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At age 14, you are just beginning to work out who you think you are, and being famous is a huge distortion of reality, and it's not healthy for a young person to be considered more special than their peers. So, I would say it hindered my self-esteem but in later years gave me a great perspective that I wouldn't have if I hadn't experienced that.

~Amanda De Cadenet

Topics: Age Beginning Being Being Famous Considered Distortion Experienced Famous Gave Great Healthy Huge Just Later Me More Out Peers Person Perspective Reality Say Self-Esteem Special Than Think Who Work Work Out Would Years You Young Young Person

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Astronomers are obsessed with building larger and larger telescopes. There are two promises that we make with bigger telescopes: that they can see fainter things and that they see more detail. But it's been really hard to follow through on that second promise because of atmospheric distortion.

~Andrea M. Ghez

Topics: Because Been Bigger Building Detail Distortion Follow Follow Through Hard Larger Make More Obsessed Promise Promises Really Second See Things Through Two

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The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in a serum.

~Annie Jacobsen

Topics: Accepted Battlefield Become Cold Cold War Deception Disguise Distortion Had Marked Promised Reality Truth War Were

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The real question is whether the federal government should be in the business of redistributing wealth to equalize the economic status of every state, including states where not many people, for whatever reason, have chosen to live. That type of redistribution is a distortion of our economy.

~Bill Foster

Topics: Business Chosen Distortion Economic Economy Every Federal Federal Government Government Including Live Many Our People Question Real Reason Redistribution Should State States Status Type Wealth Whatever Where Whether

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Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

~Blase J. Cupich

Topics: Advocate Almost Baby Choice Distortion Equally Focus Moral Pregnant Pro-Choice Pro-Life Rights Society Some Suffering Unborn Us While Women

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I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.

~Chris Hadfield

Topics: About Around Been Distortion Done Hours Know Looked Lucky Outside Thing Time Times Two Which Whole World You Your

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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.

~Chuck Jones

Topics: Art Beneficial Change Confuse Distortion Innovation Must Useless

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I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs... I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

~Corey Taylor

Topics: Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Almost Almost All Because Been Collision Combined Distortion Doing Effects Even Every Guitar Hard Hard Rock Hear Heavy Heavy Metal Love Metal Really Rock Songs String Turn Vibrations Write Writing I Love I Can I Write

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Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

~David Bohm

Topics: Able Compulsive Conform Constitute Culture Distortion Freely Impose Meanings Others Our Real Revolution Self-Deception Share Suppose Those Urge View Were Without Would

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It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.

~Dayananda Saraswati

Topics: Before Distortion God Great His Images Kinds Make Other Persons Photographs Pictures Proper Put Remembrance Sight Take Them Us

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