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Sense Quotes
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
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"I've always had a sense of humour, and I still do, so I just want to go on performing as long as I can. It's as simple as that."
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"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
"I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die."
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."
"I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way."
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
"Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely."
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
"There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe."
"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
"The immigration thing has to be brought to a head, and I feel that the best way to do that is endorse the worst, in the sense of he is a racist and he knows what I'm talking about."
"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."
"Our senses convey that all is not well with the natural world."
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."
"I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
"I don't quite know what a record is anymore. I don't quite know how to describe it. Don't know how to define it yet, so I'm just letting it gestate, and grow and see if maybe I'll get a better sense of what a record is."
"For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me."
"When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen."
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
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