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Nowadays the dynamic element is more important in chess - players more often sacrifice material to obtain dynamic compensation.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
Censorship is certainly not the answer to controversial material and is inconsistent with our most basic constitutional values.
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
With Hall & Oates, honestly, after years and years of playing the same material, it's easy to coast. I can coast through a show.
The actual world, not some fantastic structure that has nothing to do with reality, must provide the material for modern poetry.
I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.
Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.
I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
One example of an upcoming need for downmass - the ability to transport material from space to the Earth - is space manufacturing.
All bronzes are made to be touched. Bronze is a sensual 'living' material. The sweat and oil of your palms adds to the patination.
Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'
It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
I'm fully aware that not every cartoon is Pulitzer material. That said, I'm proud of my Pulitzer portfolio, the 20 that got judged.
I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.
We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.
I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to 'Talk Soup,' where I was writing and performing for TV.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
That's what comedy is like: You have to force yourself out in the world because you're always one experience away from new material.
I'd much rather wait till my material is up to par, in my opinion, than rush it just so I can stay in the limelight a little longer.
If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life.
My hope is always to be able to find well-written, interesting material with good people and then actually be able to get those jobs.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
Material things ain't nothing. You feel me? At the end of the day, it's who you is. You wasn't born with it; you gon' die without it.
Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.
I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
The one thing about reality is sometimes it gives you material that is wilder than some of your wildest imagination could come up with.
I like to use light as a material, but my medium is actually perception. I want you to sense yourself sensing - to see yourself seeing.
I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
I never want to be in a position where I have to defend my material. It's too subjective. It's for other people to defend or not defend.
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
A movie is not a book. If the source material is a book, you cannot be too respectful of the book. All you owe to the book is the spirit.
Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This is no less true of steel and concrete.
I don't mind doing scripted material. It's actually kind of a relief, because improvising is a little bit like screenwriting on your feet.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
The band cannot sign to another label or even put out its own material unless they are released from their agreement, which never happens.
Not everyone's role model material, but we do have a sense of responsibility because kids listen more to us than they would their parents.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
People want to feel good about the choices they make. They want to know they're choosing material that's not going to harm the environment.