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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling. -- Kara Walker
When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. -- Bill Bradley
If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken. -- Ivanka Trump
Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love. -- Drummond Money-Coutts
There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory. -- Taylor Swift
The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. -- Christopher Lasch
People are embracing the thing that made them different growing up instead of letting that thing elicit shame. -- Constance Wu
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. -- James Buchanan
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. -- John Buchan
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. -- Diane Ackerman
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. -- Bhumibol Adulyadej
You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get. -- Jacqueline Novogratz
Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie. -- Jason Reitman
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis. -- Andy Gibb
Moreover, only a strong and united scientific opinion imposing the intrinsic value of scientific progress on society at large can elicit the support of scientific inquiry by the general public. -- Michael Polanyi
With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter. -- Sylvester Stallone
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. -- Jenny Holzer
The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window. -- Peter Temple
In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. -- Sonia Sotomayor
A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. -- Chaim Potok
I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting. -- Lily Cole
It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant. -- Alain de Botton
I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks. -- John O. Brennan
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. -- James Frey
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and personal response, the communal nature of the audience is like having five hundred people read your novel and respond to it at the same time. I find that thrilling. -- August Wilson
A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie. -- Xavier Dolan
Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant. -- Horace
Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love. -- Laozi
Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught. -- J. I. Packer
Act so as to elicit the best in others and thereby in thyself. -- Felix Adler
Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do. -- Fran Lebowitz
Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes. -- Mario Bunge
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. -- Guy Gavriel Kay
What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving. -- Lottie Moon
There is nothing like a parade to elicit the proper respect for the military from the populace. -- Irving Kristol
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Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him. -- Samson Raphael Hirsch
It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response. -- Sloane Crosley
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already. -- John Buchan
It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval. -- Graham Greene
My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk. -- Darynda Jones
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. -- Jeffrey Tucker
A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I have often had occasion to notice how, where a direct question would fail to elicit a response, a false assumption brings instant information in the form of a contradiction. -- Agatha Christie
If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength. -- William Schutz

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