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Sense Quotes
"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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"It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations."
43
"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."
43
"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
41
"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense."
41
"Getting on stage is a bonus, that's my therapy, that's when I can tell stories and it all makes sense."
41
"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."
40
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
39
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
39
"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."
39
"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."
38
"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
38
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
38
"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
38
"The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word."
37
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
37
"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."
36
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
36
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
36
"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."
35
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
34
"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."
34
"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."
34
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
34
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
33
"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."
32
"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."
32
"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."
32
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
31
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
31
"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."
30
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
29
"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."
29
"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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