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“Vision is seeing visibly the light of hope within the range of the eyesight.”

Author:Anuj

“I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.”

Thinking Kind Film Changed Species Range Dramatic Endangered Species Endangered Species Act

Author:Christopher Hampton

“But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nation’s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source: Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

“The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.”

People Kind Audience Wide Range

Author:Haley Reinhart

“I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, 'I think you try too hard in your comedy.' And that's what I worry about.”

People Thinking Trying Different Sometimes Hard Worry Comedy Areas Compare Range Multiple

Author:Bo Burnham

“Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gathering, filtering and distributing news.”

People Social Media News Social Media Thanks Range Gathering

Author:Lionel Barber

“Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our soul. We heal ourselves on the mental level as we become aware of our core beliefs, release those that limit us, and open to more supportive ideas and greater understanding. Emotional healing takes place as we learn to accept and experience the full range of our feelings. And we heal ourselves on the physical level when we learn to honor and care for our bodies, and for the physical world around us.”

Source: Creating True Prosperity

“Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.”

Years Done Age Military Males Range Combat Foolishness

Author:Russell Baker

“All inner resistance is experienced as negativity in one form or another. All negativity is resistance. In this context, the two words are almost synonymous. Negativity ranges from irritation or impatience to fierce anger, from a depressed mood or sullen resentment to suicidal despair. Sometimes the resistance triggers the emotional pain body”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.”

World Humans Real Jobs Human Beings Range Real World Attributes Presidency

Author:James Fallows

“The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it.”

People Giving Humans Facts Actors Understanding Behavior Wide Range Contribution Human Behavior Clue Positive Things

Author:Grace Zabriskie

“Well, the first and only time I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again. But I know a lot about guns, so I go to the gun range and stuff like that with friends sometimes.”

Knows Firsts Wells Sometimes Stuff Gun Shots Range Hunting Only Time Deer

Author:Channing Tatum

“In this age of specialization, I sometimes think of myself as the last 'generalist' in economics, with interests that range from mathematical economics down to current financial journalism. My real interests are research and teaching.”

Thinking Real Sometimes Age Lasts Interest Teaching Research Economics Financial Currents Journalism Mathematical Legacy Range Specialization Generalists

Author:Paul Samuelson

“The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended.”

Stills Poor Laughing Creatures Atheist Creator Wit Range Features Preaching Offended Cant Deities Profane

Author:Robert Burns

“I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.”

Firsts Car Golf Speed Miles Range Electric Horns Carts Electric Car Mph Golf Carts

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“In a small company, you often see a lot more of what goes on in a broader range of things. And that's good.”

Company Goes On Range

Author:Vinton Cerf

“The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.”

Long Eye Asks Challenges Leadership Lines Views Leader Accepting Perspective Bottom Managers Range His Eyes Horizon Status Quo Bottom Line Leadership Vs Management

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.”

Political Lines Mountain South East Miles Range Forty Frontiers Seattle Cascade

Author:Jonathan Raban

“Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.”

Prayer Effort Range Working It Substitutes Efficient

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“You should definitely visit the Louvre, a world-famous art museum where you can view, at close range, the backs of thousands of other tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa.”

World Should Trying Art Funny Views Humorous France Range Museums Tourists Mona Lisa Louvre World Famous

Book:Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

Source: Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need

“Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture but the electronification of the entire range of human personal expressiveness. With electronification the flow is taken out of the wire and into the vacuum tube circuit, which confers freedom and flexibility such as are in metaphor and in words themselves.”

Humans Taken Media Tvs Speech Flow Metaphor Radio Range Gestures Flexibility Wire Vacuums Tubes Circuits Mechanization

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.”

“Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.”

Men Writing Persons Book Fiction He Man Claims Missions Range Stakes

Author:Rachel Kushner

“We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.”

Men Inspirational Problem Education Knowing Range Threshold

Author:Jerome Bruner

“It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.”

Whole Interest Study Objects Range Perceive Contribution Evident Linguistics Linguists

Author:Ferdinand de Saussure

“I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.”

May Causes Accepting Species Range Extinction Explaining

Author:Asa Gray

“It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?”

Ifs Should Whole Problem Form Culture Easy Diversity Sells Unity Range

Author:Terry Eagleton

“The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.”

Humans Choices Individual Degrees Chosen Factors Range Human Freedom

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.”

People Ifs Audience Perspective Discipline Crosses Make Sense Range Compelling Topics

Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a contribution to public space, and they stick their necks out to do it.”

Want Use Space Fields Areas Sticks Range Contribution Necks Comment Expertise

Author:Susie Orbach

“At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length of the ballad stanza, the verse of a hymn, and innumerable other kinds of verse.”

Kind Whole Form Lines Practice Four Familiar Range Length Poetic Verses Hymns Ballads

Author:James Fenton

“If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.”

People Ifs Littles Made Real Character Hands Might Easy Numbers Talking Months Radio Complicated Enormous Range Puppets Generalities Little Hands

Author:Jim Henson

“When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.”

Men Whole Young Range Young Man Possessing Tenors Baritones

Author:Placido Domingo

“I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.”

Want Whole Light Comedy Drama Range

Author:Bobby Darin

“I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.”

Feels Littles Monsters Mess Range Mess With Me Range Rover

Author:Emma Bunton

“I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I want to be able to recall experiences that have endured for their pleasure and range and intensity.”

Want Writing Firsts Made Book Country Able Film Fighting Pleasure Novel Campaigns Range Intensity Recalls

Author:Alastair Campbell

“Today, there are more opportunities for writers in terms of access to larger success, but it's more difficult to publish a literary novel in the lower ranges. In other words, you almost have to hit a home run. You can hit a triple, maybe, but nobody's interested in a single.”

Writing Home Running Today Opportunity Difficult Term Novel Access Range Publish Home Run

Author:James Lee Burke

“I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.”

Interest Range Broads

Author:Ben Casnocha

“We cover hamburgers, chicken, veggie burgers, salads, we've got a pretty broad range. To me, McDonald's isn't only about the food. It's about the prices, it's about the way we eat.”

Way Range Chickens Broads Salad Mcdonalds Hamburgers Burgers

Author:Jim Cantalupo

“Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.”

Art Whole Hands Magic Influence Figures Fool Enormous Range Magician Sleight Of Hand

Author:Ricky Jay

“I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Range Meat Occupation Hunting Hunts Redneck Rifles Yuppies

Author:Sarah Wayne Callies

“I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.”

Artist Growing Range Expanding

Author:Sarah Wayne Callies

“I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.”

Want Kind Done Play Character Turns Actors Left Acting Careers Wide Endless All Kinds Range Awake Variation

Author:Tim Curry

“Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.”

Needs Should Stills Today Form Choices Greater Competition Including Access Scales Mediums Finance Range Diverse Lending

Author:Vince Cable

“I can make the argument that people who don't have the biggest ranges but have very unique voices, even if they may be pitchy at times... with the right record that's really unique and distinct, they can have big hits.”

People Ifs May I Can Bigs Voice Records Unique Argument Range Unique Voices

Author:Kara DioGuardi

“I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.”

Taste Musical Wide Range Musical Taste

Author:Lee DeWyze

“Often, the idea that there can be a wide range of translations of one text doesn't occur to people - or that a translation could be bad, very bad, and unfaithful to the original.”

People Ideas Originals Wide Range Translations Unfaithful

Author:Lydia Davis

“To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.”

Should Teacher Teaching Students Paid Starting Range Earning Salary Caliber

Author:Arne Duncan

“It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do is play a wide range of characters - or it's just what I like to do, I should say. I like to try to be as different as I can from one thing to the next.”

Thinking Should Trying Kind I Can Different Philosophy Play Whole Character Next Actors One Thing Wide Range

Author:Garret Dillahunt

“I have experienced a murderer among my friends. Many, many years ago. At close range I have seen the impact of it. I knew the victim, I went to the funeral, I have been to the house, to the specific room where the killing took place, and I was stunned by it. It's such a blow.”

Years Has Beens House Rooms My Friends Years Ago Victim Impact Killing Blow Range Funeral Murderer Stunned

Author:Karin Fossum

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