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Sense Quotes
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."
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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."
8
"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."
8
"Television is becoming a collage - there are so many channels that you move through them making a collage yourself. In that sense, everyone sees something a bit different."
8
"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."
8
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
8
"My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote."
7
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
7
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
7
"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
7
"To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it."
7
"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."
7
"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
7
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
7
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
6
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
6
"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."
6
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
6
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
6
"If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble."
6
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
6
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
6
"I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front."
6
"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
6
"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."
5
"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."
5
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
5
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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