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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne

Fire, Lost, Doubt

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
Christopher Hampton

Life, Great, Human

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde

Hope, Live, Through

I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going to challenge me as an actor. I want to be an actor - it's my aspiration - so I want to do other films. I want to write something and I want to direct something!
Daniel Radcliffe

Long, Challenge, Write

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
Herbert Read

Nature, Rather, State

I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
Billy Corgan

Alive, Ideas, Chemistry

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.
Billy Corgan

Trying, Between, Point

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia

Life, Knowledge, America

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.
Mel Brooks

Good, Anybody, Writers

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Emma Goldman

Action, Logical, Consistent

Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.
Susan Orlean

Long, Someone, Call

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.
Stephen Fry

Time, Film, Act

I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
Pat Robertson

Political, Off, Backed

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
Ogden Nash

Long, Year, Line

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
Henri Matisse

Color, Cutting, Sculptor

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.
Suze Orman

Maturity, Individual, Hold

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was like, 'Really, one more?' So I was against it at first. But I really love the idea of the direct connection - there's no middle man muddling it up.
Kelly Clarkson

Love, Fun, Made

You can't direct without a good crew.
Louis C. K.

I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
Julia Roberts

Pride, Movie, Lunch

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness.
John Podhoretz

Life, Religion, Else

Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never before has a vice president served as an attack dog against his own party's voters.
John Podhoretz

Before, Against, Times

I'd love to direct more.
David Duchovny

Stand-up is like a movie every night. You write it, direct it, produce it, the audience votes, and you go home. There's nothing more satisfying.
Elayne Boosler

Home, Nothing, Night

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
Yakov Smirnoff

Love, Laughter, Between

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
Baruch Spinoza

Great, Men, Lives

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy

Simple, Feelings, Ideas

I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
Lauryn Hill

Love, Everybody

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
Vivienne Westwood

Able, Since, Public

I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn't think my vote mattered because I didn't have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
Carly Fiorina

Made, Decisions, Vote

I like to direct movies, but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.
John Malkovich

Movies, Around, Talking

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