"But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation."

Negative, Positive, Fact, Film

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"But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation."

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"Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative."

Herb Kohl, American Politician

Negative, Children, Creation, Games

"No tools have yet been met with in any of the gravels occurring at the higher levels of the valley of the Seine; but no importance can be attached to this negative fact, as so little search has yet been made for them."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

Negative, Fact, Importance, Tools

"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."

Alan Watts, English Philosopher

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"You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job."

James Lovelock, English Scientist

Negative, Job, Politicians, Saying

"The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways."

Ansel Adams, American Photographer

Negative, Performance

"None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity."

Said Musa, Belizean Statesman

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"I do my job in Type O Negative."

Josh Silver, American Musician

Negative, Job

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

Willie Nelson, American Musician

Negative, Positive, Thoughts, Results

"The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence."

Douglas Dunn, Scottish Poet

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"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."

Politics, Technology, Now, Tools

"In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the critics gonna say, I'm trying to bring some resolution, and realize that myself. It's a struggle; it's a process that gets us this."

People, Feeling, Resolution, Struggle

"In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously."

Family, Brother, Idea, Justice, Order

"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."

Experience, People, Cause, Film

"I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are."

Time, Tools, Tragedy

"So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words."

Love, Language, State, Words

"But in fact if you look at film as a metaphor, only through the negative can you have the positive print. What I'm trying to get to is the positive value of negation."

Negative, Positive, Fact, Film

"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions."

Environment, Environmental, Peace, Hope, Balance

"Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car."

Car, Film, Now, Trying

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live."

Change, Peace, World