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One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you're young, you think everything has to be binary, as that's exactly how you feel at that age.
Min Jin Lee / Writer
Age
Binary
Getting Older
Multiple
Nice
Nice Things
Together
Young
Life Together Your
Everything
Things
Feel
Come
About
Understand
Aspects
How
Getting
Exactly
Older
Integrate
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Like many teens, I struggled with my body and looks, but my despair was amplified by the expectations of cisnormativity and the gender binary as well as the impossibly high beauty standards that I, and my female peers, measured myself against.
Janet Mock / Writer
Binary
Despair
Expectations
Female
Gender
Looks
Peers
Standards
Teens
Amplified
Struggled
Measured
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Whatever your personality was before, an illness makes it that plus a thousand. I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful. I don't understand grey area that well, and I've been working at that.
Kathleen Hanna / Musician
Binary
Illness
Personality
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It's very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, 'This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.' And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.
Hugh Grant / Actor
Good
Binary
Filmmaking
Good Guy
Guy
Selfish
Selfless
Life Time Good
Like
More
Very
Quite
True
Bit
Bad
Bad Guy
Both
Same
Complex
Fact
Sort
Particularly
Towards
Life Is A
Same Time
Tend
Than
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We are now welcoming a world where fashion is not bogged down by binary gender norms. The trend is moving beyond symbolizing its wearers' identity or gender. It's now being accepted by the mainstream as more of a look, both on the catwalk and the high street.
Masaba Gupta /
Accepted
Binary
Fashion
Gender
Identity
Mainstream
Moving
Beyond
Bogged
Street
Norms
Trend
Welcoming
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'First things first' might be a cliche, but it's a useful one that means prioritizing what matters most to you and believing there is no wrong answer. When it comes to figuring this out for yourself, the careful binary of work or life entirely misses the point.
Stacey Abrams /
Binary
Careful
Cliche
Might
Yourself
Life Work Yourself
Answer
Useful
Believing
First
Wrong
Entirely
Matters
Figuring
Misses
Point
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The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.
Naveen Jain / Entrepreneur
Binary
Black
Black And White
Brain
Computer
Defined
Fuzzy
Heart
Human Brain
Information
Logic
White
Analyze
Works
Chemical
Easily
Human
Exact
Uses
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Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.
Klaus Schwab / Economist
Acceptance
Binary
Citizens
Humans
Investors
Progress
Rejection
Technological
Technological Progress
Decisions
Choice
Constrained
Guide
No Control
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I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you're one, or the other, it's false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that's the direction the world needs to go in.
Alaska /
Binary
Drag
Gender
Direction
False
Helps
Laugh
Looser
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And as a director, you make 1,000 decisions a day, mostly binary decisions: yes or no, this one or that one, the red one or the blue one, faster or slower. And it's the culmination of those decisions that define the tone of the film and whether or not it moves people.
Jason Reitman / Film Director
Binary
Blue
Culmination
Faster
Film
Moving
People
Red
Tone
Decisions
Director
Define
Mostly
Slower
Yes
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Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.
Nicholas Kristof /
Binary
Continuum
Evidence
Gender
Judgmental
Mainstream
Overwhelming
Sex
In Fact
Mysteries
View
Wary
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For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity.
Margot Lee Shetterly /
Acquire
Binary
Deeds
Exceptional
Passive
Renowned
Scarcity
Condition
Imposed
Long History
Mythic
Recipients
Status
Superheroes
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The virtue of binary is that it's the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it's unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it.
George M. Whitesides / Chemist
Binary
Complicated
Errors
Good Things
Numbers
Reading
Representing
Simple
Simplest
Virtue
Lots
Anything Else
Catch
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If you've ever watched someone who is a mother talk on the phone, feed the dog, bounce the baby, it's just astounding to see someone manage, more or less well, to do all those things. But on a computer, multitasking is really binary. The task is either in the foreground, or it's not.
Ellen Ullman / Author
Binary
Bounce
Foreground
Manage
Multitasking
Astounding
Feed
More Or Less
Task
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I think, in the United States, we talk about race as a black and white issue... We're generally talking about it as if it's a binary equation whereas, in fact, there's more than two races and, in fact, those races blend together. There are a lot of different ways that people identify.
Celeste Ng / Writer
Binary
Black And White
Different Ways
Black And White Together Black
Blend
Equation
Identify
Races
Whereas
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In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any evolutionary environment, knowing your opponent's decision would not be advantageous for long because your opponent would evolve the same recognition mechanism to also know you.
Chris Adami /
Animal
Animal World
Binary
Mechanism
Recognition
Behaviors
Evolutionary
Flee
For Example
Opponent
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A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny.
Sasha Velour /
Queens
Binary
Drag
Gender
Masculine
Spectrum
Expect
Ultimately
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As I started to explore my gender identity, I didn't know how I could claim the title of 'feminist' without subscribing to the gender binary. I thought I had to be a proud woman to be a feminist. Then I came to the realization that I can be proud of women without necessarily identifying as one.
Amandla Stenberg / Actress
Women
Binary
Gender
Identifying
Proud
Realization
Came
Woman
Claim
Could
Explore
Necessarily
Title
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We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.
James Comey /
Analysis
Binary
Characterization
Cyber
Fbi
Information
Paint
Storage
Picture
Created
Helps
Investigative
Link
Near
Provides
Repository
System
Threats
Tool
Worldwide
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When I first started going out to lesbian clubs, I felt a very binary recreation of hetero culture. There are butches and femmes, and I felt like I was neither of those things. I'm in a turtleneck and jeans and just learning to be comfortable in that space. I realized I don't have to be a certain way.
Dee Rees / Screenwriter
Learning
Space
Binary
Certain
Clubs
Comfortable
Culture
Felt
Jeans
Recreation
Started
Certain Way
Lesbian
Neither
Realized
Turtleneck
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Being trans, I've grown up with the understanding that most women are born girls, yet some are born boys. And most men are born boys, yet some are born girls. And if you're ready for this, some people are born girls or boys and choose to identify outside our society's binary system, making them genderqueer.
Janet Mock / Writer
Binary
Ready
Understanding
Men Women Society
Women Are
Choose
Women Men Society
Grown
Identify
Outside
Some People
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Good candidates can arrive at the binary search tree as the right path in a few minutes, and then take 10-15 minutes working through the rest of the problem and the other roadblocks I toss out. But occasionally I get a candidate who 'intuitively understands' trees and can visualize the problem I'm presenting.
Robert Love /
Binary
Minutes
Path
Presenting
Right Path
Toss
Tree
Arrive
Candidate
Rest
Intuitively
Occasionally
Search
Understands
Visualize
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Laughter is binary: It either happens or it doesn't. As each joke arrives in the course of a film, the cavernous space of the theater is either filled with joy and laughter or with the quiet of cringing embarrassment. Every time you step to the plate to make a joke, you're going to experience one or the other.
David Dobkin /
Space
Binary
Embarrassment
Filled
Joy
Laughter
Quiet
Theater
Time Space Experience
Time Experience Space
Course
Joke
Either
Every Time
Space Time Experience
Plate
Step
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What I know now is that I used to not just tolerate but submit to and even on some deep level need our society's web of problems called race, its received and dangerous habits of thinking about and organizing people along a binary of white and black, free and unfree, even once I suspected them to be irredeemably flawed.
Thomas Chatterton Williams /
Binary
Flawed
Submit
Tolerate
Organizing
Habits
Received
Suspected
Web
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We are not like the social insects. They have only the one way of doing things and they will do it forever, coded for that way. We are coded differently, not just for binary choices, go or no-go. We can go four ways at once, depending on how the air feels: go, no-go, but also maybe, plus what the hell let's give it a try.
Lewis Thomas / Physician
Air
Binary
Choices
Feels
Forever
Four
Hell
Insects
Plus
Social
Also
Try
Doing
Depending
Differently
Give
Maybe
Ways
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But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.
Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic
Positive
Society
Binary
Black
Enormous
Example
Identity
Implications
Logic
Negative
Our Generation
People
Trapped
White
Had
Ancestors
Creates
For Example
Generation
Well
Some
Problems
See
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I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.
Dax Shepard / Actor
Binary
Combination
Gay Marriage
Humans
Middle Ground
Board
Guns
Hosting
Pleasures
Rallies
Tons
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'Crazy Rich Asians' has been compared to 'Black Panther,' but I feel like that's a false equivalency. The idea that there's only this film for Asians and that film for African Americans - it's so binary. I don't think it's like that at all. There should be and will be many films and many stories. Hopefully this just opens the floodgates.
Sonoya Mizuno /
Binary
African
African Americans
Asians
False
Opens
Panther
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It's important to protect the old and the vulnerable, who are at the highest risk of severe illness and bad outcomes. But like most issues of medicine, it isn't a binary choice. Given the uncertainties of how this virus spreads and its high risk of infirmities, it would be unwise to abandon efforts to limit Covid spread wherever possible.
Scott Gottlieb /
Abandon
Binary
Given
Illness
Important
Issues
Medicine
Outcomes
Protect
Risk
Severe
Spread
Unwise
Vulnerable
Bad
Choice
Possible
Covid
Old
High
Efforts
Would
Limit
Uncertainties
Virus
Wherever
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String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe - from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars; from the primordial fireball of the big bang to the majestic swirl of heavenly galaxies - are reflections of one, grand physical principle, one master equation.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Dance
Bangs
Binary
Frantic
Happenings
Heavenly
Majestic
Reflection
Stars
String Theory
Theory
Universe
Waltz
Wondrous
Bang
Big Bang
Master
Equation
Galaxies
Grand
Physical
Potential
Primordial
Reflections
Stately
String
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If you're looking for like, a pure base for your behavior on stage, maybe it's better to say, "Yeah, you're not obliged to pretend. But, you're also obliged to not pretend." So you have access to both sides, if you will. It's never a pure binary thing, but you can pretend. If you have total agency as a performer, then both are at your disposal.
Richard Maxwell / Theater Director
Behavior
Binary
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