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I don't claim to be a great vocalist, but I know how to work my voice with its limitations. My talent is I know how to work what I have. It might not always be a picture-perfect performance, but what we look for is the emotion.

~Babyface

Topics: Always Claim Emotion Great How Know Limitations Look Might Performance Talent Voice Work

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Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take pains to claim, 'This is an investment.' Let us recognize charity for what it is at heart: a noble enterprise aimed at bettering the human condition.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Charity Claim Condition Demeaning Dismissed Donors Enterprise Even Gets Heart Human Human Condition Inappropriate Ineffective Investment Let Us Noble Pains Recipient Recognize Some Somehow Sometimes Strangely Take Us

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People claim to be progressive by celebrating curvy bodies - but the standards for those hourglass shapes are equally rigid. They mask that with body positivity - but what about unconventionally attractive bodies?

~Barbie Ferreira

Topics: About Attractive Bodies Body Celebrating Claim Curvy Equally Hourglass Mask People Positivity Progressive Rigid Shapes Standards Those

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No one can claim to be called Christian who gives money for the building of warships and arsenals.

~Belva Lockwood

Topics: Arsenal Building Christian Claim Gives Money Who

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The claim of the State Socialists, however, that this right would not be exercised in matters pertaining to the individual in the more intimate and private relations of his life is not borne out by the history of governments.

~Benjamin Tucker

Topics: Borne Claim Governments His History However Individual Intimate Life Matters More Out Private Relations Right Socialists State The History Of Would

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An extraordinary amount of arrogance is present in any claim of having been the first in inventing something.

~Benoit Mandelbrot

Topics: Amount Any Arrogance Been Claim Extraordinary First Having Inventing Present Something

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Coal and oil lobbyists added fossil fuels to a bill aimed at helping American manufacturers, so they too could claim 'manufacturing' tax deductions.

~Bernie Sanders

Topics: Added American Bill Claim Coal Could Deduction Fossil Fossil Fuels Fuels Helping Lobbyists Manufacturers Manufacturing Oil Tax Too

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Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?

~Betty Buckley

Topics: Begin Bridge Build Claim Common Common Ground Feminism Gift Give Ground Handle Help Place Point Us Why Why Not Word

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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

~Bill Ayers

Topics: Because Chicago Claim Demonstration Everyone Felt Generation Like Millions Millions Of People Our Our Generation People Relatively Small Talked Time Were Who Woodstock

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There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap.

~Billie Joe Armstrong

Topics: About Bands Claim Clue Crap Lifestyle Lot Music No Clue Only Play Popularity Punk Who

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