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Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence?

The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

If our core belief is based on what other people think, then we eventually will allow their opinions to become our reality.

They'll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.

At least I make decisions based on what I think is right, not who my friends might be.

From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.

Everything that I'm attempting to do is based on my understanding of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and what he wanted for his people.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah in the United States without a special cake. It can be even more complicated and expensive than a wedding cake, because bar-mitzvah cakes are often based on a particular theme.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set.

More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.

I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.

Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.