" His parents "ceased preaching to him about his ambitions.
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Indeed, is such a show merely preaching to the converted?
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I don't see the point of preaching to the converted.
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He's not preaching to the choir: He's bragging to it.
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Presenting at Celebration isn't just preaching to the converted; it's preaching to an audience that's actually incentivized to be moved, particularly after they've shelled out hundreds of dollars, or traveled thousands of miles, to attend.
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Importing mountain-veneration to Japan was, admittedly, preaching to the converted.
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And not just in the sense of preaching to the converted.
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But on election night, Trump won't only be preaching to the converted.
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For Trump, it is just another way of preaching to the converted.
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People call it preaching to the choir, I call it choir rehearsal.
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But the conversation feels useless if you're only preaching to the choir.
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It was a signifier that he was not preaching to the converted.
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"He's not just interested in preaching to the converted," Mr. Alterman said.
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Get them in here and preach to them like you're preaching to us.
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Moralizing about the content of Rogers's images would be preaching to the choir.
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There's a point, I feel like, where you're just preaching to the choir.
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Most meditation apps and books, however well-intentioned, are preaching to the choir.
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"Before November, as an organizer, you were preaching to the choir," she said.
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But thus far, the Scientology Network's offerings are, well, preaching to the choir.
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"The idea of preaching to the choir gets a bad rap," he said.
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But in addressing the manufacturers association, Mr. Trump was preaching to the choir.
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This being New York City, he may be mostly preaching to the choir.
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And these poetry circles can feel like we're just preaching to each other.
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" DeGeneres pointed to her own pantsuit and joked, "You're preaching to the choir, sister.
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He was preaching to me to take care of my body off the field.
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Sitting at home posting articles and memes on Facebook is preaching to the choir.
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Most of these videos show Jeffries preaching to a captive audience of state workers.
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Others have criticized the film for not being persuasive, or for preaching to the choir.
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But it's preaching to the converted, and Trump and his team have radically different ideas.
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And Prince's musical ministry was not about preaching to the choir like most gospel artists.
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She transcends the dreary impression, endemic to most institutional critique, of preaching to a choir.
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No matter how well-made its films might be, PBS is preaching to the choir.
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But the hope is that eventually it won't be all about preaching to the choir.
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I JUST KEEP PREACHING TO OUR GUYS THAT IF YOU SEE A PROBLEM, ATTACK IT IMMEDIATELY.
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But, as Silverman points out, those programs are doing a lot of preaching to the choir.
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We may be preaching to the choir, but there's a finesse to getting layering down pat.
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But he isn't winning over new audiences with Fox News; he's just preaching to the choir.
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They are also known for going door-to-door and preaching to others about the organization.
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First, they're alienating large portions of their potential audience, preaching to a smaller, pre-sold choir.
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He feels that it should also confront all of humanity instead of preaching to the choir.
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The biggest mistake inexperienced union organizers make is spending precious time preaching to the choir, i.e.
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They do not want to appear to be preaching to the rest of the Arab world.
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It is not just the hours of preaching to the right-wing choir in the evenings.
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We're also busy hatching eggs on our phones these days, so you know, preaching to the choir!
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All too often, sadly, these calls can seem narrow and self-serving, preaching to the already converted.
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"We have spent too long preaching to the converted," the executive said of talks with the Treasury.
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The book isn't interested in preaching to the converted or detailing the myriad horrors of animal farming.
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Moshe did not back away from critics who may have considered his early preaching to be brainwashing.
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Hours of talks from like-minded thinkers, brilliant though they may be, feels like preaching to choir.
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You may hate notches, and I may be preaching to the choir here by complaining about Google's.
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And hey, preaching to the choir isn't a terrible strategy when things are already going your way.
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You know, it was preaching to the converted—you can be a Trump supporter and like Hairspray.
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To the extent it has a liberal message, Game of Thrones is simply preaching to the converted.
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It is boring for me to talk at a Hempfest rally because you're preaching to the choir.
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But is Hotez just preaching to the converted, or will he be able to quell vaccine doubts?
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"This increases the likelihood Infowars is preaching to a filter bubble versus reaching new audiences," she said.
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He told Aras the meeting was not with lawyers and they were 'preaching to the wrong crowd.
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I was preaching to myself, coaching myself, providing a moral and ethical underpinning for my own disclosure.
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The group is uninterested in, ahem, preaching to the choir, preferring works that are suggestive and ambiguous.
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Had they known that all along he'd been a predator to the very youth he'd been preaching to?
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Ever get the feeling that we're preaching to the choir all day, every day on Twitter and Facebook?
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"I'm a big believer in preaching to the converted because they'll sing a little louder," Barber says diplomatically.
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The common thread across the day's events was a weary acceptance that panelists were preaching to the choir.
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Sadly, Flake was preaching to the liberal choir in the Acela corridor, not his voters out in Arizona.
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Despite all his success, Mikkelson admits to sometimes getting frustrated because he feels he's just preaching to the choir.
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The Alto study points to a problem fact-checkers have long suspected: they are often preaching to the choir.
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The question is whether such stories impact Trump supporters or amount to "preaching to the choir" in tribal America.
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Either way, the genre endures, no longer preaching to the converted—and, sometimes, no longer preaching at all. ♦
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We're probably preaching to the choir right now, but iPad Pros are possibly the best tablet you can get.
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You may also wonder if I am preaching to the choir; doesn't everyone reading this story already appreciate print?
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When classical music composers get political, they often do it at the risk of preaching to the proverbial choir.
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Preaching to a congregation is "how ... you gain energy and even grace," as a priest, he explained to me.
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Even if Mr. Trump is not shouting into the void on Twitter, he is often preaching to the converted.
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Part of this is preaching to the choir, as comedy viewers tend to be younger and more liberal on average.
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In one Facebook photo, the pup is doing an adorable job "preaching to the fish," writes Kasper Maruisz Kapron Ofm.
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To make sure she wasn't just preaching to the choir, she sent the clip to Reagan Battalion, a conservative blog.
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She was preaching to the converted - Francis wrote a document in 2015 on protection of the environment from global warming.
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I applaud your paper's continued efforts in this regard, notwithstanding my fear that you are largely preaching to the choir.
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Kelly Jones compared Mr. Jones's marketing to that of a televangelist, preaching to his faithful, selling cures and soliciting donations.
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She's not preaching to the choir if nobody else is taking the same action or is doing what she's doing.
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Dedicated activists spent hundreds of thousands of hours preaching to youth against poisonous, extremist ideas mandated by Sudan's school curriculums.
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Discussing the band's future plans, if any, Mr. Finn sounded like an athlete preaching to take things game by game.
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If Asprey and Strauss are Gods for the performance-obsessed agnostic, then they are preaching to a fully-committed, muscular choir.
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And while it could come off as preaching to the converted, they are sentiments that offer levity in the darkest moments.
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If black Americans feel like they have been preaching to the choir, particularly on social media, it's because they have been.
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She was preaching to largely Israel-hostile German viewership and her message meshes well with Obama's posture toward the Jewish state.
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And with Gianni Infantino, FIFA's newly elected president, expected to be in attendance, King will apparently be preaching to the converted.
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But if his objective is to sway regional leaders on Venezuela, then he will probably be preaching to the wrong choir.
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A transgender rights group has landed a commercial spot that will ensure its message is preaching to anything but the choir.
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I'm taking away from Black History month the image of Spike Lee preaching to the nation about the significance of 1619.
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Founded by minister William Booth in 1852, the organization initially focused on preaching to marginalized people, including the poor and homeless.
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Mr. Millies's argument is a case of "preaching to the choir" about the need for political change if ever there was one.
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And good filmmakers want to avoid simply preaching to the choir — especially challenging given the leftward tilt of the documentary film world.
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Spence is preaching to the converted, but as Ray engages in some dangerous negotiations, the sermon seems good for his spirits anyway.
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"This is what PT and Haddad are preaching to your kids," a man declares in one video while showcasing the fake bottle.
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"There's an essence of the March for Science that's preaching to the choir and unlikely to convert anyone," Baird analyst Skorney said.
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Whether FOX News or The Daily Show, hosts with ratings will continue preaching to the choir, shunning all who dare oppose them.
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To judge from the crowd's cheers, the show was preaching to the left-leaning choir, its celebrity pals a basket of adorables.
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A key principle in political communication is that candidates for public office may not be successful by exclusively preaching to the choir.
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"From Ali's point of view, 'This is one of the guys I have been preaching to kill for years,'" Mr. Raja recalled.
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By 1976, the elder Moon was preaching to estimated crowds of 23,000 or more at a series of rallies across the country.
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The militants drove the girls back into the town, preaching to locals against enrolling their children to school in an unprecedented propaganda effort.
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Sometimes, when I see friends on Facebook posting political links with irate messages, my first thought is, You are preaching to the converted.
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This may seem like a bit of "sore loser" behavior or preaching to a left wing choir, but sometimes the choir needs music.
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He was outside the church, in the proverbial street, preaching to people who didn't realize he was putting spiritual messages in their heads.
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Like Ken Loach, Arteta is clearly confident of preaching to the converted, and of whipping up indignation at those who mean us harm.
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Preaching to the flock from his first Bible, he finds the voice that leads him to his vocation, one he still practices today.
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" Because, he added: "The greatest goal of climate change programs is to first find a new audience and stop preaching to the converted.
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On March 18, Dr. King came to Memphis to encourage the strikers and their supporters, preaching to a full house at Mason Temple.
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He has a new wife and new kids, and he's constantly preaching to Beck about how she needs to get her life together.
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But I did have a gnawing sense that it was time to stop talking to my own side, preaching to my own choir.
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"For years, we've been preaching to the kids that 'the only difference between you and the kid from Vancouver is where you're living.'"
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Jeff coped with his childhood by preaching to his sons, and his focus on talking led to children who think he's incapable of listening.
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Telling hockey fans about how great Sidney Crosby is almost seems like a waste of time; at this point, you're preaching to the choir.
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If you're talking politics on Twitter, in all likelihood you're either preaching to the choir, or letting your arguments fall on deaf, angry ears.
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He's done, as he put it, with "preaching to the choir": rapping politics to the white liberals who compose the majority of his fanbase.
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If I were to write for the present, I would either be preaching to the converted or else wasting my time on the unconverted.
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The Koran itself does not hold Muhammad above reproach, as it chides him for preaching to a rich man while ignoring a blind one.
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He wants to stop preaching to the choir, but has to make careful decisions about touring with bands who don't share the same ideals.
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Getting it to the people who are marching is important, and it's a gesture of solidarity, but it is also preaching to the converted.
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A mainstay of American and British economic commentary is preaching to the likes of France and Italy that they need more flexible labor markets.
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"The idea that we're strictly preaching to the converted is not true," said Tim Murtaugh, the communications director for Mr. Trump's re-election campaign.
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The film seems to ask if King's plea for a more equitable society was in vain: he is preaching to a city in ruin.
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"So much of the problem with woke dramas is that it really is preaching to the choir," The Good Fight co-creator Robert King said.
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In that way, the film is also likely to be received by its own metaphorical church choir, achieving little more than preaching to its members.
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As a consequence, the main danger with the film -- and indeed, all similar fare -- is the perception these efforts risk simply preaching to the choir.
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The judge said he believed the preacher did not set out to cause offence and was "preaching to the converted rather than the worldwide internet".
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That's what the gaggle of brands preaching to you online to get out and vote seem to think their relationship to your life is like.
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Josie Long and Jonny Donahoe have responded to the accusations of preaching to the left-wing choir by starting a tour designed for conservative audiences.
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"The government has been preaching to people to prepare themselves for hurricanes, but they haven't done their part to prepare by picking someone to lead."
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Graham was in Canada this weekend—not under some tent in rural Alberta, but preaching to a packed 20,000-seat stadium in rainy, progressive Vancouver.
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We spoke with Barclay about their own journey toward self-acceptance, the difficulties faced when preaching to queer people, and the future of LGBTQ ministry.
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They are forever preaching to the converted, while their social distance also leaves them unprepared for what's coming from the other end of the spectrum.
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"He was preaching to kill people," said A.G.M. Anees, who has served as an imam at a small mosque in the area for a decade.
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I might be preaching to a fairly large choir, but there are solvers who still need to be nudged to give Sunday crosswords a try.
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"We're used to sharing our social/political beliefs on social media but as the election showed us, we're all preaching to ourselves," Hirschberg told Fast Company.
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My reaction seeing something called a "psychedelic dinner" is that it's preaching to the choir, for people who are already interested in the value of MDMA.
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In a blog post, Associate Professor of Medieval History Rachel Fulton Brown frames Yiannopoulis as a messenger of truth preaching to a populace sick of lies.
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And with a mostly like-minded list of participants on hand, there's a risk the conference could amount to little more than preaching to the converted.
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Preaching to middle-class liberals will not be enough, since almost all those 64 most winnable constituencies contain a high concentration of Brexit-supporting C2 voters.
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"Part of why Gamergate happened in the first place was because you had these people online preaching to these groups of disaffected young men," he said.
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I am always preaching to these guys that we are giving these dogs a second chance, like they're getting a second chance to get back into society.
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"He's been preaching to African-Americans from a backdrop of white people," Jackson, the pastor of the Great Faith Ministries Congregation in Detroit, told CNN on Friday.
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We all know that if someone is preaching to you too much, trying to shove a message down your throat it's like, 'No, get away from me!
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Clinton "wants to be held accountable for that commitment," Leibenluft said, one that she's preaching to voters would get through in the near immediacy of her presidency.
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But if those youthful zealots refused to meet people in the confusing situations where they really were, they might find themselves preaching to an ever-smaller audience.
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To be able to slip it in so that it doesn't look like someone is preaching to you, but it is there and can make you think.
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Eminem risks just preaching to the converted—digging in further to the notion that we all get stuck in bubbles online, where our own views are reinforced.
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At a white bungalow around the corner, Mr. Meier found — finally — that he was preaching to the choir with Bobby Daniels, 50, and his wife, Andrea, 46.
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But preaching to liberals in London and the university towns will only further alienate the "Mondeo Man" voters who have developed a penchant for switching their votes.
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Around this time, television screens were installed all over campus, and the senatorial face of our pastor bobbed around on each one, preaching to nobody in particular.
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"What I've been preaching to them is to get it, because it will make ends meet until the furlough is over," Mr. Reaves said of his members.
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Upon one occasion, while she was preaching to an audience, doubts as to her sex were freely expressed, and be satisfied them that she was a woman.
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But at times, the movie feels most interested in indicting America for choosing Bush and Cheney in the first place — which means it's preaching to the choir.
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"I love that Ariel Winter is just so involved with preaching that message and preaching to everybody that you have to – just love whatever body you've been given."
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In 2015, Singh started a film franchise portraying him as MSG or "Messenger of God", performing miracles, preaching to thousands and beating up gangsters while singing and dancing.
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Dozens of people in the Sanders campaign's red, white and blue -- along with a couple holding "Birdie Sanders" signs -- huddled as speakers took turns preaching to the choir.
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I still haven't found a solution, though I do think more about how to reach people who are skeptical of science instead of always preaching to the converted.
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I'd love to see the president, or the most open minds on both sides of this issue, get together and start talking instead of preaching to the choir.
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This was in many ways a greatest-hits compilation on both Trump's and Clinton's part, both of them throwing out lines that were mainly preaching to the choir.
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They may be preaching to the choir in NYC, but in other parts of the U.S. ... the President's goal to business as usual on Easter is gaining traction.
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Wahi disputes this, and says that she does not believe in preaching to the converted, but wants to develop projects that give non-art enthusiasts access to contemporary work.
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If we're preaching to the choir and you already own one of these kitchen workhorses, geek out with the spiralizer attachment for $75 or the grinder attachment for $38.
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But at least in South Carolina, they're both preaching to the same choir—hell, the car parked behind us at Mutt's has a Trump bumper sticker on the back.
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I know perfectly well — by the nature of this very platform, by the type of person who would click on this article — that I am preaching to the choir.
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It seems more like Samsung is preaching to the choir: scoring cheap shots against the competition and making its own users and fans feel good about their tech life choices.
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Mr Murphy spends much of his time preaching to those who agree with him on guns—and indeed everything, a day with the senator in and around New Haven suggested.
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But by calling on the young to vote because "it is not enough for the young to sign online petitions" you fall into the trap of preaching to "apathetic" youth.
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Cramer has been preaching to investors that the market's recent strength has less to do with who is in the White House, and more to do with an improving global economy.
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For Stephens to win over new readers he'll need to make a strategic pivot, from preaching to a choir of Journal conservatives to winning over a Times audience of suspicious liberals.
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Although he was preaching to the converted - with those attending the fringe event likely to be fans of Johnson - his speech was widely applauded by the audience and he received standing ovation.
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" He said there's a lot of rhetoric about not preaching to people, but "to be scared of that going wrong, or not going there at all, I find not suitable for me.
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Bishop Ransom's discontentment arose while preaching to Chicago's "silk-stocking church," Bethel A.M.E.–the elite church–which had no desire to welcome the poor and jobless masses that came to the North.
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By contrast, mobilizing Saudi nationalism, especially by preaching to anti-foreigner instincts, as increasingly popular as such a strategy might be around the world these days, will offer some short-term advantages.
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According to Southern Baptist doctrine, that means women should "submit" to their husbands and be restricted from some leadership roles in the home and church, such as preaching to or teaching men.
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"I would join up with him and stand arm-in-arm with him, and preaching to whoever will listen that even though we're different, we're all brothers," he told CNN from prison.
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Jim Cramer has been preaching to investors that the market's recent strength has less to do with who is in the White House, and more to do with an improving global economy.
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Since it's pretty much guaranteed to be preaching to the choir, the aim of "Doomocracy" shouldn't be to persuade, but rather to entertain; the worst thing it could be is self-serious.
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That raises the question of whether the messaging skirmishes around severe weather and climate change are swaying public perceptions, or whether each side is just preaching to those who are already converted.
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Preaching to a packed crowd at a sports ground in the southern state of Chiapas, the pope quoted the Popol Vuh, a sacred Maya text, and drew comparisons between Catholic and indigenous values.
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" Here's a piece of that speech, which was later described by a journalist as leaving some feeling that she had been "condescending, preaching to a group of achievers about the need to achieve.
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It's not that they don't share the same ideals as most young, broke twenty-somethings, but the way they express politics can sometimes appear hamfisted, a bit Billy Bragg preaching to the converted.
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While both "Cameron Post" and "Boy Erased" will likely largely end up preaching to the choir, Edgerton's film feels calibrated -- as indeed, the filmmaker has articulated -- to engage the issue with considerable restraint.
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While Jesus was preaching to the newly converted, the Hindus were busy conducting in-depth studies of how to best spark, fulfil and maintain sexual desire, as documented in the infamous Kama Sutra.
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When Spanish missionaries arrived in Latin America, they used the Spanish symbol of the Grim Reaperess—known as La Parca—as a way to represent the fear of death while preaching to locals.
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Ms. Florence said, "Holy fools speak in big language, trying to say something like what Flannery O'Connor said: When you're preaching to those whose imaginations have grown numb, you have to preach big."
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Media coverage is also not what it might be, with some subscription-only, 'preaching-to-the-converted' live matches on Premier Sports, augmented by clubs' social media channels and generally strong local press coverage.
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Events like 24 Hours of Reality are a bit like preaching to the choir — the people who are going to listen to the broadcast are probably the ones who already care about climate change.
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His choice of "Francis" for his papal name might signify his interests in environmentalism, as St. Francis — the patron saint of animals and ecology — is remembered for preaching to birds and caring for nature.
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His unsparing, bracing attacks on Mr. Bush are now closer to common wisdom, and in our fragmented culture, where righteous voices and preaching to choirs are common, Mr. Cross doesn't sound so sanctimonious anymore.
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"The question for me in doing these shows is whether we're just preaching to the converted," said Ms. Reilly, who strategically placed the Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum in a well-trafficked area.
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"They're preaching to us about global warming when these elites are flying around the world in their private jets, burning more fuel in a day than we did in a year," Daby told me.
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"The message (Sanders) is preaching to the young is the same message for the seasoned voters, that your quality of life deserves better than what you have been getting in your lifetime," Turner said.
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And if it can feel like such documentaries wind up preaching to the choir, that's merely a reminder that our current divides aren't just along the lines of race and class, but culture as well.
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"When you're showing in a gallery, there's some part of it that's always like preaching to the choir; you have a sort of built-in audience that kind of already agrees with you," says Holland.
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Something really impactful my friend said, was that if you don't give people a chance to be interested in this shirt or project, you're preaching to the choir and that doesn't make any positive change.
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Francis Preaching to the Birds" to van Gogh's crows over a wheat field, and from natural history to fanciful, symbolic, and abstract renderings — for instance, Louise Nevelson's "bird forms" or Brancusi's aerodynamic "Bird in Space.
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Mr. Sharon knows that the Angelenos who attend his "Galileo," originally scheduled for September but now due in May, are unlikely to need much political persuading, but he sees no trouble preaching to the choir.
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"Now that Twitter is purging everyone, I think it's important for Gab to branch out and attract leftists so we're not just preaching to the choir," wrote Paul Joseph Watson, editor at large at Infowars.
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So I don't believe in letting that fear go on so a lot of my church is currently preaching to not look to being afraid: Fear shouldn't motivate you, it shouldn't be something that drives you.
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Probably not by preaching to the choir, which doesn't make his half-hour Netflix show "Bill Nye Saves the World" any less noteworthy as a breezy blow struck on behalf of science, despite a few structural miscalculations.
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The dictionary definition of "preaching to the bloody converted" is Jeremy Corbyn talking about democratic socialism to a crowd of NutriBullet enthusiasts in the Left Field, sandwiched between 'Big Bill's Radical Roundup' and 'Comedy with Elvis McGonagall'.
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While the movie provides solid cases against the logical fallacies made by left-wing activists, it fails to address free-speech violations on the political right and takes the safest route possible by preaching to the choir.
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So yes, Dave Eggers's anti-Trump 30 Days, 30 Songs project is a pretty clear case of preaching to the choir; there aren't many Sleater-Kinney or R.E.M. fans who were sitting on the fence in this election.
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According to both polls, viewers liked what Trump said on items such as the economy, immigration, and national security — but again, this was largely Trump preaching to the choir, as most presidents do during the State of the Union.
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But as public arts funding is threatened with cuts, and Mr. Trump unveils other contentious policies, many actors suddenly feel that they must speak out, even if they're preaching to a choir eager to lap up their every word.
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Some of this is preaching to the choir: John J. Flanagan, a Long Island Republican who leads the Senate, has signaled his support for ride-sharing upstate, and his Senate colleagues passed a bill to that end last session.
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We've been having discussions like this in smaller conversations, and a lot of time it's preaching to the choir, and so having somebody say that in a big address at the national meeting I think felt important and helpful to them.
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And anyway, it's very interesting the way we hear things, the way we react to things, the way that we are in our own echo chambers, the way that we're preaching to the choir, especially on social media and Twitter.
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As the women divulged their laments, across town Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's hot-headed president, was slamming "countries that...are still preaching to us about human rights", in front of leaders from such beacons of democracy as Azerbaijan, Venezuela and Russia.
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Pro-IS sites on Telegram frequently remind readers that Telegram is for sharing messages only among supporters, and "not a media platform for (preaching) to all Muslims and the West", in other words for recruiting sympathizers to join their cause.
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But the sources say McMaster repeatedly responded to Democratic senators' entreaties not to decertify Iran and instead look for bipartisan alternatives by saying that he is not the one they have to convince, suggesting they were preaching to the choir.
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But the sources say McMaster repeatedly responded to Democratic Senators entreaties not to decertify Iran and instead look for bipartisan alternatives by saying that he is not the one they have to convince, suggesting they were preaching to the choir.
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"A black reverend preaching to British royalty about the resilience of faith during slavery is 10000000% not what I thought I was waking up for, the royal wedding is good," Elamin Abdelmahmoud, social media editor at Buzzfeed, wrote on Twitter.
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"If you had the opportunity to say something funny whilst saying something important, people will then hear the message without feeling like you're preaching to them, like you're stomping it to them and I think that's what this movie does," he said.
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Add to that the carping on the "rigged" election, and his assertion and that he won't necessarily accept the results of the election ("I will tell you at the time" and "I'll keep you in suspense"), and you have a candidate preaching to his choir.
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There's a popular caricature of a cable news host: an opinionated, 50-something white man prone to heated rhetoric, willing to play loose with the facts in service of a broader point, preaching to the choir from the comfort of his own hour-long show.
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The Dakota pipeline, for example; seeing people come together, seeing Randy from Lamb Of God drive out there to the protest, seeing people into punk and metal wake up, out of this echo chamber and realize that preaching to the choir isn't going to get anything done.
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"She was in a government courtroom, dressed in a judicial robe, with all of the imprimatur of the state, including armed law enforcement officers, preaching to someone who was quite literally a captive audience, and even instructing her on which bible verses to read!" the filing stated.
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At the rally in Birmingham — an attempt to recreate the energy of the 2017 campaign — Mr. Corbyn talked without notes, preaching to the choir in a stump speech about soaking the rich and showering benefits on the less fortunate that he has been making for decades.
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That changed when Manson started preaching to his followers that he was, in essence, the second coming of Jesus Christ, and that it was their destiny to help him fulfill his dream of becoming a rockstar, so that his music could spread the good word to the world.
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I'm not even going to bother rating the anonymous act on display here because I think one man furiously DJ'ing to a crowd of absolutely no one while, later to be joined by another man holding a sign that read "preaching to the perverted," pretty much speaks for itself.
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Don't mistake this for the movie preaching to anybody, even in a scene in which the Browns confront their constantly vigilant neighbor Mr. Curry (Capaldi) over his inability to accept that Paddington is a good little bear, simply because Mr. Curry has prejudged Paddington due to how he looks.
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"Becoming friends with Lena – without her preaching to me, but just seeing why she believes what she believes, why she says what she says, why she stands for what she stands for – has made me realize that I've been taking a feminist stance without actually saying so," she told The Guardian.
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Many artists have spoken out against the Brexit campaign — most notably, Wolfgang Tillmans has produced a beautiful series of posters — and the creative industries have made their presence known across social media with pithy slogans and clever visual puns that are highly effective but sadly end up preaching to the converted.
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The U.S. government cannot — and Americans as individual citizens cannot — simply keep preaching to the world its long-standing values of tolerance, democracy, and individual rights without recognizing that, at least in some respects, the country's newest major cultural export is projecting a very different image of what it stands for.
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Not an adaptation; not just a new dimension; but a game or experience that can only work in VR. One so compelling that it drives ordinary people to use and buy VR hardware, rather than merely preaching to the choir of early adopters searching for content to justify the hardware they bought out of habit.
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Placing the series on the network was a deliberate move to reach an America less likely to already know the stories he adapts; "it would've been preaching to the choir" to place it with a premium cable channel, as Black said at a press screening of the first episode in New York this week.
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That he works in the grammar of European avant-garde cinema—often employing long takes in which nothing much happens, building toward climactic scenes in which all too much happens—rather than in the vernacular of Hollywood thrillers and action films raises another question: Is he merely preaching to a choir of festival juries and art-house audiences?
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"We all have to...be thankful for the bodies that we've been given because our bodies, they carry our souls!" she told ET. "So we have to love them and take care of them, and I love that Ariel Winter is just so involved with preaching that message and preaching to everybody that you have to...just love whatever body you've been given."
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It's been out that long—the original PS2 version came out in the summer of 2008—and has sold that many copies—Golden has done way more than a million globally, on an underperforming platform, making it the sixth-highest seller on Sony's handheld—that I'm more than likely preaching to the converted (or at least the already well aware).
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"You may think that when you tweet – I'm probably preaching to the choir, ya'll are angels I'm sure – but when you tweet to somebody like, okay, say you tweet to Demi Lovato, God Bless her, but you tweet something shady, she might see that – and like I just said, she's a human," Oakley said during a panel at VidCon 2016 in Anaheim, California, on Thursday.
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