What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect.… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and… — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
We live in a world populated by structures - a complex mixture of geological, biological, social, and linguistic constructions that are nothing… — Manuel De Landa Copy Share Image
As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
I meant that people will take anything that gives them a lift, whether it's alcohol or cocaine or the consciousness-expanding drugs or… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Life appears: a complex dampness, destined to an intricate future and charged with secret virtues, capable of challenge and creation. A kind… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
There is no other complex field in our society in which do-it-yourself beats out factory production or market production. Nobody makes his… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The whole Hollywood conception of Tibet as this peace-loving country denies the complex humanity of the Tibetan people. Their ideas exist in… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between… — Waller R Newell Copy Share Image
Being concerned about other people is especially relevant in today's world. If we consider the complex inter-connected ness of our modern lives,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations… — Sangharakshita Copy Share Image
Is it not obvious that the more complex an economy, the more certainly will governmental control of productive effort exert a retarding… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
For it is necessary in every practical science to proceed in a composite (i.e. deductive) manner. On the contrary in speculative science,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In our complex world, there cannot be fruitful initiative without government, but unfortunately there can be government without initiative. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is a complex music and culture that has been reduced to a one-dimensional critique. Hip-hop's messages aren't all bad. Neither are… — Bakari Kitwana Copy Share Image
The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Anger is a fuel. You need fuel to launch a rocket. But if all you have is fuel without any complex internal… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of… — William F. Schulz Copy Share Image
It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing… — Craig Johnston Copy Share Image
People are complex, and I think it's a huge element of what I do, because you have to balance out the fact… — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as… — Natalie MacLean Copy Share Image
I personally kind of yearn to play characters who are complex and who strike a truthful chord in me and who are… — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
There's a whole journalistic-industrial complex dedicated to keeping newsprint, TV screens and radio waves clean of destabilizing scoops damaging to corporations or… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never… — Thomas Struth Copy Share Image
What really happens is that the gene pool becomes filled with genes that influence bodies in such a way that they behave… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
People think [immigration] is only about the dollar, but it's so much more complex. This is a place where you can reinvent… — Esmeralda Santiago Copy Share Image
The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
It's all about, you know, continuing to get to know ourselves in a very diverse and complicated country that is America. It… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
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