#material

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

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It's frustrating not to have more control over your material. ↗

— Terry Southern

#frustrating #material #more #over #your

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#around #color #effect #feel #how

Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do. ↗

— Daniel Baldwin

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I do like directing other people's material. ↗

— Brian De Palma

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Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

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What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

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The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#things #beauty