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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
I'm enjoying writing songs that are more stripped back.
I'm not afraid to have no make-up on and no hair. I just want to be stripped back.
Theater is a dance of a different kind, a dance of rawness and characters stripped down.
It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.
It's the ultimate task to do something stripped back, so you're not hiding behind anything.
The iPod Shuffle was something unique for Apple: a device stripped down to a single function.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off.
Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet.
Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.
When you never see yourself in the mainstream format, you are stripped of the strength of your identity.
I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.
Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
In treatment, all of the negative things I did were stripped away and I had to start processing my feelings.
My first car was a Mini, a little red Mini. I cherished it and I stripped the seats out of it and 'boy-racered' it.
The identity that I knew was completely stripped of me. I hid, and I hated life; I hated everything. The sun would bother me.
I love the acoustic sets. Growing up, me and my dad would always watch those because we loved seeing the songs stripped back.
Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.
We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.
For too long, tricks and traps in mortgages, credit cards, and other financial transactions have stripped wealth from working families.
By the way, what happened to our surgeon general who warned us about AIDS and smoking? That position has been completely stripped of power.
I like to reveal people with some of the niceties of social behavior stripped away and the moral, ethical, and political issues are revealed.
My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.
It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.
One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.
In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.
Our common realm is not and cannot be stripped of values - I absolutely reject the idea that religion should somehow be tolerated but not encouraged in public life.
Our generation has become somewhat stripped of identity by the homogenizing effect of technology. So, more than ever, people want to project their own individuality.
You have stripped from me the rank and privileges of the professorship and the doctoral degree which I earned, and you have set me at the level of the lowest criminal.
I believe man is stripped naked when he's in conversation with God. Your deepest fears, strongest desires, highest hopes - they're all there when you are talking to God.
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
There can be no debate that we possess a collective moral responsibility to leave a better world for our children rather than a devastated planet stripped of its resources.
When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
When your outlet is taken away from you, when your catharsis is stripped from you and you don't understand why, and you're so disappointed, and you're so blindsided by it, it hurts.
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.
At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.
Turkey is a warning: democracy is precious but fragile. It underlines how rights and freedoms are often won at great cost and sacrifice but can be stripped away by regimes exploiting national crises.
I was always going to be vulnerable when I left the Verve. It was a hardening experience for me. People saw me stripped down and decided to have their shot. I suppose they wanted to take me down a peg.