Centerpieces Quotes

• But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Heroic, Film, Standing Out

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• I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.

  Taylor Schilling

  Hard Times, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the minimum wage will be the centerpiece of the State of Union. I think it should be the centerpiece of the State of the Union. And it should be very focused on that because, as you said, Republicans in the rest of the country are for it.

  Robert Gibbs

  Country, Thinking, Political

  "Gibbs advice: Slim down '14 agenda" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. December 11, 2013.

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• I love to bring a bowl or basket filled with clementines that can be used as an easy centerpiece and enjoyed after the party.

  Clinton Kelly

  Party, Easy, Used

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• Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art.

  Maria Popova

  Art, Illustration, Hands

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• Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Future, Science

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson Sounds The Alarm Over Science Illiteracy, And For Good Reason" By David Freeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 5, 2015.

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• I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and so this will become the centerpiece of my career for the next ten or twenty years. Doing these adaptations.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Book, Writing, Years

  "Stephen Chbosky talks “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”, Blu-ray extras, and his favorite teen films". Interview with Scott Neumyer, www.ifc.com. February 13, 2012.

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• I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

  Terence McKenna

  Want, Psychedelic, Destined

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• So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.

  George McGovern

  Truth, Lying, Thinking

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• People need a consistent explanation of the cross of Christ and what it accomplished. Christ's atoning work is the centerpiece of the gospel and the only solution for humanity's estrangement from our Creator.

  R. C. Sproul

  People, Humanity, Needs

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• Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time - one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you... to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, Oneness, Guests

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• The pastor who cares about the spiritual growth of his people must make God and His Word the centerpiece of his ministry.

  Steven J. Law

  Spiritual, Past, People

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• The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important.... This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas.

  Kinky Friedman

  Teacher, Texas, Important

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• The centerpiece of 'Law and Order' is the crime, and it starts with the writing. There's a beginning, a middle and an end. It allows the audience to watch any given episode and can drop right in and not feel lost. I think the stark, raw structure has a lot to do with its longevity.

  Danny Pino

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• Under normal circumstances, if the centerpiece of a president's campaign is helping the disadvantaged and we are our brother's keeper, the idea that this same guy has an actual brother living in third-world poverty without any help from Obama, this would have been on the cover of 'The New York Times.' But none of them are touching it.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Brother, New York, Ideas

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development.

  Christine Gregoire

  Moving, Responsibility, Needs

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• I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

  Jeff Bezos

  Missions, Skeptical, Advertisers

  "Jeffrey Bezos, Washington Post’s next owner, aims for a new ‘golden era’ at the newspaper". Interview with Paul Farhi, www.washingtonpost.com. September 3, 2013.

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• America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers is not a mere "technicality." It is the centerpiece of our Constitution. Our freedoms depend upon it in the future, just as they have in the past.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Past, Greatness, Government

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• My point is you can fight racism and sexism and homophobia more effectively if you're doing it from the position that you're standing for the dignity of all people, and that you're actually standing for the underdog in the red states and the blue states. I think it's more effective when you're anti-racism and anti-sexism and anti-homophobia and that is the centerpiece for a project to uplift all humanity, and frankly to defend and uplift the children of all species.

  Van Jones

  Uplifting, Children, Fighting

  Source: pen.org

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• Research must continue to be the centerpiece of intellectual life, and our commitment to research must grow, because our problems are growing.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Commitment, Intellectual

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Simple, Ideas, Diversity

  Douglas J. Futuyma (2009). “Evolution”, Sinauer Associates Incorporated

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• But, today, the idea of faith returns to me. Faith defies logic and propels us beyond hope because it is not attached to our desires. Faith is the centerpiece of a connected life. It allows us to live by the grace of invisible strands. It is a belief in a wisdom superior to our own. Faith becomes a teacher in the absence of fact.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Teacher, Ideas, Grace

  Terry Tempest Williams (2015). “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place”, p.198, Vintage

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• Basketball is always a piece of my life, but never the centerpiece.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Inspirational, Basketball, Pieces

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• In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.

  Robert Morneau

  Character, Garden, Free Gifts

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• The problem is that this round from its inception has had agriculture at its centerpiece. The EU and the U. S. and other WTO members cannot wish that away, that is a reality.

  Rob Portman

  Reality, Agriculture, Wish

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