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• The economics of television syndication and DVD sales mean that there's a tremendous financial pressure to make programs that can be watched multiple times, revealing new nuances and shadings on the third viewing. Meanwhile, the Web has created a forum for annotation and commentary that allows more complicated shows to prosper, thanks to the fan sites where each episode of shows like 'Lost' or 'Alias' is dissected with an intensity usually reserved for Talmud scholars.

  Steven Johnson

  Mean, Dvds, Fans

  "Watching TV Makes You Smarter". www.nytimes.com. April 24, 2005.

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• After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.

  Yasmina Reza

  Writing, Enough, Superfluous

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• I would love to do both but I think I believe there's a thing as overexposure and I think people will get sick of me real quick. I kind of basically looked at it as my retirement plan now. That's definitely something I can do when I'm not wrestling anymore. And believe it or not - this sounds horrible - but it was really easy for me. I would really love to do both. I'd love to wrestle and do commentary, I think that would be awesome.

  CM Punk

  Retirement, Real, Believe

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• Movies can be effective in influencing people to think in ways they might not otherwise be exposed to. Social commentary in films is most effective when you're not aware of a soapbox. Making the point without force-feeding the audience is the most desirable approach.

  Walter Koenig

  Thinking, People, Soapbox

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• The New Testament is a commentary on the Old Testament, in the light of the new revelation given by Christ and the Holy Spirit.

  Gary North

  Light, Spirit, Christ

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• The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

  RuPaul

  Self, Looks, Hey

  "RuPaul: Famous, Fierce And Fashion Forward". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. February 2, 2012.

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• The author brings to the table a healthy skepticism of the conventional wisdom, an admirable ability to separate fact from fancy, and an undisguised repugnance for the mumbo-jumbo that's the curse of so much commentary on anything to do with economics or investment. A World of Wealth is not only a lively read, but an exceptionally enlightening and rewarding one to boot.

  Alan Abelson

  Healthy, Boots, World

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• All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary.

  Isaac Asimov

  Acid, Life Is

  "The Relativity of Wrong". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1988.

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• The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat.

  Isaac Newton

  Years, Vision, Rams

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.112, Library of Alexandria

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• Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Tasks, Done, Revision

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• Who would have believed that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as servants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa, or that Bethlehem would daily receive noble Romans, distinguished ladies, brought up in wealth and now reduced to beggary? I cannot help them all, but I grieve and weep with them, and am completely absorbed in the duties which charity imposes on me. I have put aside my commentary on Ezekiel and almost all study. For today we must translate the precepts of the Scriptures into deeds; instead of speaking saintly words, we must act them.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Grieving, Egypt

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Pigs, Medicine

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• While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Facts, Obsolete, Stale

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Shine On, Light, Shining

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• Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

  Antonya Nelson

  Wall, Simple, Vocabulary

  Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Guy, Criticism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

  Jay Roach

  Enjoyed

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  Tabitha Soren

  Giving, Analysis, News

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• When the only form of cultural commentary Christians offer is moral condemnation, no wonder we come across to non-believers as angry and scolding.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Moral, Wonder

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• Art is not only about something; it is something. A work of art is a thing in the world, not just a text or commentary on the world.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, World, Art Is

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Book, Lessons, Helping

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• For the most basic assumption that dictated my early attempts to respond to creative music commentary was the mistaken belief that western journalists had some fundamental understanding of black creativity—or even western creativity—but this assumption was seriously in error.

  Anthony Braxton

  Creativity, Errors, Creative

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• The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes about conservatives and exposes the myth of liberal tolerance as she relates her interactions with liberals in everyday life. This narrative, interlaced with commentary and impressions, gives us insight into liberals that books merely about abstract principles do not capture. A fascinating read.

  David Limbaugh

  Book, Unique, Voice

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• I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Running, Writing, Long

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