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Music gives me a lot of peace, either classic music with its structure or the spontaneity of Miles Davis. It brings the best in you.
The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
There's definitely something about the structure of 'Caddyshack' that is unique that no one has ever been able to achieve since then.
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
Young film makers should learn how to deal with the money and learn how to deal with the power structure. Because it is like a battle.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
I'm so boring and grounded, and I like quiet, and I like structure, and I like goals. I couldn't be more opposite from Jack McFarland.
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.
It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.
I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
Fully "biodegradable" structures are nowadays the ideal and the standards to which most, if not all structures, struggle to measure up.
Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.
In order to address world economic imbalances, countries around the world should make joint efforts to adjust their economic structure.
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.
I have a reward-and-punishment system: If I have done this much work, then I can play video games this long. It gives my day structure.
I'm not very well organized unless I'm plugged into a structure like the opera or a movie. When I'm doing that, I have to be organized.
The biggest attraction with wearing seersucker has to be its rumpled look. This is because seersucker has a lack of inherent structure.
I'm not a fan of the NCAA. I don't think they make decisions for the kids. They make decisions for bureaucracy and for their structure.
The World Cup is like the Overlook Hotel: the identities of individual meat puppets might change, but the structure continues endlessly.
My hobby first and foremost is collecting automobiles. I have a fairly nice, finished 6,500-square-foot structure that I call my garage.
There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.
During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
I don't think I'm better than everyone else at anything, but I am very quick at organizing a big mass of interview tape into a structure.
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
A textbook requires a consistent sense of style and a linear structure, hallmarks of a single authorial presence. An encyclopedia doesn't.
My fashion cues come from my work, not the ramps of the world. I just keep working with so much colour, texture and structure, it rubs off!
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write. We want it. It's how we create meaning.
Only cinema narrows its concern down to its content, that is to its story. It should, instead, concern itself with its form, its structure.
One of the reasons I started working at 'South Park,' actually, was that I wanted to learn how to structure things and how to tell a story.
To write a kernel without a data structure and have it be as consistent and graceful as UNIX would have been a much, much harder challenge.
There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.
I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.
Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.
I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after.
It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.
The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.
President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.
Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.
Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard.