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I was essentially trained by Oscar Hammerstein to think of songs as one-act plays, to move a song from point A to point B dramatically. — Stephen Sondheim

I have noticed that music, like solid matter, is essentially crystalline in structure. — Guy Murchie

Music really does just boil down to basically, essentially songwriting chords and melodies. — Flume

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok

But down deep, at the molecular heart of life we're essentially identical to trees. — Carl Sagan

An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world. — Matt Taibbi

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good — Charles Bukowski

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful. — Michael Porter

I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms. — Tayeb Salih

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel. — Michael Lewis

Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity. — Josef Pieper

The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it. — Charles De Lint

The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life. — Woody Allen

The more personal you make something, the more universal it becomes, because essentially we're all made up of the same emotional stuff. — Brian Molko

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially. — John Burnside

That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I essentially write for myself. — Leon Uris

A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Self-pity is essentially humorless, devoid of that lightness of touch which gives understanding of life. — Anthony Powell

Happier thoughts lead to essentially a happier biochemistry. A happier, healthier body. — John Hagelin

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather. — William Hamilton

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. — Mahatma Gandhi

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics. — Kedar Joshi

Comedy is essentially made by young men, or older men with some form of arrested development, for young men or immature older men. — Harold Ramis

Say to yourself: 'Living essentially to please others is a monumental mistake.' — George Robinson

Creativity is essentially a "calling" and our callings are guides to new directions or expansions of old ones. — Anonymous

In ecstasy, it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart. — Dean Koontz

Agricultural husbandry essentially maintains the balance of bound nitrogen. — Fritz Haber

I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them. — Kathleen Turner

Since I'm essentially optimistic, I can't imagine a world in which man is totally decimated or degraded. — Nelson Algren

Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error. — Nate Silver

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself. — Simon Cowell

A moral man is essentially dumbfounded when confronted by a man who is amoral - everything the latter does is met with a certain disbelief. — Andrew Holleran

Essentially, he has been retired since he was 21. — Jack Nicklaus

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress. — George Santayana

At a basic level, procedural due process is essentially based on the concept of "fundamental fairness. — LandMark Publications

No really, I'm a werewolf and you're a human, which essentially translates into a steak with legs. — Quinn Loftis

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

Mystery is an intellectual process ... But suspense is essentially an emotional process. — Alfred Hitchcock

The liberty that remains to us is essentially the freedom to choose among brands A, B, and C. — John Zerzan

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners. — Michael Crichton

People are essentially red meat. They are. — Max Cannon

My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author. — Bryce Courtenay

Essentially, we have a system where wealthy farmers feed the poor crap and poor farmers feed the wealthy high-quality food. — Michael Pollan

Gardening always has been an art, essentially. — Robert Irwin

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone. — Albert Einstein

The darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance. — George Sarton

Only a man could come up with something so ruthless, so essentially stupid and yet brutally effective. — Liane Moriarty

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person. — Jamaica Kincaid

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am. — Sienna Miller

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest. — John Stuart Mill

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein

The White House is now essentially a TV performance. — Edmund Snow Carpenter

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge. — Ibn Khaldun

Darkness had been essentially banished from the Earth. It had become a choice. — Anne Rice

Life satisfaction essentially measures cheerful moods, so it is not entitled to a central place in any theory that aims to be more than a happiology. — Martin Seligman

Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. — Erica Jong

Genetically, we are essentially the same creatures as we were at the beginning. We are still hunters and gatherers. — Richard Louv

Pride is essentially competitive in nature. We pit our will against God's. — Ezra Taft Benson

I tried to find something real in essentially something thats science fiction or something-for me, anyways-not having an experience like this. — Ryan Gosling

That's what the 'Doctor' is about, essentially - having that energy that you just can't understand. — Billie Piper

Non-violent extremism is essentially the increase of intolerant and bigoted demands made by groups seeking to dominate society. — Maajid Nawaz

I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is. — Marilyn Manson

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people. — William Lyon Mackenzie King

No offence to Nicki Minaj, but her career has essentially been a Lil' Kim tribute — Azealia Banks

Experience and experiment are crucially important here - neural Darwinism is essentially experiential selection. The — Oliver Sacks

Essentially, yoga means dissolving your identity. — Jaggi Vasudev

Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion. — Jonathan Ames

Was he at the movies to see a movie, she said, or maybe more narrowly, more essentially, simply to be at the movies? — Don DeLillo

If education tries to make other persons out of us than we essentially are, deeper inside, it stultifies, and reproach matters. — Franz Kafka

Government is essentially immoral — Howard Spencer

I'd essentially compartmentalized my life so I could be two different people for a while, but it hadn't worked in the end. — Monica Alexander

The funny thing about me is I move from genre to genre, but I essentially shoot all the movies the same way. — James Mangold

Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege. — Jonathan Coleman

Understanding the fact that we are essentially water is the key to uncovering the mysteries of the universe ... — Masaru Emoto

A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy. — Rainn Wilson

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads. — Robert M. Sapolsky

I'm essentially a jobbing actor. If I'm out of work, I'll be the back end of a donkey. — Michael Gough

Essentially all life uses redox chemistry to generate a gradient of protons across a membrane. Why on earth do we do that? — Nick Lane

Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that. — Ted Nelson

Access to high quality video content
essentially TV programming
has never been better than today — Lloyd Braun

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive. — Marya Hornbacher

I know that I am essentially a sort of fun-loving person who really just wants to sit around and eat pies. — Nora Ephron

Understanding transformed into secret means of action is splendid, wonderful, edifying and essentially dignifying. — Samael Aun Weor

Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell

Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex. — Dietrich Von Hildebrand

We should create a holiday that celebrates money for what it is, essentially worthless paper, upon which we agree to pretend it has value. — Dov Davidoff

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question. — Carl L. Becker

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. — Theodore Sturgeon

When you get right down to it, militaries are essentially legalized mafias. — Michel Templet

To abstain from lying is essentially wholesome. — Gautama Buddha

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different. — Jack Kornfield

You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making. — Stephen Richards

Each of us has a gift, a talent, that we can offer to the world that makes the world essentially a better place. — James Redfield

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature. — William Shenstone

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Most men are essentially dead by thirty. — Romain Rolland

The entire right side of my head was essentially a black eye. I — Al Macy

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life. — Amanda Palmer

We read because we are essentially alone. — Jessica Zafra