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• There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

  Laurence Tribe

  Progress, Liberty, Fit

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• I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Goal, Feelings, Might

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his 1970s suits, to Tilda Swinton, to Hugh Hefner, to Sharon Stone and her ferocious sexuality, to handsome men I see on the streets of New York.

  Rachael Taylor

  New York, Father, Inspiration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.

  Ratan Tata

  Two, Car, Ferrari

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• However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Thinking, Sound, Environment

  "Nobuo Part 2". Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider and Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 14, 2004.

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• So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Want, Clear, Plans

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

  Charles M. Vest

  Government, Shifting, Cost

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Different

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• I think in terms of me shying away from modelling, I would like to clarify in some way that I was taking a break from many things in my life and obviously what people in the public see is that I'm pulling away from what is more public.

  Gemma Ward

  Thinking, People, Pulling Away

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• I have never considered myself a prodigy. Others have used that term, but I never bought in to it.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Used, Prodigies

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• One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Unique, Issues, Voice

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• FlashForward' is definitely not a sci-fi show. It doesn't have the mythology of 'Lost.' We have one major event that happens that you are asked to buy into. After that, you're dealing with very human ripple effects - how people deal with it and how they come to terms with it.

  Sonya Walger

  People, Events, Sci Fi

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• Musicians exist independent of any of the marketing terms or the categorization.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Independent, Marketing, Musician

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• I've worked really hard to build up a career on my own. I turned 30 recently and it took me a long time to get the chance to make a feature film and do it on my own terms.

  Duncan Jones

  Careers, Long, Chance

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.

  Stephanie Mills

  Block, Responsibility, Cells

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• The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we must remember that we are within culture, and our calling in Christ is to play our part in the redemption and transformation of individuals and cultures. I believe the recent history of the religious subculture teaches all too clearly that unless we are moving forward in seeking the genuine transformation of culture, then we are standing still and it is transforming us.

  Steve Scott

  Religious, Moving Forward, Believe

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• The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

  Clement Greenberg

  Artist, Creating, Trying

  Clement Greenberg (1971). “Art and Culture: Critical Essays”, p.6, Beacon Press

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• The chief difficulty is that God demands of us that we live by faith: faith in God, God's sovereignty over the future, God's sufficiency for the present; while, on the other hand, the various other gods whom we can serve appeal to us in terms of the things which we can see and the forces which we can calculate. The choice between the life of faith and the life of sight is a choice between a God whom only faith can apprehend and gods whom one has only to see to understand.

  Daniel Thambyrajah Niles

  Sight, Hands, Choices

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• Begbie offers an additional valuable contribution by rejecting the traditional emphasis on beauty, in its Platonic sense, and instead suggesting that beauty be reconceived in Christological terms-as disorder redeemed.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Disorder, Emphasis

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• It's fun to go to a supermarket or a park or a shopping mall where human beings convene. They're so caught up in their own personal reality as to not see life, except in terms that add to or detract from their movie.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Fun, Ignorance

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• Power is the active force in life. It is the force that makes awareness. The general term for spiritual power is kundalini. Kundalini is the energy of life that creates awareness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Buddhism, Energy Of Life

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• Gods and goddesses are not what people think they are. Their names are terms with which we try to convey a certain experience, a state of consciousness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Names, People

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• Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

  Frederick Lenz

  Butterfly, Self, Meditation

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• In terms of facial creams or lotions, I try to switch it up and stay as natural as possible. l like Le Mer facial cream for when I have an event. It's very rich and sometimes too rich for some people, but I like it.

  Sanaa Lathan

  People, Trying, Events

  "Sanaa Lathan Talks Bad Weaves, ‘Best Man 2’ and that Nasty Kobe Byrant Rumor!". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. January 27, 2012.

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• In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

  Ben Mezrich

  Book, Together, Path

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