For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
I could never accept findings based almost exclusively on mathematics. It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so.
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.
A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.
Everyone who means well gives advice based on his or her perception. I have realized that while it's important to hear the suggestions, one should only listen to oneself.
Sure, sometimes guys pass you up in salary, and maybe it's a lesser player, but it's all based on what a team has as far as value in that person.
The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.
A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.
Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.
I always wanted to be a part of a New York-based label, so I've worked really hard to try and network with people that I felt would put me in the right place.
My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale - and to make investments based on that - despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different.
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired.
'The Mortal Instruments' is based on a series of novels by Cassandra Clare; it has been a New York Times bestseller, so it is pretty popular.
American foreign policy has been - and must continue to be - based on unequivocal support for Israel's right to exist and to be free from terror.
I'm singing what I want to sing based on the emotion of what that day feels like. That's what comes out of my mouth and guitar. That impacts people. They know anything can happen.
I don't think anyone should pick a candidate for any office based solely on gender. That would be, I believe, a mistake.
