Formal Quotes - Page 2

• My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

  Ann Druyan

  Math, Years, Training

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• I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

  Steven Cojocaru

  Men, Shallow Person, Political

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• At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

  George Carlin

  Party, Cooking Dinner, Bathroom

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.

  Paula Abdul

  Kids, America, Training

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• I have no formal culinary training, right.

  Thomas Keller

  Training, Culinary

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• As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

  Emily Watson

  Cameras, Actors, Rooms

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• I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

  Al Purdy

  Religious

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• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Writing, Size

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• The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.

  Anthony Holden

  Retirement, Princess, Years

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• The formal education that I received made little sense to me.

  Twyla Tharp

  Education, Littles, Made

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Religious, Men, Expression

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• My father had very little formal education.

  Daniel Berrigan

  Father, Littles, Formal Education

  Interview with Alan Fox, www.rattle.com. January 30, 1999.

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• I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things.

  John Dingell

  Taken, Thinking, May

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• I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

  David Knopfler

  Terrible, Settings, Setting

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• But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.

  Richard Serra

  Trying, Landscape, Characteristics

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• I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Education, Communication, Michigan

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• My mother, who was professional schoolteacher, was particularly concerned about our formal education and even went so far as to start a private school together with some other parents so that our intellectual needs would be met.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Mother, School, Parent

  "Robert B. Laughlin - Biographical". www.nobelprize.org. 1998.

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• The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

  Paul E. Gray

  Education, Life Lesson, Teaching

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• The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

  Angela Carter

  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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• My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

  Harrison Birtwistle

  Theatre, Pieces, Opera

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• Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Awards, Deserving It, Expression

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November, 2004.

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• Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

  John McGahern

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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• Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Practice, Two

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Geez, I just played cricket because I loved the game. I never thought about it much, never really had any formal coaching.

  Steve Waugh

  Sports, Games, Coaching

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