Material Quotes

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One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary… — Carl Jung
I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material… — Paul Kane
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away. — Anish Kapoor
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. — Charles Kettering
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is. — Alicia Keys
I am the original Material Girl. — Eartha Kitt
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things. — Eartha Kitt
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material. — Jeff Koons
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render… — Tony Kushner
I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me. — Ashton Kutcher
I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama… — Ashton Kutcher
Nobody's strong enough to stand up under a flood of weak material. — Alan Ladd
Elton John can be a master of the sleight of hand. The arrangements make it seem like there are substantial melodies underneath the tracks -… — Jon Landau
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism -… — Robert Lanza
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to… — Jennifer Lopez
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia. — James Lovelock
I sort of have open invitations from a lot of people to do TV. But it's very hard for me to do roles in sitcoms… — Norm MacDonald
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. — Imelda Marcos
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual… — Wynton Marsalis

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