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It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. Martin Luther King, Jr.

White Society Crimes Negroes Born Greater Committed Deplorable Derivative

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.' Myron Scholes

Futures Exchange Call Contract Them Derivative Derivatives

To me, the Ennio Morricone kind of sound is a derivative of soul music. Adrian Younge

Music Me Soul Kind Soul Music Sound Derivative

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman. Alan Furst

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative. Bennett Miller

Feel Attracted Does Am Anything Derivative

A credit derivative, at its core, is actually a very simple concept... The simplest way to think of a credit derivative is it is analogous to insurance against the risk of a credit default by your counterparty, your business counterpart. Blythe Masters

Business Simple Think Way Risk Simplest Counterpart Concept Insurance Very Against Your Derivative Credit Actually Default Core

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around. Calista Flockhart

Carry Compliment Diva Divine Take Around Quite Title Derivative Actually

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt

Good Communication Writing Reading Believe Think Good Writing Derivative

Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough. Eddie Vedder

Beatles Problem Vision Rare Pure Enough Our Daniel About Absolutely Like Always Sound Sounds Bands Influences The Problem With Anything Asked Derivative Who Even Seattle Early

I don't sit around listening to beats all day. There's so many producers, and so much of it is derivative. Flying Lotus

Day Listening Sit All Day Beats Around Much Producers Derivative Many

I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring. Mary Timony

Music Boring Feel Like Rock Rock Music Much Derivative Starting

I'm a voracious reader. What that does is keep your mind fresh and active and hearing different voices and different styles. TV can be derivative, and if you just watch TV, you're not widening the circle. Nina Tassler

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. Norman Davies

Capitalism Communism Living Defeat Aim Saw Detroit Lifestyle Poland Poles Surge Led Chicago Derivative Many Millions

In bitter almond oil, like in a great number of other substances that previously had been counted among the 'aromatic compounds' on behalf of their strong smell, a derivative of benzene is present. The special properties of benzene and its derivatives are caused by the typical arrangement of their carbon atoms. Otto Wallach

Great Strong Atoms Smell Other Typical Bitter Compounds Properties Counted Had Like Arrangement Caused Been Behalf Substances Oil Derivative Derivatives Special Carbon Among Present Number

I can tell you, because I serve on so many nonprofit boards - where half of us are academics and half of us are from Wall Street - that there's no CEO who understands at all a derivative. All they know is that somebody tells them in their organization, 'We've got a wonderful profit center.' Paul Samuelson

You Wonderful Organization Somebody Half Profit Tell Tells Know Academics Because Got Understands Nonprofit Wall Wall Street Where Center Boards Them CEO Us Derivative Who Many Serve Street

You have a lot of companies developing stuff that's just derivative. If 'The Voice' is the No. 1 show on TV, they say, 'Let's do 100 different versions of 'The Voice.' The problem is, by the time you get to market, it's already saturated, and everybody hates the format. Shane Smith

Time You Problem Everybody Market Say TV Hates Voice Developing Stuff Lot Versions Get Just Different Format Derivative Show Companies They Say Saturated By The Time

The Indian economy has declined because of the peculiar Indian 'invention' of that perfidious financial derivative called Participatory Notes, or PNs, otherwise known as the crony/crooked facilitator for black-money-based portfolio investment. No other country would think of such a derivative. Subramanian Swamy

Financial Invention Country Think Other Otherwise Would Indian Investment Participatory Economy Known Because Notes Declined Derivative Portfolio Peculiar

I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else. Tom Selleck

Work Else Guess Dances Tried Some Something Something Else Dead Said Wolves Western Westerns Moved Moved On After Derivative

A lot of songs are derivative of each other. Tori Amos

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