Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really… — John Cale Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a federal structure based on administrative and geographic lines with strong powers for the federated states will be… — Ahmed Chalabi Copy Share Image
I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes,… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
In my view, there's no doubt that the Soviets had infinitely greater trouble holding their structure together than we did. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When you produce an album, you're dealing with it theatrically. It has to have a structure, and the inner response to that… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Making strong infrastructural reforms, particularly in the area of social security, that's not an appealing prospect for any country or for any… — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
[Socialistic] economic planning, regulation, and intervention pave the way to totalitarianism by building a power structure that will inevitably be seized by… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and… — Myles Horton Copy Share Image
The system [in U.S.] is designed for a two-party system. And those two parties have an interest in keeping third parties out.… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
Everyone is the heir to all that has gone before; his structure and emotional life is fixed, and no two children of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich… — David Milch Copy Share Image
If we consider the actual basis of this information [i.e., intelligence], how unreliable and transient it is, we soon realize that war… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the… — Max Wertheimer Copy Share Image
The pleasure a man gets from a landscape would [not] last long if he were convinced a priori that the forms and… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
People define gay cinema solely by content: if there are gay characters in it, it’s a gay film. . . . I… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When you look at the theme to 'The Cape,' you're going to notice that I take one structure and repeat it up… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
So the job of building structures, building a constitutional structure, is not just to punish those who behave badly but actually to… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I found the structure of writing a screenplay harder than the structure of writing an essay. But it was definitely challenging to… — Judy Greer Copy Share Image
For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes,… — Annea Lockwood Copy Share Image
Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are… — Dick Wolf Copy Share Image
There are visible and invisible dictators. The power structure of world football is monarchical. It's the most secret kingdom in the world. — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The laws of the media, in tetrad form, bring logos and formal cause up to date to reveal analytically the structure of… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I read a lot of plays as a kid, but I didn't see that many plays, so I feel better-versed in film… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact… — Shirley Jones Copy Share Image
The structure of a software system provides the ecology in which code is born, matures, and dies. A well-designed habitat allows for… — Richard E. Pattis Copy Share Image
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