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• Of course, I can't separate my queerness from my brownness - if anything, my queerness amplifies my brownness, and vice versa - but I spent so much of my early twenties trying to erase my differences, often without awareness of what I was doing.

  Vivek Shraya

  Differences, Trying, Vices

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.

  Ed Helms

  Fun, Play, Littles

  "At The Office with Ed Helms". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. August 21, 2007.

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• Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self, People, Hatred

  "This much I know: Alanis Morissette" by Kerry Potter, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2012.

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• ...There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.

  Price Pritchett

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

  Price Pritchett (2006). “Hard Optimism: How to Succeed in a World Where Positive Wins”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• You choose your own reality and you - social media then amplifies those conspiracy theories. So that's why I say social media is itself a revolutionary phenomenon.

  Tony Blair

  Reality, Media, Revolutionary

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

  Samuel Johnson

  Quality, Energy, Genius

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Cunningham, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay (1861). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets”, p.322

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• Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Jobs, Night, Thinking

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• Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Fragility, Body

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Technology, Ego, Use

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, Order, Essence

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• Speech is a rolling press that always amplifies one's emotions.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Speech, Rolling, Emotion

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.200, Penguin

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• The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.

  Louis O. Kelso

  Wisdom, Ideas, Politics

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• Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Light, Scary, Sound

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• Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Yield, Self, Play

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• Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep personal growth. This program [Animal sanctuary] will deploy ISF's youth development program, U Factor. The program helps youth identify their passion, cultivate their talent, amplify their purpose, and connect the younger generation to diminishing species and biodiversity.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Art, Passion, Opportunity

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Simple, People, Needs

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• I am attempting to move away from the exclusionary practices of feminist theory, particularly anti-pornography rhetoric, in order to amplify the discussion about the complexity of pleasure for women.

  Barbara Degenevieve

  Moving, Order, Practice

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• The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing.

  Jon Stewart

  Country, Fire, Glasses

  Keynote Address at the Rally to Restore Sanity, delivered 30 October 2010, Washington Mall

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• My first tape piece was made with that Sears Roebuck recorder. I modified sound using cardboard tubes with a microphone in the end to filter the sound. I had a wooden apple box with a Piezo [contact] mic and little objects that I could amplify on the box. I used the bathtub for reverberation.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Apples, Pieces, Littles

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• As far as being territorial about one's own life, that's a mistake for ANY writer. All writers everywhere, in every genre, are drawing from their life and the lives of those around them for "material." Memoirs just make transparent and even amplify that activity.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Mistake, Drawing, Genre

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

  Brian Pinkerton

  Self, Acting, Target

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• Many people are now starting to experience a new energy filtering down through the density of mass consciousness. This energy stirs your spirit to find freedom of expression and amplifies the voice within your heart. This new planetary energy facilitates people in thinking more about the heart and its potentials in all human affairs.

  Doc Childre

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

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• I've never been about trying to promote a brand of Squarepusher. I've never been keen on that idea that these are the character traits that I've got to stick with and amplify and keep pushing forward and pushing on the public. I'm really happy to throw it all away and start each record with a blank slate but I concede you've got a point, there are things I can't get rid of, no matter how hard I try.

  Squarepusher

  Character, Ideas, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Clear quartz is known as the "master healer," and can amplify energy and thought. It draws off negative energy, and it can neutralize background radiation. It balances and revitalizes the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual planes.

  Miranda Kerr

  Spiritual, Emotional, Balance

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Interview with Terry Richardson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph.

  Kenneth Clark

  Eye, Looks, Analogies

  Kenneth Clark (1956). “The nude: a study in ideal form”, M J F Books

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