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We have to attack reality shows. I don't know how far it's going to go-it's a phenomenon that has invaded TV around the world.

Quote by Victoria Abril about attack, reality, world

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Quote by Scott Adams about people, principle, religion, nothing, things

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.

Quote by Bruce Barton about sacrifice, liberty, death, man, world, contentment

I look at marriage and I think marriage is phenomenal. I think it's great. I don't hold anything against marriage.

Quote by Kim Basinger about marriage

There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

Quote by Michael Bolton about artists, people

Homer had an amazing and phenomenal imagination.

Quote by Armand Assante about opinion, imagination

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

I think J.Lo is fabulous. Jamie Foxx is phenomenal. He's going to be enormous. Jamie Foxx is the new Denzel Washington.

Quote by Jackie Collins

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

Quote by Michael Jackson about creation, present, life

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of...

Quote by James Joyce about soul, being, good, good luck, love

Can this phenomenon be put down to the collective subconscious, or to the practical cleverness of populist politicians.

Quote by Orhan Pamuk about politics

Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about humanity, question, pain, absurd, war, death

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water, also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the...

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about food, water, man

It is not accidental that all phenomen of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread the oldest link connecting all living things, man included, with the surrounding nature.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about life, nature, human imperfections, things, man

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about work

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about medicine, blood, present, time

Thus, the purposeful relationship of phenomena is based on the specificity of the stimuli, that correspond to similarly specific reactions.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about friendship

Language, through its signs, that are words and the sounds that make them are different depending on the way a certain phenomenon is perceived, on its role et on how much importance he is given.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about language, astrology, word

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Quote by Johannes Stark about physics, atoms

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Quote by Jules Romains about history, disaster, human imperfections