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“I've always felt that color is intrinsically personal. It evokes a tremendous amount of emotion. If there's a color you respond to, that's something you can incorporate into your home. No one can tell you it's wrong.”

Ifs Home Felt Emotion Color Amount Evoke

Author:Nate Berkus

“If you want to do your version, go off and write it. You bring your knowledge to it, and you can use that to shape it and color it, but it's someone else's version of that character. You're not actually playing the real person.”

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Author:Jared Harris

“Now I meet people with full-color Wolverine tattoos on their backs. Thank God I did okay, because I think if I hadn't, they'd spit on me in the street.”

People Ifs Thinking Streets Color Okay Thank God Tattoo Spit Thank You God

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Racial humor was about 35% of my act when I first started. But I realized that it was a crutch. What brought it home was when another comedian said to me, 'If you changed color tomorrow, you wouldn't have any material.' He meant it as a put-down, but I took it as a challenge.”

Ifs Firsts Said Home Challenges Changed Color Materials Tomorrow I Realized Comedian Crutches You Changed

Author:Bill Cosby

“The problem with dating a model is they won't go out with you if your cars color doesn't match their outfit.”

Ifs Problem Car Color Models Dating

Author:Dane Cook

“You might be a redneck if the hood and one door are a different color from the rest of your car.”

Ifs Different Might Doors Car Color Redneck Hood You Might Be A Redneck If Different Colors Redneck Humor

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“You might be a redneck if you have a color coordinating rope that ties down your car hood.”

Ifs Might Car Color Ties Rope Redneck Hood You Might Be A Redneck If Coordinating

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”

Ifs World Way Use Feelings Film Found Boys Possibility Color Built Tools Tables Studios Brushes Pencils Crayon Watercolors

Author:Alex Abreu

“Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.”

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Author:Alex Abreu

“The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.”

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Author:Ira Flatow

“My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run”

Ifs Heart Running Dark Color Baby My Heart Lucky Horse Shining Someday Riding True Colors Dark Horse

Author:Amanda Marshall

“I am no longer interested in seeing and knowing everything all at once in my work. Technically I select the area of focus and if it's possible I try to make an amalgamation of every shape and color in the picture so that it acquires a circular movement: from representation to abstraction, from life to death, and vice-versa.”

Ifs Trying Knowing Focus Seeing Movement Color Shapes Areas Vices Acquire Representation Abstraction Select Vice Versa Knowing Everything Amalgamation

Author:Olivo Barbieri

“What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.”

Source: America dances

“I don't care what color your hair is, if you're pale or tan, if you have makeup on or just woke up all I care about is that when I look at you, you always look back and see me. You're beautiful inside and out and if you wanted to tattoo all that pretty white skin from head to toe I would be honored to put it there for you but if not I'll take you all smooth and milky white any chance I get.”

“I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on.”

Ifs Want Black Walks Color Towns Uncomfortable Days Off Denim

Author:Johnny Cash

“The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.”

Ifs Might Able Enjoy White Fashion Color Industry Wine Pants Fashion Industry Garlic Ketchup Denim Tight Pants

Author:Diablo Cody

“My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.”

Ifs Giving Kind Color Makeup Gloss No Makeup

Author:Rachel Bilson

“If she replaces her eyebrows with a Machiavellian triangle, paints her fingernails blue, and dyes her hair some color you'd see in a comic book it's not too attractive to me-because it's too familiar. Extremes aren't necessary. Even 'high fashion' frightens most men. When I have to wait in the dentist's office, I sometimes look at fashion magazines. To me, most of the models look like they have rickets or scoliosis of the spine. They look less like woman than caricatures.”

“Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle the same." Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. for it is one of the few commonalities left between us as a human race. Toeing the starting line of a marathon, regardless of the language you speak, the God you worship or the color of your skin, we all stand as equal. Perhaps the world would be a better place if more people ran.”

“A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian. If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?”

“If I describe a person's physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is "black" or "white." I may describe the color of their skin - black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I'm not talking about race.”

Ifs Writing May Persons Eye Black Dark White Race Fiction Talking Color Skins Blue Appearance Etc Not Talking Blue Eyes Black Or White Black Eyes Physical Appearance Dark Skin

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I feel like they're different creatures, live and in the studio, but that's what makes it so interesting to me. If they didn't have any different shadings or colors, you might as well be a hologram or something.”

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Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter

“Take crack cocaine. Particularly in the early days of the policy, ninety percent of the people being arrested were black, even though they didn't use the drug at higher rates and even though their numbers in the general population are so low. How could that be? The thing is, you place all your resources in communities of color. And if you do that, you're going to arrest black people.”

People Ifs Use Black Community Numbers Policy Color Higher Drug Lows Percent Resources Rate Population Cracks Black People Ninety Arrested Cocaine

Author:Carl Hart

“Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.”

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Author:Jason Polan

“I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.”

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Author:Dorie Greenspan

“I was surrounded by a lot of male writers of color who have this incredibly bizarre relationship to masculinity. It's like we were all mega-nerds but you would never know that if you listened to the way they talk about themselves.”

Ifs Knows Way Color Males Masculinity Bizarre Nerd Mega

Author:Junot Diaz

“One of the tracks that I have is Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - by the way, that's Bach's second son - Emanuel Bach's variations on "Le Folie." You'll definitely hear - I mean, I think if we listen to, say, the last couple of minutes of that track, there's a wide range of colors that the harpsichord is capable of. And I think, you know, that gives lie to the assumption that it doesn't have that kind of variety. And I think it very much speaks for itself.”

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Author:Mahan Esfahani

“You know, you have to do homework. You listen to who they are, what they do. I also compare it to designing clothes for people. If somebody brings in Tilda Swinton, you're not going to give her the same dress you'd give Gabourey Sidibe. Everybody looks different in a different line, a different color. The same thing with the way people speak.”

People Ifs Knows Way Giving Looks Different Speak Lines Design Color Clothes Dresses Compare Homework Different Colors

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“You need to do some work even if you have the talent. So I just went the way that was easier, the way I knew what to do, but I have always had the pleasure of the eye. I've always enjoyed color. I'm a knitter.”

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Author:Nell Irvin Painter

“We can think of solutions in various theoretical ways, but it's not so on the ground. If they don't have a reference that helps them to belong, then they will end up excluding, and through that they get to feel that they belong on the basis of some narrow identity, language or color.”

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Author:Tariq Ramadan

“If you recall when [John] Kennedy passed an edict, 'Every person you hire in the Post Office must be African American,' the challenge with that is if all of a sudden, you are hired just because of the color of your skin, ability has nothing to do with it.And if ability has nothing to do with it, what does it do? It promotes mediocrity.”

Ifs Persons Doe Challenges Ability Color Office Skins African American Posts Mediocrity Recalls Post Office John Kennedy

Author:Rafael Cruz

“I shoot in black and white, sometimes color, sometimes if it looks good I shoot out the window of the airplanes or whatever, anything that - sometimes I secretly take secret photos, shoot video of people on the plane if it's not too crowded. I don't know, whatever comes up.”

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Author:Robert Barry

“Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.”

“If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.”

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Author:Van Jones

“Omelets are about technique. Now, different people make it different ways, but, if you're a chef in Europe, an omelet has to be cooked on the outside, with just a simmer of color, and the inside has to be soft. It should be cooked like a steak - medium rare.”

People Ifs Way Should Different Color Europe Technique Mediums Different Ways Chef Different Peoples Steak Omelets

Author:Wolfgang Puck

“We can step out of our small sense of self and awaken to this reality. One of the reasons people get confused about freedom, enlightenment, and liberation is because this awakened consciousness has different facets or different dimensions, a bit like a crystal. If you hold this luminous crystal up to the light and turn it, it will take a beam of white light and refract it into the many colors of the spectrum.”

“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.”

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Author:Mike Jackson

“If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up.”

Ifs Eye Form Grows Growing Up Objects Color Taste Standards Elegance Harmonious

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“Even for the people who are color-blind to any degree, I believe their experience would also be affected [ in Lords of Rainbow ] if everyone else too only perceived the world in colorless monochrome.”

People Ifs World Believe I Believe Lord Color Degrees Blind Affected Rainbow Colorless Monochrome

Author:Vera Nazarian

“Prints can absolutely be investment pieces. I've seen prints from my collections from five years ago on the street now. It's totally possible. If the colors don't age and if the fabric is beautiful, then of course people should wear it year after year.”

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Author:Thakoon Panichgul

“We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?”

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Author:Ed Gordon

“If you took away the color of Barack Obama's skin, nobody right now would be paying him any attention.”

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Author:John H. McWhorter

“If you've been paying attention to politics for the last, you know, 30 years, it would not have shocked you, but what was amazing was that there it was, you know, in irrefutable colors, you know, there on paper, or there on your computer screen.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“There are only four things in all cleaners - whether it's shampoo, laundry detergent, whatever.You buy them in bulk and you mix them up properly, and they all work. It doesn't matter if they call the stuff ecologically friendly or have dolphins diving around on the label - it still has these damn four things in it. Anything else is just unnecessary additions to make it smell good or color it blue when it goes down the toilet.”

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Author:Bill Mollison

“If you look at my collaborations, it is very much in line with all these others in the sense that it is a building of community, particularly among artists of color. This is what I learned from the example of elder African-American artists, which is where it is all coming from; to refuse to be silenced.”

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Author:Vijay Iyer

“These commonplace categories - wife, mother, housewife, teacher - are in fact teleological referents. They gesture to profound states of being that animate, absorb and saturate the subject, like indelible dyes spilled repeatedly over a plain fabric. No matter if the fabric is sturdy or delicate, translucent or opaque, those dyes will stain. They will color the days and years and life.”

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Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.”

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Author:Jodi Picoult

“Imagine a smashed stained-glass window, a page torn from a Bible, or a snippet of choral singing. You would still recognize their religious roots, wouldn't you? In 1915, Coca-Cola designed a bottle so unique that if it were smashed into thousands of pieces, from a single shard of glass you'd still be able recognize the brand. We call such a device a Smashable. It can be anything from a color to a sound, from a pattern to a smell to an icon.”

“The information is there, you may not perceive it, but it does affect the lower orders. There are places where it just peaks out. It is like the color spectrum, it just simply goes beyond where you can perceive it any more but it is still going on. If you decide that the invisible continuation of the color spectrum is important to your sense of what reality is about, then you would want to extend it. Extend it as far as you could, as an aesthetic.”

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Author:Jerry Garcia

“True change is a long game, and it remains to be seen if this is change. We've had years before where there have been great years for filmmakers and performers of color, LGBTQ filmmakers and performers, women.”

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Author:Ava DuVernay

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