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When depicting Asian people in movies, books, and television or as historical figures, it's more important to humanize them and give them all of the dimensions of humanity, and that includes sexuality. Ascribe the human the full range of human qualities.

~Alex Tizon

Topics: Ascribe Asian Books Depicting Dimensions Figures Full Give Historical Human Human Qualities Humanity Important More Movies People Qualities Range Sexuality Television Them

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The inner world is very potent for me - I don't ascribe to any God or Jesus or Buddha - I just have a sense of it and revere it along with the natural world and human consciousness.

~Annie Lennox

Topics: Along Any Ascribe Buddha Consciousness God Human Human Consciousness Inner Inner World Jesus Just Me Natural Natural World Potent Revere Sense Very World

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When historical relationships are taken into account, it is difficult to ascribe the house price bubble either to monetary policy or to the broader macroeconomic environment.

~Ben Bernanke

Topics: Account Ascribe Broader Bubble Difficult Either Environment Historical House Monetary Monetary Policy Policy Price Relationships Taken

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Some honor Cummings as the granddaddy of all American innovators in poetry and ascribe to him a diverse progeny that includes virtually any poet who considers the page a field and allows silence to be part of poetry's expressiveness.

~Billy Collins

Topics: American Any Ascribe Considers Diverse Field Him Honor Innovators Page Part Poet Poetry Silence Some Virtually Who

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Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

~Candice Bergen

Topics: Ascribe Beauty Entitlement Frightening Gives Importance Just Know Others Rather Sense Something Though Threatening Weird While You

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I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Age Ascribe Captured Ever Exalt Formative Hold Imagination Interested Ironic Just Less Life Me Music My Life Novelty Seriously Since Take Think Took Way I Think

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It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

~Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Topics: Ascribe Brought Come Culture Faith Forgiving Generous God Helps Kinder Loving Matter More People Religion Tradition Up Us Were Worthwhile You

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We often think that language mirrors the world in which we live, and I find that's not true. The language actually makes the world in which we live. Language is not - I mean, things don't have any mutable value by themselves; we ascribe them a value.

~Chris Abani

Topics: Actually Any Ascribe Find Language Live Makes Mean Mirrors Often Them Themselves Things Think True Value Which World

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Anything that we think is incredible and beautiful and wonderful, we ascribe to something that we don't know what it is.

~Chris Martin

Topics: Anything Ascribe Beautiful Incredible Know Something Think Wonderful

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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the Ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

~Edmund Morgan

Topics: Age Amendment Ark Ascribe Beyond Constitutions Covenant Deem Did Human Like Look Men More Reverence Sacred Sanctimonious Some Some Men Suppose Than Them Too Touched Wisdom

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