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Music of all arts should be expansive and inclusive. -- Jesse Jackson
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion. -- James Broughton
We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas. -- John Poindexter
According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication. -- Irving Babbitt
Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. -- Michelle Malkin
I like expansive stuff that has a lot of space in it, like some of the early Pink Floyd albums. -- Steven Price
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe. -- Mae Jemison
The long poem cannot be a digressive, expansive, boring exposition. It is really made of very sharp, Imagistic, quintessential poetic elements. -- Louis Dudek
Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time. -- Debbie Ford
You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. -- Willem Dafoe
One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music. -- Neville Marriner
We in the network world are used to having time constraints and saying only what you have already thought through 150 times, because you don't have that much expansive opportunity. -- Chris Cuomo
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products. -- Ellen Willis
When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can't hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God. -- Greg Boyle
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. -- Graham Greene
To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. -- Irving Babbitt
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said. -- Roxane Gay
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. -- Jessica Lange
The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout. -- Shane Black
The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power. -- James Bovard
As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for gourmet meals instead of the fast food. We bring to life a more expansive understanding of life, ourselves, and others. We are more generous and assertive. -- Sharon Stone
Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about. -- Jessica Lange
Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. -- Karl Rove
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical and snarky. And they fly from L.A. to New York in an airplane over this vast, expansive land where people aren't snarky; they're a lot more like the 'Parks and Rec' characters. -- Chris Pratt
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. -- Jessica Lange
Europe has such an expansive history. -- Bill Engvall
All change can be expansive in potential. The choice is ours. -- Julia Cameron
Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision. -- Stephen Jay Gould
A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive. -- Tejomayananda
An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket. -- Anton Chekhov
Guitar is great for a certain thing, but a piano is so much more expansive. -- Mick Ralphs
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it! -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become. -- Nirmala Srivastava
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. -- Mary Abigail Dodge
Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. -- Charlotte Bronte
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By activating an expansive, tolerant, and creative mindset, positive feelings maximize the social, intellectual, and physical benefits that will accrue. -- Martin Seligman
Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding. -- Bryant McGill
The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources. -- Juan Felipe Herrera
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. -- Judith Butler
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We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story. -- Christina Baldwin
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer. -- Marsha Blackburn
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more expansive view. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling. -- Garth Greenwell
the internationalization of economic activity and its major vehicle, the TNC, can be regarded simply as being part of the normal expansive process of capitalist development. -- Peter Dicken
Peace isn't an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it's an experience that's expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened. -- Pema Chodron
Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground. -- Li Ka-shing
Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin -- Hope Bradford
Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a dinger darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and have experiences. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Focus on what's important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other's diminishing lies. -- Unknown 21
If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium? -- Robert Harris
The inner aspects of reincarnation have to do with where you put your mind. The more expansive state of mind you enter into, the less suffering there is. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you're expansive, no matter what the weather, you're in an open, windy field with friends. -- Rumi
Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera. -- Jamie Dimon
Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides. -- Thomas Crum
It is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. -- George F. Kennan
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
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The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized and expansive empire is - and I mean this seriously - the greatest competition of idiocy and ignorance that has ever been, -- Fidel Castro
Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours. -- Christina Rossetti
When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth. -- Raphael Zernoff
It matters what you believe. Some beliefs are like walled gardens. They encourage exclusiveness and the feeling of being especially privileged. Other beliefs are expansive and lead the way into wider and deeper sympathies. -- Sophia Lyon Fahs
Aquamarine is an airy blue with a dreamy feel. Cool and calming, ethereal Aquamarine is a shade with a wet and watery feel. Open and expansive, this restful blue also acts as a stress reducer. -- Leatrice Eiseman

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