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Sense Quotes
"I did feel like they were telling me that something like that was going to happen. Not specifically - not that planes were going to be flown into the World Trade Center or anything like that - but in the general sense."
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"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."
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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
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"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
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"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
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"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense."
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"And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense."
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"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
32
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
32
"It was a scene in the sense that we were all close and we all knew each other before the different bands had really formed. We used to rehearse in the same place."
32
"Well, he doesn't make me laugh. I think I've got a fair sense of humour but I can't really see it in him. I've listened to his show on the radio on a Saturday morning, and that's a load of mince as well."
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"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
31
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
30
"I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributed anything scientifically but in the sense that I signed the corporation papers and, and owned founder's stock."
30
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
30
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
30
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
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"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
28
"I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones."
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"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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"It really just gives you a sense of when you need to have dialogue and when you don't, and if your pictures are telling the story, you don't need to have all this talking."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
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"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."
26
"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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