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An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was:… — Martin Scorsese
Here are white men poised to run big marijuana businesses, dreaming of cashing in bigâ€”big money, big businesses selling weedâ€”after 40 years of impoverished black… — Michel'le
To speak only well of Jacques Ranciere is not an easy task, given the positions that the two of us occupy. Perhaps my constant praise… — Jacques Ranciere
Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous… — Pascal Bruckner
Man must learn to know the universe precisely as it is, or he cannot successfully find his place in it. A man should therefore use… — John Andreas Widtsoe
Shamanism is being reinvented in the West precisely because it is needed — Michael Harner
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what… — John C. Bogle
For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on… — Edward Feser
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies… — Angela Davis
The solution to Iraq -- an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself -- is more than a military mission. Precisely the… — George W. Bush
I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to… — Susan B. Anthony
The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the… — Walter Karp
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere… — Anish Kapoor
Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively… — Karen Horney
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism — Paul de Man
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that… — John Hume
You see, in our family we don't know whether we're coming or going - it's all my grandmother's fault. But, of course, the fault wasn't… — Amitav Ghosh
Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated,… — Carl Jung
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. — Gilles Deleuze

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