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One of the reasons why I created the podcast called the 'The Call-In' that we do through Array - because as a black artist, every time I sit down with mainstream media, I'm asked about issues of race, identity and culture. No one asked what they ask my white male counterparts, which is: 'Where do you like to put the camera?'

~Ava Duvernay

Topics: About Array Artist Ask Asked Because Black Camera Counterparts Created Culture Down Every Every Time Identity Issues Like Mainstream Mainstream Media Male Media Put Race Reasons Sit Through Time Where Which White Why You

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Angels are not complete, they need their counterparts, the dark needs the bright, the hidden needs the open, and vice versa. Sometimes they meet and recognise each other. Sometimes, as with Horatio and me, the pairing occurs over spaces of time and distance.

~Barry Unsworth

Topics: Angels Bright Complete Counterparts Dark Distance Each Hidden Me Meet Need Needs Occurs Open Other Over Recognise Sometimes Spaces Time Versa Vice Vice Versa

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I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

~Brad Stone

Topics: Advantage Amazon Big Both Businesses Companies Competitive Competitive Advantage Counterparts Frontiers Google Kind Lot Markets New Opening Other Over Pioneering Promise Rewards Risks Starting Take Tech Think Why I Think

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We read of the courageous march south to battle the Confederate Army by the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Unlike their white counterparts, they understood from the beginning that they would be offered no quarter if captured alive.

~Burgess Owens

Topics: Alive Army Battle Beginning Captured Confederate Counterparts Courageous Infantry March Massachusetts Offered Quarter Read South Understood Unlike Volunteer White Would

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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

~Carl Lewis

Topics: Blame Counterparts Elected Elected Officials Enemies Fed Fed Up Game Officials People Playing Political Treating Up

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The value of kitsch exists in its novelty and in its connotations to more legitimate counterparts.

~Carrie Brownstein

Topics: Counterparts Exists Kitsch Legitimate More Novelty Value

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Women are the majority of immigrants yet the minority of immigrant employment visas; immigrant and native born women who work in the service arena - such as domestic workers - are not valued for their work, making pennies on the dollar compared to male counterparts; and, women are disproportionately affected by family reunification policies.

~Christine Pelosi

Topics: Affected Arena Born Compared Counterparts Dollar Domestic Employment Family Immigrant Immigrants Majority Making Male Minority Native Pennies Policies Service Valued Who Women Women Are Work Workers

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Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Against Alarm Both Counterparts His Invasion Mars Reagan Ronald Reagan Saying Soviet Surely Unite Used

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Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Artists Black Capital Century Counterparts Intellectuals Manhattan Much Twentieth Twentieth Century White Writers

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But research confirms that both Republican and Democratic women are more likely than their male counterparts to initiate and fight for bills that champion social justice, protect the environment, advocate for families, and promote nonviolent conflict resolution.

~Dee Dee Myers

Topics: Advocate Bills Both Champion Conflict Counterparts Democratic Environment Families Fight Initiate Justice Likely Male More Nonviolent Promote Protect Republican Research Resolution Social Social Justice Than Women Women Are

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