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I'm glad to see the press now referring to the open-ended Richter scale. -- Charles Francis Richter
To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy. -- Rufus Wainwright
A story is open-ended. A story invites you into it to make your own meaning. -- Katherine Paterson
Theological reflection takes place within history, but the history within which it takes place is an ongoing, open-ended process. -- David Novak
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. -- Ori Gersht
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do. -- Ani DiFranco
I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore. -- Madhur Bhandarkar
The Constitution has a good share of deliberately open-ended guarantees, like rights to due process of law, equal protection of the law, and freedom from unreasonable searches. -- David Souter
As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it. -- Joshua Lederberg
I'd like to do a record that doesn't even reference actual places. Because I think it's kind of an open-ended concept. It doesn't have to be taken so literally. -- Sufjan Stevens
Unless they have disabilities to cope with, no family should get more from living on benefits than the average family gets from going out to work. No more open-ended chequebook. -- George Osborne
American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written. -- Neil Gaiman
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series. -- Ted Naifeh
If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into. -- Joe Carnahan
We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report. -- Edward Kennedy
The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us. -- Sam Harris
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once. -- David Souter
My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories. -- Hannah Kent
I'm not saying everybody has a social responsibility of what art they create, but art should be open-ended. I just feel there's a lack of consciousness and understanding of impact and reach. Just maybe, for a second, just think of the effect you could have with a lyric. -- Mary Lambert
A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them. -- Mac DeMarco
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. -- Antoine Predock
I've tried open-ended jobs and found myself incredibly unhappy. I don't like the monomania of showing up every day and doing the same thing. I don't know where my next cheque is coming from, I don't know where my next job is coming from, I have really sketchy health insurance, but I need variety in my life. -- Julie Klausner
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both. -- Rose McIver
Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that. -- Barry Zito
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out. -- Zach Gilford
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of. -- Mac DeMarco
Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended -- Brennan Manning
I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended. -- Barack Obama
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. -- Julia Cameron
The harder you had to work to open a package, the less you ended up caring about what was inside. -- Stephen King
The fact that the Constitution is sufficiently open-ended to infuriate all Americans almost equally is part of its enduring genius. -- Dahlia Lithwick
In television, you can leave so many things open-ended. For everything you wrap up, you can open another one or two. -- Michael Brandt
I think the American people should know there's already strong influences toward another deployment of American troops in an open-ended commitment. -- John McCain
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. Thatâ??s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing. -- Cornelia Parker
Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do. -- Esther Perel
If Anthem finds an audience in New York City, my hope would be to see the play transferred to a commercial theatre for an open-ended run. -- Jeff Britting
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you. -- Edward Hirsch
What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom. -- Naomi Klein
A garden is a kinetic work of art, not an object but a process, open-ended, biodegradable, nurturant, like all women's artistry. A garden is the best alternative therapy. -- Germaine Greer
The song can be a little bit more of the mystery and leave the whole thing open ended. But there's something really gratifying about saying exactly what you mean. -- Jon Foreman
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better. -- Leon Krier
When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever. -- John Parish
'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written. -- Neil Gaiman
As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event. -- Robert Genn
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected. -- Hugh Nibley
I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world. -- Katy Perry
Fathering imposed an obligation that was more than your money, your body, or your time, a presence neither physical nor measurable by clocks: open-ended, eternal, and invisible, like the commitment of gravity to the stars. -- Michael Chabon

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