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• But with The Dark Crystal, instead of puppetry we're trying to go toward a sense of realism - toward a reality of creatures that are actually alive and we're mixing up puppetry and all kinds of other techniques.

  Jim Henson

  Dark, Reality, Trying

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• Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.

  Sidney Hook

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.

  Naomi Judd

  Pain, Believe, Yoga

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• I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

  Elia Kazan

  Taken, Hard Times, Might

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• Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.

  Henry W. Kendall

  Government, People, Patterns

  Henry W. Kendall (2013). “A Distant Light: Scientists and Public Policy”, p.233, Springer

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• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Meditation

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• I've worked with some teachers and coaches over the years, but I didn't really study theater or technique or voice or any of that stuff extensively.

  Jessica Lange

  Teacher, Years, Voice

  Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character; it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leadership, Integrity, Character

  Lewis H. Lapham (1985). “High Technology and Human Freedom”

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• Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

  Christopher Lasch

  Masters, Owners, Activism

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• Most men would love to be stared at by women. Don't doubt me on this. And my guess is that most women are actually intrigued by it and have developed techniques and skills for dealing with it. Don't doubt me.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Skills, Doubt

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• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  Christian Louboutin

  Artist, People, Done

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• I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

  Bela Lugosi

  Stage, Thousand, Screens

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  David Lynch

  Car, Meditation, Transcendental

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Blessing, Meditation

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• Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right. To that end, they need to take on a mentoring role. This means the brand provides the tools, techniques and strategies for their customers to become more effective marketers in achieving their own goals.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Goal, Empowering

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• I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

  Brian May

  Guitar, Sound, Use

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• Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

  David Millar

  Class, Cycling, Way

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• I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted.

  Bode Miller

  School, Snowboarding, Skinny

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• This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on.

  Marvin Minsky

  Smart, Simple, Problem

  "AL's Legacy: 2001's Computer As Dream and Reality". Book by David G. Stork (p. 15), February 6, 1998.

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• However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

  Lewis Mumford

  Positive, Science, Technology

  "Technics and Civilization". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 8, section 13, 1934.

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• Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Writing, Trying

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• Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

  Iris Murdoch

  Literature, Emotion, Said

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• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Art, Knowing, Cooking

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com.

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• The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Vision, Age

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• There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Odds, People, Cooking

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