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• If you take an intense color and put an intense complement next to it without graying it, it's very hot. The gray allows the eye to do the visual mixing.

  Simmie Knox

  Eye, Color, Mixing

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• Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

  Simmie Knox

  Color, Mixing, Stuff

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• The writing, acting and the directing all complement each other and make each other better. It's one of those amazing instances where everything seems to come together.

  Alex Gansa

  Writing, Acting, Together

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• I am always in the hope to express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors - colors which marry each other... complement each other as a man and a woman do.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Two, Color

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• Cognitive and character skills work together as dynamic complements; they are inseparable. Skills beget skills. More motivated children learn more. Those who are more informed usually make wiser decisions.

  James Heckman

  Children, Character, Skills

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• Friends are the leaders of the bosom, being more ourselves than we are, and we complement our affections in theirs.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Friends, Leader, Affection

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.84

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• No one culture has ever developed all human potentialities; it has always selected certain capacities, mental and emotional and moral, and stifled others. Each culture is a system of values which may well complement the values in another.

  Ruth Benedict

  Emotional, Culture, May

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.441, Transaction Publishers

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• I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Thinking, Would Be, Citizens

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• Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Taken, Mind, Metaphysics

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• Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title story is going to be. Over time, I end up with a dozen or so stories, and I start to see a shape to them, how they fit together, and then I write stories that complement or extend that shape.

  Brian Evenson

  Writing, Together, Shapes

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• I really don't have time "to Twitter," it's not something that should grab your day. That's a big misconception, actually, about the whole service. You don't go out of your way to tweet, you just post when you've got something. Hopefully, not while you're driving. It complements your life more than takes over your life.

  Chris Hardwick

  Hopefully Not, Over You, Way

  "How Nerdist Chris Hardwick Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 29, 2009.

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• Ek Main Aur Ek Tu was a very special film for me. Imran and we complement each other very well. He is sugar, and I am spice.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Special, Spices, Sugar

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• For me, the Bild-Dichtung [image-poem] is the ideal form, because the drawing process is constantly being interrupted or contrasted by the writing. And since I always have something to say when I am writing, the effort has a balancing effect. Drawing and writing are wonderful complements.

  Gunter Brus

  Writing, Drawing, Effort

  "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book by Monika Faber, 2005.

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• Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.

  Bobbi Brown

  Makeup, Style, Routine

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• As much as of course that Englishness of always to be embarrassed about any sense of complement, it is nice to know that a lot of the projects that I've worked on that people do feel there has been some effect.

  Robin Ince

  Nice, People, Projects

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.

  John Wright

  Jobs, Couple, Ideas

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• From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Keys, Views, Humanity

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

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• But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement what governments and nonprofits do. We need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Innovation, Environmental

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• Angie [Harmon] is a beautiful and stunning woman, and we both have really good qualities that complement each other. We both look very different and we have different energies, but it really works. We're lucky. When we do scenes together, I do feel like there's a certain magic that you can't always say happens.

  Sasha Alexander

  Beautiful, Magic, Quality

  Source: collider.com

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• Lyrical content is very important to me. I'm always trying to make sure the lyrics and music complement each other perfectly.

  Matt Smith

  Always Trying, Important, Lyrical

  Source: www.angelicwarlord.com

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• You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Confidence, Skills, Silence

  Franklyn Ajaye (2002). “Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy”

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• If art is the poetic interpretation of nature, photography is the exact translation; it is exactitude in art or the complement of art. (1854)

  Charles Negre

  Photography, Art, Poetic

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• The music I was writing for 'Hamlet' needed to be very simple because there was so much going on with the dialogue in that play, so I felt like the music had to complement that - so that carried on through; I was working on the soundtrack and the album simultaneously.

  Sarah Blasko

  Writing, Simple, Play

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• You know if I see a work that really I am very affected by and inspired by then it makes me want to try things with my work that maybe I hadn't considered trying before and I think that is the biggest complement that you can pay somebody.

  PJ Harvey

  Thinking, Trying, Want

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