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• Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.

  Michael Brune

  Strong, Opportunity, Color

  "Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Everybody has someone in their life that has breast cancer. It touches femininity, motherhood and sexuality and as Barbara Brenner says in the film, "you get to say breast out loud in public." Big corporations know this and market in a particular way knowing that women make most of the buying decisions in a household.

  Leanne Pooley

  Cancer, Motherhood, Knowing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It will be difficult if people can't get past their prejudices; I don't mean Black and White; I mean people automatically assume because a film has a predominantly Black cast, that it is a particular quality of film.

  Romany Malco

  Mean, Black And White, Past

  "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I'm into old-time music, I'm not very interested in modern, popular music at all. And if I'm really into some particular old-time musician, some fiddler or banjo player, I'm always dying of curiosity to see what they look like.

  Robert Crumb

  Player, Curiosity, Dying

  "R. Crumb on Album Covers, Charlie Patton 78s, and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Tim McDonnell, www.motherjones.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I've seen so many people in my life struggle tremendously to fit into those boxes or to live up to those expectations or pressures put upon them by whatever society's concept of 'normal' is. I get frustrated by rules and regulations. I'm frustrated by things that are exclusive to one particular life choice.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Struggle, People, Expectations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or even now, dare I say, you don't turn a key; you get in a car and you're up the road. And yet with this particular car, it was a five-step process to start it. So how do I let the reader know that?

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Keys, Car, Steps

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're also looking a lot at graphics and video. We've done a lot on a deep technical level to make sure that the next version of Firefox will have all sorts of new graphics capabilities. And the move from audio to video is just exploding. So those areas in particular, mobile and graphics and video, are really important to making the Web today and tomorrow as open as it can be.

  Mitchell Baker

  Moving, Important, Levels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.

  Ted Gup

  Party, Succeed, Bulls

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Women in particular seem to say things like, "I'm sure I'd be the one screaming and not moving in an emergency." I don't think that's the case. People who've been through really horrible life-or-death situations say that nobody behaves the way they would have expected. But that said, there are predictors.

  Amanda Ripley

  Moving, Thinking, People

  "Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster". Interview with Jen Quraishi, www.motherjones.com. June 9, 2008.

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• Parents' work has shifted markedly around the world - and that goes for every region. Men in particular have been moving away from farmed-based work, and into industrial and post-industrial work - so they've moved away from the home. Women, likewise, have moved into the paid labor force and away from the home.

  Jody Heymann

  Moving, Home, Men

  "Forgotten Families". Interview with Juliana Bunim, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2006.

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• Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Dirty, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda.

  Thomas de Maiziere

  Political, Agendas, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have to do something to draw attention to themselves and make their particular assets visible on the international radar. I'm not talking about developing countries, but about the United States and Europe.

  Charles Landry

  Country, Moving, Talking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I am always interested in affecting people in some way, making them think about particular areas of history that they have never thought about or that they may have thought about in one way and then changing their view.

  Naomie Harris

  Thinking, Views, People

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Sometimes commercial galleries ask for particular work to sell, but I try not to be bossed around by them. I didn't become an artist to get bossed around.

  David Shrigley

  Artist, Trying, Sometimes

  Interview with Jason Polan, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• The most important thing in my life is that trying to ameliorate, redeem, the image in particular of African American men, or Black men - I don't really even like that term, "African American," because we're Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Men, People, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Thinking, Simple

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go.

  Vito Acconci

  Hands, Space, Decision

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.

  Jonathan Kellerman

  Queens, Kids, Years

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• Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Law, Justice, Contentment

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• We cannot hate truth in general, all truth, as we cannot hate food in general, all food. But we can hate a particular truth even though it is good for us, as we can hate a particular food even though it is good for us.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “Practical Theology: Spiritual Direction from Saint Thomas Aquinas”, p.217, Ignatius Press

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• I don’t think it’s important who I am. I really like playing music, but I don’t really want to be anything in particular.

  Elliott Smith

  Thinking, Who I Am, Important

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• My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

  Thomas Steinbeck

  Father, Social, Interpretation

  "John Steinbeck, Michael Moore, and the Burgeoning Role of Planetary Patriotism" by Thomas Steinbeck, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2010.

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• It should be pointed out that none of Cardew's works ever gave total freedom to the performer. The instructions were a guide which focused each individual's creative instinct on a problem to be solved - how to interpret a particular system of notation using one's own musical background and attitudes.

  John Tilbury

  Attitude, Creative, Musical

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• In particular, I'm drawn to the stories that have big, high concepts and real characters at their heart. And I love where those two worlds meet, and 'Edge of Tomorrow' is the perfect canvas to explore that.

  Doug Liman

  Real, Heart, Character

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