Materials Quotes - Page 4

• I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.

  Alan Dean Foster

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

  Eric Idle

  Thinking, Python, Special

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• The only thing I know is that we came from the stars, and that we have the same material as the stars. That's all that I know. Everything else I don't know.

  Sonia Braga

  Stars, Knows

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• I do like directing other people's material.

  Brian De Palma

  People

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• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  Hans Hofmann

  Spiritual, Artist, Expression

  "Hans Hofmann: With Selected Writings by the Artist". Book by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15, 1963.

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• Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

  Jo Bonner

  Country, Ocean, Two

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• The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of life. Without it there would not have been the chemical materials to allow life to evolve here on earth.

  John Polkinghorne

  Years, Raw Materials, Fabric

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• If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is.

  Don Johnson

  Inspiring, Matter, Ifs

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• I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell.

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Stories, World

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• In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Stories, Able, Should

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• Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.

  Boris Spassky

  Sacrifice, Player, Important

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• It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.

  Jim Hodges

  Relationship, Hands, Drawing

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• According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.

  Stanislav Grof

  Memories, Dna, Brain

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• I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

  Javier Bardem

  Good Day, The End Of The Day, Directors

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• Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

  Barbara Amiel

  Europe, Energy, Raw Materials

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• When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

  Tennessee Ernie Ford

  Night, Finding Yourself, Hustle

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• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Stereotype, Constraints

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

  Judith Wright

  Past, Want, Superficial

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• I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

  Timothy Bottoms

  Giving, People, President

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• As musicians, and as people who sell material for people to hear and absorb, it's important that we use that voice wisely.

  Roberta Flack

  Inspiring, Voice, People

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• Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  Henry Taube

  Moving, Science, Numbers

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• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  Walter Martin

  Success, Congratulations, Medicine

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil of material forms, and disclose the thoughts which lie beneath them? When our researches are successful, and when a generous and heaven-eyed inspiration has elevated us above humanity, and raised us triumphantly into the very presence, as it were, of the divine intellect, how instantly and entirely are human pride and vanity repressed, and, by a single glance at the glories of the infinite mind, are we humbled to the dust.

  Benjamin Peirce

  Lying, Inspiration, Science

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• Physio-philosophy has to show how, and in accordance indeed with what laws, the Material took its origin; and, therefore, how something derived its existence from nothing. It has to portray the first periods of the world's development from nothing; how the elements and heavenly bodies originated; in what method by self-evolution into higher and manifold forms, they separated into minerals, became finally organic, and in Man attained self-consciousness.

  Lorenz Oken

  Philosophy, Science, Men

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