Scales Quotes - Page 21

• I'm constantly telling young people that their voices and stories are important. Making a movie is such a large-scale, intense operation that imagining that you "deserve" to be making it is - well, complex.

  Josephine Decker

  Voice, People, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm an English songwriter/composer, working in Mandarin and trying to find something about Chinese culture that I really relate to and respect and feel some genuine emotions for - and it's quite hard, the pentatonic scale, and that, in a way, is why I think it works. Because I'm forced to limit myself to quite strict rules about what I did. Maybe that's how I avoided pastiche.

  Damon Albarn

  Thinking, Chinese, Trying

  "Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. January 26, 2009.

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• Well germ warfare of course exists. There have been on a small scale... There have been, of course, a few people who got killed with anthrax right here in Princeton.

  Freeman Dyson

  People, Warfare, Germs

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 5, 2010.

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• Most directors prefer to direct everything themselves. I thought I could on Lord Of The Rings, but very quickly found out that the sheer scale prevented it.

  Peter Jackson

  Directors, Lord, Found

  "Peter Jackson & Guillermo Del Toro Talk The Hobbit!". Online chat, www.movieweb.com. May 24, 2008.

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• Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.

  Alan Watts

  Long, Effort, Mind

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• We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

  Petra Kelly

  Mean, Understanding, Survival

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• ...I'm no longer the scales most lovers are, weighing the deeds and gifts and treasures proffered against those received or stolen from the other, trying always to bring into fatal balance two separate things.

  Gore Vidal

  Two, Balance, Trying

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• There is a dilemma, to reconcile three time scales: in the short term, the economy; in the middle range, global well-being generally; and, in the long range, the environment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Long, Three, Environment

  "Magic Mountain" by Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. March 5, 2012.

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• A great novelist excels on the small scale and the large, the individual leaf and root as well as the forest; good fiction convinces us that the imaginary is real by selecting exactly the right detail and rendering it perfectly.

  Laura Miller

  Real, Convince Us, Roots

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• I believe that those who believe in the power of human rights must find new ways to address economic injustice - and on a scale commensurate with the millions of people around the world that are mired in poverty.

  Pamela Yates

  Believe, Rights, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We are very confident that the data is showing that carbon capture and sequestration is technologically feasible and it's available. It has been successfully demonstrated and there are full-scale both conventional and unconventional coal projects with CCS that are moving forward. So there is no question that there's continued investment in this technology.

  Gina McCarthy

  Moving, Technology, Data

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained.

  Vladimir Putin

  Breakup, Tragedy, Unions

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• I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

  Conor Maynard

  Piano, Lessons, Want

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

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• Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Mean, Past

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see.

  Francois Fenelon

  Fall, Love You, Eye

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• Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it doesn't matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must have some sense in it somewhere.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  People, Cheerful, Matter

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• It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

  Mike Huckabee

  Government, People

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• It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

  John Constable

  Names, Keys, Sky

  John Walker, John Constable (1978). “John Constable”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• No other organization rouses anything like the loyalty aroused by the national State. And the chief activity of the State is preparation for large-scale homicide.

  Bertrand Russell

  Loyalty, Organization, Preparation

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.173, Psychology Press

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• Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.

  Rumi

  Zero, Fire, Light

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• I will personally never ever get over the communal experience of theatrical cinema. I will never get over the scale of a big screen in relation to your small body, big sounds in a big room with a bunch of other people.

  Liza Johnson

  People, Sound, Cinema

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• We have had a loss in manufacturing base and a loss of some of our productive capability that can be filled with the green-collar jobs of tomorrow. But it will only happen if we recognize the scale and scope of both the challenge and the opportunity.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Loss, Opportunity

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has been introduced in Congress because it does have the scale, scope, and ambition of the original Apollo Project, and it attacks the problem in every way you can imagine. There's no silver bullet here, but there are lots of opportunities.

  Jay Inslee

  Ambition, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008 Issue.

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• By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The dread equation is a simplification, but it's a way to explain why we fear something so much when it is so unlikely. Part of it is the lack of control. That's why we're more scared of plane crashes than car crashes even though we know rationally which is more dangerous.

  Amanda Ripley

  Smart, Car, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The evil genius of terrorism is that that maximizes unfamiliarity, imaginability, suffering, scale of destruction, unfairness. It's really important to understand why terrorism is so frightening because it is a psychological war and until you understand it and try to reduce the dread, until then you become like a force multiplier for the terrorists inadvertently because you'll tend to overreact to terrorist attacks because the dread factor is so high.

  Amanda Ripley

  War, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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