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• The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Simple, Ifs

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Garden, Rose

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• If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Art, Chaos, Human Experience

  On his work in government. Quoted in Scott Donaldson Archibald MacLeish (1992).

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• You read something and you just feel this makes sense. And sometimes before you even read it you have a feeling that yeah, I'm probably gonna do this one.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Feelings, Sometimes, Yeah

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Anytime I've ever been involved in a non-linear story, you see it in a linear manner first, just to make sure it makes sense, and then you chop it up and move it around.

  Zack Snyder

  Moving, Stories, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• I want people to think that I'm a magical, weird-looking freak of nature, but they really see me as a sexy Amazon jungle cat. That makes sense - I'm a little bit of both, but I definitely lean toward the narwhal side of the equation.

  Kesha

  Sexy, Cat, Thinking

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Simple, Car, Needs

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Dania Ramirez Talk PREMIUM RUSH, DON JON’S ADDICTION, Hit Record and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 21, 2012.

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• I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

  Jack Antonoff

  Want, Way, Bizarre

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.

  Aimee Bender

  Writing, Pages, Best Work

  Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.

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• I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.

  Loudon Wainwright III

  Writing, Thinking, Stuff

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 21, 2010.

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• People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.

  Candy Chang

  Wall, People, Laughing

  Candy Chang (2013). “Before I Die”, p.14, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

  Peter Drucker

  Baby, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Frontiers of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1986.

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• We live in an essential and unresolvable tension between our unity with nature and our dangerous uniqueness. Systems that attempt to place and make sense of us by focusing exclusively either on the uniqueness or the unity are doomed to failure. But we must not stop asking and questing because the answers are complex and ambiguous.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Unity, Essentials, Asking

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History”, p.250, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Feelings, Confusing, World

  "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Chance Riches", p. 342, 1983.

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• You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

  Robert Harris

  Past

  Robert Harris (2010). “Archangel”, p.233, Random House

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• Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

  Pamela Anderson

  Country, Silly, Voice

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• Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.

  Laura Riding

  Long, Giving, May

  "The Promise of Words". London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 17, p. 23, September 07, 1995.

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• I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Thinking, Humanity, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Making movies has not only been an incredibly collaborative process but there's three big parts: pre-production, shooting itself and then post-production, which leads into marketing. And if you're passionate about the movie and you believe in it, and it would make sense that you are having done it, then you want to get out and promote it. It makes it a lot easier when the film is good and people are enjoying it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Believe, People, Marketing

  "Dwayne Johnson Talks Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  Adam Kluger

  Song, Artist, Office

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• If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

  Gordon Bethune

  People, Three, Vote

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• The art of the poem nowadays is something unstable; but at least the construction of the poem should make sense; you should know where you stand. Many questions haven't been answered as yet. Our poets may be wrong; but what can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision, so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.

  William Carlos Williams

  Art, Past, Vision

  "The Paris Review : Writers at Work", 3rd series, Viking Penguin, (p. 29), April 1962.

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• Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense. The carefully edited, slow-motion, action replay of a rugby tackle, a car crash or a sex act has more significance than the original event. Thanks to virtual reality, we will soon be moving into a world where a heightened super-reality will consist entirely of action replays, and reality will therefore be all the more rich and meaningful.

  J. G. Ballard

  Meaningful, Art, Sex

  "JG Ballard: Theatre of Cruelty". Interview with Jean-Paul Coillard, www.jgballard.ca. 1998.

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