Features Quotes - Page 20

• The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Humility, Science, Arrogance

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• What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Bacteria, Outstanding, Domination

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• I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.

  Brian Greene

  Everyday, Mesh, Strings

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• Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

  Brian Greene

  Law, Two, Environmental

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• A feature film is twenty-four lies per second.

  Michael Haneke

  Lying, Twenties, Four

  "Biography/ Trivia". www.imdb.com.

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• Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

  William Hazlitt

  Temper

  "The Complete Works of William Hazlitt".

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• You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise.

  Werner Herzog

  Mind, Documentaries, Bears

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

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• In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film Directing, Directors, Documentary Films

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

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• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Ancestry, Signals, Breeding

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.139, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The worst feature of a new baby is its mother's singing.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Uplifting, Mom

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• No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.

  Kin Hubbard

  Beauty, Witty, Women

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• I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

  Wyclef Jean

  School, Musical, Band

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• Many of the network television shows have done takeoffs on 'Family Circus,' including 'David Letterman,' 'Friends,' 'Roseanne,' and others, and, in my estimation the use of them is a compliment to the popularity of the feature, which just by mentioning it's name sets up the image of a warm, loving family-type feature.

  Bil Keane

  Names, Use, Done

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• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Winning, Umpires, Design

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• Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

  Primo Levi

  Memories, Lying, Years

  "Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory". Book by Christopher Bigsby, 2006.

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• As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

  John Lydon

  Song, Concerts, Certain

  "I don't hate Pink Floyd" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

  David Lynch

  Falling In Love, Ideas, Next

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• I think part of the reason ideas haven't come in is that the world of cinema is changing so drastically, and in a weird way, feature films I think have become cheap. Everything is kind of throwaway. It's experienced and then forgotten.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Ideas, Cinema

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• I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.

  George R. R. Martin

  Couple, Years, Done

  "A conversation with Game of Thrones author George R. R. Martin". The Sydney Morning Herald Interview, www.smh.com.au. August 1, 2011.

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• Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Writing, Magazines, Care

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention of people who do the independent movies and the features.

  Shemar Moore

  Drama, Independent, People

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

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• Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.

  Susan Orlean

  Choices, Modern Life, Internet

  "Bootless" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 2010.

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• The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

  William Osler

  Health, Exercise, Animal

  In H. Cushing Life of Sir William Osler (1925) vol. 1, ch. 14

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• Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, Law, Religion

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

  Katy Perry

  Girly, Thinking, Play

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