#reducing

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#because #crippled #documentary #documentary film #essentials

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#attempt #end #enterprises #great #level

I'm coming to Washington, D.C., to do the people's work. And the people's work has to do with reducing spending and cutting budgets and, and trying to get a grip on the size of government. ↗

— Ken Buck

#coming #cutting #get #government #grip

When I entered the field in July 1958 I believed what they told me about radiation risks. I spent much effort reducing the dose to patients in radiology. ↗

— John Cameron

#believed #dose #effort #entered #field

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues. ↗

— Evan Davis

#become #every #good #good way #issue

I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that. ↗

— James Dickey

#because #claim #craft #does #done

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#american #dues #long #manner #means

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances. ↗

— Timothy Geithner

#directed #imbalances #itself #monetary #monetary policy

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#better job #borders #controlling #demanding #eastern