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I would like to uncover the secrets of the universe.
Megan Fox / Actress
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Our dream is to one day uncover the essence of what makes us human.
Paul Allen / Philanthropist
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The horror genre has long been used to uncover the dark underbelly of things.
Misha Green /
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Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.
Norodom Sihanouk / Monarch
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R. Buckminster Fuller / Architect
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God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
James Clavell / Novelist
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Wonder
Wonder Of Nature
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I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.
Edward St Aubyn / Author
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Music can help uncover that tone that's in the fabric of the movie. Sometimes it's very plain to see, sometimes it's not.
James Newton Howard / Film Score Composer
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera / Writer
Doe
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Existence
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I wrote 'Bamboozled' to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote.
Angela Mcglowan / Commentator
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Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
John Irving / Novelist
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I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.
Karen Maitland / Author
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It was this fascination with hidden lives, I suspect, that led me to journalism; seeking to uncover the truth about people became a job.
Fiona Barton /
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Every time I come to India - where I have grown up - if I spent 20 years in this country, I will never be able to uncover all of the hidden jewels.
Maneet Chauhan / Television Personality
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The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness - and sometimes sadness - of things we see every day.
Rachel Sklar / Lawyer
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Silliness
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Every Day
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The people and opportunities your business needs are out there, but the only way to uncover them is to take an active role in bringing your social network to life.
Lewis Howes /
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Entrepreneurs are moving from a world of problem-solving to a world of problem-finding. The very best ones are able to uncover problems people didn't realize that they had.
Daniel H. Pink / Author
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No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.
Cofer Black / Corporate Consultant
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There are artists who delight listeners with their wild and daring individuality; there are others who uncover the written score with reverence. There are few who can do both.
Stephen Hough /
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If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
Bob Parsons /
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We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.
Louis Farrakhan / American Political Leader
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Glory
Liberation
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People
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The function of journalism is, primarily, to uncover vital new information in the public interest and to put that information in a context so that we can use it to improve the human condition.
Joshua Oppenheimer / Film Director
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Human Condition
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Interest
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The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.
Alice Mcdermott / Writer
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I consider myself to be a guerrilla journalist. Some would call me a provocateur, but I am a journalist who uses ambush and undercover tactics to uncover the truth and expose people for who they truly are.
Laura Loomer /
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Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover God's great plan.
Bernard Beckett / Writer
Enlightenment
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Our World
God Men Great
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Despite constant vilifying by the media and congressional threats to take away the tools needed to uncover plots, FBI agents and CIA officers work silently around the clock and risk their own lives to keep us safe.
Ronald Kessler /
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
Tammy Duckworth / U.s. Representative
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Disability
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Therapy
Trauma
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True
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The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu Krishnamurti / Writer
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Unknown
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I never want to make people upset, but sometimes we may. When I interview people, I try to make it clear that our obligation is to what we uncover and to telling that story and to presenting it fairly and making sure everyone has a say.
David Grann / Journalist
Clear
Obligation
Presenting
Upset
People Sometimes Never
May People Sometimes
Fairly
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Just as producers often give consumers things they want but didn't think to ask for, consumers sometimes come up with surprising uses for new inventions. When a new product appears, it can uncover dissatisfactions and desires no one knew were there.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
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As a kid, I learned from my parents, teachers, coaches, and friends that what mattered most was Truth - to uncover it, share it and fight for it. That core value is the foundation of the American Dream. And my life has been about fighting for Truth, at every step.
Shiva Ayyadurai /
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The arrival of DNA testing has brought new dimensions to the investigation of crime. It has brought resolution to old cases where past investigators were unable to uncover the truth. It has brought justice in new cases where once the truth might never have been known.
Chris Grayling / British Politician
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Dna
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Writing for theatre is certainly different to writing an essay or any other kind of fiction or prose: it's physical. You're also telling a story, but sometimes the story isn't exactly what you intend; maybe you uncover something you had no idea you were going to uncover.
Sam Shepard / Playwright
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.
Margaret Atwood / Poet
Crystals
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Genesis
Metaphor
Problem
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Words
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Genealogy is among the fastest-growing leisure pursuits in the U.K. Indeed, the urge to uncover the truth about our ancestors has proved so compelling that, when the 1901 census first went online, the website crashed after a million people logged on within hours of its launch.
Rory Bremner / Impressionist
Census
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Genealogy
Leisure
Online
Website
Ancestors
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'Ready Player One' has it all - nostalgia, trivia, adventure, romance, heart, and, dare I say it, some very fascinating social commentary. The novel follows Wade Watts through the virtual reality world, the OASIS, and on a quest to uncover and unlock the secrets buried deep inside.
Rebecca Serle /
Adventure
Buried
Commentary
Dare
Deep Inside
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Nostalgia
Oasis
Player
Ready
Reality
Romance
Trivia
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Quest
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Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
Margaret D. Nadauld /
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Heaven
Modesty
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The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.
Beau Willimon / Playwright
Mouthpiece
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Odds
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Wake Up
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It may be that by watching everywhere we go, by watching everything we do, by analyzing every word we say, by waiting and passing judgment over every association we make and every person we love, that we could uncover a terrorist plot, or we could discover more criminals. But is that the kind of society we want to live in?
Edward Snowden / System Administrator
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Association
Criminals
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Passing
Plot
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Waiting
Everywhere
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I was the little French boy who grew up hearing people talk of De Gaulle and the Resistance. France against the Nazis! Then when that boy grew up, he began to uncover things. We began to legitimately ask the question, 'What exactly did our parents do during the Occupation?' We discovered it was not the story they were telling us.
Jacques Audiard / Film Director
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France
Occupation
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People
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I grew up poor and white. While my class oppression has been relatively visible to me, my race privilege has not. In my efforts to uncover how race has shaped my life, I have gained deeper insight by placing race in the center of my analysis and asking how each of my other group locations have socialized me to collude with racism.
Robin Diangelo /
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Insight
Oppression
Racism
Visible
Life Me My Life
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I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.
Russell Crowe / Actor
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A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.
André Aciman / Writer
Disguise
Memoir
Needs
Secret
Shameful
Wish
Writer
All Writers
Deep
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Hidden
Learns
Nerve
Personal
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As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on.
Jean Fritz / Writer
Letters
Newspapers
Old Books
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