Reformulation Quotes

#1. Death is not a self-evident phenomenon. The margins between life and death are socially and culturally constructed, mobile, multiple, and open to dispute and reformulation.

Margaret M. Lock

#2. I have argued in favor of a reformulation of First Amendment law. The overriding goal of the reformulation is to reinvigorate processes of democratic deliberation, by ensuring greater attention to public issues and greater diversity of views.

Cass Sunstein

#3. There is no technical reason why we could not feed a world of nine billion people. Hunger is a matter of buying power, not of shortages.

Louise Fresco

#4. All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

Glenn Ficarra

#5. From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Ronald Reagan

#6. Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

J. C. Watts

#7. The Order seemed to adhere to the principle of suckers walk, players ride.

Lev Grossman

#8. Because TV is mostly close up, it has to be fast. And because it has to be fast, you don't have time to explain completely, by a sequence shot, what's happening between people. So instead of experiencing what's happening, say, when a couple is dancing, dialogue is used to explain.

Claire Denis

#9. One of the main faults of a fool is that he never changes his mind.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.

Sue Kaufman

#11. Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals. Whether slaves or free, they reign, because their empire is that of the affections.

Aime Martin

#12. Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?

Camryn Manheim

#13. The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Claude Levi-Strauss