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• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  Daniel Gillies

  Behavior, Conventions, Aggression

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

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• Business is much less transparent than a win in a Grand Prix; in a race you drive over the finishing line first and you have won. In business it is different.

  Niki Lauda

  Winning, Race, Finishing

  Source: www.european-business.com

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• I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.

  Masiela Lusha

  Scary, Stories, Sometimes

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning, How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.

  Walt Whitman

  Summer, Morning, Heart

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.6, NYU Press

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• The other great innovation are things like Transparent or One Mississippi on Amazon, Master of None on Netflix, and those half-hours. It's a lot easier to watch a load of those because it's far more palatable to go, "You know, I'm just going to do one more of these."

  Tom Riley

  Innovation, Half, Netflix

  Source: collider.com

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• Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here in public auctions, in a transparent way. When you do real estate development outside Beijing and Shanghai it is good to have "guanxi" - good relations within the local government.

  Zhang Xin

  Real, Government, Land

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I personally think money in politics on any level is horrible. I'd like to see a set amount and have every candidate spend it. Have it be completely transparent. But actually getting to that spot, as we have learned through all the legislation over the decades, is very difficult.

  Rick Santelli

  Thinking, Levels, Legislation

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 24, 2010.

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• The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.

  Michael Hyatt

  Humble, Leader

  "Leadership Interview - Michael Hyatt". Interview with Mike Myatt, hub.n2growth.com.

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• When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

  Bodhidharma

  Understanding, Mind, Vision

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.55, Macmillan

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• The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.

  Julian Assange

  Hands, People, Needs

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back and take out what I was too shy to reveal. But I wound up leaving more in than I imagined, and that was because I wanted to be transparent and real.

  Andy Cohen

  Real, Writing, Leaving

  "Watch What Happens...When Anderson Cooper interviews Andy Cohen". Interview With Anderson Cooper, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 25, 2016.

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• All of us in a bipartisan manner went out of our way to explain to the voters how our election systems are secure, the fact that voting systems are not connected to the Internet - not the machines that we use to mark ballots, not the machines that we use to count ballots, the fact that our election counting procedures are very transparent.

  Audie Cornish

  Voting, Machines, Use

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I will tell [Barack Obama] very simply : present what you have as evidence to the public, be transparent.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Evidence, Barack

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

  Justin Amash

  Saws, Vote, Explaining

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• Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.

  Shelby Steele

  Nice, Writing, Giving

  Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Donald Trump is the most outspoken, transparent, here's what I want to do, here's what I think we should do. There's no mystery here. But since other politicians aren't that transparent, since they don't act that up front, they just can't accept that anybody would. So they're forever gonna be confused.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Confused, Thinking, Forever

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• In terms of objectives or agenda, Donald Trump has been the most transparent candidate that I can remember.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Agendas, Remember, Trump

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• If you ask judges, do you always agree on everything? Of course not, we divide just as you do. Why aren't you transparent about it? Because the people would begin to think that the law is not stable, the law is unclear. And that would not give them much faith in the law.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Thinking, Law, People

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• Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read their publications. In the 18th century it perhaps made some sense to conjure up the Illuminati and Masons. Not since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Philosophy, House, May

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• You have to put yourself in my shoes as a person who believes in radical truth and in being radically transparent, not in seeing things through somebody else's eyes.

  Ray Dalio

  Believe, Eye, Shoes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It's easier for me if I'm just open and transparent to a point.

  Kevin Durant

  Easier, Ifs

  "Q&A with Kevin Durant: 'I like to remain somewhat of a mystery'". Interview with Chris Haynes, www.espn.com. January 4, 2017.

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• I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U.

  Barack Obama

  Fashion, Political, Kingdoms

  "Read President Obama's Comments Urging Donald Trump to Stand Up to Russia". time.com. November 17, 2016.

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• Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.

  Albert Camus

  Nature, Burning, Frigid

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• The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me.

  Zella Day

  Happy Times, Kickers, Proud

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Powerful, One Day

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