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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.

~Fatema Mernissi

Topics: Born Child Closed Closed Doors Doors Forward Instinctively Knew Life Live Look Making Miles Open Out Outside Single Step Step Forward Walk Without Woman

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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.

~Ferran Adria

Topics: About Any Chefs Closed Combining Discipline Eyes Hard Highest Highest Level Ingredients Innovator Level Merely Some Something Very You Your

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I had no connections, and the fashion world was a closed elite. So my mother made appointments for herself with three top Parisian makeup artists and spoke highly about me... she was my first publicist!

~Francois Nars

Topics: About Appointments Artists Closed Connections Elite Fashion Fashion World First Had Herself Highly Made Makeup Me Mother Publicist She Spoke Three Top World

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My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.

~Frankie J. Alvarez

Topics: Arts Being Bit Changed Closed Dad Dancers Growing Growing Up Him Little Little Bit Lot Me Minded Opened Religious Sisters Theater Think Three Two Up Very Ways World I Think

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The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.

~Fred Saberhagen

Topics: About Appear Began Book Cast Characters Closed Feel Go Had Interesting Other Series Started Still Stopped Swords Then Things Up Wanted Were World

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Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on.

~Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Topics: About Chill Closed Get Going Me Nothing Off Personally Quiet Say Sets Things Think Upset While I Think

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The West is now closed.

~Frederick Jackson Turner

Topics: Closed Now West

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This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

~Frederick Leboyer

Topics: Brow Closed Eyebrows Eyes Raised Tragic

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And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

~Fredric Jameson

Topics: American Categories Clearly Closed Cultural Culture Domination Down Economic Else Everything Everything Else Fear Industries Level Local Models Now Our Over Process Remaining Replacing Result Rivals Sphere Two Us

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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

~Gabe Newell

Topics: Bunch Closed Epic Exist Existed Google Happen Happening Innovation Need Occur Openness Order Platform Platforms Things Today Without Pc

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