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• Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

  Norman McLaren

  Color, Done, Film

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• I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, People, Half

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• The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.

  Leo Kottke

  Boys, Risk, Principles

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• It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

  Hu Shih

  Relative Value, Contact, Understood

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• Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time.

  Denis Waitley

  Success, Time, Precious Stones

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• Lebanon can choose to be either a partner in ridding the scourge of terrorism or another obstacle that cows to the most radical elements of society.

  Vito Fossella

  Lebanon, Cows, Obstacles

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• Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

  John Hartford

  Important, Situation, Stills

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• The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

  Time, Nature, Space

  Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1998). “The Mathematical Theory of Black Holes”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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• To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face.

  Liza Minnelli

  Mean, Reality, Dollars

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• I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

  Dianne Wiest

  Interview with Leslie Rigoulot, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Spiritual, Law, Space

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

  Francis Arinze

  Culture, Dimensions, Transcendent

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• Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it is.

  Ron Ziegler

  Trying, May, Certain

  "Nixon Press Secretary Ron Ziegler Dead at 63" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 11, 2003.

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• Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof.

  Ivan Reitman

  Girl, Firsts, Sound

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. May 17, 2000.

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• From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

  Donnie Yen

  Actors, Dynamics, Directors

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• The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.

  Heinrich Heine

  People, Envy, Literature

  "Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts".

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• One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

  Itzhak Perlman

  Teaching, Listening, Important

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• In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

  Evan Parker

  Order, Long, Tests

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• I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

  Neil Finn

  Struggle, Order, Difficult Situations

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• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  Karel Reisz

  Desire, Conformity, Bigs

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• Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.

  Laurence Fishburne

  Character, Mean, Special

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• When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Thinking, Feelings

  Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.320, Routledge

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• There's an element of tongue-in-cheek in every one of our songs. Walking off into the sunset, holding hands, and being married forever was not exactly a brand new idea.

  Peter Noone

  Song, Sunset, Hands

  "Proud Hermit: The British Invasion’s Peter Noone". Interview with Al Carlos Hernandez, www.heralddeparis.com. May 22, 2011.

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• By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

  John Dewey

  Distinction, Complexes, Whole

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Paul Kurtz (2008). “The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1929-1930”, p.246, SIU Press

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• Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

  Nigella Lawson

  Cooking, Literature, Sometimes

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