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• Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Men, Black, President

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• The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom.

  Jim Gerlach

  Government, People, Liberty

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• My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.

  Robin Gibb

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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

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• There may be many Big Bangs that happened at various and far-flung locations, each creating its own swelling, spatial expanse, each creating a universe - our universe being the result of only one of those Big Bangs.

  Brian Greene

  Bangs, May, Location

  "Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. March 4, 2011.

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• What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

  Germaine Greer

  Agony, Personality, Female

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• The writers led by Mike Scully are fantastic. And they're creating original stories that not only don't repeat what we've already done, they also don't repeat anything I've seen on television.

  Matt Groening

  Stories, Done, Television

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• An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

  Jasmine Guy

  Community, Quality, Activist

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• The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

  Mark Haddon

  Character, Way, Conform

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• As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating.

  Gary Hamel

  Stupid, Writing, Garden

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• The cool thing is that jazz is really a wonderful example of the great characteristics of Buddhism and great characteristics of the human spirit. Because in jazz we share, we listen to each other, we respect each other, we are creating in the moment. At our best, we're non-judgmental.

  Herbie Hancock

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Example

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• It's impossible to consider living without ideals. However, when ideas lead to ideology, that's a very dangerous thing. Ideology then leads to creating the image of an enemy, and it leads to the murder and massacre that we've seen since the beginning of time.

  Michael Haneke

  Ideas, Enemy, Impossible

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 30, 2009.

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• If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mistake, Thinking, Light

  "This Is the Buddha’s Love". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. March 1, 2006.

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• Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

  Hugh Hefner

  Acceptance, Peers, World

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• I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema, writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.

  Werner Herzog

  Writing, Editing, Acting

  "Werner Herzog: 'I've made bigger films than Jack Reacher'". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.

  Werner Herzog

  Dream, Technology, Years

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• Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

  John Hodgman

  Interesting, Fake, Doe

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• Creating something is all about problem-solving.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Creating Something, Problem, Problem Solving

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 15, 2010.

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• Creating anything is hard.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Hard

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• Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.

  Hans Hofmann

  Mean, Color, Special

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• When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.

  David Icke

  Real, Believe, Two

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• Sofia is so active, and she made The Virgin Suicides, which I thought was great - all these things are inspiring to me, not in terms of creating a particular dress, but just in terms of knowing that there is this type of woman out there.

  Marc Jacobs

  Inspiring, Suicide, Knowing

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• The long term sustainable growth in job creation comes from the private sector. It is important that the Obama administration partner with the private sector and come up with the best possible ideas for creating jobs.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Jobs, Ideas, Long

  "Exclusive Interview With Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor and Assistant to President Obama". Interview with Earl Ofari Hutchinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2011.

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• In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Thinking, Two, World

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• I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money.

  Michio Kaku

  Banking, Investment, Investment Banking

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• One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

  Abdul Kalam

  Educational, Focus, Quality

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