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I use Tata Harper Illuminating Eye Cream to depuff my eyes.
Devon Windsor /
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Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.
Gerald May / Psychiatrist
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Hindsight is illuminating but not always what we want to see.
Kylie Minogue / Singer
Hindsight
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Want
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Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.
Agnes Repplier / Essayist
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
Josh Tillman /
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
J Tillman / Singer-Songwriter
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Evolution is a light illuminating all facts, a curve that all lines must follow.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin / Philosopher
Evolution
Facts
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Light
Curve
Follow
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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
Henri Matisse / Artist
Happiness
Inspirational
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Fog
Good Day
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Oneself
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Acting is not rocket science, but it is an art form. What you are doing is illuminating humanity. Or not.
Viola Davis / Actress
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Humanity
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I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.
Finty Williams /
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History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
Benjamin Cardozo / Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.
Lincoln Steffens /
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What Adam McKay did with illuminating the financial crisis in 'The Big Short,' he's now doing with the media in 'Succession.'
Jeremy Strong /
Adam
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Succession
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I just go my own way. If my agent calls and presents me with something, and I find it refreshing or illuminating, yeah, I'll do it.
Adam West / Actor
Illuminating
Refreshing
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Me Way Find
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Presents
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Movable type seemed magical to the monks who were illuminating manuscripts and copying texts. Certainly e-books seem magical to me.
Paul Theroux / Film Writer
Copying
Illuminating
Manuscripts
Type
Certainly
Magical
Monks
Movable
Seem
Texts
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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
James Turrell / Artist
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A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people.
Mitch Albom / Author
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Uplifting
Illuminating
Life Story
Memoir
People
Should Have
Life Quality People
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Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
Arthur Smith / Comedian
Entertaining
Illuminating
Prose
Sloppy
Vivid
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Replace
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There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.
Jim Webb / Former United States Senator
Defining
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Plot
Surroundings
Novels
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Our educational system is like an automobile which has strong rear lights, brightly illuminating the past. But looking forward things are barely discernible.
Hermann Oberth / Physicist
Automobile
Educational
Illuminating
Looking Forward
Past
Strong
Barely
Brightly
Forward
Lights
Rear
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Therefore, I reasoned that study of the cell cycle responsible for the reproduction of cells was important and might even be illuminating about the nature of life.
Paul Nurse /
Cells
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Might
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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
Meghan Markle /
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Caucasian
Equal
Half
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White
African
Mom Dad Black
Blurred
Dad Mom Black
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We pray that the Lord may help us to produce His light in ourselves, even in dark days, so that we might be light for others, illuminating the world and life in this world.
Pope Benedict Xvi /
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As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
Will Self / Author
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Difficulty
Illuminating
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Modernism
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Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.
Bruce Glover /
Acting
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Form
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Like all women, my path to womanhood is unique. No two paths are the same. Each of us travel with different privileges, challenges, and perspectives - some limiting, others illuminating.
Sarah Mcbride /
Travel
Challenges
Different
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Path
Two
Unique
Womanhood
All Women
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When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings.
Kiri Te Kanawa / Opera Singer
Home
Attention
Illuminating
Pay Attention
Vocal
Voice
Wagner
Prefer
Orchestral
Recordings
Voices
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Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
John Polkinghorne / Physicist
Acknowledge
Details
Ideas
Illuminating
Theology
Thinking
Tied
Gladly
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
Daisaku Ikeda / President
Illuminating
Light
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Moving Forward
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We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.
Peter Abrahams / Novelist
Answers
Illuminating
Late
Lifetime
Right Questions
Too Late
Unanswered
Miss
Haunt
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I think literary theory satisfied a deep love I have for big, encompassing narratives about the world and how it works - which are usually, in the end, more creative visions unto themselves than illuminating explanations.
Jennifer Egan / Novelist
Deep Love
Illuminating
Satisfied
Explanations
Encompassing
Literary
In The End
Narratives
Unto
Visions
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I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.
Nick Mcdonell / Writer
Disparity
Enormous
Illuminating
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Tiny
Definition
Vast
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The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.
Om Malik /
Cases
Humble
Illuminating
Mechanism
Mood
Alarm
Alteration
Assistant
Bulb
Itself
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The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.
Clint Smith /
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Scholarship
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Since leaving the church, I've been working with law enforcement involved in counterterrorism and deradicalization. I hoped that illuminating Westboro's ideology - and especially the unraveling of that ideology - would be useful to the people doing that work.
Megan Phelps-Roper /
Enforcement
Ideology
Illuminating
Law Enforcement
Unraveling
Work Law People
Counterterrorism
Hoped
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For me, my one thing is eyelash extensions. I always have them on cause they just do all the work and let everything look better. If I have eyelash extensions on, I will put on some under eye concealer and maybe, like, an illuminating moisturizer and call it a day.
Jessie James Decker / Singer
Extensions
Illuminating
Work Better Always
Work Look Me
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As adults, when we attend to something in the world we are vividly conscious of that particular thing, and we shut out the surrounding world. The classic metaphor is that attention is like a spotlight, illuminating one part of the world and leaving the rest in darkness.
Alison Gopnik / Writer
Classic
Conscious
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Metaphor
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Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
Jonathan Safran Foer / Writer
Animal
Book
Children
Cookbook
Feet
Hero
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Illustration
Paradoxical
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