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• I’ve always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies.

  Joy Harjo

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• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ has completely changed my life.

  Jim Parsons

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• I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I’ve had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

  Alan Parker

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• I’m very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

  George Hickenlooper

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• I wanted to make noise, not study theory.

  James Hetfield

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• I think I’ve always had a certain amount of skepticism of this whole ‘shut up and smile’ theory. I haven’t ever swallowed that pill so easily, although I tried.

  Amber Heard

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• The “trickle-down” theory: The principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

  William Blum

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  Tags in Theory, Bigger

• There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

  Christopher James Hampton

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  Tags in Adapt, Theory

• I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

  Charlie Hunnam

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  Tags in Theory, High School

• The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you’d say, ‘Well I’ve mostly done what I want to do.’ But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you’ve got to do it again?

  Graham Swift

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• My theory is that balance is key – nothing in excess.

  L'Wren Scott

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• I have this friend who has a theory that lots of towns have energies. And, for instance, certain places in Alabama have bad ones because they were built on reservations or built on cemeteries or something. But Nashville has a really gravitational, magnetic pull.

  Caitlin Rose

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  Tags in Towns, Theory

• Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

  Russell Baker

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• By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You’ve just got to keep moving. You can’t stop.

  Brad Pitt

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• My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

  Scott Thompson

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• The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.

  Frederick Pollock

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• Our concern, however, is with slavery as it is, and not with any theory of it.

  Gerrit Smith

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• There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.

  Elizabeth Joan Smith

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  Tags in Gulf, American, Theory

• Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

  George Stigler

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  Tags in Self, Economic, Theory

• Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

  Ruth Hubbard

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