Essentially Quotes

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I did some professional radio acting as a teenager, and I essentially put myself through college with radio acting in Montreal. When I graduated, I… — William Shatner
What does it mean to be psychic? Essentially it means to feel, rather than think all the time. — Frederick Lenz
I've been essentially not only deconstructing and reconstructing the material to make it suitable for the performance, but I've gone back and found some older… — Todd Rundgren
Pete Townsend for me was a huge influence. Because essentially they were a three-piece band and the way he structured his chords and took up… — Alex Lifeson
Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically;… — Stephen King
The Church is composed of people, and people do terrible things and commit sin - it's what the Church has been telling us for two… — Michael Coren
Man was created to glorify God. Now, that may encompass other things which God has planned for each man, but essentially, man was created to… — Criss Jami
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend… — Criss Jami
Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle… — Lou Dorfsman
Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything… — Henry David Thoreau
Destiny ... a word which means more than we can find any definitions for. It is a word which can have no meaning in a… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be. — Stephen Leacock
I wear the same pants, same shirt and same shoes every day. I learned it from the greats, like Einstein. It's a uniform essentially. — Reggie Watts
So we are headed for a time when there won't be anything but movies that are essentially made like video games, and actors will become… — Billy Bob Thornton
I peeled off La Brea and went home and instantly made a reservation to come back to New York. Essentially, I fired everybody that was… — Steven Shainberg
When dogs are actually looking at you, they're essentially hugging you with their eyes. — Brian Hare
I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree.… — Guy Ritchie
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle… — Virginia Foxx
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially… — Barney Frank
My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he… — Al Franken
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. — Erich Fromm
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his… — Lady Gaga
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi
How do we get democracy at the international level? That's our problem. and it's essentially the same problem people faced in the 18th Century when… — Susan George

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