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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
Chuck Jones
Art
Change
Innovation
Confuse
Beneficial
Distortion
Must
Useless
I was a pretty nerdy kid. I was pretty nerdy. I'm still kind of nerdy. I have all of the worst qualities of being a nerd - all of the affect and none of the smarts. I'm a useless nerd! That's pretty bad.
Claire Danes
Kid
Worst
Kind
Bad
Nerd
Nerdy
Pretty
Smarts
Qualities
None
Still
Affect
Being
Useless
There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things.
Daniel Radcliffe
Good
Become
Obsessed
Talk
House
Mess
Around
Boyfriend
Nonstop
Lots
Very
Times
Mean
Useless
Things
It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.
David Zucker
Positive
Try
Seriously
Too
Other
Lately
One Thing
Guy
Only
Sees
Take
Make
Read
Because
Screened
Rhyme
Them
Reason
Useless
Whole
Thing
Thinks
Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.
Dhani Harrison
Great
Websites
Design
Ways
Out
Kind
Web
Content
Being
Experienced
Which
Much
Useless
If kids can have some sort of social responsibility, that's cool. But if they're not actually having social responsibility, and they're kind of hiding behind it, that's kind of useless, or even worse.
Diplo
Responsibility
Worse
Kids
Hiding
Kind
Some
Having
Sort
Behind
Social
Useless
Cool
Social Responsibility
Even
Even Worse
Actually
I don't want to give up living, because I enjoy it so much, and I love working - I don't expect I'll ever have to stop. But Alzheimer's or something like that would render me pretty useless.
Donald Sutherland
Love
Me
Enjoy
Living
Would
Pretty
Give
Something
Like
Render
Because
Alzheimer
Up
Expect
Stop
Want
Much
Working
Useless
Ever
Society may shun bohemia, may put it down, may consider it useless and ineffective, but it is where everything cooks and boils and is created.
Donovan
Down
Society
Consider
Everything
Put
Ineffective
May
Where
Created
Useless
Bohemia
Cooks
Boils
Shun
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Time
Destruction
Power
Constant
Contend
Continually
Goes
Irresistible
Process
Which
Creating
Useless
I always saw hurdles as a form of art, because it's very individual. One technique that may produce a world record for one guy could be useless for another guy.
Edwin Moses
Art
World
Hurdles
Saw
Record
Guy
Could
Individual
Another
Because
Always
Very
May
Form
Produce
Useless
Technique
World Record
Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.
Ehud Olmert
Word
Nothing
Futile
Mutual
Dictates
Accusation
Games
Useless
Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
Eliot Schrefer
Book
Important
Young
Only
Adult
Abstraction
Discarded
Calling
Reader
Get
Young Adult
After
Should
Help
Useless
Right
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.
Eugene Ionesco
Man
Become
Lost
Religious
Absurd
Metaphysical
His
Off
Transcendental
Senseless
Cut
Roots
Useless
Actions
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
Frances Farmer
God
Time
Nothingness
Seemed
He
Until
Him
Became
Wondered
After
Little
Less
Useless
Waste
Waste Of Time
Why
Thing
Only useless things are indispensable.
Francis Picabia
Only
Indispensable
Useless
Things
Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.
Francois Rabelais
Time
Vain
Virtuous
Counsel
Outside
Put
Study
House
Force
Arms
Calls
Because
Within
Effect
Just
Useless
The most important thing however is the money. What use would it be to us, to have a a mighty stadium but a useless team, because we couldn't afford anything better?
Franz Beckenbauer
Money
Better
Important
Would
Most
Most Important Thing
Because
Important Thing
However
Afford
Stadium
The Most Important
Anything
Mighty
Us
Use
Team
Useless
Thing
I wasn't always a minimalist. I used to buy a lot of things, believing that all those possessions would increase my self-worth and lead to a happier life. I loved collecting a lot of useless stuff, and I couldn't throw anything away.
Fumio Sasaki
Life
Buy
Increase
Those
Possessions
Minimalist
Collecting
Would
Throw
Lead
Stuff
Always
Self-Worth
Lot
Anything
Loved
Happier
Used
Useless
Away
Believing
Things
I'm basically useless in interviews because I don't remember anything. But I find it very peaceful, actually, because I have a sort of busy mind. I'm like, 'This is great!'
Gaby Hoffmann
Great
Remember
Mind
Busy
Interviews
Find
Like
Sort
Because
Very
Anything
Useless
Peaceful
Actually
Basically
I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.
George Ezra
Myself
Needs
Someone
Poke
Annoy
Always
Been
Being
Them
Useless
Who
I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.
Glenn Frey
You
Matter
Living
Every
Other
Changes
Never
Insufferable
Just
Dynamic
Useless
Dad
If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
Guy Pearce
Good
Exhausted
Tell
Bad
Physically
Emotionally
Particularly
Useless
Fashion has always captivated me because, like I said, it has the potential to create narratives about what's beautiful, aspirational, chic, masculine, feminine, glamorous, etc. Generally, this power is dispatched in useless ways.
Hari Nef
Beautiful
Fashion
Me
Power
Ways
About
Potential
Glamorous
Generally
Masculine
Like
Because
Narratives
Said
Always
Feminine
Chic
Etc
Create
Useless
Captivated
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Henry Mayhew
Matters
Fact
Facts
Mere
Merely
Ideas
None
According
Truths
Themselves
Your
Useless
Elements
Utterly
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
Best
Defeat
Approval
Seek
Something
Beyond
Powers
Known
His
Friends
Trying
Useless
Moments
In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
Humphry Davy
Knowledge
Property
Cause
Matter
Energy
Relation
State
Our
Evident
Would
Would-Be
Attempt
Remote
Identical
Chemical
However
Affinity
Essential
May
Electrical
Useless
Sufficiently
Present
Speculate
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