Concept Quotes
1465 quotes by 1137 authors
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We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder Â… whatever…
— John Rosemond
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Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the…
— Kay WalkingStick
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My theory is that everything went to hell with Prohibition, because it was a law nobody could obey. So the whole concept of the rule…
— Orson Welles
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In America, you are not required to offer food to the hungry or shelter the homeless. There is no ordinance forcing you to visit the…
— Pope Paul VI
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When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social…
— Sam Rayburn
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People come to a teacher to learn self-discovery. A teacher who just wants to keep you on a string forever, the god-guru concept, a teacher…
— Frederick Lenz
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Selfless giving changes our concept of our identity. When we give to others our unselfishness removes the spot of "self" that stained our awareness.
— Frederick Lenz
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We can only conceive of changing the self-reflection in response to our concept of self-reflection, which is predicated on our concept of self, which is…
— Frederick Lenz
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Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the…
— Dave Barry
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[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of…
— Ayn Rand
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How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you could change the neural pathways in your brain so that you could recall everything you've ever heard, taste, smelled or touched, basically from…
— Bradley Cooper
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Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to…
— Elia Kazan
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The whole concept of having something really in-your-face that you're forced to listen to is beautiful because I think music should be an event and…
— Youth Lagoon
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All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did…
— Joseph Plaskett
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The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun…
— Cathy Davidson
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This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain…
— George F. R. Ellis
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A story communicates fear, hope, and anxiety, and because we can feel it, we get the moral not just as a concept, but as a…
— Marshall Ganz
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It was hard for me to do the show (All American Girl) because a lot of people didn't even understand the concept of Asian-American. I…
— Margaret Cho
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I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical…
— Samuel Wilson
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