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You know what I always thought was funny as a little kid isn't necessarily the same as what's funny now. Things change and the times change, so it's important for me to figure it out, i think the most important thing is that it's best for the other person. I thought about and that it's not best for the other person, doesn't matter what happens for me. And that gave me a great deal of comfort and relaxation because your brain doesn't operate well when you're in the unknown, when you're thinking like,' well, how can I be so... how can I misperceive ? How can I be so inaccurate and so insensitive,' when you think you're being sensitive to some sensibility that you've had for a long time. – Bill Murray	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is against our culture, it is against our norms, it is against our tradition, we don't want things that are against our sensibility to be given priority in our society and therefore this will be a deterrent to anyone who supports them. – Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our agriculture regulation needs change, but the new laws will end up serving corporate interests more than farmers. Hats off to the sensibility moral strength of India’s farmers. – Kaushik Basu	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Joe Masaji Klunder is a mix of a new Calfornia identity: half white, half Asian. More than just biology, Joe Klunder wants to stand for American Caucasian optimism and endeavor, coupled with Asian American sensibility and communalism. – Joe Masaji Klunder	added by joe.klunder 4 years ago
I'm sorry that a few words dragged out of the general context, badly interpreted, have offended the sensibility of my Arab and Muslim friends, an artificial controversy has blown up based on nothing and fed by irresponsible comments from the opposition. – Silvio Berlusconi	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think my natural sensibility tries to create a light around Julie Andrews in 1964 that protects me from digesting that title. – Julie Andrews	Found on CNN 6 years ago
He respected the codes and the heritage of Louis Vuitton, which is very important for a house of this nature, but he infused his own sensibility and his own DNA into what we saw. – Roopal Patel	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We were thinking of the right sensibility of the mom, she has to be a good actor, she has to have comic timing but have the deep well of emotions that this character needed. She is the glue that holds this family together. She’s the emotional center. – Bryan Cranston	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We all have a responsibility to guide these babies as we grow, we're all born with a common sensibility. There's only goodness around babies; it's what happens to them as their life develops that can go terribly wrong or right. – Anne Geddes	Found on CNN 7 years ago
To be successful, you need an anti-establishment sensibility and a willingness to be contrarian, it’s what enables you to get up and do it. – William Hsu	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
They can play something at the drop of a dime, [Keyboardist] Jason [Lindner] was a godsend. We gave him some pretty far-out chords, but he brought a jazz sensibility to re-voice them. – Tony Visconti	Found on CNN 9 years ago
To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience. – Saul Williams	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Curiosity and wonderment are a big part of the human condition, but often as we ‘grow up’ we tend to lose this connection to the wonder of it all, i often explore big ideas in my series Shots of Awe to wake people up, and I think bringing this sensibility to an actual baby's wonderstruck face struck a nerve... I'm thrilled. – Jason Silva	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Their sensibility and their work ethic is absolutely extraordinary. When they return to China, the influence they're going to have in the next decade, the next generation, is going to be huge. – Anna Wintour	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Sony is like a ship that has set sail in the stormy weather of the electronics business, led by a captain who's using a flawed nautical map, he doesn't have the sensibility or intellect to notice it's wrong. Do board members, who should be in a position to supervise the captain, not notice? Are they tolerating it, not willing to point it out? – Tamotsu Iba	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Apple has notably been targeting the fashion world leading up to its launch, but the watch still has an inherently tech focused sensibility, the tech world and the watch world are very different. – Robert Burke	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
At the end, what is important is the story and the sensibility of the photographer ... It's a mix between a good story, a good composition, photography, for me, is a sort of fresh air, a way to look at things differently. So I'm looking for that sort of feeling when I look at pictures. – Le Govic	Found on CNN 10 years ago
My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well. – Vanna Bonta	added by quotable 10 years ago
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius. – Remy de Gourmont	added by anonymous 10 years ago
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind. – William Ellery Channing	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. – Wallace Stevens	added by anonymous 11 years ago
It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading. – Coleridge	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. – Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility. – Stephen Baker	added by anonymous 15 years ago

You know what I always thought was funny as a little kid isn't necessarily the same as what's funny now. Things change and the times change, so it's important for me to figure it out, i think the most important thing is that it's best for the other person. I thought about and that it's not best for the other person, doesn't matter what happens for me. And that gave me a great deal of comfort and relaxation because your brain doesn't operate well when you're in the unknown, when you're thinking like,' well, how can I be so... how can I misperceive ? How can I be so inaccurate and so insensitive,' when you think you're being sensitive to some sensibility that you've had for a long time.

– Bill Murray

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is against our culture, it is against our norms, it is against our tradition, we don't want things that are against our sensibility to be given priority in our society and therefore this will be a deterrent to anyone who supports them.

– Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our agriculture regulation needs change, but the new laws will end up serving corporate interests more than farmers. Hats off to the sensibility moral strength of India’s farmers.

– Kaushik Basu

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Joe Masaji Klunder is a mix of a new Calfornia identity: half white, half Asian. More than just biology, Joe Klunder wants to stand for American Caucasian optimism and endeavor, coupled with Asian American sensibility and communalism.

– Joe Masaji Klunder

added by joe.klunder
4 years ago

I'm sorry that a few words dragged out of the general context, badly interpreted, have offended the sensibility of my Arab and Muslim friends, an artificial controversy has blown up based on nothing and fed by irresponsible comments from the opposition.

– Silvio Berlusconi

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I think my natural sensibility tries to create a light around Julie Andrews in 1964 that protects me from digesting that title.

– Julie Andrews

Found on CNN
6 years ago

He respected the codes and the heritage of Louis Vuitton, which is very important for a house of this nature, but he infused his own sensibility and his own DNA into what we saw.

– Roopal Patel

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

We were thinking of the right sensibility of the mom, she has to be a good actor, she has to have comic timing but have the deep well of emotions that this character needed. She is the glue that holds this family together. She’s the emotional center.

– Bryan Cranston

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We all have a responsibility to guide these babies as we grow, we're all born with a common sensibility. There's only goodness around babies; it's what happens to them as their life develops that can go terribly wrong or right.

– Anne Geddes

Found on CNN
7 years ago

To be successful, you need an anti-establishment sensibility and a willingness to be contrarian, it’s what enables you to get up and do it.

– William Hsu

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They can play something at the drop of a dime, [Keyboardist] Jason [Lindner] was a godsend. We gave him some pretty far-out chords, but he brought a jazz sensibility to re-voice them.

– Tony Visconti

Found on CNN
9 years ago

To me, that's what made them iconic — that they had touched on the pulse of something that, in turn, harmonized... the human sensibility and allowed us to empathize beyond our own personal experience.

– Saul Williams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Curiosity and wonderment are a big part of the human condition, but often as we ‘grow up’ we tend to lose this connection to the wonder of it all, i often explore big ideas in my series Shots of Awe to wake people up, and I think bringing this sensibility to an actual baby's wonderstruck face struck a nerve... I'm thrilled.

– Jason Silva

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Their sensibility and their work ethic is absolutely extraordinary. When they return to China, the influence they're going to have in the next decade, the next generation, is going to be huge.

– Anna Wintour

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Sony is like a ship that has set sail in the stormy weather of the electronics business, led by a captain who's using a flawed nautical map, he doesn't have the sensibility or intellect to notice it's wrong. Do board members, who should be in a position to supervise the captain, not notice? Are they tolerating it, not willing to point it out?

– Tamotsu Iba

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Apple has notably been targeting the fashion world leading up to its launch, but the watch still has an inherently tech focused sensibility, the tech world and the watch world are very different.

– Robert Burke

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

At the end, what is important is the story and the sensibility of the photographer ... It's a mix between a good story, a good composition, photography, for me, is a sort of fresh air, a way to look at things differently. So I'm looking for that sort of feeling when I look at pictures.

– Le Govic

Found on CNN
10 years ago

My mother used poetry and the arts as a thermometer—if I cried, it meant my heart had not grown cold, my sensibility was alive and well.

– Vanna Bonta

added by quotable
10 years ago

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

– Remy de Gourmont

added by anonymous
10 years ago

No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

– William Ellery Channing

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

– Wallace Stevens

added by anonymous
11 years ago

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

– Coleridge

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

– Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2-10-05

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Cats are notoriously sore losers. Coming in second best, especially to someone as poorly coordinated as a human being, grates their sensibility.

– Stephen Baker

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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