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There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.
Audrey Hepburn
Rain
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Sex
,
Off
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Johnny Depp
Love
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Enough
,
Dogs
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll
Life
,
Live
,
Words
You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Light
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Cause
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Wrongs
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth
Love
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Good
,
Heart
Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Wealth
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Improbable
,
Aspect
If a leader doesn't convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they'll start to fall down and get depressed.
Colin Powell
Passion
,
Down
,
Leader
Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.
David Suzuki
Education
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Science
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Important
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.
Drew Barrymore
Powerful
,
Words
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Old
I think everybody's got a presentation. Everybody looks a certain way because they want to convey a certain image. You look a certain way because you want people to listen to you in a certain way.
Marilyn Manson
Everybody
,
Listen
,
Looks
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Theodor Adorno
Good
,
Someone
,
Him
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
Billy Sunday
Today
,
Same
,
Cannot
In the end, a new Americanization movement can't just be about listing our privileges and immunities, which we catalog in our laws. It also has to be about reinforcing our duties, which we convey in our habits.
Eric Liu
End
,
Movement
,
Laws
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
Christina Aguilera
Music
,
Good
,
Technology
It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.
Hugh Jackman
Through
,
Thought
,
Sometimes
Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.
Marilyn vos Savant
Words
,
Able
,
Meaning
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask.
Helena Bonham Carter
Character
,
Greatest
,
Challenge
My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
Robert Fulghum
Kids
,
Secret
,
Values
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
Arthur Erickson
Experience
,
Cannot
,
Film
The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
H. Rap Brown
Family
,
Knowledge
,
Teacher
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
Danica McKellar
Fear
,
School
,
Fun
Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.
Martha Beck
Self
,
Whatever
,
Takes
I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
Adam Lambert
Judge
,
Book
,
Trying
The people who work in the scientific field, they need help to convey what it's about.
Edward Norton
Work
,
Help
,
Scientific
Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.
Mindy Kaling
Mom
,
True
,
Away
Jimmy Carter laid out policies that we now look back at and say, 'Gee, that actually made sense.' But you also need to explain it and convey and communicate in a way that provides that tableau, that understanding.
Eliot Spitzer
Sense
,
Actually
,
Explain
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
Josh Hutcherson
Important
,
Battle
,
Another
My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin
Words
,
Down
,
Goal
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing.
Sloane Crosley
Writing
,
Laugh
,
Through
We have that illusion that we are 'deciding' what to make a character do, in order to 'convey our message' or something like that. But, at least in my experience, you are often more like a river-rafting guide who's been paid a bonus to purposely steer your clients into the roughest possible water.
George Saunders
Experience
,
Character
,
Often
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