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• God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Expression, Made

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• I don't really believe in any fashion rules. I think fashion is a form of self-expression. I think you can wear whatever you want!

  Ariana Grande

  Fashion, Believe, Thinking

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• Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

  Matthew Kelly

  Self, Expression, Culture

  Matthew Kelly (2003). “Rediscovering Catholicism: Journeying Toward Our Spiritual North Star”, p.18, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it's about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That's what people are attracted to - when they see you execute an emotion or an idea clearly and proudly.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sexy, Fashion, Art

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Self, Expression, Play

  Florence Scovel Shinn (2009). “The Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.49, Penguin

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• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

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• The First Amendment serves not only the needs of the polity but also those of the human spirit - a spirit that demands self-expression .

  Thurgood Marshall

  Self, Expression, Needs

  "Procunier v. Martinez". Free-speech case, supreme.justia.com. 1974.

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• To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love Is, Self, Expression

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• Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.

  Gordon Lish

  Writing, Self, Expression

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Expression

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• Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Art, Communication, Inspiration

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• Self-expression is always a right, but its still not there to be abused.

  Isaac Hayes

  Self, Expression, Stills

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• Self-censorship, whether known or unknown, is an unwelcome brake on creativity; it stifles self-expression and hence prevents a work from reaching the heights of great art.

  Semir Zeki

  Art, Creativity, Self

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• I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

  John Malkovich

  Self, Expression, Design

  "Wearing John Malkovich" by Teo Kermeliotis and Rosie Tomkins, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2010.

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• There was an exquisitely beautiful conception in my brain when I did this piece of work all alone from midnight until morning after the experience of a wonderful day. But I was not able to make the consummation anywhere nearly as beautiful as the inspiration. That, I suppose, is the cry of every heart struggling for self-expression.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Beautiful, Morning, Inspiration

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• Often we're recreating what we think we're supposed to be as human beings. What we've been told we're supposed to be, instead of who we authentically are. The key about the creation of full self-expression is to be authentically who you are, to project that.

  James Cromwell

  Thinking, Keys, Self

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• Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

  Mickey Hart

  Music, Self, Expression

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• Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Self, Expression

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• No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Philosophy, Self

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• For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Science, Self, Views

  Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

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• All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Self, Expression, Rubbish

  "Did I say that?" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• Guitar is the best form of self-expression I know. Everything else, and I'm just sort of tripping around, trying to figure my way through life.

  Slash

  Guitar, Self, Expression

  "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.

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• He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification shall be disappointed. He who considers himself the servant of his fellow beings shall find the joy of self-expression. He who seeks self-expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.

  Moshe Safdie

  Motivation, Fall, Inspiration

  Moshe Safdie (2009). “Moshe Safdie: Volume 1”, p.11, Images Publishing

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