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The SPLC calls so many people racist they have watered down the term.
Kris Kobach / Secretary Of State Of Kansas
Calls
So Many People
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For me, CG tends to feel watered down and it becomes cold because it's so perfect.
Genndy Tartakovsky / Animation Director
Tends
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I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often.
Richard J. Codey /
Intention
Plant
No Intention
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There's no point that an album should sound like a watered down version of another album.
Stephen Malkmus / Musician
Albums
No Point
Should
Sound
Album
Version
Watered
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I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm known for and dilute it.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
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This entrepreneurial energy that we have in the Midwest doesn't have to go out to the coasts to get fed and watered.
Jim Mckelvey /
Entrepreneurial
Midwest
Fed
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I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.
Travis Knight /
Geared
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One had sown the seeds of corruption, and the other watered and nurtured it. Both the TDP and Congress have played their bit in patronising Satyam.
Chiranjeevi / Actor
Seeds
Nurtured
Sown
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Even when metal was on the radio, it was always the watered down stuff. There were only a couple real metal bands - Metallica is one - that broke through.
Wayne Static /
Broke
Metallica
Metal
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Country has become too homogenized and too commercial. It has lost what makes it special. It's great that it's popular, but then it starts to become watered down.
Eric Church / Singer-Songwriter
Homogenized
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Sundays in my teens were spent on homework: from 8 am until at least 8 pm, with stoppages to be fed and watered. I was carrying up to ten subjects simultaneously.
Ronald Frame /
Homework
Subjects
Teens
Carrying
Fed
Pm
Simultaneously
Sundays
Watered
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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free.
Richard V. Allen /
Wisdom
Blood
Country
Land
Mother
Satisfied
Tears
Now
Free
Gospel
Stay
Well
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We can't all have gleaming grass, cut to the millimetre, perfectly manicured and watered when needed and looked after by 10 groundsmen. Not everyone can be at these clubs.
Sol Campbell /
Clubs
Grass
Needed
Cut
Looked
Perfectly
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A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes / Literary Critic
Compassion
Fields
Humanity
Inner World
Lying
Love World Me
Love Humanity World
Vast
Fallow
Inner
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Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.
Kelis / Singer-Songwriter
Attention Span
Art Great Music
Art Music Great
Dumber
Result
Span
Watered
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If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.
Thich Nhat Hanh /
Chance
Compassion
Environment
Exposed
Understanding
Every Day
Loving
Seed
Watered
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Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have got the formula, and some of them are just doing it for the cheque. It's kind of watered down.
Missy Elliott /
Enemy
Salt
Cheque
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
Alfred De Vigny / Poet
Gardening
Air
Charming
Country
Do You Know
France
Garden
Heaven
Streams
Wide
Spot
Plains
Purest
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Meanwhile, hard-working Americans are increasingly faced with workplace conditions in which critically important safeguards are watered down, emerging problems are ignored, and enforcement is scaled back.
Tim Bishop / U.s. Representative
Conditions
Emerging
Enforcement
Hard Work
Ignored
Important
Safety
Workplace
Critically
Hard-Working
Increasingly
Meanwhile
Safeguards
Watered
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I had a standup act, and I ended up turning it into something that was really watered down and accessible. Something that went from scary and threatening to something that was almost to the point of being corny.
Bobcat Goldthwait / Actor
Corny
Threatening
Accessible
Watered
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Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
Peter Dinklage / Actor
Bogart
Scripts
Great Your Back
Chefs
Lately
Watered
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I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.
Seth Gordon / Film Director
Important
Irrelevant
People
Thinking
People Way Important
Watered
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Now I have to say I'm a complete atheist, I have no religious views myself and no spiritual views, except very watered down humanistic spiritual views, and consciousness is just a fact of life, it's a natural fact of life.
David Chalmers / Philosopher
Atheist
Consciousness
Humanistic
Natural
Religious
Religious Views
Spiritual
Views
Complete
Except
Fact
Watered
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Independent films have a certain freedom about them - there isn't so much at stake in terms of money. I think they're more interesting because they're not watered down to appeal to the masses. They tend to have a unique voice.
Toni Collette / Actress
Independent
Unique
Appeal
Independent Films
Masses
Stake
Tend
Watered
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It is not enough just to get your forces from A to B - you have to keep them fed and watered as they go. The art of movement, therefore, is one of the most complex and vital that any commander must master if he is going to win.
Saul David /
Commander
Master
Fed
Forces
Vital
Watered
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day of toiling over computer databases in a smoke-free, noise-free newsroom.
Russell Baker / Writer
Computer
Databases
Fitting
Nursing
Solemn
Toiling
White
Wine
Reporter
Glass
Newspaper
Newspaper Reporter
Watered
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You create real friendships through a growth process. It's not just, oh hi, we're friends! That's very childlike. True adult friendships take time, understanding, and it's a plant that needs to be watered and tended to so that it blossoms.
Erika Jayne /
Childlike
Growth
Plant
Understanding
Adult
Blossoms
Friendships
Hi
Watered
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The radio stations strayed away from the raw hip-hop that they were playing in the early 1990s. We were like, 'All this watered down stuff is dominating the airwaves. We should make a record to make fun of that' and Guru's like, 'Let's call it 'Mass Appeal.''
Dj Premier /
Dominating
Guru
Mass
Radio
Radio Stations
Stations
Airwaves
Appeal
Early 1990S
Record
Raw
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We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.
Anant Agarwal / Professor
Courses
Harvard
Mit
Quintessential
Certificate
Exact
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I never in my career did appearances, like where you go and sign autographs, and you do the comic-cons and all of that stuff, because I wanted, when I stopped wrestling, to go and do that stuff and have it really mean something to somebody, that it hadn't been watered down.
Mark Henry /
Autographs
Appearances
Never Down Go
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Almost any American can connect on some level to a family background of having come across some ocean. They say, 'My great-grandparents came from wherever... this is why we have this last name, why we do this thing at Christmas.' All the details get watered down but don't quite disappear.
Jhumpa Lahiri / Author
Christmas
Ocean
Details
Disappear
Family Background
Across
Background
Connect
They Say
Watered
Wherever
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Obama came in really wanting to change things, but he hit a wall of corporate money, oil and coal money: when he tried to pass the Cap and Trade system of pharmaceutical money, when he tried to pass the Obamacare - which, of course, then got watered down into a much less effective, much less economical, program.
Robert Kennedy, Jr. /
Coal
Corporate
Obamacare
Oil
Pharmaceutical
Cap
Change Things
Economical
Wanting
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I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously.
Kathleen Hanna / Musician
Humor
Appreciate
Common Denominator
Great Art
Lowest
Sense Of Humor
Denominator
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
Valerie Azlynn /
Artist
Criticism
Enough
Notes
Remember
Something Special
Special
Yourself
Enough Yourself Your
Judge
Try
Own
Version
Become
Bring
Take
Craft
Define
Down
Something
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The more money you spend, the more you need to make back, and the more pressure there is to appeal to everyone - which to the studio means that the specificity and uniqueness must be watered down. But I think mass audiences like things that are more specific and tend to have a voice, like 'Napoleon Dynamite' or 'Superbad.'
Casey Wilson / Actress
Dynamite
Mass
Specificity
Uniqueness
Appeal
Audiences
Napoleon
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