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• I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Chicago, Comedy, Scene

  "New Girl's Jake Johnson". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Ocean, Adventure

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• The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government, .. As tens of millions of people take action to support clean energy during Earth Month, the 'New Energy for a New Era' campaign will catapult us toward a clean and affordable energy future.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Government, People, Support

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• Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow

  Tobe Hooper

  Stars, Taken, Law

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• I'm grateful people think I'm beautiful or sexy, and I suppose it's better than the alternative, but I do try to fight it a bit so it's not all people see me as. And I'd love to one day be in a position where I could choose a role to showcase my creativity versus just my bra size.

  Katherine Heigl

  Beautiful, Sexy, Grateful

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• I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

  Britt Ekland

  Today, Beginnings And Ends, Planning

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• As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act...Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

  Howard Thompson

  Cutting, Acting, Doe

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• It is the tragedy of other people that they are to us merely showcases for the very perishable collections of our own mind.

  Marcel Proust

  People, Mind, Tragedy

  Marcel Proust (2015). “Remembrance of Things Past: The Sweet Cheat Gone”, p.123, Marcel Proust

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• I feel that the All-Star game is more like a party because its made up of a lot of elements. However the core of All-Star is still the 48 minute-game and all the fans will pay all attention to the showcase of the players excellent skills. The result of the game is not much of a concern.

  Yao Ming

  Stars, Party, Player

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• In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic philosopher. But what's remarkable is that she actually brings off this tour de force with both madcap brilliance and commanding authority.

  Michael Dirda

  Plato, Way, Philosopher

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• The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

  Tom Udall

  Sports, Horse, Animal

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• Make your workplace into showcase that can be understood by everyone at a glance. In terms of quality, it means to make the defects immediately apparent. In terms of quantity, it means that progress or delay, measured against the plan, and is made immediately apparent. When this is done, problems can be discovered immediately, and everyone can initiate improvement plans.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Mean, Quality, Progress

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• We are here on this earth to know God intimately, fully, correctly, and contagiously; to house His holy person in our very bodies, allowing Him to showcase to the world around us His loving nature, His attitude, His thoughts, His emotions, and His actions through the way we live every moment of our lives.

  Eric Ludy

  Attitude, Loving Nature, House

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When God Writes Your Life Story: Experience the Ultimate Adventure”, p.146, Multnomah

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• Something like making the NIT would have been a great way to showcase the season we had.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Way, Has Beens, Seasons

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• I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.

  John Hench

  Successful, Thinking, Artist

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• I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naïve belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Opportunity, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• We call it EPCOT, spelled E-P-C-O-T: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. Here it is in larger scale. EPCOT will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry. It will be a community of tomorrow that will never be completed, but will always be introducing and testing and demonstrating new materials and systems. And EPCOT will always be a showcase to the world for the ingenuity and imagination of American free enterprise.

  Walt Disney

  Technology, Epcot, Ideas

  "EPCOT". Promotional film, www.imdb.com. February 2, 1967.

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• God often showcases his power on the stage of human weakness.

  Andy Stanley

  Weakness, Stage, Humans

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.69, Zondervan

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• The global financial crisis is a great opportunity to showcase and propagate both causal and moral institutional analysis. The crisis shows major flaws in the way the US financial system is regulated and, more importantly, in our political system, which is essentially a bazaar of legalized bribery where financial institutions can buy themselves the governmental regulations they want, along with the regulators who routinely receive lucrative jobs in the industry whose oversight had formerly been their responsibility, the so-called revolving-door practice.

  Thomas Pogge

  Jobs, Responsibility, Opportunity

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As minorities, it is always our dream to merge our cultures and showcase to the world the talent that comes from both Latin music and Hip-Hop, .. I hope that together,we can create a new cultural movement that unites these audiences.

  Emilio Estefan

  Dream, Latin, Together We Can

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• I am called to live in such a perfect relationship with God that my life produces a yearning for God in the lives of others, not admiration for myself. Thoughts about myself hinder my usefulness to God. God’s purpose is not to perfect me to make me a trophy in His showcase; He is getting me to the place where He can use me. Let Him do what He wants.

  Oswald Chambers

  Perfect, Purpose, Use

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.693, Discovery House

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• All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Dirty, Broken, Heaven

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• My wearing my hair in locs on an Oscar red carpet was to showcase them in a positive light, to remind people of color that our hair is good enough.

  Zendaya

  Light, Hair, Color

  Zendaya @Zendaya, twitter.com. February 23, 2015.

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• My signature line of clothing for Satya Paul will showcase a distinctive aspect of my own personal style. Co-creating and endorsing a line for one of India's finest brands will be a new experience for me

  Gauri Khan

  New Experiences, Creating, Style

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