I speak onstage to try to establish some method of communication. The songs are supposed to be a way of communicating. But speech and drinks and sometimes chocolates are also a way of communicating.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.
I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
If I can be perfectly blunt, his humanities teacher was an ass.
A brick could be used as a device to deliver bad news. Sometimes it's better to be blunt.
Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.
I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.
My relief dissipates as James Blunt's yowling voice is overwhelmed by the scream of locking brakes:eieeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE... My head lurches into darkness.
The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie.
There is no force in high school more powerful than one person's blunt disagreement.
