#extent

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I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.


Keith Haring


#extent #fight #gravity #i #i think

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.


Christopher Hitchens


#education #extent #found #i #insist

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.


Brit Hume


#apart #consider #extent #journalism #people

Without Hitler, the State of Israel probably would not exist today. To that extent he was probably the Jews' greatest friend.


David Irving


#extent #friend #greatest #hitler #israel

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.


Christopher Isherwood


#bet #compromised #does #entertainment #entertainment industry

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.


Diana Wynne Jones


#aiming #always #blueprints #dealing #extent

The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.


Henry Mayhew


#city #covered #extent #fortieth #hundred

The extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.


Mary McAleese


#count #decency #economic #extent #just

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.


Ferdinand de Saussure


#critical #demanded #different #embarking #examination

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent.


Willie Aames


#artists #average #average person #deeply #down