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Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Berthold Auerbach

Lives, Judaism, Creed

Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star.
Dana Carvey

Impossible, Sometimes, Joke

A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
Jonathan Demme

Pretty, Three, Almost

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
Alexander Herzen

Prayer, Spirit, General

My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
J. M. Coetzee

Time, Live, May

With a live audience, it's very clear when you've pushed it too far to the edge - because you fall off that edge and hit bottom with a thud. Nothing abstract about that. You know you went too far when you hear that groan or worse - that silence instead of the big laugh you were expecting following your hilariously edgy joke.
Michael Patrick King

Live, Nothing, Laugh

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.
Brie Larson

Music, Good, Experience

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau

Attraction, Burning, Dominated

When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
Julie Taymor

Best, Reality, Thinking

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry.
Julie Taymor

Poetry, Far, Film

This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.
William Vickrey

Economics, Paper

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.
Pierre Schaeffer

Music, Last, Stage

Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Tom G. Palmer

Trying, Problem, Process

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Money, True, Real

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
William Irwin Thompson

Science, Control, Chaos

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.
Christian Marclay

Time, Art, Same

Sometimes I have these abstract ideas and then lose track of myself.
Julia Stiles

Sometimes, Lose, Ideas

We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
Arto Lindsay

Music, Used, Hear

Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow.
Herb Ritts

Live, Two, Light

Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
Auberon Herbert

Moral, Morality, Force

I do not see scales as abstract.
James Galway

Neurologists say that our brains are programmed much more for stories than for abstract ideas. Tales with a little drama are remembered far longer than any slide crammed with analytics.
John P. Kotter

Far, Ideas, Longer

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
George Stigler

Time, Science, Lost

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
Lee Krasner

At that point it certainly would be called abstract. That is to say, you had a model and there'd be one or two or three people there drawing the model but otherwise you had abstractions all around the room, even though the model was in front of you.
Lee Krasner

Two, Around, Point

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
Terry Riley

Music, Live, Play

The level on which Japan seems to have picked up on my music seems to be on a more abstract level.
James Blake

Music, Seems, Level

To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy.
Mary Lynn Rajskub

Happy, Laugh, Together

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
E. T. Bell

Lives, Longer, Practical

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt

Music, Time, Learned

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