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• I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.

  Zach Anner

  Stronger, Kind, Speak

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moral, Purity, Satire

  E.L. Doctorow (2008). “Creationists: Selected Essays, 1993-2006”, p.70, Random House

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• Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Laughing, Trying, Attention

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

  Jason Lee

  Fun, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes I can't tell that someone is a selective asshole because they're so nice to me and the people around me that I don't realize it until someone else says, "You know, that person is an asshole." So I'll be fooled by selective assholes sometimes . . . lately.

  Emma Stone

  Nice, People, Sometimes

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

  Richard Gere

  Thinking, Morality, Situation

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 20, 2012.

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• I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

  Michael Pitt

  Always Trying, Too Much, Scripts

  "Michael Pitt Plays Haneke's Games". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. March 20, 2008.

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• I'm a big skeptic so I won't just go off what an individual may tell me. I gotta do the research. I'ma get different literature on that one subject and just compare and contrast. I do my own selective studies.

  Kevin Gates

  Different, Research, Literature

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• Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.

  Sam Keen

  Support, Anxiety, Perception

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• One of the important things about religion is that it is a sphere which is partially protected from selection. Religious creativity occurs when people pull out of the whole selectivity issue. Becoming celibate - obviously you couldn't be less selective that that. Yes, selection is always in the background. But it's not always there in the foreground. If you don't understand that, you're missing a lot.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Religious, Creativity, Issues

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.

  John Dyer Baizley

  Art, Self, Doing You

  "BARONESS' John Dyer Baizley Interview About His Artwork Process". Interview with Michael Weigman, www.metalinjection.net. July 10, 2014.

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• I'm still reading some scripts and I model as well, so I'm still doing that. But I don't want to do like just anything so we're being really selective about the stuff I'll do.

  Kim Smith

  Reading, Being Real, Stuff

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• When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.

  Gabriel Lippmann

  Reflection, White, Light

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• I've spent years saying no to things. It's important to be selective with both projects and partners.

  Lauren Conrad

  Years, Important, Saying No

  "Lauren Conrad Interview On Her New Book, The Future & Fourth Of July". Real Style Interview, www.realstylenetwork.com.

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• It's nice to be in a place where I can be a little more selective, and to be sought out for ideas that I have.

  Will Ferrell

  Nice, Ideas, Littles

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2003.

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• It is most critical for a woman, or for a man who is very sensitive and opens up his heart, to be very selective about the people they have sex with.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Heart, Buddhism

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• By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

  Manning Marable

  Black And White, Self, America

  Manning Marable (1995). “Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics”, p.202, Verso

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• Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much fishing pressure. I've seen tailwater fish that are so hysterical they'll refuse naturals. You wonder how they get enough to eat.

  John Gierach

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Smart, Past, Thinking

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Phones, Way

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Males

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• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  Irving Babbitt

  Expansion, Degrees, Renaissance

  Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”

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• Propaganda by censorship takes two forms: the selective control of information to favour a particular viewpoint, and the deliberate doctoring of information in order to create an impression different from that originally intended.

  James A.C. Brown

  Order, Two, Atheism

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• Doing the same things you did when the economy was good is not good enough. You will have to put more coals on the fire in a poor economy to get the same heat you received in a good economy. You must give more energy, more thought, more service, and get into positive thinking material more frequently. Become more selective about who you spend time with. Love a little more, hate a little less. Think about it. You can progressively move on an upward path toward any goal. The choice is yours as to who or what controls you!

  Bob Proctor

  Hate, Moving, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Feb 18, 2012

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• I'm certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it's partly, I suppose, because some of those signs and signals aren't worth bothering about. You have to be selective about these things.

  Peter York

  People, Waking, Study

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