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Seattle is still more Caucasian than most medium-sized cities. The sort of psychosexual politics of white fandom in context of black athletes who are also both very rich and slightly angry is just, to me, bottomlessly fascinating.

~David Shields

Topics: Also Angry Athletes Black Both Cities Context Fascinating Just Me More Most Politics Rich Seattle Slightly Sort Still Than Very White Who

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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Admit Context Damaging Find Moral Movie Offensive Potentially Society Think Violence Watch Which I Think

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Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

~Dean Ornish

Topics: Anything Being Context Healing Intimacy Out Separate Takes You

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I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

~Denis Dutton

Topics: Also Arise Beauty Construction Context Course Cultural Culture Denies Does Ever Idea Natural People Response Run Says Simply Social Society Think Whatever I Think

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Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

~Diane Wakoski

Topics: American Context Cultural Ethnic Gender Geographic Landscape Myths Often Origins Out Poetry Race Reference Sometimes Written

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Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.

~Dinesh Paliwal

Topics: Ability Background Being Business Ceo Context Decisions Engineering Fit Individuals Logically Make Plan Properly Requires Set Skill Specific Within

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I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.

~Donnie Yen

Topics: Audience Background Character Context Convinced Cop Gun He Like Make Much Only Person Stay Sure Within Without

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I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

~Drew Gilpin Faust

Topics: Authority Context Different Distributed Important Institution Leadership Leading Learned Lessons Many Most Places Sort Stake The Most Important Think Understanding Universities Which Whom You I Think

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Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

~Dweezil Zappa

Topics: After Album Any Arrangements Band Brilliant Composed Context Could Frank Fully He His Idiom In Other Words Make Music Orchestra Other Proved Rock Rock Band Tour View Words Work Yes

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A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.

~Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Topics: Argued Bank Before Conflict Context Creating Crucial Depend Development Economic Economic Development Extent Future Going Great Great Extent Investment Israeli-Palestinian Likely Palestinian Palestinian State Peace Peaceful Political Private Private Sector Prove Resolution Right Sector Social State West West Bank Will

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