Essentially Quotes

Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's a wonderful song.

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

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

Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from.

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

I think a lot of the instincts you have doing comedy are really the same for doing drama, in that it's essentially about listening. The way I approach comedy, is you have to commit to everything as if it's a dramatic role, meaning you play it straight.

The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

The other thing I like, in fact, several months ago I introduced a bill to end the absurd catch and release policy where our government has been giving tickets, essentially, to people who enter illegally and then letting them go and show up of their own volition.

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.