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Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he's around.
David Byrne
Injustice
Financial
Comeback
Word
Situation
Sense
Out
General
Having
Economic
Mentioned
General Sense
Marx
He
Global
Terms
Well
Him
Around
Without
Hear
Refer
Lot
America
Experts
Using
Actually
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
David Byrne
Music
You
Culture
People
Feeling
Whatever
Enjoy
Every
Give
General
Consumers
Like
Yeah
Passive
Encourage
Up
Happens
Mean
Products
Connection
Professionals
Reins
For example I don't work with William Hurt the same way that I will work with Viggo. They're different guys and they work in different ways. So a good sensitive director has his general style and technique and personality that he uses but you don't impose that on the actors.
David Cronenberg
Work
Good
You
Director
Hurt
Personality
Will
Example
Style
Way
Ways
William
General
Guys
He
For Example
Impose
His
Same
Different
Sensitive
Uses
Actor
Different Ways
Technique
What I want is the general betterment of pets. No-kill is a part of that. I'd like to see that policy enacted at all SPCA-type organizations around the country.
David Duffield
Country
See
General
Part
Betterment
Like
Policy
Around
Want
Organizations
Pets
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.
David Eddings
Science
Predict
Hesitate
Extreme
General
True
Period
Science Fiction
Opinion
Optimistic
Fiction
Whether
Mankind
Then
Theory
Popularity
If the general opinion is pessimistic, fantasy is going to hold its own.
David Eddings
Own
General
Opinion
Going
Hold
Fantasy
Pessimistic
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
David Harsanyi
Today
People
Hungary
Parents
Our
Distaste
Our Lives
Libertarian
Would
General
Both
Most
Call
Policy
Were
Up
Any
Grew
Taxation
Communist
Lives
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
David Henry Hwang
Religion
You
Culture
Ethics
Parents
Control
Way
Worship
Ancestors
Religious
General
More
Dead
Very
Than
After
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Confucianism
Even
Code
If you want to hear arguments against deploying a big U.S. ground force in Syria, just ask a general.
David Ignatius
You
Argument
Big
Syria
General
Force
Hear
Just
Want
Deploying
Against
Ask
Ground
Well, as a general remark, I would say that I was discouraged by the physical and economic conditions in continental Europe after the war.
David K. E. Bruce
War
Discouraged
Say
Would
Physical
General
Economic
Remark
Well
Continental
Conditions
After
Europe
I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for a long time, as a matter of fact for centuries, fundamental Russian policies in respect to the rest of the world.
David K. E. Bruce
Time
Respect
World
Matter
Thought
Rest
Long
Long Time
Too
States
Russian
General
Fact
Had
Alter
Policies
Were
Been
Optimistic
Soviets
Centuries
Might
United
Fundamental
United States
Believing
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
David Karp
Me
Will
Reading
Books
Kind
Magazines
Web
General
Combination
iPad
Just
Tumblr
Just Kind
When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person.
David Kirk
Tribal
Brotherhood
Brothers
General
Through
Open
He
New
Concept
Disciples
Calls
His
Friends
Person
Any
Which
Breaking
Usage
Jesus
Jewish
It's true of models in general - I don't think they eat and fuel properly throughout the day.
David Kirsch
Day
Think
Eat
Properly
General
Throughout
True
Models
Fuel
I'm sure strength-and-power people have been using kettlebells for years, but that doesn't necessarily mean they will work in a general training program.
David Kirsch
Work
People
Training
Will
General
Sure
Been
Years
Mean
Using
Necessarily
Program
I love 808s - not only the Auto-Tune but just ,in general, the embrace of a kind of digital style of working.
David Longstreth
Love
Digital
Style
Kind
Embrace
General
Only
Just
Working
People like to say that East Asians in general, and Japanese in particular, are not very expressive: there's that term 'inscrutable.' But often, Europeans just don't get the Asian codes. Believe me, the message is being expressed OK.
David Mitchell
Me
People
Believe
Say
OK
East
Inscrutable
General
Term
Particular
Like
Message
Very
Get
Often
Just
Being
Japanese
Asian
Asians
Europeans
Expressed
Codes
Expressive
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
David Morrissey
Art
Genius
Every
Think
Way
General
Absolute
He
Particular
Massive
Celebrated
Fan
Should
The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
David Novak
Man
Guidance
Community
Synagogue
Moral
General
More
His
Preacher
Offer
Often
Rabbi
Regular
Theological
Sermons
Whose
In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.
David Perlmutter
Knowledge
Science
General
More
Thus
Advertisement
Than
Behaviors
Current
Influenced
Decision-Making
Public
Far
Base
I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.
David R. Ellis
You
Money
Car
Fire
Out
Pretty
General
Come
Go
Lot
Up
Get
Blow
Going
Oh
Mean
Then
Much
Paid
Cool
Flip
Tone
A rise in wages, from an alteration in the value of money, produces a general effect on price, and for that reason it produces no real effect whatever on profits.
David Ricardo
Money
Value
Whatever
Rise
General
Price
Alteration
Real
Wages
Effect
Produces
Reason
Profits
In very general terms 'Top Of The Lake' is about good and evil. It's a deep dark mystery. It also deals with lots of fascinating human relationships, and it's also about the battle of the sexes.
David Wenham
Good
Good And Evil
Battle
Dark
Evil
Relationships
Top
Sexes
About
General
Mystery
Terms
Also
Deals
Lots
Very
Human
Lake
Deep
Fascinating
Human Relationships
Beneficience removes evils, introduces the practice of virtue, and adds to general welfare and civilization.
Dayananda Saraswati
Welfare
Practice
Virtue
Adds
Evils
General
Civilization
General Welfare
Mentors don't have to be the Daymond Johns or the Mark Cubans. A person running a successful bodega or a tax firm in your community for the last 20 years, that person is working just as much as the individual who's running General Mills.
Daymond John
Community
Mark
Running
General
Individual
Mentors
Firm
Cuban
Years
Person
Just
Just As Much
Tax
Much
Successful
Working
Your
Last
Mills
In general, losing weight is a good thing for those who are overweight, but it's important to lose weight in a way that enhances your health rather than one that may compromise it.
Dean Ornish
Health
Good
Losing
Important
Lose
Way
Those
General
Rather
Compromise
Good Thing
Weight
Overweight
Than
May
Your
Who
Enhances
Thing
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