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While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.


David Antin


#common #george #gives #i #i think

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.


Karen Armstrong


#beginning #beings #chaotic #contrary #depressing

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.


Ethan Hawke


#genre #great #horror #i #i love

If you look at the history of big obstacles in understanding our world, there's usually an intuitive assumption underlying them that's wrong.


Jeff Hawkins


#big #history #intuitive #look #obstacles

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?


Daisaku Ikeda


#cause #correctly #could #ended #failure

Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.


Daisaku Ikeda


#cuts #deep #demanding #develop #empathy

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.


Donald Knuth


#computers #hardware #idea #interested #least

As has repeatedly been stated, the underlying hypothesis, which in a number of cases has been supported by direct experimental evidence, is that each gene controls the production, function, and specificity of a particular enzyme.


Edward Lawrie Tatum


#cases #controls #direct #each #enzyme

I don't like comedy that I think is bad comedy, where people are trying to be sick for the sake of it, where there's no intellectual point behind it. I like stuff that's got an underlying point of view.


Steve Coogan


#behind #comedy #got #i #i think

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.


Umberto Eco


#believe #come #enigma #had #harmless