#predominant

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. ↗

— Ralph Allen

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My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#clothes #home #predominantly #predominately #white

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me. ↗

— Taye Diggs

#black #club #dance #i #last

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#africa #agenda #developing #developing world #farmers

In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#find #predominant #work

You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#basically #because #city #education #experience

We are here predominantly to support independent filmmakers and their needs. We are also here to assist people actually in their production, non-commercial people in their production. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

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In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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