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We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.
I say scrap the IRS. Let's start all over again.
...He was just scraps of words and dislocated phrases.
Scrap doesn't come for free, we pay someone to make it.
Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?
When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.
My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.
The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.
Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.
Normally I don't have a scrap of makeup on me when I'm on the radio.
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers
I've always been someone who has wanted to fight and to scrap for every penny I could.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Scrap metal theft costs our state countless dollars in stolen public and private property.
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
We need to scrap the Human Rights Act and need a balance between rights and responsibilities.
We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.
Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
I start with the outcome - increasing efficiency, lowering scrap and cost - and then execute toward that.
If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction?
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
I've appointed a task force to take a fresh look at the color-code system and whether we should retain it, change it or scrap it.
In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
A lot of times, I write and have to scrap it. You don't know what I'm talking about because the words are too much, and it's overwhelming.
The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it.
I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.
Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.
It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap.
If I don't feel it when I'm sitting there, if it doesn't give me the feeling I got when I heard 'Pony' or 'So Anxious' or 'In Those Jeans,' I scrap it.
After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe.
I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.
When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
If the beat feels like it don't make you move right, I scrap that and go to another track. Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour to get one done.
If we went around just throwing people on the scrap heap because of one or two things that they might have done in their youth, I think we would lose a lot of talent.
I had no direct experience of a relegation scrap, but with Wales, I never had the luxury of being allowed to lose games. I was under pressure to win even the friendlies.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?
If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.
My back is full of metal; so are my hands and legs. I'll have to decide who will get all that in my will. It's probably worth a fortune in scrap metal. But it doesn't affect my movement.
I come from a family of scrap metal dealers, so becoming an actor seemed like a ridiculous thing to do, but I'd found the thing that gave me a kick, and I quickly became obsessed with it.
I know it's sappy, but I bet there's a market for civility and niceness out there that, while probably not as titillating as a junkyard scrap between shirtless adversaries, it'd sure be healthier.
There were numerous times where, at the end of a week of working on a song, there was a part of it that we still weren't feeling, so we'd scrap the whole thing and start from scratch the next week.
I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music 'jangly,' 'dream,' 'oceanside,' whatever - I don't care. I'm just wearing whatever I can scrap together.