that it was the right one.” PeopleWayMadeImportantEndsHardDecisionVisionClearNeededMajorsMade ItMy WayLabelsThe End Of The DaySigningNever RegretHard Decision Author:Kina Grannis
“The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way that is sexually explicit, tend not to get a great deal of mainstream attention: they don't tend to sell well, and they don't tend to win major awards. This makes the occasional exception, like Alan Hollinghurst, all the more remarkable.” PeopleWayWellsBookFactsWinningDealsAttentionGayMajorsRemainsSellsRemarkableExceptionAwardsMainstreamOccasionalSexuallyGay PeopleExplicit Author:Garth Greenwell
“I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDoeI CanGamesCuttingSadnessComfortableMajorsPerformancesPrizeSpeakersCommitteesAnklesLarger Than LifeWry Author:Randall Mann
“No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.” WayWantWritingArtStillsMatterActingClassDesignDirectorsMajorsTheaterNo Matter WhatSceneryFreshmanActing ClassesUcla Author:Carol Burnett
“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.” PeopleWayFeelsCareAbleLaughingSpecialFashionMajorsScalesAssFeel GoodDramaticOld FashionedMaking People LaughKickingLove Making Author:Dwayne Johnson
“There are clearly environmental factors that can decrease the incidence and death from cancer. I would still say though that the majority of cancers cannot be prevented at this point, but they can be treated and they can be treated two major ways.” WayStillsTwoMajorsMajorityEnvironmentalCancerTreatedFactorsDecreaseIncidenceEnvironmental Factors Author:Laurie Glimcher
“Every time you have a major breakthrough in self-knowledge, and see the way the divine works within your own psyche, external events, and interior experiences of the divine, you are transformed in some degree.” WaySelfEventsDivineDegreesMajorsTransformedSelf KnowledgeInteriorsBreakthrough Author:Thomas Keating
“I'm a pluralist about perspectives on literature. There seem to me to be all sorts of illuminating ways of responding to major literary works, some of them paying considerable attention to context, others applying various theoretical ideas, yet others focusing on details of language, or linking the work to the author's life, or connecting it with other works.” WayIdeasSeemsLiteratureLanguageAttentionPerspectiveMajorsDetailsVariousConnectingTheoreticalRespondingIlluminatingLiterary Works Author:Philip Kitcher
“When you jump on a city bus or roam the streets off the major thoroughfares you'll quickly learn that we have as many differences as similarities. And therein lie the greatest opportunities for innovation - our different ways of viewing the world and coming up with solutions!” WorldWayDifferentLyingOpportunityDifferencesCitiesStreetsMajorsSolutionsInnovationDifferent WaysBusSimilarityCity Bus Author:David Livermore
“The thing about being on the majors, from the beginning, going into this, I was like, "I'm not going to be treated like a factory," because that's never the way it was done before. You're talking about a major label, we're talking about serious business; you're not an artist anymore, you're a business, you have to work in terms of product, you have to release a product, and I don't really think that way at all.” ThinkingWayDoneArtistTermTalkingSeriousProductsMajorsTreatedReleaseLabelsFactoriesSerious Business Author:Beth Ditto
“Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.” WayLostMajorsFundamentalsLabelsBubblesHousingHousing Bubble Author:Win Butler
“I think that we ill-prepare athletes from the very beginning. From the moment they pick up a ball or kick or whatever it is they're doing. We ill-prepare them. Especially with the major sports. What you see is this cycle of entitlement that gets thrown their way, so the kid who is in junior high and hasn't finished his test, but still gets to play because he is an athlete, fails the test and still gets to play because they're an athlete, gets to get away with not doing chores at home because they've got practice.” ThinkingWayStillsPlayMomentsHomeKidsSportsPracticeFailingMajorsPicksTestsBallsAthleteIllFinishedKicksThrownGet AwayCyclesJuniorsEntitlementChoresJunior High Author:John Amaechi
“If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.” IfsWayFirstsMomentsHappensRunningPerfectInspiringStepsAwarenessAcceptanceHumilityRight NowMajorsYogaMiracleSurrenderRadicalWell BeingPresent MomentWhere You AreYou ChooseFirst StepsPower To ChangeMajor ChangeRadical Acceptance Author:Mastin Kipp
“Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn very deeply into the area of their trouble. They want to know more than their doctor. That's a curious thing, and not at all the way it used to be.” PeopleKnowsWayWantUsedStudyTroubleMajorsAreasDoctorsPsychologicalUsed To BeCuriousSymptomsVery Deep Author:James Hillman
“I grew up in such a small area that there really weren't any acting classes. So I had to wait till I got to college, at the University of Washington. I was a theater major there and got my training. Then after college, I packed up my Honda Civic and kind of fulfilled the cliché of driving down to Los Angeles, and literally, brick by brick - you know, the slow and painful way - I built my career.” KnowsWayKindWaitingActingClassCareersCollegeGrewMajorsGrew UpTrainingBuiltAreasTheaterUniversityPainfulDrivingLos AngelesFulfilledBricksCivicsActing ClassesHonda Author:Mariana Klaveno
“I used to be in my 20s, be single, and work way less. This was conducive to way more hours on the mat and a super fit physique. I'm now 31, engaged, and travel every single week, which puts a major damper on any sort of routine.” WayUsedHoursWeekFitMajorsUsed To BeEngagedRoutinePhysique Author:Kathryn Budig
“She [Hillary Clinton] says I know that this is the first time that one of our two major parties has ever nominated a woman, and that takes some getting used to even for me. And I think that she has to somehow figure out a way to talk about it. She doesn't like being a symbol, but in many ways, that's what tonight is about.” ThinkingKnowsWayFirstsTwoUsedPartyFiguresMajorsFirst TimeClintonSymbolsTonight Author:Tamara Keith
“I was a psychology major. I think that definitely helps in general life; I enjoy trying to figure out why people are the way they are.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingHelpingEnjoyPsychologyFiguresMajors Author:Bailey Chase
“The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.” WayFirstsWellsMadeIdeasEndsWould BeLastsRememberOrderPerfectMajorsMovedProofNakedLunchChaptersPrinterMajor ChangeWhy Change Author:William S. Burroughs
“Rap music and rap records used to always be like this: we get one or two shots to a piece cause it was a singles marketplace and when the major record companies saw that it could also handle the sales of the albums then they started to force everybody to expand their topics from 1 to about 10 and you gotta deliver 12 songs, so a lot of times if you took a person who wasn't really developed, and the diversity of trying say 12 different things, you know the companies were like "Cool! Say the same thing 12 different ways."” IfsKnowsWayTryingPersonsTwoDifferentUsedSongForceCausesCompanyRecordsSawsPiecesDiversityMajorsShotsAlbumsRapHandleDifferent WaysDifferent ThingsTopicsMarketplaceRecord CompaniesSinglesRap Music Author:Chuck D
“I was a screenwriting major in college, and really wanted to do that after I graduated, but there are no job listings for that, as we all know. I had many classmates that made it in the business, but stand-up comedy was my way in, and my first film 'Sleepwalk with Me' was based on those autobiographical experiences.” KnowsWayFirstsMadeWantedJobsFilmComedyCollegeMajorsMade ItMy WayScreenwritingStand Up ComedyClassmatesWalk With Me Author:Mike Birbiglia
“It's a hell of a relief. Especially for a dude like me who is so hands on and I like to pretty much all the way hip-hop. So it's difficult when you're dealing with the majors.” WayHandsDifficultHellMajorsHip HopLike MeHipsReliefHops Author:Styles P