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  • Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

    Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.59, Souvenir Press
  • If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.

    "The hours" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.
  • Some people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.

    The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.35, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
  • 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 available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.

  • I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.

    Spiritual   Mean   Facts  
    "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.
  • It's very hard for a studio to take a chance on a piece of original material. They used to have the fall-back of DVD sales. They had ways in which they could safely make an investment in a piece of original material, and those opportunities aren't necessarily there anymore.

    Fall   Opportunity   Dvds  
    "Director Doug Liman Talks MTV’s I JUST WANT MY PANTS BACK, ALL YOU NEED IS KILL and EVEREST". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 1, 2012.
  • The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

  • The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

    Cutting   Ideas   Space  
  • My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material.

    Son   Names   People  
  • Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody.

  • I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

    Trying   Done   Looks  
  • Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

    "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.
  • Actors work for many reasons. Sometimes you do it because the material is good. Sometimes you do it because the paycheck is good. We would love to only do things that are art, that are artistic and that satisfy us, but this is our job, as well.

    Art   Jobs   Actors  
  • I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

    Work   Editors   People  
  • Undeveloped though the science [of chemistry] is, it already has great power to bring benefits. Those accruing to physical welfare are readily recognized, as in providing cures, improving the materials needed for everyday living, moving to ameliorate the harm which mankind by its sheer numbers does to the environment, to say nothing of that which even today attends industrial development. And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.

  • Material girls like Madonna Model for Donatella

    Song: Girls Fall Like Dominoes, Album: Pink Friday, 2010
  • The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to retrace my steps quite a lot, because the stories are very intricate and the material is elusive, and possibly with age, my memory is not as malleable as it used to be.

    Memories   Writing   Age  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.

  • Well, that's the way democracy works. We have to build this Europe with the material we have at our disposal. And this material is national democracy.

    Europe   Democracy   Way  
  • My shoes I got to pick. I chose worn-out red flats. I figured I should make it clear from the start that I wasn’t princess material.

    Princess   Shoes   Red  
    Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.35, HarperCollins
  • No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

    Hunters   World   Poet  
  • Calvin's theocentric irrationalism eventually revealed itself as the cunning to technocratic reason which had to shape its human material. Misery and the poor laws did not suffice to drive men into the workshops of the early capitalistic era. The new spirit helped to supplement external pressures with a concern for wife and child to which the moral autonomy of the introverted subject in reality was tantamount.

    Children   Reality   Men  
    "The Essential Frankfurt School Reader" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1982.
  • I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

    Reading   Firsts   Boards  
  • When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel the ground beneath them and the wind on their faces, they get a wider view of their personal world and development in the theater is quickened. The world provides the material for the theater and artistic growth develops hand-in-hand with one's recognition of it and one's self within it.

    Air   Self   Views  
  • News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

    Food   Cooking   Culture  
    Rose Macaulay (1926). “A Casual Commentary”
  • Poor people can be greedy, too. It's just that they don't have any material resources. We need shaping of the souls as well as shaping of our institutions.

    People   Soul   Needs  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • When Wu-Wear started making shoes and sneakers and pants, it was shoddy material.

    Sneakers   Shoes   Pants  
  • What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

    "THE BILL GATES INTERVIEW: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world". Interview with Drake Baer, www.businessinsider.com. February 22, 2016.
  • Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without heart is a life without life force. The psyche, as well as the body, needs both heart and brain in order to survive. Like Chinese women who bound their feet and the could no longer walk freely, we have bound our hearts, and thus stunted our growth as moral beings.

    Heart   Order   Feet  
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