#essentially

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#dwell #essentially #had #happy #happy childhood

The best moderators are the moderators who are essentially invisible. A moderator who is there to be seen and heard and to be talked about either, 'oh, God, what a great question,' or, 'oh, God, what a lousy question,' that to me is a failed moderator. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#best #either #essentially #failed #god

I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that. ↗

— Randy Newman

#bringing #classic #destroying #down #down to earth

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing. ↗

— Christian Bale

#go #going #i #i can #imagination

But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#being #beside #cuts #essentially #everything

Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist. ↗

— Carl Andre

#essentially #marxist #matter #political #position

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#allowed #became #because #charter #conflict

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. ↗

— Tony Blair

#essentially #i #i always #people #person

Diaspora starts about a thousand years from now. Most of human civilisation has moved inside computers; essentially, a major branch of our descendants consists of conscious software. ↗

— Greg Egan

#branch #civilisation #computers #conscious #consists

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. ↗

— Emily Carr

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