- Nov 07, 2020
How Quotes
The questions behind every choice.
This set of how quotes covers a range of specific curiosities, from wondering how an R rating limits a film's audience to asking how a franchise could work without its signature character. Several reflect on the practical 'how' behind creative decisions rather than abstract philosophy. Related reflections continue in our About quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Classroom
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- Nov 07, 2020
How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
So far as the advocates of a constructed international language are concerned, it is rather to be wondered at how much in common their proposals actually have, both in vocabulary and in general spirit of procedure.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth.
- Sheep
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our scholastic system isn't structured to make sure that kids in the fifth or sixth grades absolutely know how to read.
- Nov 07, 2020
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out as an impressionist and that's all about observing - how people move, their voice quality, their attitudes and quirks.
- Rules
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.
- Embarrassed
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- Nov 07, 2020