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To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write… — Phil Anselmo
I couldn't believe it! I mean, I'd always dreamed of acting on the screen - my previous background was all theater - but I wasn't… — Jacqueline Emerson
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that… — Jennifer Egan
Some movies, I think, present ideas of the world that just don't help people with their lives. They just present things that are fleeting or… — Alden Ehrenreich
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You… — Michael Emerson
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers.… — Noam Chomsky
There's almost nothing that distracts you from your day-to-day problems more than a trip. You're totally consumed in the present, you've got new sense impressions,… — Tom Freston
Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... — Larry Wall
November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree. — Neil Sedaka
The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization. — Samuel Gompers
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… — Augustus De Morgan
You were bred for humanity and sold to society. One day you'll wake up in the present day, a million generations removed from the expectations… — Jethro Tull
...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of… — Francis Bacon
It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.… — Charles Darwin
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and… — John Stuart Mill
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
It's hard to look pleasant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; Not all of your scowling and fussing and growling… — Walter Mason Camp
Had I been present at the Creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile
The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be… — Antonio Gramsci
We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we… — Russell Peters
Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there… — Edgar Allan Poe
One cannot explain words without making incursions into the sciences themselves, as is evident from dictionaries; and, conversely, one cannot present a science without at… — Gottfried Leibniz
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings. — Anthony Giddens
And how comfortless is the thought that the sickness of the normal does not necessarily imply as its opposite the health of the sick, but… — Theodor Adorno
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built… — Oliver Sacks

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