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Dissecting Quotes
On taking things apart, literally and figuratively.
This page pairs literal classroom dissection with the figurative kind: picking apart Shakespeare's prose or separating credible science from junk science.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.
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I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.
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I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that I publicly share and publicly promote.
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I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.
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As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
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If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.
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