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“Every improv must be song specific. It has to grow organically out of the particular elements involved or it's just glib self-expression. I hate when I feel like I'm the lead guitarist in a rock band. We all gotta be going somewhere strong together, you know?”

Knows Feels Self Together Hate Song Strong Grows Rocks Particular Expression Involved Band Elements I Hate Self Expression Guitarist Rock Bands Strong Together

Author:David First

“The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.”

Firsts States Values Term Written Particular Expression Morality Function Absolutes Justify Amendments Freedom Of Speech First Amendment Protective Propriety

Author:William O. Douglas

“In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.”

Persons States Shows Able Action School Desire Order Opinion Particular Expression Mere Officials Justify Freedom Of Speech Discomfort Prohibition Viewpoints Accompany

Author:Abe Fortas

“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”

“Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable, imperative need for release by means of an appropriate act of creation: in the rhythm, form, colour and mood of a picture.”

Needs Mind Mean States Moments Form Individual Creation Particular Expression Mood Rhythm Release Colour Appropriate State Of Mind Imperatives Individual Work

Author:Lyonel Feininger

“Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Book Would Be Certain Streets Particular Expression Pride Citizens Fame Universal Affection Atmosphere Paris Spells Jest Marseille

Book:The Arrow of Gold

Source: The Arrow of Gold

“Freedom of expression has a responsibility by those people who espouse it in the West, in particular non-Muslims.”

People Responsibility Particular Expression West Freedom Of Expression

Author:Anjem Choudary

“Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible,... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured.”

Source: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

“We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!”

Language Natural Objects Particular Expression Corn Peppers

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“One particular debate that I have seen play out again and again is whether trans people who have more traditional gender expressions or who "pass" more should be the ones who are represented. A recent advocacy guide focused on advocating around trans health care access produced by the largest trans advocacy organization in the US instructs readers that advocacy will be more successful if the message is delivered by people who pass as non-trans men and women.”

“The fact is that these are not my children; they are figures on silvery paper slivered out of time. They represent my children at a fraction of a second on one particular afternoon with infinite variables of light, expression, posture, muscle tension, mood, wind and shade. These are not my children at all; these are children in a photograph.”

Children Facts Light Figures Particular Expression Wind Paper Infinite Photograph Mood My Children Tension Muscles Shade Afternoon Fractions Posture Variables

Book:Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Source: Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people to worship in a particular matter and remain neutral on what those views and beliefs were.”

People Long Matter Government Father Belief Force Religious Views Particular Expression Worship Founding Freedom Of Expression Religious Views

Author:John Cornyn

“Even the cerebral characters I play seem to have physical quirks. They're all "physically inhabited," for lack off a better expression. For instance, Sherlock Holmes has very particular physical gestures which are drawn out in such detail.”

Play Character Seems Particular Expression Details Instance Gestures Holmes Cerebral Quirks

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence – not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of what a city might at its best prove to be – its inhabitants became, and have remained, an embittered and amnesiac race, wounded but unable to connect through memory to the moment of injury, unable to summon the face of their violator.”

Moments Dream Might Faces Political Memories Loss Race Cities Particular Expression Materials Prove Innocence Injury Wounded Loss Of Innocence

Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day