It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The core tenant of what I teach is there are no facts inside the building. When we come up with a new… — Steve Blank Copy Share Image
“There are certain factors that can easily distort your basic instincts . Such as your health status, the people around you, or… — Mitta Xinindlu Copy Share Image
One has always got to be terribly careful, since the theater is made up of a whole bunch of prima donnas, not… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
“World & people only seem unlovable due to toxins & lies they've been fed. Release distortions of mind. Return all to innocence & freedom” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein Copy Share Image
“In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners,… — Dave Champion Copy Share Image
We don't know what truth is anymore. You or other media people can say there's no problem, but you're losing your credibility.… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
When I think of a lot of the players I admire, they could always play their parts without hiding behind distortion and… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
. . . the upsurge of Spirit is the only plausible way to stop the ecological destruction of our planet. Even people… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my opinion, the continued popularity of these gross distortions of Iran in the U.S. seems to reveal more about certain aspects… — Mohammad Marandi Copy Share Image
I deeply regret having let stand and later confirming the assumption that I went to Vietnam. For this and any other distortions… — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Of course there's conscious manipulation! Everything about a movie is manipulation ... If you like it, it's an interpretation. If you don't… — Frederick Wiseman Copy Share Image
Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
“Refer to Table 3–1 over and over again as you learn about the various methods for mood modification. When you become familiar… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Our society in general devalues the 'she' - qualities that are associated with the feminine that are found in all of us.… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into… — James Toback Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
If deliberate distortion of reality by corporate media could be effectively prosecuted in the United States, the entire industry would be behind… — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
Martin Buber said he sensed a rising hunger for relatedness Men would no longer rise in rebellion merely against one oppressor or… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
“Every intentional thought, word, or deed-right now and in your past-it all makes you what you are today. Your choices, not your… — Lucie Smoker Copy Share Image
The reality distortion field was a confounding mélange of a charismatic rhetorical style, indomitable will, and eagerness to bend any fact to… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics,… — Shirley Temple Copy Share Image
Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime. — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The very nature of limiting something from an infinite to moments in time creates distortion; analog recording methods create all kinds of… — Kevin Shields Copy Share Image
Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Psychedelic drugs undoubtedly open the doors to the mind's panopticon, but what we see in the mental mirrors are mere distortions of… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
There needs to be understanding that anger never helps to solve a problem. It destroys our peace of mind and blinds our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
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