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I have very diverse tastes in music, and I don't, like, make distinctions between what I can't and can't listen to. In fact, I could never understand why anybody would do that in the first place. My attitude is, 'I can't make music if I don't like music.'

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Anybody Attitude Between Could Distinctions Diverse Fact First First Place In Fact Like Listen Make Music Never Place Tastes Understand Very Why Would

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Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Blurred David Depicted Distant Distinctions Expectations Give John Life Low Novels Often Pictures Places Recent Say Set Those Tokyo Trade Travel Unlike Us Ward Water Way Writing

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I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

~David Antin

Topics: Am Between Distinctions Literate Oral Quite Unsatisfied I Am

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We try our hardest to be original, but the truth is, in a real ER, you get similar kinds of cases over time. We try to embrace the distinctions of different characters going through similar storylines.

~David Zabel

Topics: Be Original Cases Characters Different Different Characters Distinctions Embrace Get Going Hardest Kinds Original Our Over Real Similar Through Time Truth Truth Is Try You

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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.

~Donald G. Mitchell

Topics: Care Coming Country Distinctions Dream Dust Forever Graves Great Hopes How Like May Proudest Seem Shall Times Where Worldly You Your I Care

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We conventionally divide space into private and public realms, and we know these legal distinctions very well because we've become experts at protecting our private property and private space. But we're less attuned to the nuances of the public.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Because Become Distinctions Divide Experts Know Legal Less Nuances Our Private Private Property Property Protecting Public Space Very Well

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Ambition has developed into a passion which drives women, as well as men, to great works - and small deeds. Formerly competitors in the race for men, they are now competing in the race for social tasks and distinctions.

~Ellen Key

Topics: Ambition Competing Competitors Deeds Developed Distinctions Drives Great Men Now Passion Race Small Social Tasks Well Which Women Works

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The literary depiction of life and its moral dilemmas compel us to use our conscience, to make those infallible distinctions between right and wrong.

~F. Sionil Jose

Topics: Between Compel Conscience Dilemmas Distinctions Infallible Life Literary Make Moral Our Right Right And Wrong Those Us Use Wrong

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The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

~Gary Sherman

Topics: Class Death Distinctions England Highlight Idea Just Just Kind Kind Line Make More Movie Political Scary Scary Movie Than Whole Wrapped

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Part of the mystique of blogs is their protean quality: They work both sides of the divide between politics and media, further blurring the already fuzzy distinctions between reporter, pundit, political operative, activist, and citizen.

~George Packer

Topics: Activist Between Blogs Both Both Sides Citizen Distinctions Divide Further Fuzzy Media Mystique Operative Part Political Politics Quality Reporter Sides Work

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