Commentary Quotes - Page 8

• The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.

  Michel Foucault

  Book, Reality, Imagination

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.106, The New Press

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• God has spoken, and everything else is commentary.

  Rob Bell

  Rob Bell (2013). “The Complete Rob Bell: His Seven Bestselling Books, All in One Place”, p.28, HarperCollins UK

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• Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.

  Bernard Haisch

  Cutting, Examination, Information

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• A traditional fixture at Wimbledon is the way the BBC TV commentary box fills up with British players eliminated in the early rounds.

  Clive James

  Player, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and magazines, and with the new technology you can watch entire movies accompanied by audio commentary from the director. You can learn more from John Sturges' audio track on the 'Bad Day at Black Rock' laserdisc than you can in 20 years of film school. Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

  Paul Thomas Anderson

  Book, School, Bad Day

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• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

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• It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading.

  Jodi Picoult

  Reading, Writing, Guarantees That

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• I do cagefight commentary in my spare time.

  Joe Rogan

  Spare Time, Spares

  "Joe Rogan On the Bigger, Crazier ‘Fear Factor’ Return, Miley Cyrus, ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ & More". Interview with Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.

  Chris Christie

  Race, Media, Complaining

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• I am interested in making photographs which comment on the experience of a place as well as describe it. My position has not typically been one of advocacy for or against any political position. But I regard photographs as commentary, and that includes, at times, taking a specific political viewpoint on an issue.

  Mark Klett

  Issues, Political, Viewpoints

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• Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

  Manohla Dargis

  Israel, Groups, Stories

  "Two Bands of True Believers Hurtling Toward a Collision" by Manohla Dargis, www.nytimes.com. June 12, 2014.

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• I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.

  Jason Reitman

  Running, Weekend, Romance

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• Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!

  Josh Mathews

  Wwe, Like You

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• Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Leader, Insightful, Hacking

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• I'm interested in social commentary.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Social

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• So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Malaria

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• I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.

  Julia Roberts

  Life, Done, Want

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• Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, America, Violence

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• Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Groups, Beats

  David Sloan Wilson (2015). “Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others”, p.71, Yale University Press

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• No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Vedas, Has Beens, Written

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1174, Manonmani Publishers

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• A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Church, Doctrine, Should

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.24

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• The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

  David Cronenberg

  Dvds, Effort, Finishing

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