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The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.
I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's extremely swift. Everyone talks about the shower scene in 'Psycho,' but that's the only graphic scene in the entire film.
Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.
You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you.
Opera is full of trappings that make us go away from being human. You can't let them do that. You can't walk like you're in an opera! You have to make it real. You have to just be there.
The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.
When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can manipulate the system - get regulations on their competitors, or mandates on using their products, or eliminating foreign competition - it just lowers the overall standard of living and hurts the disadvantaged the most.
I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read.
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
I did not dwell on the issue of Europe during either the 2001 or the 2005 campaigns - despite it being a pivotal personal concern and despite seeing it as something of a litmus test for liberal democracy.
The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.
I find no contradiction between being a Highlander, a Scot, a citizen of the U.K. and a citizen of the European Union at one and the same time.
This is very similar to astronomy where different magnitudes are assigned to the brightness of an astronomical object, depending on the range of wavelengths being measured.
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
We know there are certain chemicals that are designed to give us a rush of pleasure. But, one of the most amazing things about being human is our capacity to override that pleasure. To either say, 'I don't need that pleasure right now. I'm going to ignore the craving.' Or to find something else that we find a deeper sense of reward from.
Martyrs - those killed because of their Catholic faith - can be beatified even if they don't perform a miracle. However, all beatified individuals must stage a certifiable miracle before being made a saint.
To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Runners are the lowest of the low in film units. They're paid very, very minimal wages - probably below the national average. And runners are now being asked to drive actors about, as well as their runner duties. It's kind of the same as taking advantage of nurses - it's appalling.
You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'Stop shouting,' 'Stop jumping around on the furniture.' But 'Stop showing off'? That's awful.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad sense, maybe, but it's this rash leap.
I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.
My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.
Early in my career, I was only being dissed by Chingy. Now, I'm being dissed by Eminem. Life is great.
Being morally honest means sitting down and actually listening to a person and understanding where they're coming from.
If stop-and-frisk was a fair and balanced practice that targeted everybody equally across the board, then I could understand the extra precautions being taken, but since it's a practice that targets blacks and Hispanics and gives the police the right to lawfully profile us, I'm not with it.
I hate prejudice on any level. I don't care if it's somebody being discriminated against because of the color of their skin or their sexuality or their gender or financial status.
If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.
I would go through these cycles of being really, really focused on work, and not being around anyone, to being around everyone. And that could be distracting. It was nothing or everything.
For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
I can't even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
I'm not really interested in being a superhero. That's not a box I've been trying to check off.
Brock Lesnar made a career out of refusing to do media and not being accessible.
Werdum's open to being knocked out in any fight because he's so reckless, but that's also what makes him so damn dynamic.
Being a tech company has to be about a pattern of repetitive innovation.
I don't see myself ever being in a position where I need to sign to a label.
I never really liked the idea of rap being a competitive thing. It's not.
I can't see myself ever having somebody say something about me on a song and me being like, 'All right, now I'm about to say something about them on a song.'
Normally, we define banks as being either retail or corporate, but ICICI transformed itself from a corporate bank into a retail bank and, now, a universal bank.
Every business has to re-think their own business model and say does it meet this DSM test and do their products and services meet the test of being digital, social, and mobile? I think the banks are doing the same.
Lending has come back in retail; it has come back in working capital. It has also come back in other forms, like government contract being given out to companies.
There are lots of India-related business which is nourished overseas. I mean India-related business that is done off-shore. There are lot of funds that are invested in India and run by Indians but are being operated from outside, mainly because of the taxation laws.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.
New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime.
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.
People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?
Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.
After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.
I've built my career around my life instead of being consumed by the fame monster.
If you see harassment happening, speak up. Being harassed is terrible; having bystanders pretend they don't notice is infinitely worse.
I watch people from the top of buses who don't know they're being watched. It's quite fascinating.
Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.
All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
Perhaps the world's second-worst crime is boredom; the first is being a bore.
Having read the histories of other countries, I saw that expansion was everything, and that the world's surface being limited, the great object of present humanity should be to take as much of the world as it possibly could.
Thanks to President Obama, being a woman will no longer be a pre-existing condition!
There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punched in the face, and everyone walks around looking stunned like they've just witnessed a murder.
When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking with friends and not being firmly attached to any one idea.
It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.
High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.
I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is.
I get a kick out of not being ideal. I think it's awesome. That's entirely the point. And I think my creator is quite a character for letting that be.
The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.
It breaks my heart that we are always being nudged toward the most recently published books, when so many worthy books have gone unexplored.
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