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• Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Storm, Cry, Women Leadership

  "Boys Can Cry" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2010.

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• I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Art, Mean, Musical

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• Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

  Imran Khan

  Spiritual, Men, Opposites

  "The path of Khan". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

  Brian Tracy

  Goal

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• I like doing commentary. As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things. I often like the technical commentaries myself.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Thinking, Interesting, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a tough trick to be able to create an intelligent movie that has socio-political commentary, and also has the emotional and moving stuff, at the same time.

  Jodie Foster

  Moving, Intelligent, Emotional

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• One reason that a truth and reconciliation process is needed for group selection is to return to the simplicity of the original problem and Darwin’s solution. As Ed Wilson and I put it in our recent review article titled “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Sociobiology“: Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Simplicity, Foundation

  "Truth and Reconciliation for Group Selection II: The Original Problem" by David Sloan Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2009.

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• I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance and some sex and some violence.

  Alan Ball

  Sex, Heart, Romance

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• I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to praying and go back to the church, and I'm not joking.

  Raul Castro

  Church, Speech, Way

  "Castro: Pope Francis so impressive I might return to church". www.washingtonpost.com. May 10, 2015.

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• When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

  Jodi Picoult

  Thinking, Fiction, Use

  "The great unknown". Interview with Louise France, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2007.

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• The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke.

  George Santayana

  Nature, Firsts, Provoking

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.4, Рипол Классик

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• I heard that Commentary and Dissent had merged and formed Dysenery.

  Woody Allen

  Annie Hall, Magazines, Heard

  Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman (2000). “Annie Hall: scénario bilingue”

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• Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention gender.

  Jackson Katz

  School, News, Shooting

  "Memo to Media: Manhood, Not Guns or Mental Illness, Should Be Central in Newtown Shooting" by Jackson Katz, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.

  Charles Grodin

  New York, Crazy, Book

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• Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.

  Emerson Spartz

  New York, Writing, Squares

  "8 Bloggers to Follow for Startup Inspiration and Advice". www.businessinsider.com. June 28, 2013.

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• I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.

  John Legend

  Football, Games, Focus

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• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  Zack Snyder

  Believe, Character, Reality

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• I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

  J. C. Watts

  Sports, Organization, Political

  "10 questions for J.C. Watts". Interview with Douglas Waller, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2002.

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• I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

  Murray Walker

  Heart, Usual, Hammers

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• The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Mean

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

  Shel Silverstein

  Humor, Comic, Visuals

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• A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

  Charles Schumer

  War, Iraq, Infrastructure

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• I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Drawing, News, Magazines

  "Carlos Fuentes obituary" by Nick Caistor, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Gay, Agendas, Made

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