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“"Straight Edge" was a song about my life. There was no structure, no premise as if I was forming a club. There were no tenets. I mean I wrote a song called "Straight Edge," I'll take that, but the song was about my life the way I wanted to live it.”

Ifs Way Mean Wanted Song Structure Edges Clubs Premises Straight Edge

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.”

People Wells Issues Violence Structure Ill

Author:Ian MacKaye

“I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Littles Certain Names Lines Figures Design Involved Structure Pops Drawing Rhythm Plot Clue Distinctive Narrators

Author:Louise Erdrich

“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.”

Thinking Young Girl Loses Modern Example Built India Structure Exclusion American Society Scientific Knowledge

Author:Vandana Shiva

“If I had to bring the whole conspiracy in all its forms into one area, it would be to manipulate people into left-brain reality. That’s the key. Once they are in left-brain reality-it’s the area that decodes everything as apart, everything in terms of individuals, structure and language, rationality as we call it. Then you are parking them in the droplet. The left brain is great if it’s used to translate higher awareness into a form that we can work with here.”

People Ifs Whole Reality Would Be Form Used Individual Left Language Term Brain Awareness Keys Higher Areas Structure Conspiracy Translate Rationality Manipulate Parking Left Brain Droplets

Author:David Icke

“What people need to see is this openness, not this church that is so built on structure and religious order that you can't be free and worship God and have a good time because we're so caught up in condemnation, 'I can't say this I can't wear this I can't do this because of this perception of what a Christian is and is not'. It's not about that. God says 'come as you are'.”

People Needs I Can Christian Order Church Religious Perception Worship Built Structure Caught Good Times Openness Caught Up Having A Good Time Condemnation Worship God

Author:Robert Hood

“The casting of any film is around 60% of the film, but it's also about the right casting insight. It's a bit like a house of cards, everyone has to match up in a certain way so the whole structure is grounded. So that's essential, and yes, it's about finding the right people and the right constellation around the lead character.”

People Way Whole Character Film Certain House Bits Essentials Findings Structure Insight Cards Grounded Casting Constellations House Of Cards Lead Characters

Author:Nicolas Winding Refn

“I'm sure that if we had enough sophistication, someone could look at what my changes in brain structure were as I came to feel more deeply in love.”

Ifs Feels Looks Enough Brain Structure Had Enough Sophistication Deeply In Love

Author:Andrew Solomon

“Fast food also has a uniquely difficult business structure for workers to achieve better wages and working conditions.”

Difficult Achieve Conditions Structure Workers Wages Fast Food Working Conditions

Author:David Rolf

“There isn't a grand plan at work in the progression of the books with respect to the line. I do want the books to be different from each other, certainly, but I'm more aware of that on the level of theme or structure. I can tell when I'm writing the last of a particular type of poem because the writing is too easy and I start to feel queasy.”

Want Feels Writing I Can Book Different Lasts Easy Lines Levels Plans Particular Type Structure Theme Progression

Author:Matthea Harvey

“I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.”

Structure Boundaries Narrative

Author:Matthea Harvey

“Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.”

Thinking Way Looks Two Whole Political Levels Healing Influence Citizens Vote Structure Currents Deeper Two Things New Ways Flawed Political Systems

Author:Marianne Williamson

“Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.”

Ifs Wells Country Care Training Structure Take Care Aids Superfluous Foreign Aid

Author:Paul Kagame

“Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.”

People Want Social Hurt Husband Structure Significant Upset Social Structure

Author:Erica Jong

“Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.”

Play Actors Structure Musical Editing Sequence Adjustment

Author:Jeff Britting

“I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.”

Mistake Opinion Class Tasks Responsible Institutions Structure Making Mistakes Monarchy Obsolete

Author:Malcolm Muggeridge

“The Democratic Party structure is keenly aware of who makes our party strong.”

Strong Party Structure Democratic Democratic Party

Author:Leah D. Daughtry

“The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.”

Trying Looks Has Beens Used Culture President Taxes Structure Barack Corporate President Barack Obama Corporate Culture Loopholes Rigged

Author:Joe Biden

“In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.”

Has Beens Body Past Three Energy Process Information Objects Revolution Flow Structure Constant Decades Perceive

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Practicing yoga is a constant evolution. The Ashtanga system can appear very rigid, with its predetermined sequences, but actually there's great freedom within its structure. From the repetition, we learn to find depth in the minutiae of the actions and the wonder of breath and prana.”

Action Wonder Evolution Yoga Breaths Structure Constant Depth Repetition Sequence Predetermined Great Freedom Minutiae Prana

Author:David F. Swensen

“If we start with chimpanzees, they differ from us with the composition of the DNA by only just over one percent. So, as far as genetics go, we're almost identical. The composition of the blood, the immune system, the structure of the brain - almost identical.”

Ifs Brain Blood Percent Structure Composition Dna Identical Immune Genetics Immune System Chimpanzees

Author:Jane Goodall

“I read Mailer's Ancient Evenings with great interest because I was interested in . . . the seven souls structure, which was very helpful to me in Western Lands. And also in Place of Dead Roads. So that's Mailer.”

Soul Interest Land Structure Western Seven Ancient Evening Helpful

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I've never taken any classes or had formal training in writing novels. At its most basic, I learned how to structure a novel.”

Writing Class Novel Taken Training Structure Formal

Author:Dennis Green

“I thought in my Nobel Lecture I pointed that I was delighted that the Swedish Academy of Science did not quote anything about my current work right now, because the current work that my group is focusing on is actually both the time resolve electrons and possibly x-rays to be able to get the architecture of these molecules, the molecular structures themselves, of very complex biological systems. That's the ultimate goal.”

Able Goal Groups Right Now Ultimate Structure Complexes Currents Architecture Resolve Rays Lectures Academy Delighted Nobel Molecules Ultimate Goal Electrons Swedish

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“Some people say What's the use of the term if it has to be so fully documented and constrained and footnoted and all the rest. My response to that is: there is no theological word that does not have to be similarly footnoted and constrained: justification, spirit, sanctification etc. Any term can be distorted or domesticated or fly off the handle because of another alien philosophical structure that's imposed on the text and so on. Inerrancy is no different from what we find in every other theologically loaded word.”

People Ifs Doe Different Use Spirit Term Philosophical Structure Response Handle Aliens Etc Justification Loaded Theological Sanctification

Author:D. A. Carson

“I think it's very important to remember that so much of the work that gets done between countries is not done at the level of presidents, but is done within various agencies, whether it's law enforcement or economic ministries. And when they establish relationships and systems of communications and shared projects and shared visions, those structures continue even after any particular president is gone. It builds trust and understanding between countries that are critically important.”

“Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.”

Feels Art Structure Works Of Art Gowns Chic

Author:Mindy Kaling

“My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came up with, which set the world alight and continues to inspire others like Snowden [NSA leaker Edward Snowden], about the secret goings-on that are done in our name with our tax dollars on behalf of big business or politics. He launched the revolutionary idea that citizens can start to claim back a paradigm for questioning power structures and those in authority through an anonymous, whistle-blowing website.”

“That diversity of production styles and diversity of lyrical structure - I miss that.”

Missing Style Diversity Structure Productions Lyrical

Author:Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five

“Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.”

Said Book Actors Asks Answers Projects Draws Structure My Favorite Productions Filmmaking Hiring Favorite Book

Author:Mike Birbiglia

“I think the reasons for not selecting persons like the Reverend Borders and John Wesley Dobbs were, in my book rather obvious reasons: because they were people who were basically oriented in the direction of the established method of not confronting the power structure, but trying to elicit concessions by various and sundry means of, well, let's call it accommodating leadership.”

People Thinking Trying Wells Mean Persons Book Reason Method Structure Obvious Various Borders Confronting Concessions Reverends

Author:Ella Baker

“Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.”

Years Made Philosophy Care Action Force Challenges Sleep Numbers Effort Source Paper Mass Originals Structure Brotherhood Papers Boycott Montgomery

Author:Ella Baker

“I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.”

“We are built on a structure of the freedom of religion and the non-establishment of religion. That really is a pretty sturdy rudder for the U.S.”

Built Structure Establishment Freedom Of Religion Sturdy Rudders

Author:Diana L. Eck

“As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not the kind where people use composite characters and invented quotes. I hate that kind of nonfiction. But imaginative in the sense that good writing and unexpected structure and vivid reporting could be combined with presenting facts.”

People Writing Kind Character Facts Use Hate Holy I Hate Structure Unexpected Cows Nonfiction Imaginative Vivid Presenting Good Writing Composites

Author:David Quammen

“As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.”

Needs Teaching Resources Increase Structure Complexes Formal Teaching And Learning

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“In my opinion, provision of military support to illegal structures runs counter to the principles of modern international law and the United Nations Charter.”

Running Law Nations United Opinion Principles Support Modern Military Structure International Illegal United Nations Provision Charter International Law

Author:Vladimir Putin

“One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.”

Matter States Law Clear One Thing Influence Materials No Matter What Structure Various

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I really don't know enough about the structure of fiction.”

Knows Enough Fiction Structure

Author:Conrad Aiken

“I do think, or rather I sense that there is a relationship - at least in my own work - between a dramatic structure, the form and sound and shape of a play, and the equivalent structure in music. Both deal with sound, of course, and also with idea, theme.”

Thinking Ideas Play Form Courses Sound My Own Deals Shapes Structure Dramatic Theme

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I know playwrights who like to kid themselves into saying that their characters are so well formed that they just take over. They determine the structure of the play. By which is meant, I suspect, only that the unconscious mind has done its work so thoroughly that the play just has to be filtered through the conscious mind. But there's work to be done - and discovery to be made.”

Knows Mind Wells Made Done Play Character Kids Conscious Discovery Structure Determine Unconscious Suspects Playwright Unconscious Mind Conscious Mind Work To Be Done

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“Wherever man has left the stamp of mind on brute-matter; whether we designate his work as structure, texture, or mixture, mechanical or chymical; whether the result be a house, a ship, a garment, a piece of glass, or a metallic implement, these memorials of economy and invention will always be worthy of the attention of the Archaeologist.”

Source: Essays on Art and Archaeology

“Today, financial capital is no longer the key asset. It is human capital. Success is no longer about economic competence as the main leverage. It is about emotional intelligence. It is no longer about controls. It is about collaboration. It is no longer about hierarchies. It is about leading through networks. It is no longer about aligning people through structures and spreadsheets. It is about aligning them through meaning and purpose. It is no longer about developing followers. It is about developing leaders.”

People Humans Motivational Today Purpose Leader Economic Emotional Keys Structure Financial Developing Assets Followers Collaboration Emotional Intelligence Hierarchy Competence

Author:Darren Hardy

“The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological structure which maintains that woman is made for the possession of man in a sense in which man is not made for woman, and that celibacy, per se, is a state of superior purity. Nature and common sense (not metaphysical sense) demonstrate that there is no good reason why any man or any woman should take, claim, or wield "lordship" over another.”

“In Canada, we have a very good structure of supporting film through a number of government-sponsored initiatives, such as the tax credit and other grants. The northern part of Ontario has started its own funding. They were really happy to sponsor us, so they've been very supportive and put up half the budget for this film. They'd like us to come back and do more films.”

Government Film Numbers Half Taxes Structure Very Good Credit Budgets Canada Grants Initiative Supportive Funding Really Happy Sponsors Ontario

Author:Alfons Adetuyi

“If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.”

Ifs Mean Doe Function Structure

Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.”

Humans Matter Order Growth Activity Structure Quests Distinguished Human Activity

Author:Josef Muller-Brockmann

“I applied [to film school] figuring, "I need to find some structure for myself. I need to find a way to figure out what kind of filmmaker I want to be." And that is what film school provides you with. It'll teach you the basics of how a production works and the technical side of how to put everything together, but you could also learn that by working on film sets.”

Way Want Needs Kind School Together Film Sides Teach Figures Structure Productions Filmmaker Basics Film School Film Set

Author:Meera Menon

“I no longer need to have what I see as the surface of the dance so connected to the underlying structure.”

Needs Structure Connected Surface

Author:Lucinda Childs

“One of the qualities of writing that is not much stressed is its problem-solving aspect, having to do with the presentation of material: how to structure it, what sort of sentences (direct, elliptical, simple or compound, syntactically elaborate), what tone (in art, "tone" is everything), pacing. Paragraphing is a way of dramatization, as the look of a poem on a page is dramatic; where to break lines, where to end sentences.”

Way Writing Looks Art Ends Problem Lines Simple Quality Break Materials Pages Aspect Direct Structure Sentences Dramatic Tone Problem Solving Presentation Stressed Compounds Pacing

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

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