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Clumsiness attempts to fix simplicity straight in the eye. It is not a mark of incompetence but of reticence. Jean-Luc Godard
Simplicity Incompetence Mark Eye Attempts Reticence Fix Straight
Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it? Jeff Beck
Sometimes Recording Beauty Own Rules Bits Out Solo Solos My Own Attempts Like Make Learn Mix Up Five Against Them Then Really Whole Keep Four
The existence of life beyond Earth is an ancient human concern. Over the years, however, attempts to understand humanity's place in the cosmos through science often got hijacked by wishful thinking or fabricated tales. Jill Tarter
Life Science Humanity Thinking Earth Ancient Fabricated Cosmos Through Attempts Over Hijacked Wishful Wishful Thinking Tales Beyond Concern Understand Got However Years Existence Often Human Place
Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost. Johann Most
Freedom Failure Cause Lost Anarchism Possible Attain Attempts Does Mean
Russia's actions in Syria are not the only reasons to distrust Mr. Putin. Moscow has opposed attempts by the U.N. in November 2011 to increase sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear program. John Barrasso
November Increase Syria Distrust Russia Only Attempts Putin Moscow Opposed Iran Against Sanctions Reasons Actions Nuclear Program
After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since. John Carney
Feature Feature Film Attempts Since Couple Make Hall Making Friend After Decided Shorts Worked Tom Whom Film Ever
What is the relation between Christianity and modern culture; may Christianity be maintained in a scientific age? It is this problem which modern liberalism attempts to solve. John Gresham Machen
Age Culture Problem Christianity Relation Liberalism Solve Attempts Maintained Between Scientific Modern May Modern Culture Which
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. John M. Ford
Reality Sometimes Will Else Something Something Else Attempts True Empirically Reader Than Author Intent Decide Decipher Certainly
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his existence always strike me as kinds of games, since hardly anyone believes on the basis of these arguments at all. Julian Baggini
God Me Argument Back Strike Back Up Kinds Cosmology Case Attempts Since Contemporary Always Traditional His Existence Up Anyone Use Games Believes Hardly Basis
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable, because Earth has already reached the tipping point. 'The General Strike' attempts to personalize these issues and encourage listeners to look for a new model. Justin Sane
Culture Reality Every Nine Nine Months Strike Earth Months Out General Point Consumer Attempts New Unsustainable Look Reached Because Issues Encourage Version Model Listeners Tipping Which
The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them. Ken Calvert
Made Research Would Embryos Both Purposes Attempts Also Forbidden Ban Cloning Any Human Human Cloning Reproductive Them Bill Products Medical Medical Research
Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats. Ken Goldberg
Learning Recording Approach Our Flying Complex Signing Online Feats Attempts Observing Perform New New Approach Like Robots Surgical Motions Up Decades Tasks Human After Experts Helicopters Based Program
There's this idea that many of the attitudes and personality developments in black folks in the diaspora are a consequence of this unresolved trauma. There have been attempts by black artists to try and figure out how to represent that in some kind of way. Kerry James Marshall
Personality Try Black Way Out Kind Folks Some Unresolved Attempts Idea Developments Attitudes How Been Represent Artists Figure Many Trauma Consequence
At times, our collective anger seems a worthwhile thing - it has a weight and shape and force we couldn't achieve as individuals - but at other times, I can't help wondering how much it really accomplishes, if in some ways it might even impede us in our attempts to be more thoughtful, 'enlightened' human beings. Kim Brooks
Anger Achieve Collective Other Our Ways Thoughtful Worthwhile Some Seems More Shape Weight Attempts Individuals Force How How Much Accomplishes Times Wondering Human Human Beings Might Us Much Really Help Beings Even Thing Enlightened
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot. Kit Williams
Me You People Looking Before Others Chariot Reconstruct See Had Attempts Over Been Years Done Different Different People Many Started
'Winnie The Witch' transgresses all cultural boundaries. Amusingly, there have been attempts to deconstruct the meaning of the books - that Winnie represents society and Wilbur the disabled - but I think it's just a great story. Korky Paul
Great Think Society Books Disabled Attempts Boundaries Great Story Witch Been Cultural Just Represents Story Meaning Meaning Of
I don't write political stuff. I'm sure I've made attempts, but I don't tend to write very topical things, either. I admire those people who do because it's a talent I don't have. Kyle Mooney
People Political Made Topical Those Admire Tend Write Attempts Stuff Talent Sure Because Very Either Who Things
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out. Lindsey Buckingham
Work Me Down Seventh String Easily Out Easy Easy Thing Could Attempts Step Failed Dropping Weird Couple Fairly Became Got Came Up Where After Tuning Place Work Out Figures Play Thing
Years ago, when my attempts at a writing career came to a complete stand-still, I applied to the Los Angeles Police Department. This might seem odd for a liberal woman who once went to UC Santa Cruz, but I've always had a powerful fascination with crime and serious interest in finding different ways to contend with it. Lisa Lutz
Woman Writing Police Crime Liberal Complete Once Ways Finding Angeles Seem Had Attempts Powerful Police Department Cruz Contend Always Los Came Los Angeles Odd Years Years Ago Department Different Interest Might Santa Who Fascination Serious Different Ways Applied Career
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me. Lynn Abbey
Faith Me Could Write Attempts Blinded Bedrock Discourage
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress. Mary Bono
Internet Congress Unless Colleagues Introduced Some Given Attempts Written Clear Primarily Also Democrats Years Cease Authority Commission Legislation Republicans Asking Regulate
Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other. Mercedes Schlapp
Country Become Other Side Our Destroy Attempts Polarized Discredit Politically Unfortunately
Experience has shown us that attempts to control the Internet will invariably fail. We should be instructed by the failed efforts of China to regulate political content, the efforts of America to regulate Internet gambling, or the efforts of Australia to regulate certain speech. By its very nature, the Internet will always resist such controls. Miriam Defensor-Santiago
Nature Experience Political Internet Will Control Invariably Attempts Fail Failed Instructed Content Always Australia Very America Efforts Controls China Us Certain Should Gambling Regulate Shown Resist Speech
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. Natasha Trethewey
Me Before Took Finally Write Attempts Failed Wrote Years Drafts Needed
Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack. Nigel Hamilton
Inevitable Year Nation Every President Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Attack Had Attempts Particular Tied Ready His Hands After Republican Roosevelt Certainly
I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor. Patrick deWitt
Funny Humor Degree Hiding Recognized Ability Horrible Poems Point Write Had Attempts Lightness Wrote Dialogue Very Any Impulse Short Intentionally Stories Short Stories Certain Certain Point Fun Serious Novels Number
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