#construct

I think that one of the things that influences me most as a composer is to what extent I can deconstruct and reconstruct the material that I'm working with. ↗

— Fred Frith

#deconstruct #extent #i #i can #i think

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#fascinated #i #kid #little #little kid

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership. ↗

— Ann Landers

#battle #brings #constructive #couples #cruel

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#constructs #contain #mind #reality #size

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#constructive #criticism #easier #solutions #than

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. ↗

— James Larkin

#british empire #construction #destruction #empire #england

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale. ↗

— Ernest Lawrence

#attack #attic #bits #construction #development

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

— Philip Levine

#carried #created #destroy #dominant #i

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#constructive #debate #digging #i #into