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• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  Movie, Queens, Character

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• Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.

  Stephen Fry

  Writing, Years, Long

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• I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

  Dick Dale

  Patience, Anger, Frustration

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• We live in a quick-fix society where we need instant gratification for everything. Too fat? Get lipo-sucked. Stringy hair? Glue on extensions. Wrinkles and lines? Head to the beauty shop for a pot of the latest miracle skin stuff. It's all a beautiful £1 billion con foisted upon insecure women by canny cosmetic conglomerates.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Insecure, Wrinkles

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• And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.

  Duane G. Carey

  Powerful, Air, Flying

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• I challenge anybody to say that I wouldn't know how to approach foreign policy because, unlike some of the other people, I at least have a foreign policy philosophy, which is an extension of the Reagan philosophy. Peace through strength, and my philosophy is peace through strength and clarity.

  Herman Cain

  Philosophy, People, Challenges

  "Herman Cain Tops New Polls, Causes Stir With Campaign Ad". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2011.

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  Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Feelings, Tribes

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• I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Careers, Mind, Done

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• We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is observable in nature.

  Robert Lanza

  Entity, Mathematical, Protect

  "A New Theory of the Universe: Biocentrism builds on quantum physics by putting life into the equation". theamericanscholar.org. March 1, 2007.

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• When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that.

  Ang Lee

  War, America, Japan

  Interview with Liev Schreiber, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 28, 2009.

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• We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  House, Closets, Built

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• I invented the cordless extension cord.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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• In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.

  Andrew Weil

  Garden, People, Justice

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• The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

  Gene Simmons

  Makeup, Reality, Color

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• Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

  Gus Van Sant

  Trying, Film, Dramatic

  Interview with Tony Dushane, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2008.

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• You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

  Tom Ridge

  Inspiring, Leadership, Team

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• A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.

  Camille Paglia

  Fashion, Children, Hair

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• Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.

  Earl Nightingale

  Creativity, Law Of Attraction, Enthusiasm For Life

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• Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.

  Elon Musk

  Self, Safety, Car

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it’s just an extension of childhood play… Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don’t need any director telling them “You really have to believe in it.” They believe in it completely.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Fashion, Believe, Kids

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Photography, Way, Painting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Birthday, Moving, Technology

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• The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Media, Messages

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Thrift shopping is really just an extension of me being that same kid and going into a place that's completely unconventional that has really endless possibilities in terms of outfits that you can put together and really just expressing yourself.

  Macklemore

  Kids, Shopping, Together

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Movement, Saws

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