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I know that when I make a record like The Delivery Man as a contrast to even Il Sogno, this is going to reach a wider audience, because it communicates in that very direct way.

~Elvis Costello

Topics: Audience Because Contrast Delivery Direct Even Going Know Like Make Man Reach Record Very Way Wider

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Marimba is much more of a wood-type experience and there is no real possibility of getting a dry sound, and getting that contrast in the same way that you can in a vibraphone.

~Evelyn Glennie

Topics: Contrast Dry Experience Getting More Much Possibility Real Same Sound Way You

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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.

~Feisal Abdul Rauf

Topics: American American Movies Beatles College College Students Contrast Culture Elvis Extremely Got Grown Here Influential Join Like Listening Malaysia Middle-Class Movies People Prosperous Saw Somehow Students Third Third World Up Wanted Wanting Watching Western Western Culture Where World

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I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.

~Francia Raisa

Topics: Because Carry Color Contrast Disappear Good Green Helps Like Over Over It Palette Pimple Put Red Tan Then Use Yellow You

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The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

~Frans De Waal

Topics: Animals Artifice Children Connection Contrast Feel Intuitive Joy Lack Love Members Much Own Pets Received Relationship Sharply Source Species Tremendous Unconditional Unconditional Love

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Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

~Frits Zernike

Topics: Contrast Different Discovered Microscope Optics Part Phase While Working

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Topics: Anything Believe Commitment Contrast Difference Entire Fact False Fiction Gives He Journalism Just Just One Legitimacy Lies Long Makes Novelist Only Only Difference People Prejudices Single True Wants Work Writer

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In most companies, the formal hierarchy is a matter of public record - it's easy to discover who's in charge of what. By contrast, natural leaders don't appear on any organization chart.

~Gary Hamel

Topics: Any Appear Charge Chart Companies Contrast Discover Easy Formal Hierarchy Leaders Matter Most Natural Organization Public Record

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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

~Garry Wills

Topics: Abstract Between Born Breathed Catholicism Catholics Childhood Church Contrast Converts Doctrine Interesting Line More Much Often Part Something Think Toe You

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China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

~Gary Locke

Topics: America American Brands China Class Contrast Country Day Dollar Equivalent Great Hundreds Living Made Middle Middle Class Millions Millions Of People Movies Music Other Part People Still Things Throughout While Who Yearn

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