Emphasis Quotes

• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Heart, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

  H. R. Giger

  Depressing, Thinking, Blood

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• I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

  Tony Shalhoub

  Emotional, Careers, People

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

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• The greater the emphasis on perfection, the further it recedes.

  Haridas Chaudhuri

  Creativity, Perfection, Awareness

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• I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

  Angela Merkel

  Thinking, Growth, Employment

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The British feel of blues has been hard, rather than emotional. Far too much emphasis on 12 bar, too little attention to words, far too little originality.

  Alexis Korner

  Emotional, Bars, Attention

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• I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

  Don Henley

  Writing, People, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

  Jenny Shipley

  Giving, Independence, Facts

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• Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

  Paul Volcker

  Business, Thinking, Inventory

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• Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Views, Law

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• No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Character, Chekhov, Pathetic

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1981). “Lectures on Russian literature”, Harcourt

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• Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

  Brad Pitt

  Beast, Get Away, Wrong Things

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• Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

  Tom Stoppard

  Suffering, Politics, Revolution

  Tom Stoppard (2011). “Lord Malquist and Mr. Moon: A Novel”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

  Tipper Gore

  Strong Women, Self, Suffering

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

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• I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

  Tony Blair

  Business, Believe, Enterprise

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• My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny, Running, Military

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• It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Sexuality, Fairs, Not Fair

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• The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

  Greg Ginn

  Fashion, Sex, Media

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• The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.

  David Brinkley

  Sarcastic, Business, Sarcasm

  "One Man's America". Book by George F. Will, Chapter 15, Lingerie and Duct Tape (p. 118), 2008.

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• You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

  Jane Haddam

  Character, Way, Continuing

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• Orchestras have become used to the emphasis on the separation of layers, of the ultimate precision and clarity.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Orchestra, Layers, Clarity

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• Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models.

  Ruben Blades

  Dancing, Sound, Copying

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• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  Individuality, Literature, Painting

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• I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

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• I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Art, Reality

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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