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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• The problem with the Internet is that it gives you everything - reliable material and crazy material. So the problem becomes, how do you discriminate?

  Umberto Eco

  Crazy, Giving, Problem

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• Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Art Is

  T. S. Eliot (1998). “The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

  Brian Eno

  Space, Ephemeral, Painting

  "Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers talk Scape, iPad apps and generative music". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2012.

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• I mean, we are tribal by nature, and sometimes success and material wealth can divide and separate - it's not a new philosophy I'm sharing - more than hardship, hardship tends to unify.

  Colin Farrell

  Philosophy, Mean, Hardship

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• I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

  Will Ferrell

  Unique, Thinking, Pressure

  "In New Drama, Will Ferrell Is Going for Broke". Interview by Jenelle Riley, www.backstage.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself to the audience, although the patter in between the song is always different.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Song, Different, Use

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• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Family, Home, Skins

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.185, e-artnow

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• A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Design, Creative, Challenges

  "Women in Design: Diane von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.

  Jerry Garcia

  Movie, Book, Successful

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• Many people know that Ethiopia is poor. When I break a world record, maybe people get to know something else about Ethiopia, something good. We can't make planes or cars, we don't have the materials. We do what we can.

  Haile Gebrselassie

  People, Car, Records

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• The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.

  Frank Gehry

  Ideas, Tables, Facts

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.

  Brian Greene

  Book, Writing, Different

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• The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.

  Stanislav Grof

  Play, Important, Connections

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• Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

  Walter Gropius

  Guiding Principles, Design, Intellectual

  "Form and Function", www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2009.

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• When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

  Buddy Hackett

  Night, Half, Hours

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• But television, when I was doing it, was all about scoring. You had to make these jokes bang, do whatever you could to make the material really pop. And if it didn't, there was something wrong with the material, or with you.

  Tom Hanks

  Bangs, Television, Pops

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• I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

  Tom Hanks

  Matter, Host, Kind

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• I know quickly whether a guy is boyfriend material. If I can have a good time doing absolutely nothing with him, then that's boyfriend material for me. Like if we're able to have fun at a gas station. I've had some really good times at gas stations.

  Alyson Hannigan

  Funny, Cute, Boyfriend

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• I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

  Anne Hathaway

  People, Feelings, Fabric

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• When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, "and I don't want to read that in your magazine!" In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

  Simon Hoggart

  Writing, Interesting, Gossip

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Hack a phone? I wouldn't know how..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.

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• The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  Vanilla Ice

  Family And Friends, No Friends, Lessons

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Heaven, Raw Materials

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1874). “The Gods, and Other Lectures”, p.10

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