"Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors."
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"I like to play different types roles, but I'd like to do a comedy next."
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"It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors."
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"We're not short of movements proclaiming that a different world is possible, but unless we can coordinate them into an international movement, capitalism just laughs at all these little organisations."
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"Raphael and Titian seem to have looked at Nature for different purposes; they both had the power of extending their view to the whole; but one looked only for the general effect as produced by form, the other as produced by colour."
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"Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies."
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"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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"As you know, the business is cyclic with styles. It's no different from clothing styles."
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"Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up."
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"If you are doing a piece about somebody, even if you admire them tremendously and express that in the piece, express that admiration, if they're not used to being written about, if they're civilians, [...] they're not used to seeing themselves through other people's eyes. So you will always see them from a slightly different angle than they see themselves, and they feel a little betrayed by that."
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"I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in."
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"Punctuation is the art of dividing a written composition into sentences, or parts of sentences, by points or stops, for the purpose of marking the different pauses which the sense, and an accurate pronunciation require."
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"The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!"
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"I know I'm not a great singer. But I love to sing and I like to use my voice in different ways."
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"A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations."
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"If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another."
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"What makes your life different from the next n***a? There is something special about you, so let me help you bring out your individuality."
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"Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more."
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"I learn in a different way. I learn experientially."
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"I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot."
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