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• Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall."

  William Bourke Cockran

  Years, Voice, Long

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• Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

  John Scofield

  Giving, Eccentricity

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• Place yourself in the background; write in a way that comes naturally; work from a suitable design; write with nouns and verbs; do not overwrite; do not overstate; avoid the use of qualifiers; do not affect a breezy style; use orthodox spelling; do not explain too much; avoid fancy words; do not take shortcuts as the cost of clarity; prefer the standard to the offbeat; make sure the reader knows who is speaking; do not use dialect; revise and rewrite.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Design, Dialect

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• Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

  Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre

  Fun, Study

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• Leaders develop their styles as they interact with their constituencies. They move toward the style that seems most effective in dealing with the mixture of elements that make up their constituencies.

  John W. Gardner

  Moving, Leader, Elements

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• The ablest and most effective leaders do not hold to a single style; they may be highly supportive in personal relations when that is needed, yet capable of a quick, authoritative decision when the situation requires it.

  John W. Gardner

  Decision, Leader, Supportive

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• Therefore, the two processes, that of science and that of art, are not very different. Both science and art form in the course of the centuries a human language by which we can speak about the more remote parts of reality, and the coherent sets of concepts as well as the different styles of art are different words or groups of words in this language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Art, Reality, Two

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• Wild Bill was a strange character, add to this figure a costume blending the immaculate neatness of the dandy with the extravagant taste and style of a frontiersman, you have Wild Bill, the most famous scout on the Plains.

  George Armstrong Custer

  Character, Add, Bills

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• I have no style, because I change each time . . . each day I play differently. Today I play differently than yesterday.

  Vladimir Horowitz

  Play, Yesterday, Today

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• As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Unique, Land, Taste

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• When friends enter a home, they sense its personality and character, the family's style of living - these elements make a house come alive with a sense of identity, a sense of energy, enthusiasm, and warmth , declaring: "This is how we are; this is how we live."

  Ralph Lauren

  Home, Character, House

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• What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that too risky for the human population? We have to do the one-handed pain-in-the-ass Alcatraz-style faucets. "What is it they think we will do? Turn 'em all on full, run out into the parking lot, laughing, pushing each other into the bushes?

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Pain, Thinking

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• Epicurus had rage and envy of Plato's superior style.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Envy, Rage

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• Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Worry, People

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• Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life.

  Dario Argento

  Dream, Real, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Postmodernism, the school of 'thought' that proclaimed 'There are no truths, only interpretations' has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it has left behind a generation of academics in the humanities disabled by their distrust of the very idea of truth and their disrespect for evidence, settling for 'conversations' in which nobody is wrong and nothing can be confirmed, only asserted with whatever style you can muster.

  Daniel Dennett

  School, Ideas, Disrespect

  "Liberals and the New McCarthyism" by Derrick Jensen, www.counterpunch.org. August 10, 2015.

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• Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...

  Lauren Hutton

  Fashion, Suits You, Years

  "Lauren Hutton Styles Herself for J. Crew" by Joyann King, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 3, 2010.

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• I don't think my playing style has really changed over the years; it's just gotten better. I can hear the improvement in comparing older records and later records. I'm referring to soloing ability, to having a better sound, to knowing chords better, and getting rhythmically stronger. It also has to do with ideas - learning how to edit your ideas and being better able to follow ideas out to a logical conclusion.

  Gary Bartz

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• If you live by the same values and priorities [Jesus] had, you will find evangelism happening naturally. It becomes a life-style and not a project.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Jesus, Priorities, Evangelism

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• If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground.

  Alex Katz

  Wise, Artist, Trying

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• The voice of painterly integrity spoke to me. And the idea was that one would find this anguish, or whatever, and construct it into images that would appear. You already feel very ill and you're trying to put this riddle together because it is the prescription for health. I believe in art as a spiritual health-giving process, not just some style.

  Malcolm Morley

  Spiritual, Art, Integrity

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• It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.

  William Webb

  Book, Superhero, Matter

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• My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.

  Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

  Roles, Mature, Process

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• Don't try to be just like some other singer hitting it big - find your own style and be honest in your performances. And never underestimate your audience.

  Tony Bennett

  Trying, Hitting, Singers

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Russian fighters are always bouncing around and using a lot of effort with the punches they throw and grinding for takedowns. Anyone would get tired with that style.

  Gilbert Melendez

  Tired, Effort, Fighter

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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