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• One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses which, incessantly and monopolistically repeated, become hyponotic definitions of dictations.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Self, Definitions, Information

  Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.16, Routledge

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• Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Men, Black, Sun

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• Remember the root word of humble and human is the same: humus: earth. We are dust. We are created; it is God who made us and not we ourselves. But we were made to be co-creators with our maker.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Humble, Dust, Roots

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.112, Convergent Books

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• I have always believed that women are not victims, we are agents of change, we are drivers of projects.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Progress, Needs

  "NCAA Tourney Final Set; Test Possibly Days Away; First Lady's Freudian Slip; Tiny Player Makes Huge Touchdown; NCAA Tourney Final Set; Big Crowds for Free NCAA Concerts; The "Mad Men" are Back Tonight; Uganda May Ban Miniskirts; Whisker Walker". "CNN Sunday Morning", www.cnn.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

  PJ Harvey

  Film, Poet, Painter

  "Interview PJ Harvey: 'I feel things deeply. I get angry, I shout at the TV, I feel sick'" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• For the film maker must come by his convention, as painters and writers and musicians have done before him.

  Virginia Woolf

  Musician, Done, Film

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.175, Oxford University Press

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• Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West.
  More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Color, Topography, Maps

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.5, Macmillan

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• We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Law, People

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Hitchcock is the most-daring avant-garde film-maker in America today.

  Andrew Sarris

  America, Avant Garde, Today

  "Andrew Sarris: the last of the highbrows" by Tom Shone, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2012.

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• The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence.  The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.

  Hannah Arendt

  Men, World, Given

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• She was so fat that her clothes are made by Omar the tent maker.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Clothes, Tents, Omar

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• Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

  William Morris

  Men, Made, Should

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.205, Cambridge University Press

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• I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Switzerland, Want

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• Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Ideas, People, Goal

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• There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

  Fred Wilson

  Thinking, Entrepreneurship, Good Things

  "What We Are Seeing" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2011.

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• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Cannes Film Festival, Political, Different

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• If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Film Critics, Qualified, Ifs

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• History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

  Steven Spielberg

  World, Film, New World

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• Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

  Wesley Snipes

  Creativity, Games, Filmmaker

  The IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 11, 2011.

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• World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

  Zadie Smith

  World, Firsts, Social Network

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• But MTV relishes its vestigial role as a star maker, so every year it puts all its clout into making the VMAs the biggest, splashiest, loudest show-biz extravaganza of the year, honoring all this music for existing, after a year of paying barely any attention to it.

  Rob Sheffield

  Stars, Years, Mtv

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• Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Technology, Simple, People

  "Are we back to the 1930s again? Here's why we shouldn't panic" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2013.

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• The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

  Arnold Bennett

  Long, Literature, World

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• Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth; but up in the Mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show that there He makes men.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Shoes, Gold Teeth

  Attributed in N.Y. Times, 6 Dec. 1925

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• The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Baseball, Stars, Sunday

  "Elmer Gantry". Book by Sinclair Lewis, 1927.

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