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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers. Alan Cumming
Knowledge You Television Scene Writers Nobody Know Knows Always How Go End Going Where Happen Story Theater Certain Even Each Film Play Thing
As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science. Alan Lightman
Myself Knowledge Science Claims Kind Would Religious Religious Belief Struggled Both Come Understand Scientist Different Formulation View Belief Eventually Compatible Humanist
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone. Albert J. Nock
Life Mathematics Knowledge History You Remember Will Lost Gone Cargo Only Obliged Higher He Him His Much Languages Useful Useful Knowledge Useless Useless Knowledge Original Whole
Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Made Directly Force Opinion Sound Public Disinterested Public Opinion Useless Useless Knowledge
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Culture Considered Define Possession Has-Been Well Been Truly May Forgotten Body Useless Useless Knowledge Large Now
The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Business School Society Dissemination Unless Enterprise Indispensable Noble Scientific Exist Goes Useful Useful Knowledge
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. Albert J. Nock
Knowledge Business Society Unless Enterprise See Only Indispensable Noble Fails Well Exist Itself Goes Useless Useless Knowledge Apparently University Conservation
I've got the knowledge and experience to know what's going on in the cage or the ring. And I know how to entertain an audience and how to use the microphone. I know my market. Alberto Del Rio
Knowledge Experience Market Entertain Ring Cage Know Audience Got How Microphone Going Use
I have a bunch of storylines that I could pass to other performers or especially all my knowledge that I have when it comes to building matches, to creating an exciting finish or telling stories in the ring. Alberto Del Rio
Knowledge Building Other Telling Ring Finish Could Exciting Performers Matches Pass Bunch Stories Creating
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. Aldous Huxley
Knowledge Thought Before Must Divided Come Itself Any Against
To the best of my knowledge and of my effort, every lineage statement within 'Roots' is from either my African or American families' carefully preserved oral history, much of which I have been able conventionally to corroborate with documents. Alex Haley
Best Knowledge History Every Carefully Preserved Statement Able Documents Within Lineage Been Families Effort American Oral African American Families Either Which Much Roots
I think it's important to remember that music supervision is not just about a fantastic record collection or knowledge of music, although that certainly helps for aspiring music supervisors. Alexandra Patsavas
Music Knowledge Remember Important Think Collection Record Record Collection About Supervision Although Just Fantastic Certainly Aspiring Helps
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Alexandra Petri
Knowledge Thought Thanks Other Crippling Possible Significant See Vital Postmodernism Trivia More Tend Facts No-One Raw Raw Material Sophisticated Makes Material Intellectually Than Any Meaningless Disregard
I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas. Alfred Kastler
Time Knowledge State Relaxation Must Slowness Absolutely Take Had Foreign Wall Confess Place Which Processes Molecules Ground Gas
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. Alfred North Whitehead
Knowledge Fools Imagination Without Act
I feel fortunate to be a part of a football community that includes leaders who recognize the power of sport to make a difference and who, like so many of my coaches, are defined not only by their knowledge but by their ability to bring out the best in every member of their teams. Ali Krieger
Best Knowledge Power Community Every Defined Recognize Member Out Ability Only Football Part Leaders Feel Like Sport Make Make A Difference Difference Coaches Fortunate Who Many Teams Bring
Giftedness gives you this amazing tool kit for handling self-discipline and gives you an area of knowledge, but then it also gives you this weird set of aspirations. Alissa Quart
Knowledge You Amazing Tool Gives Kit Area Weird Self-Discipline Also Handling Then Aspirations Set
Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'. Alistair Horne
Knowledge Army Humiliation Men Past Sense Military Thoroughly Crisis Generals Missile Over Moscow Most Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Blink Years Times Role Officers Soviet Senior Confirmed Former Them Many Among Residual
We need to manage holistically, embracing all of our science and traditional knowledge - all sources of knowledge. We can do that from the household to government to international relations. Allan Savory
Government Knowledge Science International Relations Relations Our Embracing Household Traditional Sources Manage International Need
Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand. Aly Khan
Great Spiritual Knowledge Islam Affection Past Christianity Intimacy Has-Been Throughout Ideals Due Been Lack Human Regard Which Stand Teachings Large Extent
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an understanding of aesthetics. Even where a longlisted book wears its craftsmanship lightly, the power of the writing shines through. Amanda Foreman
Knowledge Book Writing Power Understanding Enough Must Entertaining Wears Through Lightly Come Also Aesthetic Shines Craftsmanship Where Place Transporting Even
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
Knowledge Ignorance Give Classify Small Small Part Part Name Arrange
Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. Ambrose Bierce
Love Knowledge Quality Distinguishes Ardor Without
Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them. Amy Carlson
Time Knowledge Hurt Right Time Introduce Guns Having Could Houses Mothers Question Families Children Bigger Them Your Cop Right Things
I'm open to reading almost anything - fiction, nonfiction - as long as I know from the first sentence or two that this is a voice I want to listen to for a good long while. It has much to do with imagery and language, a particular perspective, the assured knowledge of the particular universe the writer has created. Amy Tan
Good Knowledge Perspective Language Long First Reading Universe Assured Voice Writer Open Almost Almost Anything Particular Know Nonfiction Listen Want Fiction Anything While Sentence Much Created Imagery Two
There is no business in the world - I don't care what it is, whether it's I.T. or manufacturing - that does not have what I may refer to as a blended resource base. You have high-end work. You have engineering work. You have some local knowledge you require. Then, you have some very low-cost work to be done. Anand Mahindra
Work Knowledge You Business World Care Engineering Local Resource No Business Some High-End Blended Does Refer Very dont Care Done May Whether Low-Cost Then Require Manufacturing Base
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