Quotes with raw-material

Quotes 41 till 60 of 164.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I firmly believe that if the whole material medical could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind, and all the worse for the sea.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bruce Nauman I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that - out of a raw need for activity.
    Bruce Nauman
    American artist (1941 - )
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  • Bryan Fuller I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Peggy Noonan I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Sylvia Plath I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Ann Veneman I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the material that would cause concern in terms of human health. And therefore we're confident in the safety of the food supply.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Ben Affleck I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bruno Mars I've definitely seen bands before they made money kind of change their thing on the next tour, and I prefer it when it's a little more raw.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • B. C. Forbes Ideas are the raw material of progress. Everything first takes shape in the form of an idea. But an idea by itself is worth nothing. An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Winston Churchill If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Orson Welles If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • George Orwell 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?
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carl Hiaasen If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Carl Honore In a world where so much happens through computer screens, making a meal by hand, touching the raw materials, feeling your way through a recipe, tasting, adjusting, engaging all the senses, can be a soothing release.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Lionel Trilling In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Bell Hooks Indeed much of the literature written about black folks in the post-civil rights era emphasized the need for jobs. Material advancement was deemed the pressing agenda. Mental health concerns were not a high priority. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Adolf Loos It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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