Harry Hay
Activist
"I condemn the national gay press for its emphasis on consumerism."
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Emphasis
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Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has."
Janice Dickinson
Model, Author
"What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!"
Huston Smith
Philosopher
"In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be."
Cornel West
Philosopher
"I'm a bluesman, which means that I put an emphasis on the minor keys."
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"...Attempts at imitation would put the emphasis where it didn't belong. The goal was to improve the lives of others, not oneself."
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"It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter."
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"We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy."
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"The Bible's emphasis is on the good treatment of animals, and not just the forbidding of cruel treatment."
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"The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization."
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