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• I like to do variations of all kinds of different work. One of my roles in Israel was for the theatre - Romeo & Juliet. So from that role I went to - I was playing, I believe her name was Amanda in the U.S., on "Ugly Betty."

  Meital Dohan

  Believe, Israel, Names

  Interview with Anthony Statler, www.bullz-eye.com. November 16, 2009.

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• One of the real challenges, since we're working in so many places - Mexico, Japan, Brazil - is understanding variations, both in terms of culture and context.

  Richard Meier

  Real, Japan, Understanding

  Source: www.architecturaldigest.com

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• In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I was able to create by painting whole rooms. There is a very limited number of colours but there are many variations. I decided to use the purest palette that I could.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Numbers, Work Out, Long

  Source: www.artzip.org

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• I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Community, African American

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I felt a variation of the fear that a lot of gay people have, that their families will reject them. I thought if I were to come out to the world then I would risk losing them.

  Candace Gingrich-Jones

  Gay, People, Risk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Painting, Form

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material.

  Albert Hofmann

  Drug, Magic, Mexico

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• Being an older person now, I'm finding that people are calling me to play various things. Variations on the theme of mother, caretaker, and in some cases, doctors, heads of organizations and things like that. For some people, I'm finally old enough to play those roles. We see men playing them when they're a little bit younger, and also in roles that call for some form of conflict and violence, either generating it or trying to curtail it. Women don't seem to be a big part of those common and often used movie themes.

  Barbara Crampton

  Mother, Men, Doctors

  Source: collider.com

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• Other thing about [Field Museum of Natural History] which inspired was that in a group of pots you wouldn't see a single example of this kind of pot. You would perhaps see a case with 20 different examples. So you realize that these pots could be repeated again and again, and each time there would be minor variations in them.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Museums, Different, Would Be

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you watch the award shows, you'll see variations of the hammer pants. It's always cool to see that and then every now and then, you'll see an artist who's pushing the envelope and it may not be all the way there but you can see where it's coming from. I'm always appreciative of seeing my influence.

  MC Hammer

  Artist, Awards, May

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I worshipped guys like Bill Maher, Jay Leno, and Jerry Seinfeld, and was doing my variation of that. But as a young person with no political point of view or life experience, it was as funny as you can imagine.

  Judd Apatow

  Views, Guy, Political

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

  Rob Lowe

  Lucky, Read Between The Lines, Stories

  "New Again: Rob Lowe". Interview with Mike Sager, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 7, 2016.

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• Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In the 17th century, Descartes applied this insight to cosmology, and long before Darwin presented his more rigorous ideas about variation and selection, people began to speculate more openly about the origins of life and the species in Epicurean terms.

  Catherine Wilson

  Origin Of Life, Order, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.

  Jack Gould

  Song, Singing, Beginners

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• Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think will happen. There are so many variations and possibilities that there's no way to ever really know for certain.

  Jackie Mason

  Thinking, People, Way

  Source: spectator.org

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• Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.

  Zaha Hadid

  Exercise, Years, Organization

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

  Bobby Fischer

  Strong, Moving, Games

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• An uninhibited, Chuck Berry devotee but experimented with and broke a lot of ground on feedback techniques and solid variations in tonal and dissonant utilizations. I'm one of the best guitarists in the world, and I play with great emotion.

  Ted Nugent

  Play, Technique, Berries

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• Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.

  Dorothy Norman

  Hero, Creative, Battle

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• First group impressions can mask a lot of individual variations in the members.

  Carolyn Hax

  Groups, Firsts, Mask

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.

  Charles Darwin

  Animal, Light, Example

  Charles Darwin (2016). “Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution”, p.53, VM eBooks

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• Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.

  John Dieterich

  Elements, Realizing, My Favorite

  "Deerhoof". Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. January 29, 2007.

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• There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

  Woody Allen

  Real, People, Age

  "Woody Allen Interview – VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. August 15, 2008.

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• One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.

  Isaac Newton

  Differences, Different, Watches

  David Brewster, Isaac Newton (1855). “Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton”, p.260

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• Emotion is set in our genome and that we all have with a certain programmed nature that is modified by our experience so individually we have variations on the pattern. But in essence, your emotion of joy and mine are going to be extremely similar.

  Antonio Damasio

  Essence, Joy, Patterns

  Source: bigthink.com

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