Direct Quotes
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We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
Grace Slick
Starship
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There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and leaving them to direct themselves.
James Bryant Conant
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I got into direct confrontation with everybody I love.
Lauryn Hill
Fugees
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I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
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The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.
Erwin Schrodinger
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Your success in your career will be in direct proportion to what you do after you've done what you are expected to do.
Brian Tracy
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All this is, if I understand it correctly, is a different way of doing the accounting. All employee time—whether it’s direct or indirect, idle time or operating time, or whatever—is operational expense, according to Jonah. You’re still accounting for it. It’s just that his way is simpler, and you don’t have to play as many games.
Eliyahu M. Goldratt
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I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.
Melonie Diaz
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When I'm writing a song, things are always popping into my head, it's not so direct. It feels more like I'm in a room and there's this whole big jumble of clothes on the floor and it's like choosing what to wear. There are a lot of different things in there and you kind of pull something out and think, "No, that's not right," or you're like, "Yes I'll put this on with this."
Julia Natasha Stone
Angus & Julia Stone
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By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something unattainable. Never-ending undying love. And in hip hop, we're still taking direct inspiration.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.
William S. Burroughs
