Quotes with material

  • 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
  • Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
  • The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
  • The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
  • A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
  • The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.
  • Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
  • One of the things that's great about doing a show over and over again... is that you have to find ways to make it spontaneous, as though everything is happening for the first time... to continue to mine the material and find new things.
  • Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question ''Have we anything to eat?'' will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Susan Sontag Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Ben Shapiro 'The Butler' has virtually nothing in common with its source material, the life of White House butler Gene Allen, except for the fact that the main character of the film and Allen were both black butlers in the White House.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Bo Burnham 'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material into an hour as I possibly could word count-wise.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...controls on behavior shift from the intermediate levels of human experience (social, emotional and religious) to the lower (military and political) or to the upper (ideological). They become the externalized controls of a mature society: weapons, bureaucracies, material rewards, or ideology.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Adam Sedgwick A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Ian McEwan A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.
    Atonement (2001)
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Les Brown Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon All nuclear material in weapons programmes must be subject one day to binding international verification.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley Another aspect of the nineteenth century propaganda system is the increasing emphasis upon material desires.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Agnes Martin Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
    Agnes Martin
    Canadian-born American abstract painter (1912 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • T. S. Eliot Art never improves, but the material of art is never quite the same.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Atom Egoyan As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Sri Sarada Devi As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
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  • Ben Folds But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you that's the center of it, that is it. It's almost like there's something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if you're a songwriter that sings your material.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Bruno Dumont Cinema is made to film material: the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.
    Bruno Dumont
    French film director and screenwriter (1958 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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