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• Colour, as the strange and magnificent expression of the inscrutable spectrum of Eternity, is beautiful and important to me as a painter; I use it to enrich the canvas and to probe more deeply into the object. Colour also decided, to a certain extent, my spiritual outlook, but it is subordinated to life, and above all, to the treatment of form. Too much emphasis on colour at the expense of form and space would make a double manifestation of itself on the canvas, and this would verge on craft work.

  Max Beckmann

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Expression

  "On my Painting". Max Beckmann's Speech during the exhibition 'Twentieth-Century German Art', London, July 21, 1938.

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• I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

  Twyla Tharp

  Music, Heart, Thinking

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• A jealous man only sees his own spectrum when he looks upon other men, and gives his character in theirs.

  William Penn

  Jealousy, Character, Men

  William Penn (1726). “A Collection of the Works of William Penn: To which is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not Before Published”, p.853

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• It is only by embracing the full spectrum of human consciousness that we can bring about a true awakening of the heart

  Anodea Judith

  Heart, Awakening, Consciousness

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.42, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Simple, Creative

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

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• when someone speaks he looks at a mouth, not eyes and their colors, which, it seems to him, will always alter depending on the light of a room, the minute of the day. Mouths reveal insecurity or smugness or any other point on the spectrum of character. For him they are the most intricate aspect of faces. He's never sure what an eye reveals. but he can read how mouths darken into callousness, suggest tenderness. One can often misjudge an eye from its reaction to a simple beam of sunlight.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Character, Eye, Simple

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• So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, Thinking, Rude

  "Meet the press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 12, 2010.

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• Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was, we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image.

  John Dykstra

  Mean, Color, Digital

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• I believe that it may be normal, healthy, and even productive to experience mild to moderate depression from time to time as part of the variable emotional spectrum, either as an appropriate response to situations or as a way of turning inward and mentally chewing over problems to find solutions.

  Andrew Weil

  Believe, Emotional, Healthy

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• My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

  Andrew Weil

  Happiness, Spiritual, Acceptance

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• From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

  Temple Grandin

  Autism, Aspergers, Syndromes

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• I’m “exceptional”- a democratic term used to avoid the damning labels of “gifted” and “deprived” (which used to mean “bright” and “retarded”) and as soon as “exceptional” begins to mean anything to anyone they’ll change it. The idea seems to be: use an expression as long as it doesn’t mean anything to anybody. “Exceptional” refers to both ends of the spectrum, so all my life I’ve been exceptional.

  Daniel Keyes

  Mean, Expression, Ideas

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Lying, Believe

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Indian yellow, banned. Cows were poisoned with mango leaves and the colour was made from their urine. It is the bright yellow in Indian miniatures. Although yellow occupies one-twentieth of the spectrum, it is the brightest colour.

  Derek Jarman

  Yellow, Cows, Made

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• My son, who's on the spectrum is a very rigid thinker. He needs clear-cut definitions of right and wrong. Anything hazy or gray confuses him. For instance, if I try to get him to see that a friend behaved badly, he'll often get upset with me because a friend is a 'good guy' by definition, in his book.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, Son, Cutting

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• I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Running, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I find that the great majority of public servants across the entire political spectrum come because they believe in the United States and they want to change the world.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Believe, Political, Majority

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I talked a lot early on in my career about intersectionality and how racism and classism and sexism and homophobia and capitalism are all connected with each other, and they're these crazy systems that are feeding on each other and are also damaging. I can't even go into the whole spectrum of it. But I feel like kids today are so much more savvy about that conversation. And I'm so thrilled when I get to meet younger people who are doing that so much better than I did.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Crazy, Kids, Careers

  "Kathleen Hanna And Sini Anderson On SXSW’s THE PUNK SINGER". Interview with Meredith Borders, birthmoviesdeath.com. March 20, 2013.

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• Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

  Ian Stewart

  Beauty, Art, Views

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• Animation can be a full spectrum of different storytelling techniques and different genres. I think it's sad that there is only one audience that the studios are aiming for and that's the kid audience. It's really tragic that they don't' make films for older people.

  Bill Plympton

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• On the other end of the spectrum, we can't use this permission to sometimes say no and use it as a wand to wish away all our responsibilities. We also must remember not to use our "no" answers as a weapon. We can't turn into No! ninjas, karate-chopping anyone who even comes close to asking us for something.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Responsibility, Wish, Asking

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Our shows have always been sort of an all-generations thing, people from 6 to 60. The other night, we played a show and we had a woman who was probably 70 to 75 years old, and she was there alone and she was singing every song. On the other end of the spectrum, there was a 7-year-old on his dad's shoulders and the dad is singing along.

  Andy Biersack

  Song, Dad, Night

  Interview with John Katic, www.revolvermag.com. March 5, 2013.

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• You can look at what's happened to America in the last years and say a lot of people were asleep. A lot of people were not staying awake and watching what was going on and facing the pain of that and dealing with it.I don't care if the rest of the audience doesn't think along those lines at all, because the audience is a huge spectrum of people, from people who are introspective to people who just want to be scared and have fun, and all the points in between.

  Wes Craven

  Fun, Pain, Thinking

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• As I've gotten old I've really listened to a wide spectrum of music, whether it's The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Justin Timberlake, Jay-Z or Lauryn Hill. I've kinda' run the gamut, and in listening to so many different styles, you come to take bits and pieces from all of it.

  Brooklyn Sudano

  Running, Style, Listening

  Source: www.flowinsiders.com

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