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Sense Quotes
"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
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"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."
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"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
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"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
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"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
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"If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble."
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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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"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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"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
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"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."
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"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
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"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 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."
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"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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"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
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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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"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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"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
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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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"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
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"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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"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
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"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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"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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"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
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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."
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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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"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
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"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
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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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"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."
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"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
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"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."
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