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Sense Quotes
"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."
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"I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense."
14
"The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it."
14
"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."
14
"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."
14
"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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"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
12
"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."
12
"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."
12
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
12
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
12
"A lot of bands that reunite do it for the wrong reasons. They do it for the bucks and everybody can sense it."
12
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
12
"I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me."
11
"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."
11
"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."
11
"I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies."
11
"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense."
11
"A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense."
11
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
10
"What the Super Bowl did for us was give us a sense of urgency."
10
"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."
10
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
9
"Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
9
"Totalitarianism is feudalism in the twelfth century sense of the word."
9
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
9
"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."
9
"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."
9
"In the broad and sweeping sense which the use of the term generally implies, I am not a free-trader."
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