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Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers. Votes: 2

Francis Chan

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you Votes: 2

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Votes: 2

Tom Clancy

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A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense. Votes: 2

James Thurber

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All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense. Votes: 2

Piers Anthony

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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? Votes: 2

Pablo Picasso

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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence. Votes: 2

David Bailey

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Really, the only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment. Votes: 2

Elon Musk

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. Votes: 2

Melody Beattie

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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. Votes: 2

Alan Watts

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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Votes: 2

Rick Warren

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I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life. Votes: 2

Bill Watterson

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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. Votes: 2

Harold S. Kushner

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Votes: 2

Alan Watts

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The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior. Votes: 2

Alice Walker

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Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. there is no need to explain or make sense of it. just trust what you feel. Votes: 2

Sonia Choquette

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A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. Votes: 2

Rowan Williams

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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not. Votes: 2

Carrie Underwood

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Fasting makes sense if it really chips away at our security and, as a consequence, benefits someone else, if it helps us cultivate the style of the good Samaritan, who bent down to his brother in need and took care of him. Votes: 2

Pope Francis

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It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. Votes: 2

Johnny Cash

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But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here. Votes: 2

Tom Vilsack

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She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it had time to make sense, by the word that came next; so that in the end she did not know what had been said. It was like difficult music heard for the first time. Votes: 2

Samuel Beckett

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Legalisation doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Daniel Ortega

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Don't make sense, make change. Votes: 0

David Crowe

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Did all this make sense? Votes: 0

Hermann Hesse

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One day it'll all make sense. Votes: 0

Common

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Tragic tales rarely do make sense. Votes: 0

Gwenn Wright

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Faith doesn't make sense. It makes miricles. Votes: 0

Tony Evans

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Make sense who may. I switch off. Votes: 0

Samuel Beckett

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Why should poetry have to make sense? Votes: 0

Charlie Chaplin

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I donât make sense yadda yadaaaaa Votes: 0

Lil Wayne

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God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense. Votes: 0

Charles R. Swindoll

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The things that matter don't necessarily make sense. Votes: 0

Russell Hoban

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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering. Votes: 0

Owen Arthur

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The universe does not make sense without God. Votes: 0

E. Stanley Jones

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The best things in life don't make sense Votes: 0

Alice Cooper

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You either make sense or you make money. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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We write to make sense of it all. Votes: 0

Wallace Stegner

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Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense Votes: 0

Dave Mustaine

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Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside Votes: 0

Sarah Dessen

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I like when things happen organically and make sense. Votes: 0

Kristen Taekman

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If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true. Votes: 0

Judy Sheindlin

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Never make permanent eternal decisions based on sense knowledge. Votes: 0

Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

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To separate mind from body doesn't make any sense. Votes: 0

Paul Virilio

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I'm a cat. We aren't required to make sense. Votes: 0

Mira Grant

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When poems are no good they don't make any sense. Votes: 0

Derek Walcott

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Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense. Votes: 0

Jonathan Swift

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History does not usually make real sense until long afterward. Votes: 0

Bruce Catton

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The world doesn't make sense until you force it to. Votes: 0

Frank Miller

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Never ignore the feelings that don't seem to make sense. Votes: 0

Susan Mallery

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Being a father makes everything in the world make sense. Votes: 0

Cameron Mathison

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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself. Votes: 0

Norton Juster

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Wisdom means to choose now what will make sense later. Votes: 0

Tracee Ellis Ross

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It doesn't make any sense... that's why I trust it! Votes: 0

Kate Winslet

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Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Votes: 0

Leo Rosten

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My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense. Votes: 0

Tig Notaro

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Having their feelings make sense is how people get their kicks. Votes: 0

Mark Vonnegut

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If it doesn't make sense, you should find for the defense. Votes: 0

Johnnie Cochran

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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense. Votes: 0

Viggo Mortensen

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Windows isn't supposed to make sense, it's supposed to make money. Votes: 0

Paul Lutus

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I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense. Votes: 0

Chelsea Handler

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Complacency doesn't make sense for a guy trying to redefine normal. Votes: 0

John Fairclough

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. Votes: 0

Neil deGrasse Tyson

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I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense. Votes: 0

Louise Erdrich

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My humor is very dry. To me it doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Ian MacKaye

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Insanity is just what we call stupidity when it doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Josh Lieb

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To do work that's not going to be fulfilling doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Lili Taylor

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It doesn't pay to ignore warnings. Even when they don't make sense. Votes: 0

Debra Doyle

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Some things are just perfect, even when they don't make any sense Votes: 0

Bella Andre

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Only in being productively active can man make sense of his life. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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I don't understand why people like me! It doesn't make any sense! Votes: 0

Clay Aiken

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I prefer hallucinations cause they tend to make more sense than experience. Votes: 0

Todd Rundgren

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If you love animals, obviously it doesn't make sense to hurt them. Votes: 0

Steven Morrissey

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Reality and Fiction are different in that fiction has to make sense. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make? Votes: 0

Katrina Kaif

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What I believe in my heart must make sense in my mind. Votes: 0

Ravi Zacharias

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That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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If there were fish in the lake, fishing would make no sense. Votes: 0

Lech Walesa

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I will not live by rules that make no sense to me Votes: 0

Evan Tanner

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Before any of it could make sense, it had to be heard. Votes: 0

John Green

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It doesn't make a whole of sense to me to waste pitches. Votes: 0

Brad Lidge

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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense. Votes: 0

Val Kilmer

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Your spiritual sense will make you either a winner or a loser. Votes: 0

Sylvester Stallone

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Write it down today, put it away, make sense of it tomorrow. Votes: 0

Courtney Summers

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If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos. Votes: 0

Carlos Castaneda

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She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments. Votes: 0

Boris Pasternak

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Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away. Votes: 0

Richard Bach

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When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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When we are living our dream, the difficulties we encounter make sense. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Lies are simpler, and most of the time they make better sense. Votes: 0

Patrick Rothfuss

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I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work! Votes: 0

Amy Pascal

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All children, are born with the disposition to make sense of their experiences. Votes: 0

Lilian Katz

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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone. Votes: 0

E. W. Howe

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If you don't understand the past, the future won't make much sense either. Votes: 0

DJ Spooky

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As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. Votes: 0

Michael Glawogger

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The motivations of men. They never make sense. And they always make sense. Votes: 0

Brandon Sanderson

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Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow? Votes: 0

Kevin Henkes

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it make no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities Votes: 0

Randy Pausch

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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone Votes: 0

Edgar Watson Howe

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Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive. Votes: 0

Chris Ware

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Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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The secrets that lead to extraordinary success, won't make sense to ordinary minds Votes: 0

Constance Chuks Friday

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Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence. Votes: 0

Peter Deunov

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Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot. Votes: 0

Christian

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Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. Votes: 0

Meghan O'Rourke

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Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense. Votes: 0

Leigh Michaels

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I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. Votes: 0

Jeffrey McDaniel

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Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow. Votes: 0

Suzanne Selfors

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Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense. Votes: 0

Cecelia Ahern

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When you hear his music, mine will all of a sudden make sense. Votes: 0

Hunter Hayes

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...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense. Votes: 0

Mira Grant

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I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. Votes: 0

Cory Monteith

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Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me. Votes: 0

Daphne Gottlieb

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Everything's a story, kid. Stories are what help us make sense of the world. Votes: 0

Jeff Daniels

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Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of. Votes: 0

Chad Hurley

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There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick. Votes: 0

Steven Moffat

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The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates Votes: 0

Dan Millman

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Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor. Votes: 0

Regina Hall

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We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present. Votes: 0

Charles Handy

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The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein

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It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does. Votes: 0

Elmore Leonard

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The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates Votes: 0

Dan Millman

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Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English? Votes: 0

Olivier Martinez

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You can make money or you can make sense. The two are mutually exclusive. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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People are experience-rich and theory-poor. I help people organize / make sense of their experiences. Votes: 0

Malcolm Gladwell

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It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer. Votes: 0

Hayley Mills

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Jealousy is an emotion. It doesn't have to make sense. In fact, it usually doesn't. Votes: 0

J. A. Jance

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To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

David Brock

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Sometimes the stories are smarter than me, and suddenly these things start to make sense. Votes: 0

Etgar Keret

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It's one thing to tolerate a boring marriage; a boring affair does not make sense. Votes: 0

Jane Wagner

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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make. Votes: 0

Bo Burnham

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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up. Votes: 0

Samantha Fox

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I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense. Votes: 0

Harmony Korine

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Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic. Votes: 0

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair. Votes: 0

Jessica Simpson

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What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness. Votes: 0

Jonathan Ive

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Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense! Votes: 0

David Brin

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All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated. Votes: 0

Tara Kelly

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You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world. Votes: 0

Tom Petty

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I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense. Votes: 0

William Kentridge

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I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them. Votes: 0

Denzel Washington

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It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations. Votes: 0

Sanjay Kumar

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Of course it doesn't make sense." Lady Wendall said. "The rules of society rarely do. Votes: 0

Patricia C. Wrede

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To demand 'sense' is the hallmark of nonsense. Nature does not make sense. Nothing makes sense. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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I didn't wake up one day and say, you know, 'Supply-side economics doesn't make sense.' Votes: 0

David Brock

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Were we fully to understand the reasons for other people's behavior, it would all make sense. Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud

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Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another. Votes: 0

Jesse Ball

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This industry is very make-believe and you caught in a false sense of what reality is. Votes: 0

Morris Chestnut

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Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people. Votes: 0

Richard Thaler

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I love arguing with you, Claire. You always surprise me. And occasionally, you even make sense. Votes: 0

Rachel Caine

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We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. Votes: 0

Willie Nelson

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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand. Votes: 0

Mary Doria Russell

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She is angle. I am curve. Together, we are geometric sculpture, and we make perfect sense. Votes: 0

Ellen Hopkins

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When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense. Votes: 0

Denis Hayes

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I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse. Votes: 0

Philip Yancey

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All stories come from the subconscious - which is why it doesn't make sense to over-plan. Votes: 0

Michelle Paver

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Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature. Votes: 0

Peter J. Carroll

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The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Votes: 0

Iain Banks

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And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together. Votes: 0

Talib Kweli

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Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense. Votes: 0

Shah Asad Rizvi

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Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness. Votes: 0

Miranda July

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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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A sense of humor saves your life, and being able to make friends wherever you go. Votes: 0

Jason O'Mara

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How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past? Votes: 0

Clayton Christensen

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Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. Votes: 0

Klaus Krippendorff

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Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to. Votes: 0

Steve McQueen

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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it. Votes: 0

Vernon Howard

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I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. Votes: 0

Daniel Pinkwater

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Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world. Votes: 0

Robin Hobb

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Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense. Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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You cannot win in a fight against women, cause men have a need to make sense Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. Votes: 0

Robert Harris

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I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. Votes: 0

Brian Setzer

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If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you. Votes: 0

Gordon Bethune

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Good health makes a lot of sense, but it does not make a lot of dollars. Votes: 0

Andrew Saul

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A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it Votes: 0

Mike Rose

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Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does. Votes: 0

David Rakoff

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You must find your treasure in order to make sense of everything you discovered on the path. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. "Yes." Do they ever make more sense? "No. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something. Votes: 0

Lena Dunham

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You've lived through a lot of wars, I said. Yes.Do they ever make more sense?No. Votes: 0

Mitch Albom

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Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense. Votes: 0

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

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Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense. Votes: 0

David Deutsch

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Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities. Votes: 0

Tom Hodgkinson

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You don't have to understand everything. Some things don't make sense. Go with the flow. Move on. Votes: 0

Sue Fitzmaurice

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By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today. Votes: 0

Christoph Waltz

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I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Reggie Watts

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We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Alex Bledsoe

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Some things that make sense to me don't make the same degree of sense to other people. Votes: 0

Edward Albee

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The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. Votes: 0

Jason Silva

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Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense. Votes: 0

Shannon Hale

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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. Votes: 0

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both. Votes: 0

Jeannette Rankin

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Anything which retains interest is optimistic. When the characters become disinterested, it's pessimistic. Does that make sense? Votes: 0

John Hurt

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I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here. Votes: 0

David Burtka

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Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others Votes: 0

Richard Baxter

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I talk a lot in metaphors. I get my words out but sometimes they don't make sense. Votes: 0

David Boreanaz

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Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both. Votes: 0

Jeannette Rankin

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Why did I want to break all the rules? Because the rules didn't make sense, that's why Votes: 0

Madonna Ciccone

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Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now. Votes: 0

Stephen Walt

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In everyday life, I use positive thoughts, sense of humor, Taekwondo, running, and yoga to make me stronger. Votes: 0

Pom Klementieff

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The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness. Votes: 0

John Cheever

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Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are. Votes: 0

Robert Kirshner

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When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. Votes: 0

Stanley Hauerwas

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There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better. Votes: 0

Ashton Kutcher

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The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it. Votes: 0

Hunter S. Thompson

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When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life. Votes: 0

Heather Sellers

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The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word. Votes: 0

J. Irwin Miller

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It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists. Votes: 0

John Yoo

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I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense. Votes: 0

Stephen Chbosky

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The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't. Votes: 0

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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I'm actually trying to make sense of the world. There's nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. Votes: 0

Yue Minjun

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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films. Votes: 0

Pam Grier

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I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. Votes: 0

Wilhelm Reich

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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You were made by God and for God and until you understand that, life will never make sense. Votes: 0

Rick Warren

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Invest in places that make sense so you can afford to live in places that don't make sense. Votes: 0

Jason Hartman

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Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense. Votes: 0

Tamora Pierce

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Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. Votes: 0

Ian Frazier

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It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law. Votes: 0

Ruben Blades

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Aren't we all waiting to be read by someone, praying that they'll tell us that we make sense? Votes: 0

Rudy Francisco

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It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing. Votes: 0

Jim DeMint

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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today. Votes: 0

Hans Kung

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An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started. Votes: 0

Tim O'Reilly

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I no longer want to believe these problems are too complex for us to make sense of them. Votes: 0

Roxane Gay

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I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Richard Ford

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I would still describe China as a vast, invigorating puzzle that will never make sense to my western upbringing. Votes: 0

Abigail Washburn

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To keep your conscience at peace and your respect at high, don't follow those orders which make no sense. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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You have to decide whether you want to make money or make sense, because the two are mutually exclusive. Votes: 0

R. Buckminster Fuller

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I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey Votes: 0

John Cheever

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I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumersâ¦ Votes: 0

Kathleen Norris

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If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense. Votes: 0

Chalene Johnson

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That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Things that appear unlikely, impossible, or paradoxical from one point of view often make perfectly good sense from another. Votes: 0

Hugh Nibley

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I can't explain it, but spiritually it makes sense - though I don't understand how it does make sense. Votes: 0

Kevin McDonald

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People get so upset about lyrics, and they're probably totally cool with horror movies. That doesn't really make sense. Votes: 0

Chris Reifert

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We're not always going to understand why something happens.True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense Votes: 0

Joel Osteen

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Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it? Votes: 0

Brian K. Vaughan

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I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

David Lynch

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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable. Votes: 0

Yunus Emre

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Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic. Votes: 0

Jim Trelease

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All of the music works on its own, but it doesn't really make as much sense without the picture. Votes: 0

James Iha

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I am learning the Language of World and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho

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Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry. Votes: 0

Katherine Paterson

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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. Votes: 0

Max Eastman

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I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity. Votes: 0

Karen Armstrong

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The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. Votes: 0

William Gibson

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The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter. Votes: 0

Alice Meynell

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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future. Votes: 0

Charlotte Moss

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Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together. Votes: 0

Yotam Ottolenghi

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Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't Votes: 0

Bill Whittle

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Why would I ever want to run Disney? Wouldn't it make more sense just to sell them Pixar and retire? Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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I've got a wallet, it's orange. In case I wanna buy a deer. That doesn't make any sense at all. Votes: 0

Mitch Hedberg

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I also believe that everyone needs to think independently and make their own decisions on what makes the most sense. Votes: 0

Ray Dalio

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I've read the Book of Revelation a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense? Votes: 0

David Mitchell

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A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl. Votes: 0

Yotam Ottolenghi

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I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. Votes: 0

Judy Garland

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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. Votes: 0

A. C. Benson

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Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas. Votes: 0

Alexandra Adornetto

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Learnings from any training you have attended will not make any sense if you are not applying it, make sense . Votes: 0

Bel Arnesto

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Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. Votes: 0

Andrew O'Hagan

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You're my best friend in the scene and together we can make sense of what's going on by being Together. Votes: 0

Martin de Maat

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Always make the most of every sense; glory in all the pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you. Votes: 0

Helen Keller

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The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it. Votes: 0

Daniel Pennac

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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded. Votes: 0

Megan Fox

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We should live in such a way that our lives wouldn't make much sense if the gospel were not true. Votes: 0

Dorothy Day

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When I say the things that don't make sense you answer me anyway. It's like having green in your shirt. Votes: 0

Mindy McGinnis

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A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. Votes: 0

Richard Aldington

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Faith helps many people make sense of the world around them. Faith gives them a spiritual connection to something larger. Votes: 0

David Harsanyi

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Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov. Votes: 0

Marcus Samuelsson

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It doesn't make much sense and it's nil premium. They're going to have co-CEOs...which is a very uncomfortable structure. Votes: 0

Martin Sorrell

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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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My background's working class. My parents had to work to make ends meet. We don't come from any sense of privilege. Votes: 0

Jon Bon Jovi

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Until we have established reliability there is no sense at all in wasting time trying to make the thing go faster. Votes: 0

Carroll Smith

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I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen? Votes: 0

James A. Baldwin

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I make a note, set it aside, and hope it makes sense when the time comes to look at it again. Votes: 0

Donald E. Westlake

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Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense. Votes: 0

Gregg Olsen

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When you change the way you see and interpret events, suddenly everything will be different for you. Everything will make sense. Votes: 0

Chris Prentiss

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As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. Votes: 0

Martin Walser

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I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense, Votes: 0

Peter B. Lewis

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In America, we have subsidized private jets, big banks and hedge fund managers. Wouldn't it make more sense to subsidize kids? Votes: 0

Nicholas Kristof

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For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present. Votes: 0

Eamon Duffy

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I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. Votes: 0

Whitley Strieber

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I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. Votes: 0

Teddy Thompson

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Men in plural ["¦] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Votes: 0

Hannah Arendt

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And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better. Votes: 0

Anne Hathaway

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If I bare my soul in bits and make it personal, I think people can sense that when they hear it. Votes: 0

Kieran Hebden

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The focus on my wife and my children, it really helps me make sense of the music side of it somehow. Votes: 0

Chris Cornell

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Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else. Votes: 0

Gennifer Choldenko

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What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me it doesn't, anyway. Votes: 0

Bryce Courtenay

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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics. Votes: 0

Ian Anderson

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Votes: 0

Alan W. Watts

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I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me. Votes: 0

Robert Anton Wilson

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I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it'll make sense. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I knew I could do it all this time," said Harry, "Because I'd already done it... does that make sense? Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. Votes: 0

Joseph Heller

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I totally believe that art is an open dialogue and that it is not logical. It does not always make sense. Votes: 0

Lynda Benglis

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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny. Votes: 0

Matthew Vaughn

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I can't say the advertising model is obsolete yet but it doesn't make a lot of sense in the long range. Votes: 0

Jay Chiat

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To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie. Votes: 0

John C. Reilly

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Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small. Votes: 0

Rich Mullins

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The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot. Votes: 0

Chris Lynch

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Any jokes I make I try to make sure it's on story and helps the characters and makes sense with the movie. Votes: 0

Aziz Ansari

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It's hard to get into this world and hard to get out of it, and what's in between doesn't make much sense. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates? Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton

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Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all. Votes: 0

Erik Erikson

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Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot. Votes: 0

Peter Dinklage

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I love suspense movies, because in a sense they're the most dreamlike of any genre, and I'm sure I'll make another one. Votes: 0

Curtis Hanson

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A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place. Votes: 0

Marco Rubio

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Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. Votes: 0

Laura Elliott

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You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make? Votes: 0

Burt Shavitz

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Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense. Votes: 0

John Madden

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Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world. Votes: 0

L.M. Elliott

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You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it. Votes: 0

Tom Waits

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The day you realize you don't have to make sense to anyone is the day you start to make sense to you. Votes: 0

Greg Behrendt

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Careers are what they are, they don't make any sense at all when you look back. We're not in charge of them. Votes: 0

Paul McGann

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Votes: 0

Henry Miller

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It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense. Votes: 0

Brandon Mull

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. Votes: 0

Robert Frost

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There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.' Votes: 0

Norman Spinrad

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Comedy is a very lucrative business now, but when everyone first went into it, it didn't make sense from a financial standpoint. Votes: 0

Jim Gaffigan

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I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense. Votes: 0

Jason Calacanis

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You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody. Votes: 0

Andy Summers

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No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard. Votes: 0

William Ernest Hocking

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Philosophy is manâs expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect. Votes: 0

Alan Watts

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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles. Does that make sense? Votes: 0

Imelda Staunton

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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized. Votes: 0

Nathan Myhrvold

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When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. Votes: 0

Stephen Richards

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When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense? Votes: 0

Audrey Niffenegger

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How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron) Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. Votes: 0

Seamus Heaney

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When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. Votes: 0

Jonathan Safran Foer

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If you're a preacher, you talk for a living, so even if you don't make sense, you learn to make nonsense eloquently. Votes: 0

Andrew Young

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Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. Votes: 0

Neale Donald Walsch

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Evolution makes biology make sense. And if you don't teach your students the evolutionary core of biology, you're making it harder for them. Votes: 0

Eugenie Scott

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How does it happen that something that makes so much sense in the moonlight doesn't make any sense at all in the sunlight? Votes: 0

Lana Turner

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Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future. Votes: 0

Laurie Helgoe

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Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts. Votes: 0

Ori Hofmekler

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Jump start my kaleidoscope heart, Love to watch the colors fade, They may not make sense, But they sure as hell made me. Votes: 0

Sara Bareilles

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It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them? Votes: 0

Julia Alvarez

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I write to reach people's common sense and intelligence, to show them that if they unite they can make a different world possible. Votes: 0

Katharine Susannah Prichard

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Buying a home wouldn't make much sense if house prices were likely to decline further; no one wants to catch a falling knife. Votes: 0

Mark Zandi

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Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural. Votes: 0

Edward M. Lerner

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It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense. Votes: 0

Tim Burton

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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is? Votes: 0

Nancy Pearl

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To make sense to us as physical creatures, any 'truth' must undergo transformations, be couched in certain terms or we couldn't understand it. Votes: 0

Jane Roberts

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To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. Votes: 0

Madeleine L'Engle

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Walking Dead' has done great on Netflix, but to pay for the full output deal just to get 'Walking Dead' didn't make sense. Votes: 0

Ted Sarandos

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There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace. Votes: 0

Gloria Gaither

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I'm a winner...I'm a competitor. That's what I do. It doesn't make sense for me to go over and shake somebody's hand, Votes: 0

LeBron James

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I wrote to make sense out of all the contradictions I experienced and to deal with the pain and loss I was undergoing. Votes: 0

Marge Piercy

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The good news doesn't make any sense unless you know what the bad news is first, and the bad news goes pretty deep. Votes: 0

Bill Mallonee

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I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense. Votes: 0

Apolo Ohno

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All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense. Votes: 0

Richard Powers

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It don't make sense: either you a soldier from the start, Or a actor with a record deal tryin' to play the part. Votes: 0

Xzibit

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Growing up in New York, I loved watching my grandmother Estee put on her make-up - I always admired her sense of style. Votes: 0

Aerin Lauder

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I can see both sides of term limits, and I think, in different positions, term limits make more sense than in some others. Votes: 0

Caroline Kennedy

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Film, as any immigrant will tell you, television and movies is the way we make sense of America when we first got here. Votes: 0

Jose Antonio Vargas

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Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense. Votes: 0

Steven Morrissey

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Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often. Votes: 0

Jon Krakauer

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whether you have training or not, the way to make your look make sense is to surround yourself with the things you love. Votes: 0

Jonathan Adler

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Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself;and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense. Votes: 0

Morrissey

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A lot of what I do - I have to try and make sense of things before I can make nonsense of them. Votes: 0

Rory Bremner

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A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Votes: 0

Joe Rogan

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What I've experienced, I'm trying to put in a narrative form, I suppose, to say that it does make sense in this way. Votes: 0

Oliver Stone

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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light. Votes: 0

Nadine Gordimer

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I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense. Votes: 0

Anna Sui

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Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out of it. Votes: 0

Joel Surnow

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For our immigration policy to make sense, it is necessary to make distinctions between those who obey the law, and those who violate it. Votes: 0

Barbara Jordan

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It don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to. Votes: 0

Lloyd Alexander

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It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself. Votes: 0

Terry Eagleton

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So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. Votes: 0

Thomas Lynch

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I was always into film, but theater was my entry point. I always felt like film didn't make sense to me, as a kid. Votes: 0

Patrick J. Adams

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When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her... Votes: 0

Meg Medina

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Music seems to hold everything together. It seems to make things not so chaotic sometimes. It seems to make things make more sense sometimes. Votes: 0

Tyler Joseph

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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant. Votes: 0

Donald Miller

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Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them. Votes: 0

Nancy Lublin

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Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions. Votes: 0

Judith Curry

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I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense. Votes: 0

Ryan Phillippe

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At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make financial sense. Votes: 0

Cheech Marin

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One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease. Votes: 0

Tom Douglas

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You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently. Votes: 0

Michelle Obama

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I'm just trying to get the best sound and have it be consistent and make sense with what I'm going through in my life. Votes: 0

Justin Bieber

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You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Lois Lowry

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Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea. Votes: 0

Douglas Coupland

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Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email. Votes: 0

Ryan Holmes

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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. Votes: 0

William Dean Howells

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We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists Votes: 0

Tom DeLonge

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When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it. Votes: 0

James Cameron

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There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple. We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense. Votes: 0

Phil Schiller

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We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. Votes: 0

Steven Soderbergh

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What I like about the Bible is that it doesn't make sense, which makes it more like truth than anything else I've ever read. Votes: 0

Rich Mullins

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It makes sense to work towards a better world, but it doesn't make any sense to have illusions about what the real world is. Votes: 0

Noam Chomsky

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There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world. Votes: 0

Bill de Blasio

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A lot of us don't get a sense of our personal power. I know the vast difference that one person can make in changing things. Votes: 0

Boots Riley

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Throughout my life, I've learned to make choices that make me happy and make sense for me. Even my husband is happier when I'm happy. Votes: 0

Michelle Obama

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I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and to have faith. Votes: 0

Thea Bowman

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What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Kevin Yoder

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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way. Votes: 0

Kate Beckinsale

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There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes. Votes: 0

Jack Kevorkian

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I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does. Votes: 0

Stephen Sondheim

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If I can learn how to manage myself, why would I give you 20 percent and people are looking for me? It just doesn't make sense. Votes: 0

Vickie Winans

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What we need is more money back in the hands of Americans of any economic standing and so raising taxes right now doesnt make sense. Votes: 0

Kevin Yoder

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When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved. Votes: 0

Craig Zobel

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Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward. Votes: 0

Paule Marshall

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I had to learn to live without you and I couldn't make sense of it, because I left so much of me inside of you. Votes: 0

Robert M. Drake

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It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes. Votes: 0

Mike Gordon

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We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives. Votes: 0

Les Brown

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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh? Votes: 0

Max Frisch

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I think the most attractive thing is a sense of humour. If someone can make you laugh, you've gotten a lot out of the way. Votes: 0

Kiefer Sutherland

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When I look back on everything I've done, it all somehow makes sense to me. But it doesn't make sense when you're actually doing it. Votes: 0

Robert Longo

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It's important that women support women. It gives me a great sense of well-being to know that I can make a difference in people's lives. Votes: 0

Sheila Johnson

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I don't blame Bill Maher for mocking religion. I can see why he took the trouble to make the movie. In one sense, it's overdue. Votes: 0

Ray Comfort

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This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don't make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star. Votes: 0

Rumi

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'Understanding' art is like having a sense of humour - if you don't have one, no amount of explanation is going to make you laugh. Votes: 0

Michael Craig-Martin

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I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care. Votes: 0

John Shirley

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I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer. Votes: 0

Francis Ford Coppola

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What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened. Votes: 0

Vivian Gornick

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Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word. Votes: 0

Willy Brandt

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It is my sense of exclusion from representation that made me want to be a part of figuring out if we could make a difference. Votes: 0

Meera Menon

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I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people. Votes: 0

Jim Dale

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Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0

Christian Slater

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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place. Votes: 0

Candace Bushnell

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As Im writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place. Votes: 0

Candace Bushnell

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Comedy is difficult for an actor. But I think I have a good sense of humor and manage to make people laugh and make them happy. Votes: 0

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

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I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos. Votes: 0

Lady Gaga

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People who publish poetry today do it from a sense that poetry needs to be published, not because they think they are going to make money. Votes: 0

Campbell McGrath

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Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game. Votes: 0

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us Votes: 0

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job. Votes: 0

Dennis Lehane

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In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen. Votes: 0

G-Eazy

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I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me. Votes: 0

Nick Cave

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There's always a tone that you have to hit right in horror. With the blood, you want to make sure that it makes sense all along. Votes: 0

Fede Alvarez

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People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. Votes: 0

Dorothy Allison

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There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make? Votes: 0

Bre Pettis

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My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have... an ambition of transcendence. Votes: 0

Richard Rorty

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When our worries and fears just don't make sense, it's possible we are trusting the part of the brain that doesn't make sense... it just reacts. Votes: 0

Bill Crawford

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It doesn't make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do. Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain anything. Votes: 0

E. F. Schumacher

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If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters. Votes: 0

William Feather

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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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Yeah well I think her relationships with people become really clear, and I think they all make tons of sense in line with Ultron as well. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Olsen

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Mr False Pretence, you don't make sense I just don't know you But you make me cry, where's my kiss goodbye I think I love you Votes: 0

Amy Winehouse

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Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of power. Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them. Votes: 0

Natasha Lyonne

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The majority of us do not enthrone God, we enthrone common sense. We make our decisions and then ask the real God to bless our God's decision. Votes: 0

Oswald Chambers

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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don't care if they make sense or nonsense. Votes: 0

Norton Juster

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What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them? Votes: 0

Paracelsus

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I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is. Votes: 0

David Boreanaz

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It takes more muscles to frown than it does to smile, which make sense because yesterday I frowned so much I ended up pulling my groin muscle. Votes: 0

Jarod Kintz

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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands. Votes: 0

Robert Benchley

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But you have to have a vision of what kind of military you are trying to build in order to get the [budget] cuts to make sense. Votes: 0

Jessica Mathews

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My life don't make a lot of sense.... It don't make sense that I go around the country killing people. Period. It don't make sense doing that. Votes: 0

Tommy Lynn Sells

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The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life. Votes: 0

Erich Fromm

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I even watched Mulholland Drive in French... it didn't make much more sense in French, but I have to say, it didn't make any less sense either. Votes: 0

Tom Dunne

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The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work. Votes: 0

Sander Levin

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It doesn't make sense to change who you are just to hang out with people you think are cool. You know, you just have to be yourself. Votes: 0

Alex Mack

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I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it. Votes: 0

Amanda Lindhout

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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing. Votes: 0

Dorothy Allison

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My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix... Votes: 0

Joe

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It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it. Votes: 0

Wendell Berry

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I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it. Votes: 0

Van Morrison

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As in all things, it is terribly important to have a sense of priorities in what you do. And to make certain that priorities do not clash. Votes: 0

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Nick rubbed his hand across his face as he tried to make sense of her prattle. But that was the thing about Simi. She seldom made sense. Votes: 0

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people. Votes: 0

Billy Eichner

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To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. Votes: 0

John Irving

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I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. Votes: 0

Loudon Wainwright III

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People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it... the essence of the Mathangi concept. Votes: 0

M.I.A.

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People need stories...we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. Votes: 0

Jennifer Chiaverini

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I just want to make sure I have a sense of balance between work and life, because work is my life and the lines can get really blurry. Votes: 0

Drew Barrymore

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There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others. Votes: 0

Tessa Thompson

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I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist. Votes: 0

Chang-Rae Lee

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If I can write a book that will help the world make a little more sense to a teen, then that's why I was put on the planet. Votes: 0

Laurie Halse Anderson

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Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it. Votes: 0

Stephen H. Furrer

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I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn't make sense to me. Votes: 0

Ben Feldman

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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense. Votes: 0

Rachel Cohn

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Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes. Votes: 0

Tahereh Mafi

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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Votes: 0

Stephen Hawking

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I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be. Votes: 0

Robin Williams

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You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was. Votes: 0

Mary Balogh

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The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

Will Muschamp

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People try to make sense of things, and if they donât know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.

Ann Aguirre

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We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

John Scott

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She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Vincent Canby

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A paradox arises: the only way to meaning in freedom is through boundaries. The only way that boundaries make any sense at all is through freedom.

Clark Moustakas

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Two cliches make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the cliches are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.

Umberto Eco

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Hopefully, other successes aren't like me. It carries much more meaning to other people; my success story is irrelevant. It doesn't make any sense.

Ai Weiwei

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Making a woman laugh. What is that about? And the prettier the woman, the more satisfaction I get. It doesn't make any sense, but I'm being honest.

Larry David

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I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

Sharon Jones

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Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

Danielle Steel

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I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

Rodman Philbrick

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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

W. H. Auden

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I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. I guess I'm kind of happy where I'm at, and I take whatever comes, and it's a good thing.

Cory Monteith

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Songwriting is like working on a jigsaw puzzle, and it doesn't make any sense until you find that last piece. It has to make sense or it doesn't work.

Chrissie Hynde

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You need to look to make a cohesive calendar that makes sense and helps elongate the careers of your players as opposed to shorten them inadvertently.

Jim Courier

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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Karl Pearson

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I am going to become a writer for Cosmo - you donât have to make any sense at all. Or maybe Iâll be a bloke, they donât have to make sense either.

Louise Rennison

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Sometimes when you're in love, there are things you feel that you can't really explain. It doesn't really make sense. That's how I feel when i'm in love

Selena Gomez

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I'd say most of my work is just trying to make sense of the disorienting and overloaded world that we inhabit. We're bombarded with sound at every level.

DJ Spooky

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These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.

Sonia Braga

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The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

Betsy Lerner

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Why are we deforesting for pulp and paper when we have a logical and efficient solution in plants like kenaf or bamboo? It doesn't make sense to me at all.

Ian Somerhalder

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Itâs fascinating. You know all these words, and theyâre all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just donât make any sense.

Cassandra Clare

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The best songs are stories, and the best singers storytellers. Great singers can make you care about what they're feeling. You have a sense of knowing them.

Steve Ross

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Retailers are treating everyone the same way who walks in their stores and this doesn't make sense in the world we live in where all customers are not equal.

Peter Fader

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I had to invest in the love and understand that with the love comes the pain. So when he tells me that, the monologue is already there. Does that make sense?

Viola Davis

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Think about these things and see if they make sense to you. You will find that work will no longer be a four-letter word. It will be a three-letter word: fun.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.

George Washington Carver

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Colloquialism is the toughest part of what we do, as foreign actors, because there are certain sayings that you guys have that absolutely don't make any sense.

Boris Kodjoe

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If there were a truly existent I, It would make sense to be afraid of certain things; But, since there is no truly existent I, Who is there to be afraid?

Shantideva

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To Islamize doesn't make sense to me. But to center, but to have intellectual empathy and modesty - all these dimensions are important on how we look at truth.

Tariq Ramadan

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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.

Dar Williams

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Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

Nick Zinner

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Its very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesnt make sense!

Walid Muallem

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We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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It does not make sense. It cannot exist. It's impossible, and if it isn't impossible, it's irrelevant, and if it isn't either of those things, it's embarrassing.

Philip Pullman

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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...

Aimee Bender

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I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.

David F. Swensen

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It is essential to learn to enjoy life. It really does not make sense to go through the motions of existence if one does not appreciate as much of it as possible.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.

Laura Miller

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What happens with experiences that really move us deeply, that really effect us? They make the world new again. What it does is it heightens our sense of mortality.

Bill Henson

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I'd like to make all different kinds of movies. I don't think it would make sense though for my second film to walk straight into a musical even though I'd like to.

David Michod

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We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that would fill us and make us whole.

Haruki Murakami

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It's a mind going over things, revisiting things, maybe trying to refine the original perception. You have to keep going a thing over in order to make sense off it.

Paul Auster

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One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness

V. Vale

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Education is not something that the government invests in. Because if you invest in education, no politician can come and tell you something that doesn't make sense.

Angelique Kidjo

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Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

Gore Vidal

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If I beat my against this desk, maybe things will make sense," Angela murmured. "Or if I beat someone else's head against this desk...." She eyed Jared speculatively

Sarah Rees Brennan

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Emotion is what hip-hop thrives on. Don't you want your music to have emotion in it? People like to always throw some negative cloud over it. Doesn't even make sense.

Kid Cudi

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That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.

Kimbra

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Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

Laura Linney

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Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.

Thomas Demand

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The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels and reassemble them into a meaningful pattern.

Diane Ackerman

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In this sense, science, as physicist Steven Weinberg has emphasized, does not make it impossible to believe in God, but rather makes it possible to not believe in God.

Lawrence M. Krauss

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I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them. I enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part.

Tina Fey

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And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.

Chinua Achebe

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Our lives don't really belong to us, you see -- they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding.

Paul Auster

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I remember writing a paper on human evolution in 1944, and I simply left Piltdown out. You could make sense of human evolution if you didn't try to put Piltdown into it.

Sherwood Washburn

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The violence of war is random. It does not make sense. And many of those who struggle with loss also struggle with the knowledge that the loss was futile and unnecessary.

Chris Hedges

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If a spiritual teacher says something that doesn't make sense to you, you should always listen to yourself and not the teacher. A little common sense would end all cults.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

Paul Muldoon

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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You've got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.

Paulo Coelho

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I know that the emotional narrative will work in the end, and I just have to play each moment honestly even if the getting from A to B doesn't totally make sense initially.

Gaby Hoffmann

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Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Stephen King

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The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.

Jemaine Clement

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Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius.

Simone Elkeles

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Our responsibility is to love God and to love our neighbour which is what Jesus taught and it's also what Judaism taught - and that would make sense because Jesus was Jewish.

Amy-Jill Levine

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Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

Andy Goldsworthy

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I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Horace Walpole

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Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

Robert Plant

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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.

Walker Percy

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We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

Bernie Sanders

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At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we don't want a baby, but we are old enough to have one?

Jessica Valenti

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I think for a long time people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll ... and I ... had ideas [that were unconventional and] that didn't make sense.

Sharon Stone

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I was often asked how one could even make sense of this. Isn't the category of knowledge something that we project upon the world, rather than something that we discover in it?

Hilary Kornblith

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The discussion about food doesn't make any sense without discussion at the same time of land, land use, land policy, fertility maintenance, and farm infrastructure maintenance.

Wendell Berry

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I use everything. Turning life into stories is how I make sense of my experience. No matter how weird or disturbing or upsetting to me personally, it all finds its way in there.

Grant Morrison

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Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.

Paul Bettany

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All you have to remember is 'audition' is synonymous with 'opportunity. I mean, if you absolutely hate auditioning, do you also hate opportunities? That wouldn't make much sense.

Hilary Swank

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Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again.

Laura Dave

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It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

Terence McKenna

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I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.

Eli Roth

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Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

James Hillman

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How does it make sense to remove an option, to tell your enemy before you go into a conflict, that you will not exercise whatever options are necessary in order to achieve victory?

John McCain

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It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to create and make sense of things in life. Hopefully, it does the same for others.

Hoodie Allen

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An organization has integrityâis healthyâwhen it is whole, consistent, and complete, that is, when its management, operations, strategy, and culture fit together and make sense.

Patrick Lencioni

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One day it's all going to be clear. It's all going to make sense. You're going to be able to say, "So that's why God allowed that in my life!" Until then, God wants you to trust him.

Rick Warren

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All disruptive innovators make it easier and more affordable for people to do what matters to them, and follow a strategy that doesn't at first glance make sense to the market leader.

Scott D. Anthony

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I stepped into the martial arts movie market when I was only 16. I think I have proved my ability in this field and it won't make sense for me to continue for another five or 10 years.

Jet Li

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I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

Carmen Ejogo

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Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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Another part of the challenge was to bring back things that you've forgotten about and maybe some things you haven't forgotten about, recontextualize them and have the series make sense.

J. H. Wyman

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I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

Frank Spotnitz

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It does not make sense that we are allowing known potential weapons, not unlike those the 9-11 hijackers used to overcome the crews of four airplanes, to be taken aboard passenger aircraft.

Dave Reichert

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The fact that I speak five languages is just a plus. I do not try to speak every language I know, in every movie. It must make sense. But, the fact that it's available gives a nice back-up.

Richard Sammel

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Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Well, the years start coming and they don't stop coming. ?Bet you the rules and I hit the ground running Didn't make sense not to live for fun. Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

Greg Camp

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Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Neale Donald Walsch

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Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks . . . Soon it will all make sense.

Terrance Hayes

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Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

Chris Rock

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Science, like art, religion, political theory, or psychoanalysis - is work that holds out the promise of philosophic understanding, excites in us the belief that we can 'make sense of it all.

Vivian Gornick

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When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.

Alice McDermott

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It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Frank Kermode

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Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

J. K. Rowling

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When I'm acting, I've always got to make it make sense to me why I do anything. Whether it's right or wrong, I've just got to believe this is the reason why I am doing this and just go with it.

Henry Ian Cusick

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There are certainly beliefs in traditional Buddhism that conflict with basic principles of scientific understanding, .. We can't make sense of those beliefs in any kind of scientific framework.

Richard Davidson

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Is," "is," "is""the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

Robert Anton Wilson

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We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

Bill Harley

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I'm just trying to find some secret places in the human brain because I think movies tend to be too rational sometimes. Everything is supposed to make sense. Everything is supposed to be logical.

Quentin Dupieux

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I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

Sarah Kay

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I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Assata Shakur

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Dogs make sense. They understand hierarchy and the need to cooperate. They come when you call them. A cat thoughâa cat will take your number and get back to you. Maybe. If heâs in a good mood.

Eileen Wilks

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Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

Steven Sebring

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I would say that an RFC-like thing might make sense. I probably would do it myself. But I don't think trying to combine that with what's going through now, I think what is needed now is liquidity.

Warren Buffett

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You just become adaptable and try to lead a good life in ways that make sense, regardless. Because I know at the end of it, if I'm going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I'm going to be all right.

Neil Peart

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The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, âAha. Of course. That's right.â

Carrie Jones

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Nostalgia doesn't make sense, because it's like bringing the memories back to be a special part of my day or to be part of my week. And I'm inside my memories the same way I'm inside my everyday life.

Agnes Varda

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The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

Andrew Keen

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Some people like when it rains a lot. Some people like sunshine. The idea that there's one, all encompassing afterlife is strange. It doesn't seem to make sense because we're all such different people.

Drew Goddard

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There is an old saying: In history nothing is true but the names and dates. In fiction everything is true but the names and dates. The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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I love making my Instagram look cohesive - look like a Tumblr page almost. When they all make sense colorwise, or when you add those white borders to them, it makes them look cleaner. Clean and precise.

Ariana Grande

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All actors have to believe that our characters have a point that makes sense. Hopefully, they make sense to the crowd watching it, but at least he has to make sense in his own mind, in his own universe.

Mads Mikkelsen

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Algebra messed up one of those divisions between things that help you make sense of the world and keep it tidy. Letters make words; figures make numbers. They had no business getting tangled up together.

Mal Peet

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Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.

Jackie Chan

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If you don't know how it works, find out. If you're not sure if it will work, try it. If it doesn't make sense, play with it until it does. If it's not broken, break it. If it might not be true, find out.

Seth Godin

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Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.

Galen Rowell

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I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.

Libby Larsen

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When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.

G-Eazy

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I think the days are over where we were okay with bad guys just doing the pirate laugh and eating kids just for fun. There has to be a goal, you know? They have to have a point, and they have to make sense.

Mads Mikkelsen

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It's about, when did it make sense to say one size fits everybody? It never ever ever made sense to do that, and yet we're still selling education the same way we sold it when you and I were in high school.

Mike Rowe

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I would categorically not rule out that it's not the last season of Community. Does that make sense? I would love nothing more than for Community to have a following on Friday, and to be able to continue it.

Robert Greenblatt

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We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

Baal Shem Tov

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Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense.

Vine Deloria Jr.

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My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.

Daisy Whitney

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Music has always been a location for me to run to, whether it's through someone else's song or my own. I can observe my own planet from this foreign land and things make sense within the telescopic lens of song.

Jon Foreman

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As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.

Melina Marchetta

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Help publicly. Help privately. Help make sense where sense has gone missing. Help science to solve and faith to soothe. Help, and you will abolish apathy-the void that is so quickly filled by ignorance and evil.

Tom Hanks

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Stories matter. Stories are how we make sense of the world, which doesn't mean that those stories can't be stupid and simplistic and full of lies. Stories can exaggerate and offend and they always, always matter.

Laurie Penny

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In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.

Takashi Miike

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Everyone isn't logical. Everything doesn't make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down.

Tammara Webber

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I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?

Albert Camus

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We're always on a tightrope. We're trying to put together people who don't make sense to be together, talking about issues that are sensitive and controversial. We're mixing dangerous chemicals on a nightly basis.

Bill Maher

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I realized in that moment that physically speaking my talents were well beyond Joe [Namath's] talents. So then I realized, "What am I doing here? This doesn't make sense because it's always going to be about Joe.'

John Riggins

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If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

Ralph Marston

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I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

George Strait

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Thoughts of the girl crashed around his mind, made him remember the connection he felt. A sadness washed over him, as if he missed her, wanted to see her. That doesn't make sense, he thought. I don't even know her name.

James Dashner

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We cannot build county councils based on one single constituency. It doesn't make sense because it does not have a sufficient revenue base to be able to provide the services that county councils are required to provide.

Raila Odinga

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We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?

Stephen Hawking

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Remember, despite the fact that this book is being sold as a 'fantasy' novel, you must take all of the things it says extremely seriously, as they are quite important, are in no way silly, and always make sense. Rutabaga.

Brandon Sanderson

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I don't ever want to do anything that's obvious, and I also want to find ways to do things that are extremely new and exciting and can make sense in bizarre ways. I always want things to make sense in really bizarre ways.

Jack Antonoff

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...the cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to be public anymore. A lot of little companies are going private to be rid of these burdensome requirements....

Charlie Munger

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I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichÃ©s.

Jamaica Kincaid

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It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.

Leni Zumas

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Baywatch was a turning point for me. Reluctantly famous (in over 150 countries) I tried to make sense of my place on earth. I started to realize -- while being interviewed endlessly about silly things. That I had a Voice!!!

Pamela Anderson

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This world is filled with things that will never make sense. Trying to make so much sense of them will only result in one thing: Spending the rest of your life trying to remember what you were like before any of it mattered.

Matthew Good

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Goodness is also about interacting with people, brands, companies and organizations who are invested in sustainable and ethical practices. What's the point of using products that are ruining our Earth? It doesn't make sense.

Sophie Heyman Uliano

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I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.

Chris Hughes

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At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don't make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.

Shel Silverstein

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But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.

Meg Cabot

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There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesn't seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.

Rick Atkinson

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I find that what doubt does, or fear, is it makes you come up with as many ideas as you possibly can. And on film that works 'cause you're then handing over that fear to the director, who has to make sense of all those options!

Eddie Redmayne

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By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Neil Gaiman

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I don't believe in rushing and saying this is done and over with. That form of rebellion doesn't make sense to me. I've always attempted to familiarize myself with the traditions, and consider that a responsibility of the artist.

Twyla Tharp

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Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.

Arthur Miller

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I cannot imagine a cat in an Obedience ring, running around in the hot sun and doing things on command. For it would not make sense. Whereas a dog is tolerant of your not making sense and only wants to fix things so you are happy.

Gladys Taber

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"Christ" is bigger than the Earth planet. If tomorrow we discover life on another planet, the whole "Jesus" piece would not make sense anymore. If he did everything for just us on this planet he wouldn't be the savior of the "world."

Richard Rohr

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To make sense of this view (design as opposed to accident), one must accept the idea of transcendence: that the Designer exists in a totally different order of reality or being, not restrained within the bounds of the Universe itself.

George F. R. Ellis

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I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

Abderrahmane Sissako

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You just can't make up random information and say it sarcastically and have it make sense. You can't just be like, 'I went out on a date with a Jewish girl. She was more rude than a wolfcat - an animal I've made up and decided is rude.

Eugene Mirman

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You always ask that. Why. Like there's an answer for everything. Not everybody has your life, you know, or your family. In your life, things happen for reasons. People make sense. But that's not my life. Nobody in my life makes sense"¦

Rainbow Rowell

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I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

Paddy Considine

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'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

Eli Roth

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I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.

James Frey

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I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

Laurel Nakadate

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Only as long as we believe in our own identity over time does it make sense for us to make future plans, avoid risks, and treat our fellow human beings fairly - for the consequences of our actions will, in the end, always concern ourselves.

Thomas Metzinger

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Warren Buffett

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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.

Harrison Salisbury

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We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have to have a framework for understanding and of interpretation in order to make use of the information.

Noam Chomsky

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People have told us that accessing all of their Google stuff with one account makes life a whole lot easier. But we've also heard that it doesn't make sense for your Google+ profile to be your identity in all the other Google products you use.

Bradley Horowitz

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...you're waiting because you thought it would follow, you thought there would be some logic, perhaps, something to pull it all together but here we are in the weeds again, here we are in the bowels of the thing: your world doesn't make sense.

Richard Siken

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I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.

Carlos Mencia

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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.

Ben Stein

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I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge.

Rebecca Goldstein

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. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

John Boyne

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I remember my first standup act when I was seventeen; I did a really lame song about being flat chested. I was doing it in New York, and I remember Kevin Brennan, the guy I lost my virginity to, was like "That song doesn't make sense, you have tits."

Sarah Silverman

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Who wouldn't want to be in Scream? I was sitting on set thinking, "Aren't I supposed to be watching this movie? I don't think I'm supposed to be here." I never could have imagined myself on screen with Neve Campbell, screaming. It just didn't make sense.

Emma Roberts

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There are parts of the country in America, in the Midwest, where wind is a big resource, and we should absolutely use it. But to try and apply it nationally doesn't make sense. There are technologies that will work that are appropriate to certain regions.

Vinod Khosla

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I'm lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I'm grateful to be a witness to that. It's horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense?

Kathleen Hanna

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I've always been a bit repelled by "Sunset Boulevard", which is wrong about almost everything it touches, whether it's fame, Hollywood, screenwriters, or old ladies. Sunset Boulevard would only make sense to me if it was about John Gilbert and the pool boy.

William Monahan

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There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been very positive. Readers relate to me not just as an African-American, but as an American trying to make sense of her personal finance, just like them.

Michelle Singletary

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Peter used to say that an artistâs job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Sometimes God gives instructions that go against conventional wisdom, such as treating people kindly when they're hateful. Who really wants to do that? Instructions like that my not always make sense, so that's why I need to trust and obey the One who inspired them.

George Foreman

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The human mind delights in finding patternso much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.

Stephen Jay Gould

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I find myself trying to translate a lot of the things whirring passed my subjective lens into language I can make sense of, then that tribal tongue becomes rap-language and for whatever reason some people on the internet really like that. To y'all I'm eternally indebted.

Milo

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In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.

Barack Obama

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Theory is a dirty word in some managerial quarters. That is rather curious, because all of us, managers especially, can no more get along without theories than libraries can get along without catalogs and for the same reason: theories help us make sense of incoming information.

Henry Mintzberg

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That's something that seems to happen when I'm writing, where maybe things that don't necessarily make a lot of logical sense are put together, and yet we struggle to make sense of these things somehow. I'm not quite sure why that is; it's something about human nature, I guess.

Kurt Wagner

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All motivation is defined by intention. If the intention is to hurt, divide, or belittle, it's wrong; if it's an attempt to cope with or make sense of tragedy, it's something different. If it's commenting on society's flaws, versus adding to society's flaws, I think the audience can tell.

Eric Andre

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Mercy Watson is obsessed with toast. What was blocking me was the challenge of trying to understand what she loves, what motivates her. That was the missing piece. Toast became the physical symbol of Mercy's hopefully endearing greed and obsession. Without that element in place, it didn't make sense.

Kate DiCamillo

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