Involving Quotes - Page 10

• Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

  Pauline Collins

  Different, Actors, Engagement

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• De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people would at the end of a given time be alive; and quoted the actuarial formula, involving p [pi], which, in answer to a question, he explained stood for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. His acquaintance, who had so far listened to the explanation with interest, interrupted him and exclaimed, 'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Science, Circles

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• Ask creative people where they get their ideas, and they will roll their eyes. It's the most common question, but it's also a bad one because the answer is inevitably disappointing. From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.

  Gene Weingarten

  Inspiration, Creativity, Eye

  Gene Weingarten (2010). “The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America's Foremost Feature Writer”, p.243, Simon and Schuster

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• Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

  Dave Barry

  Falling In Love, Zero Gravity, Percent

  "Problems Of Utmost Gravity" by Dave Barry, articles.chicagotribune.com. March 15, 1998.

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• It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

  Ajay Naidu

  Creative, Important, Actors

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• I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness. But when dealing with the Iron, one must be careful to interpret the pain correctly. Most injuries involving the Iron come from ego. I once spent a few weeks lifting weight that my body wasn’t ready for and spent a few months not picking up anything heavier than a fork. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Fighting, Greatness

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• Opportunism is self interest seeking with guile often involving subtle forms of deceit, especially calculated efforts to mislead, distort, disguise, obfuscate, or otherwise confuse. This vastly complicates the problems of economic organisation. Plainly if it were not for opportunism all behaviour could be rule governed

  Oliver E. Williamson

  Self, Effort, Deceit

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• The ABA works tirelessly in its efforts involving the first line of defense: the prevention of burn injuries.

  Richard Neal

  Effort, Defense, Prevention

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• Women like to be scared, but they don't like the blood and the gore, and especially movies that have violence and torture involving women. Women don't want to see that, I can tell you for damn sure right now.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Blood, Want, Violence

  "In the Halloween Queen’s Court: A Conversation with Elvira, aka Cassandra Peterson". Interview with Dan Lybarger, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 30, 2011.

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• Electric and magnetic forces. May they live for ever, and never be forgot, if only to remind us that the science of electromagnetics, in spite of the abstract nature of its theory, involving quantities whose nature is entirely unknown at the present, is really and truly founded on the observations of real Newtonian forces, electric and magnetic respectively.

  Oliver Heaviside

  Nature, Real, Science

  Oliver Heaviside (2003). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, American Mathematical Soc.

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• Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Christian, Identity, Stereotype

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• My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

  Peter Higgs

  School, Wonder, Physics

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• Becoming one flesh is a broad concept involving the totality of life. The context of Genesis 2 and the teaching of the rest of the Bible about marriage demand this. At the same time, it is generally recognized that there is no place where this total sharing is more beautifully pictured or fully experienced than in the sexual relationship of the man and his wife.

  Wayne Mack

  Teaching, Men, Becoming One

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• We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

  Robin Boyd

  Needs, Planning, Architecture

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• TV writing is different than other mediums, involving the writer.

  Tom Skerritt

  Writing, Different, Tvs

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• The president typically never does comment on anything involving the Supreme Court cases, Supreme Court ruling, or Supreme Court finding, typically.

  Ari Fleischer

  President, Doe, Court

  "CNN Reliable Surces", www.cnn.com. June 1, 2003.

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• Leibniz endeavored to provide an account of inference and judgment involving the mechanical play of symbols and very little else. The checklists that result are the first of humanity's intellectual artifacts. They express, they explain, and so they ratify a power of the mind. And, of course, they are artifacts in the process of becoming algorithms.

  David Berlinski

  Play, Humanity, Intellectual

  David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

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• That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.

  Tony Snow

  Science, Giving, Doe

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• The variety of more minute interests, which will necessarily fall under the superintendence of the local administrations . . . cannot be particularized without involving a detail too tedious and uninteresting to compensate for the instruction it might afford.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Fall, Might, Administration

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.77

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• But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment.

  Donald Judd

  Thinking, Kind, Moments

  "Oral history interview with Donald Judd" by Bruce Hooton, www.aaa.si.edu. February 3, 1965.

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• Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.

  J. G. Ballard

  Photography, Children, Distance

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• I know Roomba is a vacuum... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!

  Shannon Woodward

  Fun, Party, Games

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• A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

  Dave Barry

  Looks, Pounds, Results

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• I think scandal probably attracted more American attention to Formula 1 than anything else in American news in decades. And that`s because it was a sex scandal, a particularly lurid sex scandal involving this guy Max Mosley.

  Rachel Maddow

  Sex, Thinking, Guy

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• The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Book, Class, Knowing

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