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• There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.

  George Lucas

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• My approach to violence is that if it's pertinent, if that's the kind of movie you're making, then it has a purposeI think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. I like to think it's not violence for the sake of violence and in this particular film, it's actually violence for the annihilation of violence.

  Guy Ritchie

  Thinking, Intellectual, Violence

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• I can't imagine wanting to be famous just for the sake of being famous. I think fame should come along with success, talent.

  Kat Dennings

  Thinking, Talent, Imagine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of comedy in Intermission but it's got this depth. It's not comedy for comedy's sake - it's informed by something else. I like stuff like that

  Cillian Murphy

  Depth, Stuff, Comedy

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• Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

  Denzel Washington

  Taken, Dust, Thorns

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• There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

  Rodney Mullen

  Creating, Intrinsic Value, Values

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• I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

  Skylar Astin

  Challenges, Comedy, Shocking

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

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• I sort of gave up on this whole human adventure a long time ago, divorced myself from it emotionally. It gives me an artistic detachment that I find valuable. I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise, for the sake of cell phones and Jet Skis.

  George Carlin

  Country, Adventure, Thinking

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• Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.

  Felix Guattari

  Fashion, Growth, World

  Félix Guattari (1995). “Chaosmosis: An Ethico-aesthetic Paradigm”, p.21, Indiana University Press

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• Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

  Richard Burr

  Citizens, Helping, Action

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• What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.

  Peter Maurin

  Giving, Christ, Poor

  Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.123, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.

  Benjamin Wiker

  Evil, May, Questionable

  Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

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• No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

  Ellen Barkin

  Children, School, Kids

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

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• There seems to be more comedy for comedy's sake

  Todd Barry

  Comedy, Seems

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• Today, local economies are being destroyed by the 'pluralistic,' displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

  Wendell Berry

  Principles, Today, No Respect

  New Perspectives Quarterly, www.poetryfoundation.org. 1992.

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• Slipping into madness is good for the sake of comparison

  Jenny Holzer

  Slipping, Madness, Comparison

  Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”

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• Heavenly Father and Mother, make us thankful for all the blessings of this life, and make us ever mindful of the patient hands that oft in weariness spread our tables and prepare our daily food. For humanity's sake, Amen.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Mother, Father, Blessing

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• I grew up in an artists community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

  Vin Diesel

  Art, New York, Government

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• Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Fighting, Cutting, Genius

  Rabindranath Tagore (2015). “The Religion of Man”, p.87, Ravenio Books

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• Style: There is something in too much verbal felicity (as in Joyce or Nabokov or Borges) that can betray the writer into technique for the sake of technique.

  Edward Abbey

  Style, Technique, Too Much

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

  Edward Abbey

  Sports, Humanity, Gentleman

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• The world exists for its own sake, not for ours. Swallow *that* pill!

  Edward Abbey

  Pills, World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• And if a minister shall usurp the supreme and absolute govern ment of America, and set up his instructions as laws in the colonies, and their Governors shall be so weak or so wicked, as for the sake of keeping their places, to be made the instruments in putting them in execu tion, who will presume to say that the people have not a right, or that it is not their indispensible duty to God and their Country, by all rational means in their power to RESIST THEM.

  Samuel Adams

  Country, Mean, Law

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• Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Names, Body

  Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson (2003). “A Benjamin Franklin Reader”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

  Laurel Mellin

  Happiness, Pain, Hands

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