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• People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Love, School, Sunday

  "Excerpt: 'Assault on Reason'", abcnews.go.com. May 22, 2007.

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• I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened, they tend to freeze. When they're angry, it doesn't always come out as volume. There are wonderful contradictions in the way that people express their emotions.

  Edward Norton

  People, Feelings, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. January 3, 2007.

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• I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

  Brandy Norwood

  Different, Share, Right Now

  "Brandy takes her sweet time, personally and professionally" by Kelly Marino, www.mtv.com. April 4, 2005.

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• When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Spirit, Holy, States

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• Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Mom, Running, Arena

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• When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Voice, Communicate

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• I can look into someone's eyes and feel like I know her better, versus a phone call, where you can't get that same type of emotion. That's why text messaging gets you in trouble: You can't bond, and emoticons explain only so much.

  Apolo Ohno

  Eye, Phones, Text Messaging

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• I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.

  Apolo Ohno

  Real, Athlete, Passion

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• Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.

  Yoko Ono

  Different, Sometimes, Glad

  "Yoko Ono answers your questions". www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2012.

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• Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

  Robert Orben

  Girl, Funny Love, Confused

  Robert Orben (2012). “2500 Jokes to Start 'Em Laughing”, p.113, Doubleday

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• When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.

  Susan Orlean

  Lying, Home, Son

  "Facts of Life" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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• Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Anger, Opportunity

  "Stand on your own two feet" by Rajan Thapaliya, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2017.

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• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Art, Restoration

  "The eyes of the beholder" by Camille Paglia, www.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 1991.

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• I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Moving, Thinking, Jumping

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• I love scoring. Putting music to picture is a rewarding challenge and one that relies on interpretation of emotion - as in, what is the pivotal feeling in a scene and which character's point of view is driving it at any given moment?

  Liz Phair

  Character, Views, Challenges

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• Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Color, Design

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Believe, Exercise

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• Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

  Colin Powell

  Business, Military, Political

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• What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

  Joseph Prince

  Powerful, Believe, Thinking

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• I am the wealthiest man, not just in Europe, but in the whole world. I collect emotions.

  Vladimir Putin

  Believe, Men, Greatest Wealth

  "Putin: The New Tsar review - a portrait of a lonely, lying narcissist" by Sam Wollaston, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2018.

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• 'I Will Not Be Broken' has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event... it's going to inform the richness that you sing from... The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Healing, Thinking, Broken

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• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Beautiful, Speak, Spontaneity

  Tariq Ramadan (2010). “The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Self Confidence, Insecurity, Viruses

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Spiritual, Memories, Collective Memory

  Tariq Ramadan (2012). “Islam and the Arab Awakening”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.

  Joey Ramone

  People, Punk, Lennon

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

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