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Tag Name "Elicit" (42)

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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
Bill Bradley
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A good person can make another person good it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society other persons will also be good.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling.
August Wilson
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Andy Gibb
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Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart.
Guy Gavriel Kay
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With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.
Sylvester Stallone
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Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.
J. I. Packer
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I never think about issues when I'm working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention in other words, they're just life happening. That's what I think about: life, and telling a story.
Anna Quindlen
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The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.
Jeffrey Tucker
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What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.
Lottie Moon
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Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.
Jim Carrey
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It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.
Alain de Botton
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It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.
Graham Greene
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I'll start by saying that Fifty Shades of Grey: It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.
Lena Dunham
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The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.
Jenny Holzer
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A certain month or a certain season can elicit a certain emotional response. That is certainly true for anyone who has a negative anniversary on their calendar, the approach of that month brings the feeling of being very much back in another room. It is a time that stands outside the rest of the year.
Oz Perkins
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It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am.
Chip Kelly
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Flowers are not symbols of power. Flowers are too brief, too frail, to elicit much hope of eternity. In truth, flowers are far removed from the human condition and from all human hope. For a moment, in that moment, flowers are simply beautiful.
Sharman Apt Russell
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