People beat around the bush so much, and I try to be really blunt in my music.
I’ve always been ballsy. My dad is a blunt northerner, and maybe I’ve got a bit of that in me. I just kind of steam ahead.
To be blunt, I feel like lyricism in Spanish is of a different quality than English. You can get really poetic in Spanish, but I feel like if you do that in English, you risk sounding cheesy. In Spanish, it’s never that. It’s always this deep, passionate, beautiful imagery; it’s painted different, a different color.
One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
People say I’m tough and too blunt. I’m a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
The Blunt Amendment would have allowed any employer who provided health insurance, or any insurance company, the right to deny coverage for contraception or any other kind of procedure if the employer had a ‘moral’ objection to it.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
The blunt tools of legislation or union power can force a corporation to pay higher wages, but if employees don’t create an equal amount of additional value, there’s no net gain.
Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don’t give people that, they feel like you are being fake and you’re not telling the truth. So it’s like, you want me to tell the truth, but when I do, it’s too much for you.
That’s always fun to play: the person who can be truthful and blunt, and people take it because that’s who she is.
We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the brain. In fact, we still do not know how to decipher the basic language of how the brain works.
Over the years, I’ve had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That’s where I learnt the blunt side of my character.
I think to be very blunt about it, in a lot of that support is a desire for convergence of a black skin with the United States Presidency, with power on that level – the idea is that to have a black in that office leading a largely white country would be redemptive for America.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.
People say I’m tough and too blunt. I’m a product of my organization. MSF is a blunt, tough, no-nonsense organization.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
I found early on in teaching, if you’re too blunt an instrument, the students discredit you and think you’re just being mean. They’re not interested in what you have to say.
Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.
A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
In my films, I either want the music to be very subtle and very buried or just put it right out in front and be super blunt with it.
Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.
Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.
That is the nature of the British psyche. It’s very blunt, plain, very linear. It’s pragmatic: it records life as it is.
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