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I have never felt that her sexuality is an issue in her work. She has largely managed to transcend the issue by virtue of writing good poems as opposed to gender studies.

Peter Jay

I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint. I was programmed to be a novelist or a playwright. But I'm not.

Alan Bennett

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

M. Scott Peck

Year after year their hearts and homes have opened to those bereaved who came here in sad pilgrimage. Out of such humanity we see the power love has to transcend even the most appalling evil.

Mary Mcaleese

A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone before, stand on its own two feet and still serve the movie. A great soundtrack is all about communicating with the audience, but we all try to bring something extra to the movie that is not entirely evident on screen.

Hans Zimmer

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

Raul Julia

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

Michael Quinn

To be come fully alive a person must have goals and aims that transcend himself.

Herbert A. Otto

Of all of them, I just -- maybe because I know them, but I think 'N Sync has -- can maybe transcend that whole boy band thing, you know, because they got a good attitude and a good spirit, and they're talented guys.

Joey Mcintyre

There are certain toys that just transcend. Each year, they're on the list, guaranteed.

Scott Krugman

Society is so divided between liberals and conservatives. There is such a need for campus ministries to transcend these differences and provide reconciliation so we can have unity, yet still permit a diversity of ideas.

Amy Larson

Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to transcend it. They are affirmations and celebrations of the value and worth of the African-American spirit. And young people would do well to understand them as the roots of today's rap, rather than some antique to be tossed away.

August Wilson

If anyone can transcend the gap between the men's game and the women's game, it's Michelle. Other sports are different but if, in golf, you have the ability to hit the ball the same way as a man, there's no reason why you can't score like one.

David Leadbetter

Once you become an elaborate and well-developed culture, anything from Rome or the Etruscans, for that matter, the food starts to become a representation of what the culture is. When the food can transcend being just fuel, that's when you start to see these different permutations.

Mario Batali

There are types of criminal cases that do transcend the courtroom, and this is one of them.

Robert Rigg

These are issues that transcend previous party distinctions, where you have a very strong coalition between republicans who are willing to deregulate and do whatever it takes to get government out of business's way, and new democrats, who are very tech-friendly.

James Lucier

Many felt the need to reinforce cultural relations to help get over this. This was a strong feeling, that culture could transcend what was taking place in politics.

Henri Loyrette

When you get to local issues, it's all about problem-solving for the community, and he's a person who'd be willing to do that, to transcend political party lines. That willingness is the key to success.

Onnie Shekerjian

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk, and laughter to transcend the gifts of Nature.

Gaius Petronius

They transcend the swamp of New York politics. Because of their celebrity, Clinton and Giuliani are able to rise above the mire that soils so many other New York politicians.

Nelson Warfield

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Keith Haring

Sports has a way of transcending what's appropriate, and that's OK. It's accepted. I'm sure the Saints will use [the Katrina tragedy] to motivate them all season long, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Tiki Barber

We are one of the very few who have recognized that and are trying to go back to the old days where being Greek was special - it was unique. We're trying to instill self-respect and responsibility - leadership ideals that carry on and transcend through life.

Rob Binford

Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.

Henry Norris Russell

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.

Paola Antonelli

I wasn't interested in doing a baseball story. My favorite sports movies transcend the sports that they are about.

Dennis Quaid

That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.

Erich Fromm

Transcending stereotypes was difficult, ... Often people don't want to know what was true. They want to know what is attractive. The fact of the matter is, no one in the mid-19th century here was using Oriental rugs; they were using wall-to-wall carpet.

Robert Hicks

We [Bangladesh] are India-locked, while India's northeast is Bangladesh-locked. But at no point of time we should consider our geographic locations as a liability, rather it's an asset if we can transcend this to mutual economic benefits.

Morshed Khan

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant

Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.

John Shirley

The mind, that ocean where each kind / Does straight its own resemblance find; / Yet it creates, transcending these, / Far other worlds, and other seas, / Annihilating all that's made / To a green thought in a green shade.

Andrew Marvell

There are simple common denominators in all sports, whether it's hockey or football or softball. An athlete is an athlete. There are certain athletic movements that transcend from each sport to another. Teaching kids to become aware of their bodies and their athletic movements is so crucial.

Bill Edwards

In this crucial hour, we must transcend all differences and work for an undivided Sri Lanka as a unified Sri Lankan nation ... We must guarantee the rights of the minorities.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

The river is something that can transcend political boundaries.

Matt Cullen

You think you're being brave, you think you're being sexy, you think you're transcending feminism. But that's bullshit.

Robin Morgan

Jordan is Jordan because he won six championships, and (New England Patriots quarterback) Tom Brady has become a crossover star because of those three Super Bowl titles. Rarely do you see an athlete continue to transcend his sport if he doesn't win it all. Michael is going to need to do that if he wants to not only sustain himself marketing-wise but rise to that elite level.

Marcus Dinitto

Four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive ? what none of them do is transcend the laws of physics.

Tony Molla

He develops strong relationships and ties with student-athletes that transcend beyond the football field and into their later lives. He's had a great deal of success in every program he's been a part of.

Mark Robertson

Nathan the Wise argues that the only way forward lies in transcending notions of separation and embracing our common humanity, both at home and abroad.

Elizabeth Bradley