Features Quotes - Page 5

• A striking feature of financial service activities during the past few decades is that the financial transactions essential to the operation of the 'real' economy has become increasingly dwarfed by speculative activity.

  Peter Dicken

  Real, Past, Essentials

  Peter Dicken (2003). “Global Shift: Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century”, p.469, SAGE

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• Folk music is not so much a body of art as it is a process, an attitude, and a way of life; its distinguishing features lie not within the songs themselves, but in the relations of those songs to a folk culture.

  Sam Hinton

  Song, Art, Attitude

  "The Singer of Folk Songs and His Conscience". Western Folklore, p. 170 - 173, July 1955.

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• The multiplier effect is a major feature of networks and flows. It arises regardless of the particular nature of the resource, be it goods, money, or messages.

  John Henry Holland

  Flow, Messages, Arise

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• This use of building blocks to generate internal models is a pervasive feature of complex adaptive systems.

  John Henry Holland

  Block, Use, Building

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• When you're casting a movie and when you're shooting a film, the eyes are the most important feature of any performer, really. Any great actor literally knows exactly how to use their eyes, and even as a filmmaker I love shooting huge close-ups because it's those eyes that mean so much to me.

  Peter Jackson

  Mean, Eye, Important

  "Comic-Con 2011: Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson Interview ADVENTURES OF TINTIN; Spielberg Says Jackson Is Scheduled to Shoot the Sequel". Press conference, collider.com. July 22, 2011.

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• The limner's art may trace the absent feature,
  And give the eye of distant weeping faith
  To view the form of its idolatry;
  But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted;
  The thoughts--the recollections sweet and bitter,--
  Th' Elysian dreams of lovers, when they loved,--
  Who shall restore them?

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Dream, Sweet, Art

  Charles Robert Maturin (1816). “Betram, Or, The Castle of St. Aldobrand: A Trgedy ...”, p.11

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• One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Sunshine, Love Is, Artist

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• A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.

  Ellen Wong

  People, Tvs, Film

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• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Character, Television, Want

  "Exclusive: Taraji P. Henson Talks PERSON OF INTEREST and LARRY CROWNE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

  William Sadler

  Bills, Way, Frank

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• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  G.W. Bailey

  Barns, Television, Yeah

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• I started in TV movies and then had success in my move to features with Night Shift and Splash.

  Brian Grazer

  Moving, Night, Tvs

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• The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation).

  Vladimir Arnold

  Different, Mysterious, Mathematics

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• For me, the distinction between documentaries and feature films is not so clear - my "documentaries" were largely scripted, rehearsed, and repeated, and have a lot of fantasy and concoction in them.

  Werner Herzog

  Documentaries, Fantasy, Film

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I ask you who is the most famous scientist who ever lived, or the greatest scientist who ever lived you'll say either Einstein or Newton or something like that because their claims were supposed to apply universally. But the claim of somebody who is studying a particular feature of the evolutionary process like whether it's very fast or very slow, or occurs in steps and so on, that's not a universal claim, that's a rather specialised claim and so you can't claim to great fame and great success.

  Richard Lewontin

  Steps, Study, Newton

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I think that books for young people should have serious and important themes, they shouldn't be trivial. So the books I write, they would be the kind of stories you would write in an adult novel only they just happen to feature a child at the center of them.

  John Boyne

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here.

  Bill Nye

  Book, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 04, 2015.

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• We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Mean, Mind, World

  "TED and Reddit asked Sir Ken Robinson anything — and he answered". blog.ted.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Ghost Stories, Nasty, Protagonists

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• Proprietary software tends to have malicious features. The point is with a proprietary program, when the users dont have the source code, we can never tell. So you must consider every proprietary program as potential malware.

  Richard Stallman

  Program, Source, Software

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• All political parties, organizations, and all people should abide by the constitution and laws without any exception. They must all act in accordance with the constitution and laws. I see that as a defining feature of modern political system development.

  Wen Jiabao

  Party, Law, Organization

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• Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.

  Thomas Pogge

  Desire, Ought, Institute

  "Thomas Pogge and global fairness". "The Philosopher's Zone" with Alan Saunders, www.abc.net.au. March 18, 2012.

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• Progressive disclosure defers advanced or rarely used features to a secondary screen, making applications easier to learn and less error-prone.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Errors, Progressive, Used

  "Progressive Disclosure". www.nngroup.com. December 4, 2006.

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• A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found a dime on the sidewalk and blew the whole wad on 20 Mary Jane candy bars, a box of jujubes, and a double feature.

  Russell Baker

  One Day, Dimes, Bars

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