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Quotes About Diluted

Truth has to be a little ruthless. Otherwise it gets softened. Diluted. Changed from what people need to hear to what they want to hear.
~ Peter Morwood
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
~ DeForest Soaries
catering to fears of being misunderstood leaves you dependent upon your audience. In the simplest yet most deadly scenario, ideas are diluted to what you imagine your audience can imagine, leading to work that is condescending, arrogant, or both. Worse yet, you disregard your own highest vision in the process.
~ David Bayles
I think also there's no question that Lincoln has been diluted down through history in some way, almost by becoming as iconic as he is, in a way he's become diluted.
~ James Spader
It's true, I know, that there are more gaps in the island than there used to be. When I was a child, the whole place seemed…how can I put this?…a lot fuller, a lot more real. But as things got thinner, more full of holes, our hearts got thinner, too, diluted somehow. I suppose that kept things in balance. And even when that balance begins to collapse, something remains. Which is why you shouldn't worry." He
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Her own glowing is too rich a thing to let her feel the slimness of his diluted passion.
~ Jean Toomer
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
~ DeForest Soaries
Rainwater diluted redness, created a pink death, his matter mixing through mud and grass.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
What we do is service a story first, and then you figure out how to pay for it later. If the narrative isn't your primary focus, then the movie is going to become diluted, and you don't have a movie that is as good as it could be, so it probably won't make as much money.
~ Joe Russo
The spirit of cooperation between the Centre and states has been diluted in many ways.
~ Amarinder Singh
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
~ Murray Kempton
The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
~ John Doolittle
All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.
~ Robin Hobb
At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
~ Ted Turner
I owe her everything and I love her and I tell her these days, although every time I say it, it gets a little diluted. I think you run out of I love yous.
~ Ned Vizzini
There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.
~ Feist
They would fear having their ownership stake diluted,
~ Ben S. Bernanke
The overtime rule was frankly diluted in 2004 by a regulation put in place by the Bush administration.
~ Tom Perez
Bearing in mind that homeopathic remedies are generally so diluted that they contain no active remedy, it seems obvious they can be nothing more than placebos.
~ Simon Singh
The quality of Scotchness was a highly concentrated essence, and should always be diluted. As an ingredient it was admirable; neat, it was as abominable as ammonia.
~ Josephine Tey
The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.
~ Whoopi Goldberg
From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.
~ Rick Scott
Prostitution] is ultimately an experience we all share. But diluted. I think many of us, maybe all of us, are really selling and not knowing we're doing it. The question lies than in who among us could stand, or will have to stand on Broadway tonight.
~ Kate Millett