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I am the people, I'm not the pig. You got to make a distinction. And the people are going to have to attack the pigs. The people are going to have to stand up against the pigs. That's what the Panthers is doing, that's what the Panthers are doing all over the world.

~Fred Hampton

Topics: Against Am Attack Distinction Doing Going Got Make Over People Pig Pigs Stand Stand Up Up World You I Am

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I was raised in a way where there was no distinction between kids and adults.

~Gaby Hoffmann

Topics: Adult Between Distinction Kids Raised Way Where I Was Raised

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I think I happened to work with sort of a bunch of slightly difficult male directors when I was a kid. I've since worked with lots of male directors that I love, so I no longer see the distinction gender-wise.

~Gaby Hoffmann

Topics: Bunch Difficult Directors Distinction Happened Kid Longer Lots Love Male See Since Slightly Sort Think Work Worked I Think I Love

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There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

~Gary L. Francione

Topics: Also Animals Beings Between Death Distinction Fur Leather Made Materials Moral Other Result Sentient Suffering Which

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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

~Gary Sherman

Topics: Absolute Bring Class Content Could Death Devastating Distinction Film How Line Me Necessity Political Show Up Wanted

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I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.

~Geoff Dyer

Topics: Between Did Distinction Fiction Form Happen Idea Just Nonfiction

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The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed.

~George Gaylord Simpson

Topics: Become Confused Darwinian Distinction Evolution Fact How Must Occurred Opinion Popular Stressed Theory

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The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud between Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James. James won, and it split literature into two streams. But it's a totally false dichotomy.

~George R. R. Martin

Topics: Back Between Dates Dichotomy Distinction False Feud Fiction Genre Henry James Literary Literature Louis Robert Split Streams Stupid Totally Two Won

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We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

~George W. Bush

Topics: Acts Between Committed Distinction Harbour Make Terrorists Them Those Who Will

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When somebody uses a word as a genre distinction, all it really does is trigger certain experiences, or music, that somebody's been exposed to. But that's an individual thing; there's no sort of universal understanding of what jazz is.

~Gerald Clayton

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