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• There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything.

  Twyla Tharp

  Stupid, Silly, Mean

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• If you copy then it is not self-expression.

  Michael Schenker

  Self, Copies, Ifs

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• Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Change, Being Sad, Faces

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• Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

  William Hazlitt

  Spiritual, Grace, Soul

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.219, Delphi Classics

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• Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Life, Character

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.98, Penguin

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• To people outside, they think, Gee, that's great. You get to go here and there. The other side of that is our expression, This is location, not vacation

  Tom Berenger

  Thinking, Vacation, People

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• Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words

  Thurston Moore

  Writing, People, Interesting

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• If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

  Bruce Barton

  God, Character, Design

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• Italy is a geographical expression.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Individualism

  Discussing the Italian question with Palmerston in 1847. 'Aus dem Nachlasse des Grafen Prokesch- Osten' (1881) vol. 2, p. 343; and Mèmoires, Documents, etc. de 'Metternich publiès par son fils' (1883) vol. 7, p. 415

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• Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas.

  Anton Webern

  Men, Ideas, Musical

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Time, Lying, Party

  Quoted in Barry Miles Ginsberg (1989), ch.5.

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• The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.379

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• While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

  Julia Ward Howe

  Life, Inspire, Inspirational Life

  Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Julia Ward Howe, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Marion Howe Hall (1970). “Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910”

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• If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.

  William J. Brennan

  Government, Ideas, Freedom Of Speech

  "Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397". 1989.

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• There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Gender, Results

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Routledge

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• The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

  Ernest Holmes

  Self, Delight, Universe

  Ernest Holmes (1992). “Ideas of Power”, Devorss Publications

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• It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

  Henri Matisse

  Mean, Artist, Color

  "The Christian Science Monitor", quoted by Theodore F. Wolff, March 25, 1985.

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• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

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• Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

  Arsene Wenger

  Soccer, Player, Skills

  "How do world class coaches and the worlds best clubs view Youth player Development?". Interview with Alfred Galustian, challengefc.org. May 02, 2015.

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• Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

  Guy Debord

  Writing, Ideas, Progress

  Guy Debord (2012). “Society Of The Spectacle”, p.98, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Meaningful, Real, Lying

  "Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes". Book by Gordon B. Hinckley, 2000.

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• I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.

  Sally Kirkland

  Freedom Of Expression, Instigators, 1960s

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• Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Poetry, Impression, Exquisite

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• Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

  Tom Wolfe

  Love, Ultimate, Will To Live

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• Conversation, which is friendship's mode of expression, is a superficial digression which gives us nothing worth acquiring. We may talk for a lifetime without doing more than indefinitely repeat the vacuity of a minute.

  Marcel Proust

  Giving, May, Lifetime

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.575, Modern Library

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