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• No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

  Jena Malone

  Character, Down And, Matter

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• I'd like to see people pay attention to the science of hip hop. The knowledge part, the political side of what hip hop could do, or where hip hop is gonna go. I always say it's gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Hip Hop, Political

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• There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech.

  Dan Stevens

  Beautiful, Heart, Forever

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• I look forward to my first visit to Israel. Music is a universal language that is meant to unify audiences in peace and love, and that is the spirit of our show.

  Alicia Keys

  Israel, Firsts, And Love

  "Despite Protests, Alicia Keys Says She Will Perform In Tel Aviv" by Dave Itzkoff, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Now don't you understand man universal law
  What you throw out comes back to you, star
  Never underestimate those who you scar
  Cause karma, karma, karma comes back to you hard

  Lauryn Hill

  Karma, Stars, Men

  Song: Lost Ones

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• Peter (Parker) is not that evolved. Peter wants to tell the world he's a good guy: ' Like me, I'm nice.' He's a 19 year-old kid. He's a kid struggling with being misunderstood. We've all been misunderstood. That's universal too. I like being Peter.

  Andrew Garfield

  Nice, Struggle, Kids

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• Addiction is not just for bad people or scumbags - it's a universal disease.

  River Phoenix

  Addiction, People, Scumbags

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

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• I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years.

  Gloria Stuart

  Years, Quitting, Seven

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• In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions.

  Aldous Huxley

  Communication, Men, Two

  Aldous Huxley (2008). “Brave New World Revisited”, p.47, Random House

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• Heavy metal is a universal energy -- it's the sound of a volcano. It's rock, it's earth shattering. Somewhere in our primal being we understand.

  Billy Corgan

  Rocks, Volcanoes, Energy

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• Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.

  Soen Nakagawa

  Stars, Universal Life, Universe

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• In my life I have had to work through problems of stigmatization and prejudice. When I discovered the power of the arts to express my pains and joys, it became clear to me that there would be no other way to work through the demons except to fully embrace the process of creation. The work was not personal therapy but had a connection to other peoples' realities. As I grow older and more mature, it becomes clearer to me that personal struggles and conflicts are connected with universal struggles and conflicts. It is this knowledge, ironically, that gives me the freedom to experiment in my work

  Reza Abdoh

  Art, Pain, Struggle

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• Great leadership isn’t shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.

  Charles M. Blow

  Leader, Humanity, Together

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• A picture can express a universal humanism, or simply reveal a delicate and poignant truth by exposing a slice of life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.

  Steve McCurry

  Might, Poignant, Unnoticed

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody.

  Mara Brock Akil

  Writing, Black, Humans

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• Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over the world and no translator is required. Photography is truly a universal language, transcending all boundaries of race, politics and nationality.

  Arthur Rothstein

  Photography, Powerful, Mean

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• The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

  Shyam Selvadurai

  Magic, Fiction, Becoming

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• Hoping to see karate included in the universal physical education taught in our public schools, I set about revising the kata so as to make them as simple as possible. Times change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practice today is not the same karate that was practiced even as recently as ten years ago [this book was written in 1956], and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa.

  Gichin Funakoshi

  Art, Children, Book

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• Sometimes I would write something that was so private, people would say, 'Make it more universal.' I never liked that idea. I always thought the more personal a song was, the more people would want to hear it.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• The themes Poe used were universal and timeless. As long as the English language exists at all, we will be able to appreciate what he did. It will not age! It will not become dated!

  John Astin

  Appreciate, Long, Age

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

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• We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Like You

  "In America; Political Tongue Twisters" by Bob Herbert, www.nytimes.com. August 28, 2000.

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• The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

  William Ames

  Perfection, Use, Goodness

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• I wish I didn't get searched when I come through customs.
  I wish Christians stop beefin' with Muslims,
  Wish the poor didn't have to take welfare,
  Wish America had universal health care...
  Cause ain't no help here.

  Ed O.G.

  Christian, Rap, America

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• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.

  Camille Paglia

  Reality, College, Style

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.120, Vintage

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