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Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.
James Harden / Basketball Player
Focal Point
Focal
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As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank Ocean / Singer
Focal Point
Healthy Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Unhealthy
Focal
Innately
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To make the hips the focal point of a pair of trousers is, to me, a fashion mistake.
John Cooper Clarke / Poet
Fashion
Focal Point
Hips
Mistake
Trousers
Focal
Pair
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I've been working hard to be one of the focal points in the NBA, one of the top guys.
Kawhi Leonard /
Nba
Focal
Working Hard
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President Obama has made a minimum wage increase a focal point of his economic agenda.
Tom Perez /
Economic
Focal Point
Increase
Minimum
Minimum Wage
President Obama
Obama
Focal
Wage
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To create a new resume of films and expressions is the only focal point for 2014 for me.
Padmapriya Janakiraman /
Focal Point
Expressions
Focal
Resume
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I miss being the focal point of the team - the guy everyone looks to for decisions. And guidance.
Alastair Cook / Cricketer
Focal Point
Guidance
Focal
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My children are the focal point of my life. I was asking for a little more time to spend with them.
Hunter Tylo / Actress
Asking
Children
Focal Point
Littles
Life Time My Life
Focal
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
Gail Simmons / Television Personality
Children
Focal Point
House
Mother
Focal
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I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candles, which are expensive.
Sandra Lee / Author
Buying
Expensive
Flower
Focal Point
Going Out
Tables
Candles
Flowers
Focal
Table
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo / Poet
Wisdom
Circles
Facts
Ideas
Mankind
Single
Center
Circle
Focal
Points
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The family is the focal point of our existence. And up until Jane and Lucy's death, there were always 16 of us together for Christmas.
Richard Attenborough / Actor
Christmas
Focal Point
Jane
Lucy
Focal
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I think I'm a focal point for everyone. It's obvious that all the fans are watching every move that I make, and so why wouldn't the refs?
Grayson Allen /
Focal Point
Obvious
Focal
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I never enjoyed being the star-man because as soon as you become the focal point of the team, you assume an extra burden of responsibility.
Gabriel Batistuta / Soccer Player
Burden
Focal Point
Assume
Extra
Focal
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno / Musician
Behind The Scenes
Focal Point
Roles
Spotlight
Uncomfortable
Behind
Extremely
Focal
Point
Role
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Fake eyelashes can instantly give me a more dramatic look and also help to accentuate my eyes, which are a focal point to achieving the Lion Babe look.
Jillian Hervey /
Accentuate
Babe
Dramatic
Eyelashes
Fake
Focal Point
Give Me
Eyes Me Look
Achieving
Eyes Look Me
Focal
Instantly
Lion
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When you break out the acoustic guitar, the words are the focal point unless you're the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar. So the words have to have meaning.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Acoustic Guitar
Focal Point
Hendrix
Acoustic
Focal
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The coach is the focal point of the team, but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.
Louis Van Gaal / Football Manager
Common Goal
Focal Point
Open Mind
Work Together Mind
Focal
Work Together
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The main problem that we have in Lebanon, and in the region, is we don't have a real peace process and I think this is the main focal problem that we have in the region.
Saad Hariri / Political Leader
Lebanon
Problem
Process
Focal
Main
Peace Process
Region
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When I first ran for Congress in the 1990s, my background as an openly gay Asian was one of the focal points of the campaign, and, in fact, my opponent attacked me for it.
Mark Takano / United States Representative
Asian
Congress
Gay
Ran
Background
Attacked
Campaign
Focal
In Fact
Openly
Points
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I will be the focal point for however long I decide to play. Half of me likes that idea and half of me doesn't, but once the adrenaline kicks in, I'll probably really enjoy it.
Martin Gore / Songwriter
Adrenaline
Focal Point
Ideas
Likes
Long
Play
Me Long Will
Long Me Will
Focal
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I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them.
Brandon Sanderson / Writer
Important
Scene
Writing
Focal
Generally
Towards
Outline
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Food is so important - it sustains us, it provides a social focal point, and it is fun. I cannot unravel the difference between love in my family and the preparation of food because they are so closely woven.
Adriana Trigiani / Novelist
Differences
Focal Point
Fun
Preparation
Woven
Love Family Food
Closely
Focal
Provides
Sustains
Unravel
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Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.
Haskell Wexler / Film Cinematographer
Focal Point
Framing
Focal
Motion
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People understand the simplicity of violence, and martial arts has always been about the more efficient way to deliver said violence upon an adversary. I've kept that philosophy as the focal point of what I do.
Samoa Joe / Professional Wrestler
Efficient
Focal Point
Martial Arts
Simplicity
Adversary
Deliver
Focal
People Way Always
Martial
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We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.
Hu Jintao / Former General Secretary Of The Communist Party Of China
China
Dividing
Fields
Hostile
Ideological
International
Long
Long Term
Plot
Strategic
Clearly
Cultural
Focal
Forces
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I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.
Scott Adams / Comic Strip Creator
Burned
Drawing
Fancy
Hands
Cramp
Draw
Finger
Focal
Symptom
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Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others.
Harvey V. Fineberg / Medical Doctor
Autism
Classic
Disorder
Inability
Relate
Severe
Withdrawal
Behaviors
Characterized
Focal
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I understand the power of music, I understand the therapeutic nature of music, the sense of community that music engenders, so I totally understand why it still goes on, choirs come together as a focal point for a community.
Michael Ball /
Focal Point
Therapeutic
Nature Power Music
Choirs
Focal
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The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
Arthur Henderson / British Politician
Anarchy
Conflict
Disarmament
Focal Point
Inevitable
Order
Struggle
Thinking
World Order
Peace Great World
Armed
Conference
Durable
Focal
Seek
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The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp /
Focal Point
Intriguing
Plot
Good Great Me
Good Great May
Favorites
Focal
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If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.
Josh Mcdowell / Writer
Forgiveness
Jesus
Easter
Christ
Focal Point
Jesus Christ
Past
Redemption
Relevant
Time Future History
Future Time History
Claimed
Cross
Focal
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With Dream Theater live, I may have been a bit of a focal point because I absolutely live for the energy on stage, and having interaction with the audience is absolutely crucial to me - regardless of how some others have described it!
Mike Portnoy / Drummer
Dream
Audience
Crucial
Energy
Focal Point
Interaction
Stage
Theater
Absolutely
Bit
May Me Live
Focal
Point
Regardless
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At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Sports
April
Focal Point
Football
Notre Dame
Sports Illustrated
Spring
Week
Arrived
Copy
Cover
Dame
Focal
Illustrated
Issue
Point
Underway
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
Patrick Geddes / Planner
Civilized
Focal Point
Plant
School
Subjects
Summer
World
World Day Every Day
Capital
Civilized World
French
Focal
Intend
Merely
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If God is first, and you kind of center everything else around Him being the main focal point, you really can make decisions that will not only mold you, but God will see exactly how you're making your decisions and then will bless you for it.
Aj Michalka /
Bless
Focal Point
Mold
God Your Will
Decisions
Center
Everything Else
Exactly
Focal
God Will Your
Main
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The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.
Eliot Spitzer / Former Governor Of New York
Focal Point
Party
Principles
Tea
Tea Party
Actual
Candidate
Electoral
Organizing
Focal
Measures
Occupy
Principle
Squarely
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We used to talk about wanting to get some money, but that's when hip-hop was based on your dreams and your fantasy. The whole thing now is the dreams and fantasies were achieved, and you don't want to make it the focal point. You can't keep beating that dead horse.
Sean Combs /
Fantasy
Focal Point
Horse
Your Dreams
Achieved
Beating
Dead Horse
Fantasies
Focal
Wanting
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In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.
Marcus Samuelsson / Chef
Ceremony
Ethiopia
Focal Point
Hands
Preparation
Spiritual
Strong
Washing
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Through
Funerals
Often
Daily
Else
Focal
Lens
Looked
Meal
Point
Sharing
Weddings
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I was glad that I could be used as a focal point to possibly bandy around some ideas, and maybe people would open their eyes to Obama's socialist ideology. However, there were so many important issues to be discussed other than the 'Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber.'
Joe Wurzelbacher /
Focal Point
Glad
Ideology
Important Issues
Plumber
Socialist
Discussed
Focal
Joe
Possibly
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DJing is an art that I have the utmost respect for, and I've been practising it since I was 17 years old. Doing Tom Cruise wedding-type things becomes the focal point of every interview, and you realize that you have to cut it out if you don't want to be answering questions about that.
Mark Ronson / Musician
Art
Cruise
Cutting
Focal Point
Years
Answering
Focal
Interview
Practising
Tom
Tom Cruise
Utmost
Utmost Respect
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Everyone in the group sang when I joined them. That was one of the problems with L.T.D.: there was no focal point. It took until 1976, or about six or seven years, before I was put into the spotlight as a vocalist. That's when I recorded 'Love Ballad,' and it became a hit for the group.
Jeffrey Osborne / Musician
Focal Point
Six
Spotlight
Vocalist
Ballad
Hit
Focal
Group
Joined
Sang
One Of The Problems
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What the ultrafast laser does is that because it doesn't have to just cut from the surface, it's only at the intense focal point that it does this damage where the electrons come off the atoms, you could actually put your laser and scan it over your cornea and it would cut underneath that.
Donna Strickland /
Atoms
Damage
Focal Point
Intense
Electron
Focal
Laser
Scan
Underneath
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I have an understanding of how much is at stake in football, how much money is at stake, how much investment there is and what it means to the fans. It's an emotional game. It's a focal point for communities. It's escapism for fans. Sport is a wonderful thing but it is just that: sport. It is my job.
Nigel Pearson /
Escapism
Focal Point
Money Football Game
Focal
How Much Money
Wonderful Thing
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Yom HaShoah is a vital day in the Jewish calendar, providing us with a focal point for our remembrance. We cannot bring the dead back to life, but we can bring their memory back to life and ensure they are not forgotten. We can undertake in our lives to do what they were so cruelly prevented from doing in theirs.
Jonathan Sacks / Rabbi
Calendars
Focal Point
Forgotten
Memories
Our Lives
Providing
Remembrance
Jewish
Bring
Calendar
Dead
Ensure
Focal
Memory
Point
Undertake
Vital
We Cannot
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There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm most proud of is that TechStars has provided a real focal point for this sort of activity and has brought attention to just how impactful one community can be when it works together.
David Cohen /
Focal Point
No Doubt
Supportive
Boulder
Existed
Focal
Provided
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My church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, puts Jesus Christ at the focal point. It's the focus of everything. What I really hope is that people of faith in this country can come together in this election to ensure we elect a president who's going to do what's required to protect this basic principle of our country.
Evan Mcmullin /
Focal Point
Jesus Christ
Elect
Ensure
Focal
Principle
Puts
Required
Saints
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