“There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers.” MenWellsChildrenBookStoriesNightInterestingBoysIssuesExampleLoversHusbandTraditionBraveWesternMalesCarefulArchitectureLikesTalesMediumsRangeFairyBe CarefulFairy TaleLoyalDevotedArabianArabian Nights Author:Marina Warner
“The model of the educational Kalila Wa-Dimna. These are books of instruction to rulers and humans. The stories unfold a range of human psychology, a vast range of human psychology. The Sultan is being moved from his narrow and bigoted position into a wider, more subtle, more nuanced understanding of human experiences.” HumansBookStoriesUnderstandingPsychologyPositionModelsMovedEducationalRangeSubtleInstructionRulersHuman Experience Author:Marina Warner
“I have very good advice to give to kids this age, which is, you shouldn't listen to your mum or dad and you just have to work it out for yourself. And the reason I've taken the age range down this year, and I never would have done it 10 years ago, is what I've seen with the success of Willow Smith. You don't have to be so cutesy anymore.” GivingYearsReasonDoneKidsAgeTakenAdviceDadYears AgoVery GoodRangeWorking ItMumGood AdviceYour Mum Author:Simon Cowell
“There are two basic defenses for an open ending: one is, If you read carefully enough, you'll know what happened. And the other is, That's how life is: things don't come to neat endings, there isn't a "happily ever after." But if you take that second line of defense, then I think you have to make the point that the writer has shown the range of possibility.” IfsThinkingKnowsTwoEnoughLife IsLinesHappenedPossibilityDefenseRangeNeatHappily Ever AfterEver After Author:Lorin Stein
“I was out on the shooting range twice a week [for Skyfall]. I worked out with a personal trainer for two hours a day, five days a week. So, it was quite demanding!” TwoHoursFiveWeekShootingRangeTrainersSkyfallShooting Range Author:Naomie Harris
“Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.” WayBelieveLongHas BeensFoundAttentionNew YorkAreasPaidSpeciesRangeIslandsTigersAsianVirusesTransmitMosquitoesConnecticutLong IslandCoastalMetro Author:Laura Harrington
“Olympus has been a much welcomed return to my Shakespearean roots. King Aegeus demanded a much greater range and depth that I've yet had the opportunity to tap on camera. Lab Rats was a wonderful opportunity for me to just go be a goofy buffoon, which I love. It was exhilarating to listen to all the funny lines the writers would come up with on the spot and then get to play them immediately.” Has BeensPlayOpportunityLinesGreaterWonderfulReturnKingsRootsCamerasDepthCome UpSpotsRangeRatsLabsExhilaratingGoofyOlympusBuffoons Author:Graham Shiels
“I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago.” ThinkingYearsDifferentOpportunityIndividualVoiceLevelsIssuesDangerousYears AgoExcitingRangeMultitudesDifferent Levels Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?” WayMayWarWholeRealityCan DoEmotionGreaterDegreesNotionNuclearRangeDiscussionWhy NotRobotsNuclear WarRange Of Emotions Author:Neill Blomkamp
“I mean to me, the harpsichord has a huge dynamic range. And I always say to people, come and listen to it. You know, come and listen. Come and actually experience this and realize there's good harpsichord playing, there's bad harpsichord playing. By the way, I am fun outside of this context.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanFunRealizingHugeRange Author:Mahan Esfahani
“One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations on "Le Folie." You'll definitely hear - I mean, I think if we listen to, say, the last couple of minutes of that track, there's a wide range of colors that the harpsichord is capable of. And I think, you know, that gives lie to the assumption that it doesn't have that kind of variety. And I think it very much speaks for itself.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayGivingKindMeanLastsLyingSpeakMinutesColorSonCoupleCapableTrackWideVarietyRangeAssumptionVariation Author:Mahan Esfahani
“I love losing myself in the extremes of a range of characters.” CharacterLosingExtremesRangeLosing Myself Author:Kyle Cassie
“If you just work on your upper body, you're not going to be a full-range dancer or performer. You've got to work in all directions as much as you possibly can.” IfsBodyRangeDancerPerformers Author:Karen Allen
“I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences.” WayDifferentUseResultsNumbersConceptsNotionEverydayRangeInference Author:David Papineau
“It would be kind of ill to see Rachel McAdams win an Oscar [for Spotlight] - I don't think people give her credit for her range, she started in a kind of character with younger demographic-aged films and really made a push to be taken more seriously and got a lot of opportunities and knocked it out the park. But I feel like Jennifer Jason Leigh deserves one, maybe not just for Hateful Eight but for [Anomalisa] and everything. Like, I tried to watch Adaption again, that's rough!” PeopleThinkingGivingFeelsKindMadeCharacterWould BeFilmOpportunityWinningWatchesTakenDeserveIllEightCreditRangeParksRoughBe KindOscarsHatefulJasonSpotlightDemographicsJennifer Author:Bun B
“The class focuses intensely on making people more comfortable with doing a wider range of things - such as networking, self-promotion, building their own personal brand, cleverly acquiring resources, getting known - that they may have been less comfortable with before.” PeopleMayHas BeensSelfKnownClassBuildingComfortableResourcesBrandsRangePromotionNetworkingSelf Promotion Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“All of Robert Caro's biographies are exceptional, in part because of Caro's fundamental ambivalence about power. He sees its necessity and use for getting things done, even as he is often repelled by watching power at close range. His masterpiece on Robert Moses, The Power Broker, describes the evolution of Moses from idealist to pragmatist as he became one of the most powerful figures in the 20th century.” DoneUsePowerfulCenturyFiguresEvolutionFundamentalsRangeMost PowerfulBiographies20th CenturyMasterpieceExceptionalMosesThings DoneIdealistGetting Things DoneAmbivalenceBrokersPragmatists Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer
“The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.” ThinkingDoeSeemsPrinciplesHugeMajorityPropertyIncludingPhilosopherRange Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“I was occupied by a range of questions, often different from those fashionable in the professional philosophy of the past half century, that have sometimes troubled philosophers in the past. It's taken me several decades to work out my own philosophical agenda, and it is wide.” DifferentSometimesPhilosophyPastMy OwnHalfTakenCenturyPhilosophicalPhilosopherWork OutWideDecadesRangeAgendasFashionable Author:Philip Kitcher
“My dad used to take my younger sister Whitney and I to the firing range, and he'd stand behind us as we shot. We were tiny, tiny girls, only about ten years old at the time, so the recoil when we pulled the trigger would send us flying backwards. But he'd stand behind us and make sure we were safe.” YearsUsedGirlBehindsDadTenSafeShotsMy DadTinyFlyingRangeBackwardsTriggersFiringWhitneyRecoilYounger Sister Author:Amber Heard
“I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.” ShouldFilmStuffWaterStrangeBandShould HaveWideNoiseRangeCartoonClassical MusicPeanutsStuff I Like Author:Brian Pinkerton
“I love the lower ranges of my new voice. I really enjoy that. It's a challenge, and I accept the challenge. I sort of enjoy it now to reach notes that maybe four years ago I couldn't reach. I don't mean to grumble about it. I'm past that critical period and have gone on to a whole new field. And we go everywhere. We travel around the world, and I learn songs from every place we go, and it's a joyful process.” WorldYearsMeanWholePastSongProcessEnjoyVoiceChallengesAcceptingGoneFourFieldsPeriodsYears AgoNotesCriticalAround The WorldRangeFour YearsJoyful Author:Joan Baez
“I grew up in New York and I've always lived here, so I look at myself as a regular person. When somebody recognizes me from the film - and it can be a wide range of people, which shows the power of film - I feel like they're talking about someone else we both know. I just find it hard to believe that anyone would stop me to share how much they loved something that I was a part of.” PeopleKnowsFeelsBelieveLooksPersonsHardShowsFilmTalkingShareNew YorkGrewGrew UpWideRangeHard To BelieveTalking About Someone Author:Adepero Oduye
“My tastes range all over the place, from vocal standards to Motown to 70s funk & soul to 80s pop to film scores to artists like R.E.M., Ben Folds, Prince, Annie Lennox, the Police, Elvis Costello, Cat Stevens, the Ditty Bops, local bands that friends of mine are in, and the list goes on... I have no single favorite genre or artist.” SoulFilmArtistMinesGoes OnTasteBandStandardsCatPolicePopsListsLocalsGenreRangeScore80sVocalFoldsFunkAnnieMotownBopsFilm Scores Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“When I decided to pursue a career as a Muppet Performer when I was in college, it was my hope to be able to play a wide range of Muppet characters in all areas and genres of television and film.” PlayCharacterAbleFilmCareersTelevisionCollegeAreasDecidedWidePursueGenreRangePerformersMuppet Author:Stephanie D'Abruzzo
“If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.” IfsWritingI CanFeelingsBitsRangeAssured Author:Anna Meredith
“The French were always masters at mid-range. And I like the attitude.” AttitudeMastersRange Author:Kevin Shields
“With a four-string, the middle range is less of an option. That kind of 5th that you play on those A and D strings isn't there. So a lot of traditional rock sounds, you can't play them. But to be honest, there was no particular intention when I started playing with four strings. It just worked out that way and it sounded cool.” WayKindPlaySoundFourMiddleRocksHonestParticularIntentionTraditionalBeing HonestRangeStrings Author:Bill Orcutt
“The term "black metal" has become a lot looser, or can include a larger range of sounds and extra-musical aesthetics, not just Satan and power chords.” SoundBlackTermMusicalRangeSatanExtrasMetalsChordsAestheticsBlack Metal Author:Colin Marston
“The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.” EndsPlayerHarderAbsenceFasterRangeBassBass Players Author:Mark Lanegan
“I'm looking for anything interesting in the guitar playing, songwriting, artwork, and production. If you look at the stack of CDs on my desk and in my car, you'll find a very wide range of music under the umbrella of metal.” IfsLooksInterestingCarGuitarProductionsWideRangeSongwritingMetalsDesksCdsArtworkUmbrellaGuitar Playing Author:David Pajo
“I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.” WishRangeDipTenorsBaritones Author:Colin Meloy
“The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."” ThinkingKnowsWaySaidEnoughWould BeSoundSawsPiecesProudUniversityYesterdayRangeSixtyTiresome Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.” SoulPoetAppealsRangeStakes Author:Christian Wiman
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu.” KnowsMayPossibilityRangeVirusesFlu Author:Carl Zimmer
“I row for about 40-45 minutes every morning and put in my iPod and it's a huge range. That's when I listen to either things that I just love and know very well and just want to pay attention, it's also where I listen to things that are new that I want to get to know.” KnowsWantWellsPayAttentionMorningMinutesHugePay AttentionRangeEvery MorningIpods Author:Tod Machover
“Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.” PoetReaderInsightRangeNegotiation Author:Edward Hirsch
“You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.” PeopleKnowsHeartKindEarthCertainSoundBlackSunPlanetsHolesNoiseRangeFlatsSpheresFrequencySolar SystemMagneticBlack HoleInterstellar Author:DJ Spooky
“Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.” WorldWayWholeUsedHateTurnsLossEventsGainsAnd LoveWhole WorldRangeGrievingTaoismRejoiceBindingEntanglement Author:Zicheng Hong
“The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.” LongStoriesFormGoalFocusPiecesEconomicMediaProduceNewsIncludingVideoJournalismVarietyPostsRangeFundBroadsInvestigationStaffReportersAudioContractionsNews StoriesBreaking NewsInvestigative Journalism Author:Arianna Huffington
“There are people who are originals and the stuff they make really is new. It isn't based on anything else. But I've decided I'm not that-I was never that. My abilities are to synthesize a wide range of references and ideas into something that feels relatively unified and coherent.” PeopleFeelsIdeasStuffAbilityDecidedOriginalsWideRangeUnified Author:Steven Soderbergh
“There seems to be for a long time now a range of issues that the Australian people want to talk about, but for some reason politicians of various shapes and stripes have decided they don't want to talk about.” PeopleWantLongReasonSeemsIssuesPoliticianShapesLong TimeDecidedVariousRangeAustralianStripes Author:Cory Bernardi
“We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that’s exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it’s awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.” PeopleIfsWellsGreaterAwarenessPossibilityAwakeningRangeFrequencyNarrow-minded Author:David Icke
“When I look back on my life-and an extraordinary transformation is happening again to me right now - I describe it as my “point of observation” is moving. It is moving because my range of frequencies I am accessing is becoming greater. It’s not because I’m something special because anyone can do it.” LooksMovingCan DoGreaterSpecialBecomingRight NowHappeningsTransformationExtraordinaryObservationRangeFrequencySomething SpecialHappening Again Author:David Icke
“Whether I was a character in WCW, WWE or The Longest Yard, you want to be able to - the best part about myself is that I have a very wide range of emotions in that one second I can be speaking on Capital Hill about dog fighting and giving them a voice, which they can't obviously speak for themselves.” WantGivingI CanCharacterAbleFightingSpeakVoiceEmotionDogWideHillsRangeWweYardsRange Of EmotionsWcw Author:Bill Goldberg
“I want to be a hybrid fighter. From Pacquiao I was able to learn that a big heart is also essential when in the ring. Get his stamina, never lose steam from the beginning of the fight until the very last round. From Mayweather, yes, you are correct that I am learning to be precise, patient and the change of range. It makes me an unpredictable fighter. Opponents will be confused as to what element I'll use when fighting.” WantHeartUseBigsAbleLastsFightingLosesEssentialsElementsPatientRoundsRingsFighterRangeOpponentsConfusedPreciseUnpredictableSteamStaminaHybridBig HeartMayweatherPacquiao Author:Tomoki Kameda
“Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.” IdeasCountryDoneRealityNationsPowerfulEconomyPossibilityKeysCitizensSolutionsRecoveryRangeDigitalPrizeAccountabilityVillageControlledAdaptingGrassrootsRwandaFree CountryHomegrown Author:Paul Kagame
“In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.” FeelsWellsFactsPainJoyAnimalEmotionSadnessLonelinessFieldsEmotionalAnxietyCapableConsciousTestsMachinesIntelligentLongingSurpriseIncludingWideConclusionObservationRangeReliefContentmentPanicEmbarrassmentLaboratoryPhysical PainContentment And PeaceRange Of Emotions Author:Sharon Gannon
“I decided at the outset to invest in a fairly broad range of businesses, as I didn't want to get pigeonholed into one sector.” WantDecidedRangeBroads Author:Andy Murray