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All of my stuff is raw, it's emotive, it's real. -- King Krule
When something is dramatized, it provokes a much more emotive response than just hearing a story on the news. -- Joanne Froggatt
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
People tend to like an athlete's performance, but if you don't get a feeling for the individual, you're not very emotive about them. -- Daley Thompson
Propaganda requires a permanent network of communication so that it can systematically stifle reflection with emotive or utopian slogans. Its pace is usually fast. -- John Berger
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist. -- Albert Ellis
In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be. -- Lia Ices
Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached. -- David Gill
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. -- Vladimir Kramnik
Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere. -- Keanu Reeves
When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything. -- James Dyson
I think it's almost a law of nature that there are only certain things that hit an emotive space, and that's what was always special for me about music: it made me feel something. -- Kate Bush
As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with. -- Boz Scaggs
Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play. -- King Krule
You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that. -- Nick Rhodes
There is a real formula to writing music, verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge. It's very formulaic. The subject matter that you can address in pop music is somewhat restricted. It just doesn't allow that same emotive quality that you can put into poetry. -- Edgar Winter
Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Concepts and intellectual devices or chops can't mask or conceal an underlying lack of emotive power. -- Gerard Cox
Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side. -- Scott D. Anthony
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted. -- Ketch Secor
My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous. -- Moby
In this respect I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry. With his very emotive body language at the board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't." -- Vladimir Kramnik
Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite for the definite article. -- Alasdair MacIntyre
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology. -- Adrian Desmond
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of a faithlike devotion, unencumbered by honest history. -- Michael Parenti
Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression. -- Raymond Pettibon
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces. -- David Adjaye
If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it. -- Edvard Munch
In this respect, I suppose I'm the total opposite of Garry [Kasparov]. With his very emotive body language at the [chess]board he shows and displays all his emotions. I don't. -- Vladimir Kramnik
I was thinking about sort of the similarities between "art movies" and lowbrow movies like kitschy sexploitation films. I think they share certain qualities, whether they're hyper-stylized or overly emotive or just very visual. -- John Waters
Theoretical concepts of music and extended techniques are more like seasoning to me; they're not the meal. I like outside music that still has a sense of forward motion and an emotive quality to it. -- Gerard Cox
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it. -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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