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• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  Peter Gabriel

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

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• Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Oxygen, Ice, Breathing

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.214, W. W. Norton & Company

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• After modernism, things changed. Indeed, modernism sometimes seems to me like an equivalent of the Fall. Remember, the first thing Adam and Eve did when they ate the fruit was to discover that they had no clothes on. They were embarrassed. Embarrassment was the first consequence of the Fall. And embarrassment was the first literary consequence of this modernist discovery of the surface. "Am I telling a story? Oh my God, this is terrible. I must stop telling a story and focus on the minute gradations of consciousness as they filter through somebody's.

  Philip Pullman

  Fall, Discovery, Clothes

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• Charlie and I have a number of filters that things have to get through before we'll think about them.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Numbers, Investing

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• I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.

  Michael Jai White

  Sorry, People, Black

  "Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White: Reunited and Ready for Prime Time". Interview with Terry Shropshire, rollingout.com. November 10, 2011.

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• Judaism calls for us to honor the rhythm of human life, the demands of the human community around us, the call of the divine order as the filter and scale for the decisions that drive our own small lives. We do not rule the universe, Judaism reminds us. God does. We are not its standard or its norms. We are only its keepers, its agents, its stewards. To do right by the universe at large is the measure of a happiness framed with the entire cosmos in mind but lived in microcosms across time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Divine Order, Community, Decision

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• I banned bottled water from my house - we have a water-filter system so you can drink from the tap. We always drink out of glass, and recycling is a huge deal, which everybody can partake in.

  Eva Longoria

  Glasses, Water, House

  "More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism". Interview with Avital Andrews, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

  Michael Crichton

  Men, Ideas, Information

  Michael Crichton (2012). “Travels”, p.10, Vintage

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• Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car.

  Dick Gregory

  Car, Body, Cows

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• I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

  Peter Jackson

  Thinking, Finals, Ends

  "Peter Jackson Talks King Kong and Halo!". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. ecember 9, 2005.

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• Photojournalism has become a hybrid enterprise of amateurs and professionals, along with surveillance cameras, Google Street Views, and other sources. What is underrepresented are those "metaphotographers" who can make sense of the billions of images being made and can provide context and authenticate them. We need curators to filter this overabundance more than we need new legions of photographers.

  Fred Ritchin

  Views, Surveillance Cameras, Google

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I would like to see us shake-in, instead of a shakeout, in the sense that it's true that there's a lot of junk online, and we have to filter it and so forth.

  Esther Dyson

  Junk, Online, Shakes

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• Stuffwise we are not a lean operation. We're the kind of people who, if we were deciding what absolute minimum essential items we'd need to carry in our backpacks for the final, treacherous ascent to the summit of Mount Everest, would take along aquarium filters, just in case.

  Dave Barry

  Aquariums, People, Ascent

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.70, Crown Archetype

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• I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

  Matthew Rhys

  Acting, Sound, Giants

  "‘The Americans’ star Matthew Rhys: Philip would defect ‘in a heartbeat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 4, 2015.

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• Think about spam filters; if email didnt come from someone that someone you know knows, thats an important signal, and one we could embed in the environment; we just dont. I just want the world to be filtered through my social graph.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Important, Email

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• When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

  Samuel Butler

  Water, Berries, Tubs

  Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.351, The Floating Press

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• The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.

  John Hodgman

  Yale, Ideas, Feet

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

  Hiromi

  Beautiful, Sadness, Frustration

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• Industrial vomit...fills our skies and seas. Pesticides and herbicides filter into our foods. Twisted automobile carcasses, aluminum cans, non-returnable glass bottles and synthetic plastics form immense middens in our midst as more and more of our detritus resists decay. We do not even begin to know what to do with our radioactive wastes - whether to pump them into the earth, shoot them into outer space, or pour them into the oceans. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

  Alvin Toffler

  Ocean, Sea, Sky

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• Phonogram is the memory of a long period in my life through a surprisingly small filter. Those characters are basically the golem who accompanied me on that decade and a half.

  Kieron Gillen

  Memories, Character, Long

  "The Return of the Ultimate Music-Obsessive Comic, Phonogram". Interview with Tom Ewing, pitchfork.com. August 12, 2015.

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• Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

  Jason Mraz

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Go to the east shore of any of the Hawaiian Islands, and that's a pretty big lesson on how much plastic is ending up in the ocean. Basically, the Hawaiian Islands act as a filter out in the middle of the Pacific.

  Jack Johnson

  Ocean, Islands, East

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The 'gatekeepers' became a term of revile. But when you think about the flow of information, I personally value immensely the calibration a news organ, whether it's on the web or in print, brings to the floodwaters of information. I haven't the time to read all the dispatches of the Associated Press, for example. It's fantastic what they put out, it's extremely good, from all over the world. I like when someone acts as a filter.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, News, World

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview by Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• If you are not grieving, you are not conscious. But if you are not rejoicing in the possibilities of how this could all change, then you are not looking through the filter of the greatest spiritual perspicacity.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Grieving, Possibility

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• At some point, when you read about this factual information that comes out in The New Zealand Herald and it's barely mentioned in The New York Times, then I think you've got to question where this is being manipulated, and where the filters are.

  Eddie Vedder

  New York, Thinking, Information

  Source: www.avclub.com

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