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We converse as we live by repeating, by combining and recombining a few elements over and over again just as nature does when of elementary particles it builds a world.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels.

As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Priesthood is forever and does not cease when a priest cannot carry out that priestly ministry.

The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

It is impossible to devise a scientific experiment to describe the creation process, or even to ascertain whether such a process can take place. The Creator does not create at the whim of a scientist.

He who does Christ's work must stay with Christ always.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

And Barry Levinson is insanely funny. I don't know if you know this, not everyone does, but he and Craig T. Nelson were a comedy team back in the coffeehouse days of the late '60s.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

Assuming China does not become destabilized and continues to grow, it will no doubt develop a military program in proportion to its resources.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

One does not become a guru by accident.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

It does not seem to me to be sufficiently recognized everywhere among the officials that the existence or non-existence of our people and Empire is at stake.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S.

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected 'I believe' to 'one does feel'.

Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.

Humans all want to beat the clock but nobody ever does.

Everything Michael Jackson does on stage is exactly right.

I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?

I've always been kind of a shy guy. Not very outgoing. I might not start a conversation, but if somebody else does, I'll chat away.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

The truth is, everything ultimately comes down to the relationship between the reader and the writer and the characters. Does or does not a character address moral being in a universal and important way? If it does, then it's literature.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

I have learned to have more faith in the scientist than he does in himself.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

The only thing that I know is that, growing up, I came across stumbling blocks, and I always said to myself, 'If I ever get into a position to do something about this, I would like to, so that somebody does not deal with what I went through.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

One argument against open systems is that they become open to everything, good and bad. Like a Richard Meier skyscraper, the anal retentive, Bauhaus elegance of the Mac does prevent the loose ends and confusion of a less sterile environment. But it also prevents fertility. Apple's development must come from within.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

There is a resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe. The policies of the Bush administration and the Sharon administration contribute to that. It's not specifically anti-Semitism, but it does manifest itself in anti-Semitism as well.

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

Every man is a potential genius until he does something.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Lead yourself whenever your boss' leadership deteriorates. When your boss doesn't praise what you do, praise yourself. When your boss doesn't make you big, make yourself big. Remember, if you have done your best, failure does not count.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Does this planet have enough resources so seven or eight billion can have the same level of consumption and waste that today is seen in rich societies? It is this level of hyper-consumption that is harming our planet.

Since scarcity is the basic economic problem, if it does not exist then there is no reason for my economics course. Devoting time to the study of how people use limited resources to fulfill unlimited wants and needs should help us to discover how to best utilize the resources we have at our disposal.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.

I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actors always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

That attitude does not exist so much today, but in those days there was a very sharp distinction between basic physics and applied physics. Columbia did not deal with applied physics.

To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.

I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.