Contrived Quotes

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. — John Adams
I never liked dance photography; it's very flat, and dance photography in the studio looks very contrived. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand… — Tony Campolo
The animal frame, though destined to fulfill so many other ends, is as a machine more perfect than the best contrived steam-engine-that is, is capable… — James Prescott Joule
As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this… — E. M. Forster
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images… — Eve Arnold
Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It… — B.F. Skinner
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,… — Adam Smith
The same rule that teaches the propriety of a partition between the various branches of power, teaches us likewise that this partition ought to be… — Alexander Hamilton
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott
Thinking should be done before and after, not during photographing. Success depends on the extent of one's general culture. one's set of values, one's clarity… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation… — James Madison
A lot of times when people meet me, theyll definitely try to make me feel young or inexperienced. Like, Its all taken care of. Teenagers… — Lorde
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing. — Elizabeth Bishop
Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron
Corporately contrived art product replaces inspired intellectual property with ineffectual poperty. — Vanna Bonta
As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on… — John F. Kennedy
It [the depression] was not accidental. It was a carefully contrived occurrence worked out as one works out a mathematical equation. The international bankers sought… — Louis Thomas McFadden

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