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• As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

  Tony Campolo

  Church, Causes, Might

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• There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Order, Wind

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• I am not for raising taxes in a recession, especially when it comes to job creators that we need so desperately to start creating jobs again.

  Eric Cantor

  Jobs, Needs, Taxes

  "Key Republican Lawmakers on GOP Agenda for New Congress". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2010.

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• We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

  Benjamin Carson

  Country, Media, Class

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• There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better.

  Nick Cave

  Air, Sound, Usual

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• Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

  Tracy Chapman

  Writing Songs, Mysterious, Process

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

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• It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics. Why? Because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth. We know that investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all of us.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Ignorance, Opportunity

  "Transcript of Bill Clinton's Speech to the Democratic National Convention". www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

  Phil Collins

  Dog, Fun, Records

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• Every public school in the country should have a nutrition-education curriculum. We're creating a pilot program at my son's school. We are looking to create a replicable model that can help bring good nutrition to all children.

  Cat Cora

  Country, Children, School

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• I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

  Chris Cornell

  Thinking, Entertainment, Painting

  FaceBook post by Chris Cornell from Feb 17, 2013

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• You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

  Daniel Craig

  People, Stealing, New Things

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• My personality, when tasked with creating meals, goes something like this: Is there a way we can make this more difficult? Because let's do that. I don't mean to complicate things. It's just - why buy pre-packaged potato salad when you can spend your morning boiling potatoes and flipping out because there's no dill in the house?

  Sloane Crosley

  Morning, Mean, House

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• There are certain types of slightly hysterical human characters who, rather than creating, walk around with a sense of their own potential - it's as if they themselves were art objects. They feel as if their lives are written narratives, or pieces of music.

  Rachel Cusk

  Art, Character, Pieces

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• A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

  Louis C. K.

  Movie, Struggle, Feelings

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• Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.

  Dick Dale

  Father, Player, Guitar

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• Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

  Jim DeMint

  Rights, Government, People

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• The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

  Jacques Delors

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• Violence is man re-creating himself.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Violence

  "Les Damnes de la Terre (The Wretched of the Earth)". Book by Frantz Fanon (Chapter 1), 1963.

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• Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Home, Mad, Trying

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• As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Artist, Designer

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• Some of my colleagues seem more interested in using every procedural method possible to keep the Senate from doing anything than they are in creating jobs or helping Americans struggling in a difficult economy.

  Al Franken

  Jobs, Struggle, Helping

  "Jim Bunning’s Back: Blocking Nominees Over Canadian Smoking Law" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2010.

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• Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it.

  Michael Franti

  Band, Things I Love, Festivals

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• What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

  Lady Gaga

  Falling In Love, Art, Lying

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• I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Giving, Empathy

  "Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults'". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

  Ernest Gaines

  Believe, Character, Plot

  Live chat, cnn.com. May 13, 1999.

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