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“By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.”

Way Wanted Attention Share Materials Standards Privileged Spoiled Material Things Privileged Life

Author:Catherine Tate

“What I learned from doing The Graduate was it doesnt matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.”

Wells Long Matter Character Written Materials Mediums Graduates Well Written

Author:Alicia Silverstone

“Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.”

World My Own Materials My Own Life Funny Life

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.”

Thinking Wells Running Honest Materials Hollywood

Author:Mike Epps

“The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.”

World Facts Existence Consciousness Study Psychology Materials Assuming Inner World Material World

Book:The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

Source: The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology

“Material that might be illegal is such a minuscule part of what is available that we have to remember and I mean not only librarians but everybody has to remember not to let it overshadow the incredible wealth of information that is available in this medium.”

Mean Might Remember Wealth Information Materials Incredibles Available Mediums Illegal Librarian

Author:Judith Krug

“Schinkel's aesthetic was not a crudely materialistic "truth to material" affair... but rather an attempt to inform iron and other industrial materials with an appropriate beauty through the direct collaboration of the artist in the manufacturing process.”

Artist Process Materials Direct Affair Appropriate Iron Collaboration Aesthetic Manufacturing Materialistic

Author:Karl Friedrich Schinkel

“In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane... It refers to the attainment of both material well-being and the elevation of the human spirit, [but] since what produces man's well-being and refinement is knowledge and virtue, civilization ultimately means the progress of man's knowledge and virtue.”

“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.”

Ends Values Virtue Modern Mankind Materials Standards Constant Advertising Appeals Material Things Elevating Standards And Values

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“My favorite fur is wild acrylic.”

Materials Clothes My Favorite Fur

Book:Love Her to Death

Source: Love Her to Death

“The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.”

Whole Problem Poor Quality Information Materials Products Weak Consumers Feds Adequate Fed Up Unsafe Poor Quality Warranty Bad Service

Author:Virginia Knauer

“It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit and the way in which the material world is both celebrated and renewed through their work. The Jewish basis for the early Christian patterns of belief and behavior is clear. It is important that God's people are embodied, because God made this world and has no intention of abandoning it. The material of creation is a vessel made to be filled with God's new life and glory, even though the transformation may involve suffering, persecution, and martyrdom.”

“What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it's a career, family, life - you have to plan it out.”

Needs I Can House Careers Plans Building Materials Wings Family Life Drafting

Author:Ice Cube

“I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

Thinking I Can Enjoy Challenges Audience Fronts Materials Singing Performing Learning New

Author:Lea Salonga

“I love to design and remodel houses, from working with the contractors to picking the colours, materials, kitchen and bathroom accessories to finally what furniture goes where.”

House Design Materials Kitchen Colour Bathroom Furniture Accessories Contractor

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“I am very happy acting, and just have never gone at, or been bitten by the directing bug to the extent where I'm willing to put acting aside. If offered the opportunity, I think I could do a good job with the right material.”

Ifs Thinking Jobs Opportunity Acting Gone Willing Materials Very Happy Good Job Bugs

Author:Stephen Lang

“I've never revised my opinion of myself as an actor. I've always thought I was as good as my material.”

Actors Opinion Materials

Author:Troy Donahue

“Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly employed, in the service of the rich. In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favourites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendour, whatever could soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1: With Maps

“Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

Littles Earth Order History Mankind Crime Materials Advantage Folly Misfortunes Reign Tranquility Register Roman Empire

Book:The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

Source: The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812

“The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal circumstance that distinguishes a civilised people from a herd of savages incapable of knowledge or reflection. Without that artificial help, the human memory soon dissipates or corrupts the ideas intrusted to her charge; and the nobler faculties of the mind, no longer supplied with models or with materials, gradually forget their powers; the judgment becomes feeble and lethargic, the imagination languid or irregular.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. Entire regional airsheds, crop plant environments, and river basins are heavy with noxious materials. Motor vehicles and home heating plants, municipal dumps and factories continually hurl pollutants into the air we breathe. Each day almost 50,000 tons of unpleasant, and sometimes poisonous, sulfur dioxide are added to the atmosphere, and our automobiles produce almost 300,000 tons of other pollutants.”

“A party who bequeaths a note bequeaths the claim and not merely the material on which the writing appears. This is proved by a sale, for when a note is sold, the debt by which it is evidenced is also considered to be sold.”

Writing Party Materials Claims Notes Investing Debt

Book:The Civil law, including the Twelve tables: the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments of Justinian, and the Constitutions of Leo

Source: The Civil law, including the Twelve tables: the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments of Justinian, and the Constitutions of Leo

“[A] private property regime makes people responsible for their own actions in the realm of material goods. Such a system therefore ensures that people experience the consequences of their own acts. Property sets up fences, but it also surrounds us with mirrors, reflecting back upon us the consequences of our own behavior.”

People Action Materials Behavior Consequence Economics Responsible Mirrors Property Realms Goods Surround Regimes Fence Reflecting Private Property Reflecting Back

Author:Tom Bethell

“Only a fighting nation can make itself responsible for world peace, and such a nation must organize its material resources and manpower with the highest possible degree of efficiency.”

World Fighting Nations Materials Degrees Highest Resources Responsible Efficiency Organize Manpower

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.”

Humans Action Spirit Three Materials Activity Essentials Factors Human Activity

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.”

Thinking Knows Giving Culture Race Audience Car Materials Relation Bars Candy Race Relations Depiction Placement Candy Bar

Author:Manny Farber

“Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.”

Materials Scripts

Book:On directing film

Source: On directing film

“When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.”

Ifs Feels Shows Night Hours Half Minutes Materials

Author:Buddy Hackett

“Look at my big teeth. I'm an apex predator. My genetic material is awesome”

Looks Bigs Materials Teeth Predator Apex Apex Predators

Author:Ilona Andrews

“We need to make material progress, but we need inner development too ... remember that the real development we seek is not in the buildings but in our hearts and minds.”

Needs Mind Heart Real Remember Progress Building Materials Development Heart And Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“I love short stories - reading and writing them. The best short stories distill all the potency of a novel into a small but heady draught. They are perfect reading material for the bus or train or for a lunchtime break. Everything extraneous has been strained off by the author. The best short stories pack the heft of any novel, yet resonate like poetry.”

Writing Has Beens Stories Reading Perfect Break Novel Materials Train Bus Short Story Packs Reading And Writing Short Love Potency Draught Lunchtime Best Short

Author:Ian Rankin

“Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.”

Firsts Use Form Used Water Rich Sea Ready Materials Creatures Spring Bottom Warm Surface Particles Minerals

Book:The Sea Around Us

Source: The Sea Around Us

“If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.”

Ifs Thinking Want Turns Asks Audience Successful Materials Ruined Turn Off

Author:Lynn Nottage

“Readers must be given room to bring their own emotions to a piece so crammed with emotional content; the writer must tenaciously resist explaining why the material is so moving.”

Moving Given Rooms Emotion Pieces Emotional Materials Reader Explaining

Author:William Zinsser

“One of underestimated tasks in nonfiction writing is to impose narrative shape on an unwieldy mass of material.”

Writing Materials Shapes Mass Tasks Narrative Nonfiction Underestimated

Author:William Zinsser

“The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play: you stand up and do it.”

Play Sports Materials Baseball Tennis Boxing Thematic

Author:Twyla Tharp

“The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.”

Firsts Children Community Sacrifice Materials Standards Our Children Amendments Protected Altars First Amendment Obscene

Author:Orrin Hatch

“I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.”

Materials Dare Experiments Proportion Appreciated

Author:Zaha Hadid

“Im saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as part of the inspiring process whereby God, in his sovereignty, gave every word.”

Process Materials Preparing Sovereignty Publication Editorials

Author:J. I. Packer

“To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world.”

Men World Mind Would Be Form Desire Causes Materials Supreme Triumph Substance Manifestation

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Egoism... is not eliminated by economic reorganization or by material abundance. When basic needs are satisfied, new 'needs' emerge. In our society, people want no simply clothes, but fashionable clothes; not shelter, but a house to display their wealth and taste.”

Source: Marx: A Very Short Introduction

“The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interests of the desire to know-it involves suppression of hopes and fears, loves and hates, and the whole subjective emotional life, until we become subdued to the material, able to see it frankly, without preconceptions, without bias, without any wish except to see it as it is, and without any belief that what it is must be determined by some relation, positive or negative, to what we should like it to be, or to what we can easily imagine it to be.”

Source: Mysticism and Logic

“The major material advantage, financial advantage from having a reserve currency is that between 200 and 300 billion dollar bills, that may be twenty, fifty, hundred dollar bills as well as ones, exist in the world - a lot of them in Russia as you all know I'm sure.”

Knows World Wells May Materials Majors Hundred Advantage Twenties Bills Dollars Financial Billions Russia Fifty Currency Reserves Dollar Bills

Author:Robert C. Solomon

“Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.”

Ideas Form Audience Design Materials Everyday Originality Everyday Life Novelty Crevice

Author:Kenya Hara

“When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.”

People Knows Laughing Materials Listening Comic Do You Know

Author:David Sedaris

“Art is a high calling - fears are coincidental. Coincidental, sneaky and disruptive, we might add, disguising themselves variously as laziness, resistance to deadlines, irritation with materials or surroundings, distraction over the achievements of others - indeed as anything that keeps you from giving your work your best shot. What separates artists from ex-artists is that those who challenge their fears, continue; those who don't, quit.”

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.”

People Want Made Different Done Actors Materials Involved Directors Projects Happenings Hollywood Exciting Critics Embarrassed Standing Out

Author:Pauly Shore

“When you're onstage, it's important to try and feel some type of therapy in getting the material out, because then you don't leave the stage so tired. If you're onstage and you're doing the same routine over and over, then it gets monotonous. You want to be able to try to get to the truth constantly, and I think the more you do that, the easier it is.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Trying Important Able Stage Materials Type Easier Tired Therapy Routine Monotonous

Author:Pauly Shore

“I am a man with an open mind. I really don't know anything, but I'm very interested in the spiritual and the material.”

Knows Men Mind Spiritual Materials Open Mind

Author:Eva Mendes

“I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. For non-fiction, I write happily on a computer, but for fiction I write by hand, because I'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.”

Way Want Writing Trying Firsts Kind States Hands Seems Reading Interesting Fiction Steps Achieve Materials Computer Creating Mess Unconscious Most Interesting Non Fiction

Author:Jennifer Egan