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For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.


Trey Gowdy
Tags: Get Out Years
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
Conrad Hall
Tags: You Because Which
Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
James Mirrlees
Tags: Get Your Things
In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.
Jean Piaget
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In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism.


Chaim Potok
I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.
Howard Dean
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At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.
Marc Davis
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.


Paul de Man
Tags: More Than Much
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In other words we have marketed our way into this health crisis.


Frank Shorter
Tags: Health Our Way
Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
Sam Weller
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Vampires are total sexual metaphors; there's just no way around that.


Alan Ball
Tags: Just Way Around
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We'd all like to believe that perhaps people could stop killing each other.


Ralph Fiennes
Tags: People Like Other
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You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.


Michael Graves
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Newspaper men, perhaps more than any other class, are rated by ability.


Franklin Knight Lane
Tags: Men More Than
Individual tribes or, in other words, races or stocks, are the constituent elements of the earliest history.
Theodor Mommsen
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In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.


John Sebastian
Tags: Know Going Were
At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.
James Gleick
Tags: Most Other Bit
I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.
Sherilyn Fenn
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Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan
Tags: People Really He
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
Oliver Ellsworth
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