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• It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to understand something myself. It's not a delivery device, it's an inquiry device. Didactic fiction to my mind never works. It backfires.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Book, Writing, Long

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• the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.

  Elizabeth A. Johnson

  God, Sex, Men

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• You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Art, Creation

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• I don't particularly like messages, because everybody takes whatever they take from whatever.

  Ringo Starr

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• I think the problem in the Republican Party is really not money. I think they've got lots of it. I think it is theory of the case - why are we here, what is our message, how to connect to the real world.

  Bob Woodward

  Real, Party, Thinking

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham talks Hagel, Brennan nominations; Sen. Rand Paul on the Obama agenda, Republican policy". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2013.

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• I believe that authors don't have a responsibility to include "messages" in their work, but they do have a responsibility to write a world that seems true and real, never more than when expecting readers to believe in magic and angels and fairies.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Believe, Responsibility

  Exclusive Books Interview, blog.exclus1ves.co.za.

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• I think actually the marketing community is approaching a crisis: There are just too many messages competing for too little attention. That is the fundamental problem.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Community, Marketing

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Gerry Khermouch, www.bloomberg.com. July 30, 2001.

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• We are approaching levels - if we're not beyond levels - of threshold for the number of messages that consumers can take in in a given day. There is a kind of hunger for some kind of new approach to getting the word out about something.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Numbers, Levels, Kind

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• To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Giving, Without Hope, Recompense

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.359, tredition

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• It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• A painting with a message does not happen by accident. It happens when you place elements in their order of importance.

  Mike Svob

  Order, Doe, Elements

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• It's always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.

  Edward Zwick

  Giving, Political, Social

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I like playing a character that admires real musicianship, and real talent and hard work. I think that's a good message for everyone.

  Elizabeth Gillies

  Real, Hard Work, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

  Paul McCartney

  Forever, Touching, Goes On

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• I don't think there can ever be too many messages about AIDS. If you stop the education process, then people are going to think the problem is all over and done with. They'll think that it's OK to go and have sex again. Education is essential, especially among young people.

  Elton John

  Sex, Thinking, People

  "Q&A WITH ELTON JOHN : Having a Go at 'Indifference, Intolerance'". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. September 22, 1993.

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• Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Accomplishment, Acting

  "COVER STORY : A Side Order of Steve Martin : He's had his ups and downs with L.A., but they're back together in his new movie". Interview with Elaine Dutka, articles.latimes.com. February 3, 1991.

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• I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Important, World

  "Badass Interview: Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Expression, Giving, Mouths

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

  Brennan Manning

  Lying, Believe, Heart

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.103, Multnomah

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• My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.

  Frida Kahlo

  Children, Pain, Thinking

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• Great leaders don't try to please everyone. Great leaders don't water down their message in order to make the tribe a bit bigger. Instead, they realize that a motivated, connected tribe in the midst of a movement is far more powerful than a larger group could ever be.

  Seth Godin

  Powerful, Order, Water

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.67, Penguin

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• I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.

  Kevin Harrington

  Air, Yellow, Numbers

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• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Men

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• In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

  Heather O'Neill

  Illumination, Insects, Headlights

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• Anybody who picks up a guitar and tells you that there's some inner message that they're trying to convey... it's nonsense. They're not being honest. The reason they're doing this is they wanna get lots of chicks and they don't want to work for a living.

  Gene Simmons

  Guitar, Trying, Want

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned". Interview with Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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