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• Mads Mikkelsen’s acting is very subtle, precise, nuanced, so he brings something completely different to the character. If you compare Mads’ Hannibal to Anthony Hopkins’ for example. Not to mention that Mads Mikkelsen is very handsome and sexy, so he brings that to the character as well.

  Caroline Dhavernas

  Sexy, Character, Acting

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• When a certain number of people come together and they choose at a moment in time to create a precise emotion in their hearts, that emotion literally can intentionally influence the very fields that sustain the life on planet earth.

  Gregg Braden

  Heart, Numbers, People

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• Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

  John Ruskin

  Men, Perfect, Tools

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The sea-stories”, p.161

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• While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Believe, Gay, Bisexual

  "Cynthia Nixon Updates Her Controversial Statement: She Now Says She is 'Technically' Bisexual" by Gena Kaufman, www.glamour.com. January 31, 2012.

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• There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Men, Two

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• I don't think Stoppardian has a precise definition.

  Tom Stoppard

  Thinking, Definitions

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• If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Scientist, Metaphorical

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• To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, People, Age

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• There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

  John von Neumann

  Talking, Programming, Knows

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• To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named.

  Christopher Alexander

  Men, Names, Roots

  Christopher Alexander (1979). “The Timeless Way of Building”, p.9, New York : Oxford University Press

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• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

  Charles Babbage

  Differences, Tools, Machines

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.12

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• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Order, People

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• We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission, holding strongly to the 'master-in-my-own-house theory,' thinking much of the details of home arrangements, precise, methodical, easily angered and with difficulty appeased.

  Annie Besant

  Husband, Home, Thinking

  Annie Besant (1893). “Annie Besant: An Autobiography”

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• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

  Warren Buffett

  Medicine, Economic, Barrels

  Warren Buffett's annual letter to shareholders., www.berkshirehathaway.com. February 28, 2009.

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• Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Guy, Understanding, Scene

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• To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Reality, Joy

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• Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that's precise, predictive and reliable - a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.

  Brian Greene

  Emotional, Confusion, Perspective

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• 'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Father, Guy, Would Be

  The MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. 2011.

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• Why should we, however, in economics, have to plead ignorance of the sort of facts on which, in the case of a physical theory, a scientist would certainly be expected to give precise information?

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Giving, Facts

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• Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

  Theodor Adorno

  Technology, Men, Gestures

  Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). “Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life”, p.40, Verso

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• I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Action, Achieve

  Bertrand Russell, Robert Charles Marsh (1988). “Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901-1950”, p.190, Psychology Press

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• The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

  Christian Louboutin

  Engineering, Support, Balance

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• I will not allow a Delia Smith cookbook in my house! It's all so precise with Delia, and it makes cooking seem so inaccessible.

  Theresa May

  House, Cooking, Cookbook

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

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• When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.

  Taylor Swift

  Character, Thinking, Play

  "Taylor Swift Maps Out Film Career". Interview with Ruben V. Nepales, entertainment.inquirer.net. April 01, 2012.

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• When hope is fleeting, stop for a moment and visualize, in a sky of silver, the crescent of a lavender moon. Imagine it -- delicate, slim, precise, like a paper-thin slice from a cabochon jewel. It may not be very useful, but it is beautiful. And sometimes it is enough.

  Vera Nazarian

  Beautiful, Moon, Jewels

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