Essentially Quotes

973 Essentially quotes by 803 unique authors

Under Obama, our federal tax dollars can now be used to fund abortion all over the world. With the stroke of a pen, abortion essentially… — Rick Perry
If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. — Michael Porter
My own books drive themselves. I know roughly where a book is going to end, but essentially the story develops under my fingers. It's just… — Terry Pratchett
Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all. — Maximilien Robespierre
My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love… — Jerry Saltz
Music is essentially useless, as is life. — George Santayana
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of… — Peter Singer
Government is essentially immoral. — Herbert Spencer
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. — Bruce Springsteen
James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized. — Tom Stoppard
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on… — Tom Stoppard
We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain.… — J. Michael Straczynski
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially. — Barbra Streisand
Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in… — James Surowiecki
An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi
As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I play disturbed people a lot, but always with a bit of distance or tongue-in-cheek. Most of the villains I play are essentially harmless. — Christopher Walken
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. — Andy Warhol
I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad.… — Florence Welch
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment,… — Florence Welch
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it. — Orson Welles
The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. — Walt Whitman
A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy. — Rainn Wilson
Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the… — George Edward Woodberry

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