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• What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience.

  Bruno Mars

  Mirrors, Guy, Raw Talent

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The truth is you cannot command the respect of the world when you spend years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends. Lecturing the American people about the Crusades while refusing to call Islamic extremism by name is an abdication of leadership.

  Mike Pence

  Islamic, Years, Names

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When you think of sexual liberation, which women wanted to have or not have children, which is the choice, not a command, and other kinds of things they wanted in their relationships with their husbands, or partners or what have you, became for subsequent generations some license that they themselves feel, that is absolutely demeaning and mean younger and younger and younger.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Husband, Mean

  Source: wordmag.com

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• I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.

  John Bolton

  Real, War, Taken

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I am for literally all of the underdogs that I can command and demand better of everyone, including myself.

  Van Jones

  Underdog, Demand, Including

  Source: pen.org

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• What's the purpose of NATO? Well actually we have an official answer. It isn't publicized much, but a couple of years ago, the secretary-general of NATO made a formal statement explaining the purpose of NATO in the post-Cold War world is to control global energy systems, pipelines, and sea lanes. That means it's a global system and of course he didn't say it, it's an intervention force under US command, as we've seen in case after case. So that's NATO.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, War, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Play, Interesting, Needs

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water."

  David Eagleman

  Water, Choices, Leaving

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.143, Vintage

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• It turns out that dopamine is a chemical on double duty in the brain. Along with its role in motor commands, it also serves as the main messenger in the reward systems, guiding a person toward food, drink, mates, and all things useful for survival. Because of its role in the reward system, imbalances in dopamine can trigger gambling, overeating, and drug addiction - behaviors that result from a reward system gone awry.

  David Eagleman

  Gambling, Addiction, Drug

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.165, Vintage

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• When one talks about being like a dead corpse in the hands of a spiritual teacher it means being able to surrender one's will, specially one's nafs al ammarah, that is a part of our soul which is again a Quranic term, which commands us to evil - we must surrender that. That's what it means. It doesn't make you become part of a cog of a machine.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Teacher, Mean

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.

  Tyra Banks

  Smile, Art, Thinking

  "Banksable" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2008.

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• Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Sex, Sublime, Seduction

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Seduction”

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• When you think about rock at its origin, and you think of the Beatles and millions of kids screaming as loud as they can and running as fast as they can towards the Beatles, there's no one who is that kind of lightning rod, who commands that kind of power and has that kind of creative magma.

  Jack Black

  Running, Kids, Thinking

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• Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Vivid, Moral, Persuasive

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.48, Vintage

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• Al-Qa'ida does not follow a traditional command structure, wear uniforms, carry its arms openly, or mass its troops at the borders of the nations it attacks. Nonetheless, it possesses the demonstrated capability to strike with little notice and cause significant civilian or military casualties.

  John O. Brennan

  Military, Borders, Arms

  "Strengthening our Security by Adhering to our Values and Laws". John O. Brennan's Speech at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2011.

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• God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Quality, Peculiar

  Martin Buber (1997). “Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis”, p.142, Syracuse University Press

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• I sum up the prospects for 1967 in three short sentences. We are back on course. The ship is picking up speed. The economy is moving. Every seaman knows the command at such a moment: 'steady as she goes'.

  James Callaghan

  Moving, Perspective, Three

  James Callaghan (1987). “Time and chance”, HarperCollins

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• It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  Italo Calvino

  Communication, Voice, Stories

  "Invisible Cities". Book by Italo Calvino, ch. 9, 1974.

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• Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Inspirational, Respect, Given

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Hunger Strike, Literature, Demand

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• Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Kings, Powerful, Doe

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it, because the Bible requires it, because good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Simple, Law, People

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

  Joe DiMaggio

  Motivational, Running, Baseball

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

  Denis Diderot

  Power, Long, Denial

  "L'Encyclopédie". Book by Denis Diderot, 1751-1766.

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• Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Fashion, Passion, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.223, London : H. Colburn

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