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• While the word bisexual was technically correct, I would only slowly come to use it to refer to myself in part because of the derisive connotations. But, in addition, it would seem to me woefully inadequate and impressionistically inaccurate.

  Charles M. Blow

  Bisexual, Use, Seems

  Charles M. Blow (2014). “Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember watching Barry Sanders highlights as a kid, and the Lions always being a fun team. I, personally, really never had a real negative connotation with the team. And I didn't really listen to those who did after I was drafted.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Fun, Real, Team

  "The GQ&A: Ndamukong Suh". Interview with Peter Schrager, www.gq.com. October 6, 2011.

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• As black people we were out to further our equality. I don't pay attention to the controversial connotations put on by media and the undermining labels they place on us. We pay attention to what our community situation is and what we need.

  Chuck D

  Media, People, Community

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase.

  Fabio Novembre

  Reality, Glasses, Names

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• In general, the auditions I go up for are very sparse, I guess because of my ethnicity. And the characters are very similar: shy, innocent and naive; the connotations that come from the way that I look.

  Katie Leung

  Character, Ethnicity, Shy

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• In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Vocabulary, Rivalry, Should

  "Kafka and His Precursors" (1951) (translation by James E. Irby)

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• I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Motivational, Sports, Addiction

  Chrissie Wellington (2012). “A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey”, p.16, Hachette UK

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• I think that there are excellent and poor thinking habits just as there are healthy and unhealthy eating habits; and when a man really knows how to think, you cannot necessarily assert that he thinks too much in a strictly negative connotation. Perhaps this is in a sense food for thought, whereas the other is fool for thought.

  Criss Jami

  Men, Thinking, Healthy

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.52, Criss Jami

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• Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term crisis was normally employed. With time, however, this acquired the connotation of the misfortune it described.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Effort, Lasts, Trouble

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1998). “The Affluent Society”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When people talk about careers, I always feel like the connotation of a career is that you're actually choosing things.

  Matt Ross

  Careers, People, Feels

  Source: collider.com

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• I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Believe, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I have my views and obviously my music has connotations that lean toward what I believe, but I've learned through other artists' mistakes that I'm never going to use my career as a platform for politics, especially at shows. People come to hear music. It's my job to entertain them, and it's my escape too.

  Miranda Lambert

  Jobs, Mistake, Believe

  "Miranda Lambert Dishes With Meghan McCain". Interview with Meghan McCain, www.thedailybeast.com. February 12, 2011.

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• The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

  Simon Blackburn

  Philosophy, Unfortunate, Carrie

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• Growing up is something that you do your whole life. I want to always feel that I can be a kid if I want. Growing up has some negative connotations. Like, you're not supposed to roll around on the ground anymore. You're not supposed to make fun of yourself. You're not supposed to ride a bicycle. But I'm a Toys-R-Us kid.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Growing Up, Fun, Kids

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• The Singularity denotes an event that will take place in the material world, the inevitable next step in the evolutionary process that started with biological evolution and has extended through human-directed technological evolution. however, it is precisely in the world of matter and energy that we encounter transcendence, a principal connotation of what people refer to as spirituality.

  Ray Kurzweil

  People, Energy, Next Steps

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.498, Penguin

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• I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.

  Luke Bryan

  Song, Albums, Fabric

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• Is graffiti art or vandalism? That word has a lot of negative connotations and it alienates people, so no, I don't like to use the word 'art' at all.

  Banksy

  Art, People, Graffiti

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• Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

  Julia Serano

  Empowering, World, Revolutionary

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• The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable), avoids our indigenous cultural heritage and links us directly with Spain. Worse yet, it possesses connotations of upward mobility and political obedience.

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena

  Diversity, Political, Spain

  Guillermo Gomez-Pena (1993). “Warrior for Gringostroika: Essays, Performance Texts, and Poetry”

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• There is a German word, Sehnsucht, which has no English equivalent; it means 'the longing for something'. It has Romantic and mystical connotations; C.S. Lewis defined it as the 'inconsolable longing' in the human heart for 'we know not what'. It seems rather German to be able to specify the unspecifiable. The longing for something - or, in our case, for someone.

  Julian Barnes

  Heart, Mean, Able

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• I think of myself as a reportage photographer. I like the word. It implies a personal account of an observed event with connotations of subjectivity but honesty. It is eye-witness photography.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Honesty, Eye

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• I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe.

  William O. Douglas

  Animal, Men, Compassion

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• Religion in the West has a very wrong connotation. It has almost reached to a point where the very word 'religion' creates a repulsion, where the very word 'religion' reminds one of dead churches and dead priests. It reminds one of serious looking people, long faces. It has lost the capacity to dance, to sing, to celebrate. And when a religion has lost the capacity to dance, to celebrate, to sing, to love, just to be, then it is no more religion - it is a corpse, it is theology. Theology is dead religion.

  Rajneesh

  Long, People, Religion

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• Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Taken, People

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