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• What is drawing? Not once in describing the shape of the mass did I shift my eyes from the model. Why? Because I wanted to be sure that nothing evaded my grasp of it... My objective is to test to what extent my hands already feel what my eyes see.

  Auguste Rodin

  Eye, Hands, Drawing

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• Surrender. That's an interesting term. We tend to see all forms of surrender as negative--war, sports, highway on-ramps. You'd never hear us describing a relationship as a type of surrender. But maybe we should. Is it wrong to cede the solo to the duet. Surrender doesn't mean you lose, only that you no longer wish to fight.

  Franz Wisner

  Sports, War, Mean

  Franz Wisner (2009). “How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom”, p.74, Macmillan

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• Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

  Mark Strand

  Ends, Nothingness

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• This word gets overused in describing actors but I think it applies to Mike [Tyson] in this case - he was totally fearless. He jumped in and played with us comedically and improvised a lot. A lot of jokes in those scenes with him are from him improvising.

  Ed Helms

  Thinking, Fearless, Actors

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.

  Evan Osnos

  Thinking, Russia, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

  Warren G. Bennis

  Jobs, Children, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Same-sex marriage is so ingrained in the culture now that when you're talking about regular, good old-fashioned marriage, you have to say "opposite-sex marriage" to let people know what you're talking about. Just describing, just talking about "marriage" doesn't let anybody know what you mean anymore. You have to specify opposite-sex marriage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Sex, Mean, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that I'm describing in the book. It's more or less the same. How come in a free country? He has two sentences, which are pretty accurate. One, he says, the press is owned by wealthy men who have every reason not to want certain ideas to be expressed. And second - and I think this is much more important - a good education instills in you the intuitive understanding that there are certain things it just wouldn't do to say.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Book, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

  Jane Fonda

  Men, Female, Use

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• The sexual revolution... it was the first time I had read anything that came close to describing those feelings of being outside of my body, feeling the shame, all of it, that I really was able to connect to in that book. So it sort of blew my mind. I was also listening to Tori Amos at the same time, so I was like, "Wait, what's happening?!" It was all a part of that, probably when I was, like, 13.

  June Diane Raphael

  Book, Waiting, Feelings

  "Grace And Frankie's June Diane Raphael on the joy of calling Donald Trump a 'little bitch'". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. March 22, 2017.

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• The primary opportunity is to use a model or paradigm for describing ADD that's not disease-based and doesn't imply brain damage or what many children interpret as some type of retardation...a person must have hope; this model restores self-esteem, thus empowering individuals to change.

  Thom Hartmann

  Children, Self Esteem, Opportunity

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• No words, phrases, or sentences are capable of describing or naming the Way, because once it is named, it is a false name and has to be eliminated. Once it is eliminated, only emptiness is left. When the false is abandoned, the true emerges.

  Henry Chang

  Wisdom, Names, Attachment

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• People hate to describe their music. What we have come to call it is "beat up your mom" music. As far as describing what it sounds like, I guess you'd have to listen.

  Marilyn Manson

  Mom, Hate, People

  Source: www.mansonwiki.com

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• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Goal, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.

  Dana Spiotta

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the
  same, he’s describing the human condition. But people seem to evaluate
  your work based on how much they relate to it, so it’s like, well, who’s
  the narcissist?

  Emily Gould

  Writing, Men, People

  "Who's the narcissist" by Eryn Loeb, therumpus.net. May 11, 2010.

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• Most of us have developed a fairly extensive vocabulary for describing pain, as though the journal were a doctor requiring much detail to make the correct diagnosis. The roundness of the spiritual journey cannot be expressed without developing an equally extensive vocabulary for talking to ourselves and others about the nature of wonder, joy, ecstasy, love, transfiguration.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Pain, Journey

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

  Christian Wiman

  Mind, Weakness, Essentials

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• I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

  David Brooks

  Trying, Very Good, Happenings

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• In the end, I'm convinced we will all benefit if suspicion is replaced by discussion, innuendo by dialogue; if the emphasis in our debate turns from a search for talismanic criteria and neat but simplistic answers to an honest - more intelligent - attempt at describing the role religion has in our public affairs, and the limits placed on that role.

  Mario Cuomo

  Intelligent, Answers, Benefits

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

  Buddy Rice

  People, Focus, Important

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• The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Self, Common Threads

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• In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

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• Genuinely great humour recognises the world it's describing and yet we are also called into question by it. That's what great art should do. That's what great philosophy should do. The one thing about humour is that this is an everyday practice that does this.

  Simon Critchley

  Art, Philosophy, Practice

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• But in general, for the purposes of most novelists, the number of objects genuinely necessary for. . .describing a scene will be found to be very small.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Numbers, Novelists, Purpose

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