Sometimes, when the material is really good, you put expectations on yourself to make it the best possible show. You're not just serving up the regular hash and doing your job and going home.
Being is a spiritual proposition. Gaining is a material act. Traditionally, American Indians have always attempted to be the best people they could. Part of that spiritual process was and is to give away wealth, to discard wealth in order not to gain...
I could design an $800 shoe line; it's easy. You use the best materials and you can make beautiful shoes. It's easier than making great shoes for $90.
Pleasure and business, unlike oil and water, can sometimes be mixed.
I had the training at drama school where I studied Shakespeare and Brecht and Chekov and all these period historical playwrights and I think that I responded to the material.
Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.
The North Koreas of the world are trying very hard to acquire the material they need to acquire nuclear weapons, as is the case with Iran.
When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.
One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
What I try to do - and I think this is the former librarian in me - is to get primary source material.
Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
