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• There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.

  Newton Lee

  Hate, Lines, Speech

  Newton Lee (2015). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.88, Springer

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

  Luc Sante

  Beautiful, Land, Nonfiction

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• The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Energy, Lines

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• There is a fine line between a sleepover and just drinking way too much at someone else's house.

  Demetri Martin

  Drinking, House, Sleepovers

  Twitter post from Jun 19, 2012

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• I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

  David Bowie

  Inspiring, Dream, Reality

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• In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

  Robert J. Samuelson

  Lines, Littles, Too Much

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• Don't hoo, hoo, hoo me. There's a fine line between hoo, hoo, hoo and hiel, hiel, hiel.

  Bobcat Goldthwait

  Lines, Fine

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• There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Clever, Stupid, Different

  "Melissa Etheridge takes a look back in 12th album". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. September 5, 2012.

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• There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

  Michael Eisner

  Thinking, Avant Garde, Genius

  "Former Disney chief Eisner touts benefits of sharing". Reuters interview, www.reuters.com. September 26, 2010.

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• Think about scary movies: There's a fine line between horror and humor.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Thinking, Scary, Lines

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• I'd like to walk that fine line between the authentic artist self and the manufactured artist self. I'd like to exist outside of a set of expectations or assumptions about what the Kehinde Wiley brand is. And I'd like to walk towards something that's a bit more unpredictable, human.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Self, Expectations

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Play, Done, Lines

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Just, as I have traveled around from school to school, whether it's project-based learning or an outward bound curriculum, it's very hard to tell the difference between charters and public anymore. There's no fine line.

  David Brooks

  School, Differences, Lines

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.

  Samantha Morton

  Believe, Thinking, Mind

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• At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Home, Genius, Lines

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

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• Cat's are unpredictable. It is a fine line between the cure, inquisitive and innocent creature resting on our lap and the hissing, spitting and deranged banshee it might become at any moment. This is why we're trying always to win their love.

  George Takei

  Cat, Winning, Trying

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• Theres a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

  Marv Albert

  Thug, Balls, Lines

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• Without trying to get too self-indulgent, there's a fine line between making something that's soundtracky and cinematic, or making it sound like a bad 70s prog-rock record.

  Jason Reece

  Rocks, Self, Trying

  "And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead". Interview with Matt LeMay, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Thinking, Insanity, Genius

  Nikki Giovanni (1983). “Those who ride the night winds”, William Morrow & Co

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• Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

  Steven Pasquale

  Character, Cartoon, Lines

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• It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.

  J. Robbins

  Dying, Lines, Fine

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.

  Alicia Witt

  Believe, People, Trying

  AOL Live, 1996.

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• Giving yourself over to the fine line of a human-like droid means that sometimes you make choices that don't make you feel good, as an actor, and you have to learn to embrace that. No actor will tell you that that's a good place to be.

  Michael Ealy

  Mean, Giving, Feel Good

  "Michael Ealy Talks ALMOST HUMAN, Connection to His Character, Finding His Performance, Approaching the Humor, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2013.

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• The emergence of Casual Fridays has created a fine line of fashion ion dos and donts.

  Michael Perlis

  Friday, Fashion, Ions

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