#abstract

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

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'Bond girl' is a bit abstract, what does that mean, you see a girl in a bikini? ↗

— Berenice Marlohe

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Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality. ↗

— Julie Taymor

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I guess my experience with some stuff is kind of abstract. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

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When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

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To really be on stage and not know what you're going to say, and to be able to say something that makes people laugh, or do something that's sort of abstract or off the beaten path and have people connect to it by just putting your ideas together, that really makes me happy. ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

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By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction. ↗

— John Dewey

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The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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