A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.
If your reading habits are anything like mine, then you can remember the exact moment that certain books came into your life. You remember where you were standing and whom you were with. You remember the feel of the book in your hands and the cover, that exact cover, even if the art has changed over the years.
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer.
Baboons have the exact physiology as humans do. They also get the same stress-related illnesses, such as ulcers and heart disease.
Happiness is found by deeply experiencing the exact moment we are in.
I’ve never believed it’s a fiction writer’s job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I’m writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters’ identities.
Among identical twins who have the exact same genes, one may die early of a heart attack and the other may live a long, healthy life – depending on their lifestyle and what they eat.
Yes, you have people shouting racist abuse and throwing bananas on the field, and there are issues regarding the number of black coaches and managers in the game, but which other industry allows a young black boy the exact same opportunity as a young white boy?
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Even if some days I feel like I’m ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I’ve ever been. My family gives me more joy than I thought possible, and my career fulfills me tremendously. All in all, I feel like am in the exact place I am supposed to be in, doing exactly what I am supposed to be doing.
I used the second year of my MFA program to write a young adult novel and began pursuing picture books as well. I loved the economy of this art form, choosing, with pristine attention, the exact right words to tell the exact right story.
Similarly, another famous little quantum fluctuation that programs you is the exact configuration of your DNA.
I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.
The American people deserve to know that their elected leaders play by the exact same rules that they play by and that their lawmakers’ only interest is what’s best for the country, not their own financial gain.
Of course I prefer to have nature around me, but it doesn’t have to be with the exact original vegetation for nostalgic reasons. Nature is moving and making new things.
It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
If I didn’t get paid to play this game, I’d still play it the exact same way, with as much intensity and as much focus as I play it with now.
It was always the cliche of men leaving their wives for younger women. The playing field is sort of even now. Women make their own salaries. They can do the exact same thing and can have a younger man.
I don’t want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.
When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want – no guessing.
What we’ve been finding is people are afraid of happiness. They’re afraid of happiness because they think we’ll stagnate or we’ll be blind: that if I’m happy now, I won’t keep fighting as hard. If I’m happy now, I won’t push as hard to make a better world. That’s what pleasure does. Joy does the exact opposite.
I don’t wanna say I’m anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I’m a unifying force. I’m there to show everybody that we’re all the exact same.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
Politics is not an exact science. That’s why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.
If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we’re all the exact same: We just want connection. We just want love.
Everyone wants to relive their life once again, but if I had the chance, I would do it in the exact same fashion.
I know firsthand that the characteristics of a great engineer – problem-solving skills, a deep understanding of technology, and a results-driven mindset – are the exact same things that any executive, in any industry, must have in order to succeed.
In direct navigation, users type exactly what they are looking for in the browser’s web address field. This could be the exact domain name or web address. Millions of people do this, emphasizing the need for on- and off-line marketing and branding.
But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.
Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.
My mom and I have the exact same mannerisms – the way we talk and the gestures that we made.
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ‘I,’ under another form, continues the task of existence.
I don’t know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you’re about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.
When I want to quickly take a measurement, I use my Stanley Laser Distance Measurer. You just put it on the wall, and it shoots a laser and instantly tells you the exact distance to the other wall within a fraction of an inch.
I like to say jiu-jitsu is like mathematics. It has to be exact otherwise you don’t have it.
I don’t have any great detail or logic or exact point that I look for in a film. It’s just if I get a good sense from it and I feel that there is something interesting that we may be able to do with it, then I just kind of go for it.
This is an exact replica of my chest.
Scoring animated films, I have the exact same approach and philosophy as I do for a live action. It’s all story- and character-driven. I don’t care if it’s a mouse or Tom Cruise.
I read an interview where someone said, ‘It’s a shame that anyone can make a movie now,’ and I feel the exact opposite.
When people see a talented girl, it calls to mind the very rare breed of women who have managed to succeed. If I were a dude with the exact same voice, band and songs, I doubt they’d compare me to Sheryl Crow. But hey, I’m not complaining. Big fish, small pond.
I don’t think you can find someone who has my combination of look, talking ability, presence. I don’t think you can find an exact copy to fill my shoes.
I’ll sometimes forget it’s my birthday, but my mom has taken to calling me at the exact time of my birth, so that’ll usually remind me. It was an important moment for me, obviously, but I guess a more memorable one for her.
When my family moved to Karachi, I just knew the date and month of my birth and not the exact year. That is why my age was erroneously recorded in the under-14 trials.
When I really have it together, I think I successfully pull off looking like the exact middle point between Macklemore and Ron Howard, only with a much bigger forehead than either of them.
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I’m artistic and cool and I’m doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
You’re always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you’re feeling, things that you’ve felt. It’s kind of impossible not to unless you’re writing a song and there’s an exact scenario that you’re trying to write a song for.
I haven’t got an exact number for my carbon footprint although if it’s anywhere near my normal footprint it’ll be size 13 wide.
The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.
Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.
It’s something that I do every year – every Ramadan to be exact – taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I’m born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
It is still crazy to me that I have two boys born on the same exact day. I really tried to not have it happen, so they could each have their day, but there was no way around it.
I think I’m always adopting a persona. That’s how I look at pop music. I don’t feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don’t have to show an exact picture of who I am.
