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"I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of it is a major portion. I feel like it has been lost in R&B and a lot of people are scared to talk about their vulnerabilities and insecurities. They want to keep it up and in the club."
"Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness."
"You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them."
"I, for one, will not have [the Vietcong] insulted by any comparison to the forces of Zarqawi, the Fedayeen Saddam, and the criminal underworld now arrayed against us. These depraved elements are the Iraqi Khmer Rouge."
"It must not be supposed that the subjective elements are any less 'real' than the objective elements; they are only less important... because they do not point to anything beyond ourselves."
"Cooking certainly has some of the elements of an art form."
"The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death."
"What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance."
"Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience."
"I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way."
"The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know."
"The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]"
"People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]"
"A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater."
"Inside of us is a place that is all-knowing, all mighty, which is a fragment of God. Nourishing, healing elements with in us. There is a spark in each one of us."
"Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music."
"Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish."
"All high beauty has a moral element in it."
"The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate."
"It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity."
