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• The President is the direct representative of the American people and is elected by the people and responsible to them.

  Andrew Jackson

  People, President, Responsible

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.269

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• Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

  Betty Rollin

  Tears, May, Disease

  Betty Rollin (2008). “Last Wish”, p.122, PublicAffairs

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• television. It has changed the way that we perceive the world out there, and though we know that - have indeed been bombarded with analyses on the consequences for society, for the family, and for individual psychology - I don't believe that we have yet begun to appreciate the reach of its subliminal effects, of what we might call 'the slow viruses.' They not only get into our ways of seeing, they pervade the ways in which we weave our perceptions together into patterns that support and explain our thinking and our doing and both direct and hinder various kinds of relationships.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Believe, Thinking, Appreciate

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• To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, more selective, more acute eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world. Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times-the pulse of today. The photograph may be presented as finely and artistically as you will, but to merit serious consideration, must be directly connected with the world we live in.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Philosophy, Mean

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• It's in trying to direct the traffic between Artiface [sic] and Candor, without being run over, that I'm confronted with the questions about photography that matter most to me.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Running, Trying

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• Many times we are tempted to defer to the documents we create, rather than the direct experiences we have.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Photographer, Tempted, Documents

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• Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information.

  Jay Carney

  Nsa, Effort, Answers

  "James Clapper: Obama stands by intelligence chief as criticism mounts" by Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2013.

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• When I began to direct, I began to understand and realise that everything that I'd learnt, both in music and dance and in the theatre, seemed to come together as a director, and I began to enjoy it. And slowly I let the acting go.

  George Ogilvie

  Theatre, Acting, Together

  "Epiphanies: George Ogilvie, Director and Pilgrim". "The Spirit of Things", www.abc.net.au. December 3, 2006.

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• I would hate to say as a non-African-American person that it would be wrong for a black person to direct white people in a movie. Wouldn't that be awful of me to say that? The only sympathizing thing I might say for people that want to [grumble] is that a filmmaker should have an understanding for the place where the people you're portraying are coming from.

  Mick Jagger

  Hate, Should Have, White

  "Mick Jagger & Chadwick Boseman Talk 'Get On Up,' James Brown and a Rolling Stones Biopic". Interview with Tatiana Siegel, www.billboard.com. July 25, 2014.

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• I'm all for experimenting with sortition - randomly selected representative bodies of citizens. But I don't favor direct democracy. We're busy. We have lives. There is reddit. Who has time to work out the right answer to the thousand policy choices a gov't must make all the time?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Work Out, Choices, Democracy

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• When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

  Aaron Sorkin

  Writing, Directors, Want

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

  Frank Whaley

  Thinking, Television, Able

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's the caveman in us. The caveman in you says, "I want direct contact. I don't want a picture." The caveman in our body says once in a while, we have to go outside. We have to meet real people, talk to real people, and do real things.

  Michio Kaku

  Real, People, Body

  "US Futurologist Michio Kaku: 'Eternal Life Does Not Violate the Laws of Physics'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. September 28, 2012.

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• The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing.

  Denzel Washington

  Acting, Film, Reason

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Organization, Together

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.

  Miles Franklin

  Law, Invisible, Indirect

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Reality, like God and History, tends to direct people to wherever they want to go.

  Pauline Kael

  Reality, People, Want

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• pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

  Audre Lorde

  Erotic, Feelings, Denial

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.54, Crossing Press

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• Whatever good I have accomplished as an actress I believe came in direct proportion to my efforts to portray black women who have made positive contributions to my heritage.

  Cicely Tyson

  Believe, Role Models, Effort

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• I sometimes think humor and satire are more effective techniques for expressing social statements than direct comment.

  Kristin Hunter

  Thinking, Technique, Sometimes

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• The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday.

  Sonia Johnson

  Religious, Air, Land

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• It was natural that the direct wielders of the royal prerogative, men who sat in the Star Chamber and the Privy Council, who knew the secrets of the State and the necessity for prompt action, should despise the merely declaratory character of a good deal of Common Law process. To them we doubtless owe those four great pillars of Chancery jurisdiction, the injunction, the decree, the sequestration, and the commission of rebellion.

  Edward Jenks

  Stars, Character, Men

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Law, Roots, People

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred -Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience.

  James H. Austin

  Simple, Everyday, Experience

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.12, MIT Press

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• Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.

  John Daido Loori

  Mind, Special, Enlightenment

  Stephen Addiss, John Daido Loori (2009). “The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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