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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.

~Alan Rickman

Topics: Day Describe Every Every Day Hungry Me Mellow

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How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Adjective Considered Describe Dwarf Front How Noun Stars Still

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In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

~Alan Stern

Topics: Alleged Assume Bodies Carries Cease Describe Enough Exploration In Other Words Interesting Lacking Many Members Mind Other Planet Planetary Public Scientific Significance Used Warrant Word Words

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If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

~Albert Einstein

Topics: Describe Elegance Leave Out Tailor Truth You

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I feel like I always describe myself as a late bloomer. My first album, in my mind, was that I had a few songs I needed to take from incomplete demos to working with someone else and finishing them.

~Albert Hammond, Jr.

Topics: Album Always Demos Describe Else Feel Few Finishing First Had Incomplete Late Late Bloomer Like Mind Myself Needed Someone Songs Take Them Working I Feel I Feel Like

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Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.

~Alexander Chee

Topics: Describe Failed Felt Fiction Had He His Historical Historical Fiction Internal Literature Match Meant Own Peace Period Sense Tolstoy Truth Veteran War Wars Wrote

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We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

~Alfred Kinsey

Topics: Behaviors Describe Facts Judges Reporters

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When I ask my medical students to describe their image of a woman who elects to birth with a midwife rather than with an obstetrician, they generally describe a woman who wears long cotton skirts, braids her hair, eats only organic vegan food, does yoga, and maybe drives a VW microbus.

~Alice Dreger

Topics: Ask Birth Cotton Describe Does Drives Eats Food Generally Hair Her Image Long Maybe Medical Midwife Only Organic Rather Skirts Students Than Vegan Wears Who Woman Yoga

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Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how I'd describe my style.

~Alice Temperley

Topics: Bohemian Classic Describe Eclectic How Playful Style Twist

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I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Black Correctly Culture Describe Does Expresses Feminist Just Like Me Need Now Organic Out Really See Spirit Things Women Word Words

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