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Source: A Certain Alchemy

“Men aren't actively writing women to oppress them, men are writing what they know. I say you can be much better as a woman for women's rights if you just go up there and write your own material.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Rights Materials Womens Rights Write Your Own

Author:Rachel Bloom

“I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.”

People Ifs Trying Play Used Found Materials Hated If I Could

Author:Frank Gehry

“If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.”

Ifs May Reality Spiritual Meditation Risk Awareness Materials Pure Essentials Insight Accidents Makers Freak Defining Spiritual Experience

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.”

Universe Force Talking Audience Fields Materials Prove Comfortable Findings Medical Finding Myself Force Fields

Author:Deepak Chopra

“All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.”

World Use Speak Watches Technology Television Materials Essentials Computer Program Machines Phones Premises Material World Fax Fax Machines

Author:Deepak Chopra

“In my case, when you dive into a role, to do well and for you to do well in it, you have to put an enormous amount of faith in the director. But you also have to decide you're so interested in the material, this director, his work, and his process, that you don't care about the outcome.”

Wells Care Process Roles Cases Materials Amount Directors Don't Care Enormous Outcomes

Author:Andrea Riseborough

“Before I started working on a computer, writing a piece would be like making something up every day, taking the material and never quite knowing where you were going to go next with the material. With a computer it was less like painting and more like sculpture, where you start with a block of something and then start shaping it.”

Writing Would Be Next Knowing Pieces Painting Materials Computer Block Sculpture Never Quit

Author:Joan Didion

“Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.”

Thinking World Long Seems Dark Modern Materials Conservative Passages Fearful Reverse Modern World Reactionaries His Dark Materials

Author:Philip Pullman

“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.”

People Wells Asks Waiting Fronts Materials Cameras

Author:Larenz Tate

“I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.”

People Thinking Knows Important Helping Young Grows Teach Know How Materials

Author:Julia Alvarez

“After a quarter of a century of personal experience and professional observation, I have come to understand that peace of mind is the true goal of the considered life. I know now that the sum of all other possessions does not necessarily add up to peace of mind; on the other hand, I have seen this inner tranquility flourish without the material supports of property or even the buttress of physical health. Peace of mind can transform a cottage into a spacious manor hall; the want of it can make a regal residence an imprisoning shell.”

“As for companies invested in the space - I think its important to distinguish between a good investment and a material climate change technology - you can have the first without the second, even in the "clean tech" space.”

Thinking Firsts Important Space Company Technology Materials Clean Investment Climate Climate Change

Author:Vinod Khosla

“Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good is one of the reasons we have a coal-dependent infrastructure, with the resulting environmental impact that all of us can see. I suspect environmentalists, through their opposition of nuclear power, have caused more coal plants to be built than anybody. And those coal plants have emitted more radioactive material from the coal than any nuclear accident would have.”

Reason Perfect Enemy Materials Built Impact Plant Environmental Accidents Nuclear Opposition Dependent Suspects Coal Infrastructure Environmentalist Nuclear Power Environmental Impact

Author:Vinod Khosla

“The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.”

Thinking Way Stills Book Term Materials Computer Property Proportion Length

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I had more material on weather than anyone else, I guess, ... back when I was traveling a lot on the road as a standup comic, between airport security and the weather... I just wanted to be prepared for sitting in the airport.”

Humor Wanted Funny Security Materials Sitting Prepared Weather Comic Be Prepared Airports Back When Airport Security

Author:Lewis Black

“The forces that are driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.”

Wells Force Peace Natural Powerful Moral Mankind Materials Intellectual Unity Driving

Author:Arthur Henderson

“I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.”

Men Humor Funny Materials Stealing Accusing Funny Men

Author:Frank Carson

“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

“Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, "Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do.”

Knows Men Children Persons Term Cases Materials Perceive One Man Shaking Tricky Handy

Author:George Carlin

“It's very important to distinguish between what most people in the West think about knowledge, and what the Indian concept of knowledge is. In the West the knowledge is something that is tangible, is material, it is something that can be transferred easily, can be bought and sold; or as in India real knowledge is something that is a living being - is a Vidya.”

People Thinking Important Real Materials Concepts India West Indian Tangible Real Knowledge

Author:Robert Svoboda

“When you're in love with the work, the energy comes more naturally. You want to wake up in the morning to write more material, or to go on stage and give every shred of emotion you have.”

Want Giving Writing Energy Emotion Morning Stage Materials Goes On Wake Up

Author:Matthew Hussey

“I try to think up material that might apply to the subjects they are studying. How many mitochondria does it take to power a cell? One. Because mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Not ready for prime time, that one.”

Thinking Trying Doe Humor Might Funny Study Subjects Ready Materials Cells Prime Not Ready Prime Time Mitochondria

Book:Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

Source: Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True Stories

“Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.”

Way Looks Technology Environment Building Materials Significant Factors Enabling Raw Materials Significant Change

Author:Aaron Levie

“The nation as the horizon of an identity that you want to come into being as a fundamental absence of something that is compromised, something that needs to be rescued or made - these matters preoccupy the third world writer. It is seductive for a Marxist understanding of literary practice and production in the sense that it says that material culture determines literary output.”

World Want Needs Made Matter Culture Nations Understanding Practice Identity Materials Thirds Fundamentals Determine Productions Absence Horizon Third World Seductive Marxist Output

Author:Mark McMorris

“I argue that legal equality has failed resistance movements aimed at transforming material conditions of violence, and that trans activists should take a decidedly different approach.”

Should Different Violence Conditions Movement Materials Approach Arguing Resistance Activist Transforming Trans Different Approach

Author:Dean Spade

“Critical Race Theory offers a critique of how law and certain law reform strategies misunderstand the actual operation of life-shortening state violence, and how that has produced a set of reforms that fail to actually transform material conditions of white supremacy. These critiques redirect our attention to the conditions we aim to transform.”

States Law Certain White Race Attention Violence Failing Conditions Materials Theory Offers Aim Strategy Critical Reform Operations White Supremacy Critique Supremacy

Author:Dean Spade

“It is possible to learn more than your doctor knows, particularly in key areas that specifically apply to you. In fact, you may discover material that your doctor never saw, or did see and never investigated.”

Knows May Facts Saws Materials Keys Areas Doctors

Author:Andrew Saul

“You need to release yourself of any expectation of what that material should be. Just start letting it be what it's naturally evolving into, even if it means just pulling words out of the dictionary and laying them one after another. Words are everywhere.”

Ifs Needs Should Mean Materials Expectations Release Evolve Pulling Dictionary

Author:Antony Hegarty

“The creative process is just a process and you can't really separate it from life. Growing your hair is a creative process. Your body is creating hair. Being alive is a creative process. Whether it's growing something in the garden or growing a song, the material accumulates. It's the process of being alive; it's the passage of time. Things change.”

Body Song Process Creative Alive Growing Materials Hair Creating Garden Your Body Passages Creative Process Things Change Passage Of Time

Author:Antony Hegarty

“My creative process isn't a long one, so I could have started a song 10 years ago and then finish it 10 years later. It's all just about pushing around words and melodies, for me. The material is kind of shape-shifting.”

Years Kind Long Song Process Creative Materials Shapes Years Ago Pushing Melody Creative Process Shifting

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.”

Ifs Years Matter Reality Today Song Creative Materials Picks Years Ago Shells

Author:Antony Hegarty

“I often notice how students can gain the capacity to use certain critical methodologies through engaging with very different texts - how a graphic novel about gentrification and an anthology about Hurricane Katrina and a journalistic account of war profiteering might all lead to very similar classroom conversations and critical engagement. I'm particularly interested in this when teaching law students who often resist reading interdisciplinary materials or materials they interpret as too theoretical.”

“I strive to find materials that will engage students, expand their capacities as critical readers and thinkers, and feel immediately relevant to their daily lives and future work in court and social service systems.”

Feels Social Students Materials Reader Capacity Court Strive Critical Daily Life Thinker Relevant Social Service Future Work

Author:Dean Spade

“Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy.... the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.”

People Kind Young Black Economy Produce Materials Drug Gains Alternatives Black People

Author:Angela Davis

“I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.”

Ifs Writing Persons Book Might Able Reading Enjoy Materials Inspired Good Book

Author:Peg Kehret

“In liberal society we claim that freedom of speech is sacred and therefore has an absolute character. But we know (or should know) that "free speech" inhabits a structured space: not only is "hate speech" legally forbidden in liberal societies, but there are also laws protecting the circulation of copyrighted material, and the reproduction of trademarks and patents without explicit permission.”

“I just think that if you use materials that have an ability to communicate directly, you open up a channel and you can work through that. So you are using the power of materials.”

Ifs Thinking Use Ability Materials Communicate Ability To Communicate

Author:Marc Quinn

“You have a different relationship to your own personal material than you do to other people's. When you go to the bathroom, you're not horrified and shocked. But if you walked in and found someone one else had just been, you probably would be. Your own relationship to these things is slightly different.”

People Ifs Different Would Be Found Materials Shocked Bathroom Different Relationships Found Someone

Author:Marc Quinn

“As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.”

Imagination Ability Environment Materials Tools Species Wilderness My Imagination Our Environment

Author:James Arthur

“If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is no waste. The waste of one organism becomes food for another and everything's recycled in an ecological system whereas in our human built environment there's a throughput system. We use something then we throw it away... We have to imitate nature and try to re-use everything we make as human beings or recycle them - when we cannot re-use or recycle them we should try to reintegrate them back into the natural environment.”

Ifs Way Should Trying Humans Looks Use Used Natural Human Beings Environment Materials Waste Built Organisms Ecological Natural Environment Recycled Built Environment

Author:Ken Yeang

“Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."”

Source: Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

“My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.”

Way Long Stories Father Fiction Struggle Painting Materials Long Time Immigrants Poetry Is Right Way Eighteen Raw Materials

Author:Philip Schultz

“I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.”

Book Facts Stories Interest Fans Painting Materials Huge Scientist Raw Materials Science Books

Author:Dave McKean

“I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.”

World Believe Children Art Philosophy Dream Voice Materials Don't Believe Sake Celebrate Spite Sweetness Chaotic Raw Materials Outer Worlds

Author:Uwem Akpan

“The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're finding fertile material. Whether it's in a phrase like "going over like a lead balloon" or "a needle in a haystack," or tackling movie myths or even a genre, like MacGyver or James Bond, we're finding that all these things can lead to people believing the world works in a certain way. It might not be correct, but we can test out if it's true.”

People Ifs World Way Believe Might Certain Materials Findings Tests Myth Genre Phrases Theme Trends Episodes Needles Misconception Fertile Balloons Tackling Macgyver Needle In A Haystack

Author:Adam Savage

“My stuff is generally quite collage-y anyway. So it's sort-of suited to gathering raw materials like shooting actors, then making stills or animating characters, then just bringing them all together in a 3D space. That process is very close to my 2D work anyway.”

Stills Character Together Actors Stuff Process Space Materials Shooting Gathering Raw Materials Collages

Author:Dave McKean

“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.”

Thinking Doe Hands Jobs Environment Emotional Particular Materials Honor Musician Music Is Abstraction Imperatives Accommodate Lyrical Upper Hand

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.”

People Mean Film Artist Names Journey Poet Materials Discovery Starting Painter Novelists Discovering Sculptors Starting Out Artifacts

Author:Mike Leigh

“In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.”

Natural Effects Materials Resources Weak Prosperity Available Selfish Thirst Boundless Natural Resources Exclusion Misuse Disadvantaged Thirst For Power

Book:Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

Source: Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion

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