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I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful.


David Zucker


#any #attract #audience #aware #been

At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.


Joseph Hume


#entirely #export #fed #improvement #manufactures

The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I had never before encountered minds of that quality at close quarters and they influenced me strongly.


George Stigler


#before #central #chicago #close #department

The G8 nations, together with the five major emerging economies of China, India, South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, use almost three-quarters of the Earth's biocapacity - the capacity of the world's ecosystems to produce natural resources and to reduce harmful substances.


Sigmar Gabriel


#almost #brazil #capacity #china #earth

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.


David Herbert Lawrence


#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.


Jon Meacham


#before #brought #campaign #carter #complicated

Three-quarters of the sicknesses of intelligent people come from their intelligence. They need at least a doctor who can understand this sickness.


Marcel Proust


#come #doctor #intelligence #intelligent #intelligent people

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.


Ramakrishna


#earth #find #four #here #nothing

Three-quarters of the world's population doesn't have enough to eat!


Helen Reddy


#enough #population #three-quarters #world

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.


Arthur Schopenhauer


#like #order #other #ourselves #people