David Lewis-Williams Quotes
For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
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With 'Mask,' 'Smooth Talk' and 'Blue Velvet,' I loved the specific experiences so much. Each one was a specific filmmaker with a specific vision.
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I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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The fundamental vision hasn't changed. What does change is how you get there, because there are still problems you have to figure out.
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Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I have my pride. I'm a director. I'm not going to go and recreate some other director's vision.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
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Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.
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As governor, I will always be willing to work with people who have ideas to offer and are ready to roll up their sleeves. That kind of teamwork will build a New Hampshire that will lead the nation and compete with the world. Together, we will help our businesses grow and build a stronger economy on a vision of innovation and growth.
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I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to two-inch tape, I still have a romantic vision of how songs sounded coming out of the radio when I was younger, and how they sounded coming out of my little four-track cassette player.
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Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.
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The best vision is insight.
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Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I'll be right there with you as a citizen - inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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I am grateful that early in my life I was blessed with a simple faith that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God, that he saw God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ, in a vision. He translated the Book of Mormon by the gift and power of God. That testimony has been confirmed to me over and over again.
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Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.
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Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
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We are offering Ireland not subjection but equality, not servitude but partnership.
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For the makers, the paintings and engravings were visions, not representations of visions.
