Filling In Quotes

• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  "Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-First Century". Book by Michio Kaku, 1997.

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• I'm filling in all the negative spaces with positively everything.

  Edie Brickell

  Space, Negative, Positively

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• At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

  Rebecca Miller

  Moving, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Science is about filling in the details.

  Graham Hawkes

  Details, Filling

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• The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.

  Dan Harmon

  Dream, Real, Teeth

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• You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.

  David Chipperfield

  Missing, Lasts, Accepting

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• [The Utopia of Rules] should offer a challenge to us all. Should we just accept this bureaucracy as inevitable? Or is there a way to get rid of all those hours spent listening to bad call-centre music? Do policemen, academics, teachers and doctors really need to spend half their time filling in forms? Or can we imagine another world?

  Gillian Tett

  Teacher, Doctors, Challenges

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• I like the idea all memory is fiction, that we have queued a couple of things in the back of our minds and when we call forth those memories, we are essentially filling in the blanks. We're basically telling ourselves a story, but that story changes based on how old we are, and what mood we're in, and if we've seen photographs recently. We trust other people to tell us the story of our lives before we can remember it, and usually that's our parents and usually it works, but obviously not always. And everybody's interpretation is going to be different.

  Steven Tyler

  Couple, Memories, Ideas

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• I could always hold a melody, but I was never like, I'm going to be a singer. So I'm able to use that when I write. I'm actually playing the beat with my voice. Instead of thinking about coming up with melodies, it's like filling in the instruments. So sometimes it's better to have beats with less melodies in them, because then I can play more with my vocals.

  Kid Ink

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Effort, Way, Details

  "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos, Prentice-Hall, 1956.

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• For me a film is at its best when you can start filling in the story with your own life experience.

  Brad Pitt

  Stories, Film, Life Experience

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

  Sara Blakely

  Thinking, Vision, Snapshots

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• To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Mean, Hands, Community

  Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

  John Osborne

  Gold, Decay, Royalty

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• To get started, track your expenses for a couple of months. Then you should be able to start filling in your estimated debits and deposits for the next few months. Once you get it rolling for a while, you will be able to see your budget for the upcoming months reflected in the estimated totals. You can even notice year-to-year trends, like bonuses, tax bills, etc. that come up routinely and it will help you budget accordingly.

  Michelle Singletary

  Couple, Years, Track

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• I do crosswords when I have time to kill somewhere, and am 100 percent successful on filling in the spots I get stuck on - after I close up, do something else, and then go back to it.

  Carolyn Hax

  Successful, Time To Kill, Spots

  "Carolyn Hax Live: With the usual apologies to wolves". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. February 05, 2016.

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• The way I prepare is through script analysts and back story. I create back story for a character based on script analysts, filling in as many details as possible. I also do a lot of research.

  Katie Cassidy

  Character, Details, Stories

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Whether interpreting the Constitution or filling in the blanks of a law or a regulation, every word of the court's opinion can widen or narrow our rights as Americans and either protect us or leave us more vulnerable to any winds that blow.

  Herb Kohl

  Blow, Rights, Wind

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Hillary] Clinton glossed over a lot of things, left a lot of things out that people are gonna be filling in the blanks today, like [Donald] Trump. "I kept waiting on the one chapter I wanted to hear," he said, "and I didn't hear it. I kept waiting."

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Waiting, Today

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

  Eric Berne

  Life, Long, Waiting

  'Games People Play' (1964) ch. 18

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• It's never the same relationship. I see my job as filling in the blanks. Whatever it is that the artist lacks in the process of making a record, I'm supposed to fill that in. And sometimes it's a lot of stuff and I have to hector them about working on the material and that sort of thing. Sometimes you have an artist that's really fairly self-sufficient; they just need another ear to offer some objective criticism, but otherwise pretty much know what they're doing. It varies a lot.

  Todd Rundgren

  Jobs, Artist, Self

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the difference is that once you've made the intuitive leap you have to justify it by filling in the intermediate steps. N my case, it often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find that they don't work, so I have to give it up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Ideas, Differences, Giving

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• To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

  William Hague

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  "The last chance election for Britain". William Hague's speech to the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• In a cool medium, the audience is an active constituent of the viewing or listening experience. A girl wearing open-mesh silk stockings or glasses is inherently cool and sensual because the eye acts as a surrogate hand in filling in the low-definition image thus engendered. Which is why boys make passes at girls who wear glasses.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Girl, Eye, Boys

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