"Any good piece of material like Shakespeare ought to be open to reinterpretation."
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"Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be."
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"Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."
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"The Absolute is the material of both God and man."
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"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
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"Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content."
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"Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded."
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"I have such a great band. We had played all this material on the road. I just wanted to let it fly."
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"Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business."
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"I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is."
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"Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material."
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"There's more to life than physical and material."
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"In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed."
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"Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar."
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"On the theft of his material by Denis Leary: "I have a scoop for you. I stole his act. I camouflaged it with punchlines, and to really throw people off, I did it before he did.""
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"Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world."
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"I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I."
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"Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do."
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"What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work."
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"To measure success with material things is failure!"
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