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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

Hired Intense Method Force
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When we consider the infinite variety of dreams, it is difficult to conceive that there could ever be a method or a technical procedure which would lead to an infallible result. It is, indeed, a good thing that no valid method exists for otherwise the meaning of the dream would be limited in advance and would lose precisely that virtue which makes dreams so valuable for therapeutic purposes – their ability to offer new points of view.

Infinite Dream Conceive Procedure
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To be a minister means above all to become powerless, or in more precise terms, to speak with our powerlessness to the condition of powerlessness which is so keenly felt but so seldom expressed by the people of our age.

Minister Precise Powerlessness Seldom
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Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone.

Able After Alone Been
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.

Another Freezing Melt Moment
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Social economic problems do not exist everywhere that an economic event plays a role as cause or effect - since problems arise only where the significance of those factors is problematical and can be precisely determined only through the application of methods of social-economics.

Application Arise Cause Determined
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Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Come Life Marriage Meant
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If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

History Ineffective Largely Most
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Able Cannot Cures Current
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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Become Denied He Most
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
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We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

About Concerning Knowledge Least
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They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

Head Just Me Might
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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Creativity Darkness Depths
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The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Become Begins Being Conscious
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The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

Because Containing Face Invested
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I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Always Any Concise Enjoyed
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A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Destroy Does Exists Felt
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It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Paradoxical True Ignorant Absolute
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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Everything Geometry May Perfectly
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Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Geometry Poetry Precise Thing
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

Bond Corny Does Duty
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If feminism has receded in visibility and prestige, it is precisely because its vision of life's goals and rewards has become too narrow and elitist.

Elitist Feminism Goals Life
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Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has come for the Navy, especially the Combined Fleet, to devote itself seriously to war preparations, training, and operational plans with a firm determination that a conflict with the U.S. and Great Britain is inevitable.

Although Anyone Britain Combined
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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

Any Beings Feel Half
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“I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.”

Believe Freedom Artist Ends
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Being Difference Everything More
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Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

Controlled English Funk Got
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Choosing Humans Knack Precisely
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Manipulation, sloganizing, depositing, regimentation, and prescription cannot be components of revolutionary praxis, precisely because they are the components of the praxis of domination.

Because Cannot Components Domination
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Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Cookie Diction Like Out
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Sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realize that what interests me is something else entirely, or, rather, not anything precise but everything that does not fit in what I ought to write.

Anything Concentrate Does Else
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Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

About Ever Gesture Good
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If I see anything vital around me, it is precisely that spirit of adventure, which seems indestructible and is akin to curiosity.

Adventure Anthony Around Curiosity
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You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Allow Annoy Big Love
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A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.

Celebrated Communication Define Elite
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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But don't we often lie to people we love, or not tell them things, precisely because we love them?

Often lie People We love Tell them
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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

The importance Doing activist Give back Consider yourself
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Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries

Human life Marked out Defined limits Old age
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That the child is the supreme aim of woman is a statement having precisely the value of an advertising slogan.

Child Aim Woman Value
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Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise

Art Immoral Virtue Witness
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A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

Art Music Poetic Dream
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Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

Language Truth Lie Precise
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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Standard Beauty Pursuit Interesting
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong

Better Roughly Right Wrong
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

Sense Pricise Know Talking about
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