Materials Quotes - Page 12

• A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Equality, Government, Liberty

  "Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.

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• Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

  James Joyce

  Mind, Battle, Inspired

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Greed, Want

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• People are gonna think that MTV censored me, and they really didn't. I really wanted to try to make a show that didn't rely on offensive, edgy material because I think it was an exercise in trying to write without that. Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.

  Bo Burnham

  Writing, Kids, Exercise

  Source: www.uloop.com

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• It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

  Jane Austen

  Dance, Dancing, People

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.151, Wild Jot Press

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• Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

  Ted Shawn

  Dance, Art, Men

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• Art first of all is optical. That's where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last. Excerpt From: Walter, Isaacson. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011-10-23T21:00:00+00:00. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Believe, Goal

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• When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

  Viola Spolin

  Air, Self, Views

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• Sometimes I've drawn on autobiographical material, maybe situations that I've felt trapped by, and turned them into something else, but in a very superficial way. When you find yourself thinking and worrying about certain things they become ridiculous.

  William Wegman

  Thinking, Worry, Finding Yourself

  William Wegman, Frédéric Paul, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Limousin (1993). “William Wegman, l'oeuvre photographique”, Frac Limousin

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• The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at random, you will find something - a plastic flower, false tiles, some imitation something - something which can be appreciated as material only if apprehended by eyesight alone. Don't we go sightseeing in cars, thinking we can experience a landscape by looking at it through glass?

  Galway Kinnell

  Flower, Thinking, Glasses

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• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Obsessed

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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• I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

  Paul Kane

  Photography, Film, Paint

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• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  Eartha Kitt

  People, Stressed, Nonsensical

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• I am the original Material Girl.

  Eartha Kitt

  Girl, Material Girl, Originals

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

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• There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, People

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• There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

  Meryl Streep

  Vaccines, Fields, Actresses

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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  John Travolta

  Careers, Luxury, Track

  "Interview: John Travolta" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 15, 2004.

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• Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Lying, Islands

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• For all of us involved in preaching the gospel, performing music, publishing Christian materials, and all the rest, there is an uncomfortable message here: Jesus is not terribly impressed with religious commercialism

  Jim Cymbala

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I have worked with wool all my life as a designer. There's so much more to it than knitwear - it's an amazingly versatile material and can be used in so many different ways from chic to rustic.

  Donatella Versace

  Way, Wool, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Television is now so desperately hungry for material that they're scraping the top of the barrel.

  Gore Vidal

  Funny, Television, Literature

  "This column will change your life: Couch potatoes v creators" by Oliver Burkeman, August 20, 2010.

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• Amy Rapp, my producing partner, and I are drawn to character-driven material. We're developing and producing movies and TV, fiction and non-fiction, studio and independent, broadcast and cable, theatre, and web so our slate is really diverse.

  Meredith Vieira

  Character, Independent, Theatre

  "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.

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• There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

  George Wald

  War, Self, Nuclear

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• Precision, speed, unambiguity, knowledge of files, continuity, discretion, unity, strict subordination, reduction of friction and of material and personal costs - these are raised to the optimum point in the strictly bureaucratic administration.

  Max Weber

  Unity, Administration, Cost

  Max Weber (2013). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.214, Routledge

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