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Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
When a body moves, it's the most revealing thing. Dance for me a minute, and I'll tell you who you are.
Politicians aren't special. They lie the same way we all do, revealing their true nature under pressure.
Revealing water in significant quantities on the Moon could truly be a turning point in space exploration.
Acting is revealing the truth that is already within you and that reflects the character that you're doing.
When I go back and reread the stuff, I'm always floored by how deeply personal and revealing it actually is.
I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
The knack is to find your own inspiration and take it on a journey to create work that is personal and revealing.
A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it's nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.
Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.
One of the most revealing details about my parents is that they only got together three months before my dad's arrest.
It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
I have some really, really good friends, to whom I'm very close, that I'm not revealing anything to, and that's really hard.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
I will stand up for a girl who is being harassed or bullied for choosing to wear revealing clothes. I will stand up for that!
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.
As I have said in the past, revealing specific targets or successes of U.S. intelligence activities is not in the public interest.
We should release films without revealing the director's name, as his or her gender would not be a barometer to watch those films.
Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.
I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him.
It was truly revealing. The strength of the intervention, the intensity of colors and the happiness of this work, has never left me.
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
Of course, you can never really know if someone is fully revealing himself to you or not, so all we can go by is our own gut feelings.
I never like revealing too much about myself. Once you start giving people that look into your life, then they just want more and more.
Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.
I'm always really surprised by people who are comfortable revealing all of their secrets on TV or in a magazine. It's actually quite shocking to me.
This is the way photography can be cruel... in the sense that it describes everything, even the things we are not necessarily aware we're revealing.
With time, art developed Bip, my alter ego. He was not only a lion tamer or a street musician but a soldier revealing the tragedy of ephemeral life.
Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.
Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it.
A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership.
I think most people, including me, like to read gossipy things about others: revealing things that I love to read but I don't really want known about me.
Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.
Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
You sit there, and you argue and you argue, and you sort of bully the hell out of the text until you're quite sure what it's revealing, and then you perform it.
In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do.
One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.