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Back a hundred years ago, especially around Woodrow Wilson, what happened in this country is we took freedom and we chopped it into pieces.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I'm obviously very keen on the theater and I think it's inevitable that some of the orchestral and chamber pieces have got dramatic elements which might even suggest an unspecified dramatic plot of some kind or other, even though it's not in my mind at the time.

A friend of mine described it this way: When they were born it was like a meteor landed in our house and blew everything apart. We had to just put all the pieces back.

If you look at romantic comedies as pieces of commerce, the audience is looking for wish fulfillment.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans. It never happened to me and I never saw it happen to anyone else.

I've always developed all my own pieces, and they're time-consumers.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things I've found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best.

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

You know, you've got serious pieces, you've got light pieces, you've got cooking segments, you've got health-related topics, so it's not as if they've had a unique personality from the get-go.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.

It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.

I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40,000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

We hope to find more pieces of the puzzle which will shed light on the connection between this upright, walking ape, our early ancestor, and modern man.

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

I do find myself drawn more to pieces that I feel are wrestling with the way that we're living now, what we're all going through.

At the beginning of the career is important for a designer to present his most representative pieces.

I just want pieces of the world.