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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way. ↗


— F. Murray Abraham


#connery #describe #else #end #feel

Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God. ↗


— Karen Armstrong


#buddhists #describe #god #much #nirvana

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not. ↗


— James Baldwin


#being #being real #certain #certain things #certain way

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels. ↗


— Christopher Dawson


#angels #describes #law #things #way

Describing Woodstock as the "big bang," I think that's a great way to describe it, because the important thing about it wasn't how many people were there or that it was a lot of truly wonderful music that got played. ↗


— David Crosby


#bang #because #big #big bang #describe

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well. ↗


— Charles Van Doren


#aristotle #describe #ethics #happiness #his

The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. ↗


— Eduard Hanslick


#assumption #awakens #beautiful #been #course

Many women cut back what had to be done at home by redefining what the house, the marriage and, sometimes, what the child needs. One woman described a fairly common pattern: I do my half. I do half of his half, and the rest doesn't get done. ↗


— Arlie Russell Hochschild


#child #common #cut #described #done

In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.' ↗


— Brad Holland


#believe #described #event #how #just

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands. ↗


— Charles Kennedy


#constituency #describe #every #i #lose






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