Emphasis Quotes - Page 2

• The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Life, Death

  Sigmund Freud (1922). “Reflections”

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• I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer.

  Fred Savage

  Writing, School, Thinking

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

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• Our emphasis on political coverage from the day we were born here was well-founded, and we believe there were opportunities there that we could do it in a more interesting, appealing and balanced way.

  Brit Hume

  Believe, Opportunity, Interesting

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• My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.

  Karl Philipp Moritz

  Husband, Widows, Literature

  Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.21, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

  Michael Michele

  Queens, Cheerleading, Moving

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• Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside.

  Brian Ferneyhough

  Sibling, Individual Work, World

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• Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

  Ismail Merchant

  Sad, Giving Up, Never Give Up On Love

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• Putting together a counter- terrorism policy, it's very easy to look at law enforcement or defense, military action or stopping the money flows or whatever, but the really difficult part is integrating all aspects of the policy, and I think she put a lot of emphasis on that.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Military, Thinking, Law

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• The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

  Abraham Robinson

  College, Ideas, California

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• When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

  William Westmoreland

  Vietnam, Care, Mail

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• Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.

  Charles M. Vest

  Awards, Pell Grants, Tuition

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

  Warren Farrell

  Sports, Team, Men

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  Harri Holkeri

  Issues, President, Better Life

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• Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Firsts, Common, Cry

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• So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Issues, Justice

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. One example would be the letter writing, or the reading of the letters. If you remember from the book, they find the letters and then in the most undramatic way they take them downstairs, they get approval, they sit at a table during the day with their own author, across from each other.

  Neil LaBute

  Dramatic

  "A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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• But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

  Bill Bruford

  Thinking, Facts

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• Such an emphasis on the immanence of God as Creator in, with, and under the natural processes of the world unveiled by the sciences is certainly in accord with all that the sciences have revealed since those debates of the nineteenth century.

  Arthur Peacocke

  World, Debate, Natural

  Arthur Peacocke (2005). “The Palace of Glory: God's World and Science”, p.13, ATF Press

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• And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.

  Janet Suzman

  Thinking, Together, Important

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• 25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.

  Mark Messier

  Winning, Night, Years

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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  Talcott Parsons

  Special, Elements, Facts

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!

  Janice Dickinson

  Motto, My Motto

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• There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.

  Larry David

  People, Way, Spontaneity

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• It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

  Crystal Eastman

  Views, Giving, Important

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Men, Literature

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