Raw Materials Quotes
140 quotes by 127 authors
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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
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Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but…
— Kevin McCloud
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Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like…
— Evo Morales
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
— Viggo Mortensen
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The physical fabric of the world had to be such as to enable that ten billion year preliminary evolution to produce the raw materials of…
— John Polkinghorne
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We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is…
— Cecil Rhodes
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I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty,…
— Jose Saramago
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Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.
— Eric Hobsbawm
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That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But…
— C.S. Lewis
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Everything is raw material. Everything is relevant. Everything is usable. Everything feeds into my creativity. But without proper preparation, I cannot see it, retain it,…
— Twyla Tharp
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This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
— Michael Cunningham
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A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen…
— Boris Pasternak
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Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used…
— David Byrne
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I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness…
— Marianne Moore
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How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.
— Lawrence Durrell
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One man's trash is another man's treasure is a third man's raw materials for their planet-buster earthquake machine.
— Mira Grant
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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and…
— Henry David Thoreau
Who Wrote These Raw Materials Quotes
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