Acknowledge Quotes - Page 39

• I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aesthetics more often than not informs her presentation of self and yet still acknowledge her beauty.

  Bell Hooks

  Self, White, Appreciate

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• Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

  John Pierrakos

  Truth, Honesty, Mean

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• Often our good deeds make enemies for us, and the ungrateful person despises us on two counts; for he is not only unwilling to acknowledge the gratitude he owes us: he does not want to have his benefactor as witness to his thankless behavior.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Gratitude, Two, Ungrateful

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• It's not elitist to acknowledge that everyone has a unique signature and everyone is different.

  Frank Gehry

  Unique, Signatures, Different

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  Ian Bogost

  Goal, Personality, Needs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from those seems doomed to me. Instead, how can we live within those systems of constraints? We don't have to enjoy them, exactly, but at least acknowledge that those boundaries are real and that they structure our response to the world. And then once you do that, you allow yourself to say "I did my best given the circumstances."

  Ian Bogost

  Jobs, Real, Thinking

  Source: app.longform.org

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• Obama and Hillary Clinton - and dare I say most of the Democrat Party. They refuse to accept that there is terrorism in Islam. They refuse to believe that the Muslim religion has aspects of it that are oriented toward terror. They refuse to acknowledge the whole concept of Islamic supremacist ideology.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Islamic, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Pardoning Snowden would be a powerful way for the president to acknowledge that the government did wrong, kept us in the dark, acted unconstitutionally. And but for the actions of Edward Snowden, we would still be in a very dark place.

  Anthony Romero

  Powerful, Dark, Government

  "Activists Launch Campaign Urging Obama To Pardon Edward Snowden". "All Things Considered" with David Welna, www.npr.org. September 14, 2016.

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• A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Teacher, Order, Class

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Let's at least acknowledge who is working in America right now and what our needs are, as well as the moral question of somebody who's been here 20 years, paying taxes to which they probably do not receive a refund, and not committing any crimes, working hard, and supporting an industry. Shouldn't there be some middle ground here? Shouldn't there be a way for them to be welcome in this country?

  Anthony Bourdain

  Country, Years, America

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• I try not to focus on the gender issue too much but I think you have to acknowledge it in order for it to go away.

  Emily Haines

  Thinking, Issues, Order

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do.

  Barack Obama

  People, Path, Currents

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Literature acknowledges that life is complicated.

  Sjon

  Literature, Complicated, Life Is

  Source: wwd.com

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• If our brands are going to be in print and on mobile handsets and in video and events, we have to acknowledge that the playing fields are going to be different than a print-only product or a print product with extensions to it.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Fields, Events, Different

  Source: wwd.com

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• I'm not one for doing the children's party version: "Hi, I'm a character in a movie and now I'm in reality!" I was doing the last shot of the film before reshoots outside their shop. I was starting my run into the frame and I thought, "You are literally ending where this began. The loop of serendipity's too much to not go in and acknowledge it." I just wanted to see the look on their faces.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Running, Children, Party

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• If you just say that, look at all the good stuff and you don't acknowledge the toxic stuff, you're wrong. If you're only looking at toxic stuff and don't recognize there's going to be some good stuff if you're for infrastructure or whatever, you're wrong.

  Van Jones

  Toxic, Looks, Stuff

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• We need a radically truthful way to acknowledge reproductive freedom.

  Ani DiFranco

  Needs, Way, Truthful

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If we're trying to get the perfect house, the perfect relationship or the perfect job, it's likely there's some kind of fear driving us beyond the natural wish to improve. It's really the refusal to acknowledge that life - including ourselves - is simply not perfect.

  Roger Housden

  Jobs, Perfect, House

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• As a woman, we should all stop talking about it and just acknowledge what's happened and act like we own the space, because we do.

  Chelsea Handler

  Talking, Space, Should

  Source: variety.com

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• I do think it is harder to acknowledge our strengths, or to forgive ourselves and each other for our shortcomings, when there has not been a result we can all agree on.

  Chris Cleave

  Thinking, Forgiving, Results

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test' - Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview with Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I wanted to look at the differences between how we fought then and how we fight now, because the current lack of closure generates a state of psychological unease that is interesting to acknowledge and examine.

  Chris Cleave

  Fighting, Differences, Interesting

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• When I announced I had cancer on stage, it was my brain leaping to that insane moment of, "There's no way I could start a show saying, 'Hi, I have cancer!'" And also for me to have these scars, and then think, "Oh my gosh, what if I did stand-up and not even acknowledge that my shirt was off, or that I have scars.

  Tig Notaro

  Cancer, Thinking, What If

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In America right now, the people who talk about race the most are people of color - and if we are going to move the needle forward, it's WHITE people who need to acknowledge their role in racism.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, White, America

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• [Barack] Obama isn't pointing to anyone, and certainly doesn't like it when others note (correctly) that his influences were the likes of Saul Alinsky, the Chicagoan and modern founder of community organizing, or Frank Marshall Davis, the communist journalist and agitator from Chicago who mentored Obama in Hawaii in the latter 1970s, and who Obama warmly acknowledges in his memoirs.

  Paul Kengor

  Community, Chicago, Hawaii

  Source: www.visionandvalues.org

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• When I was learning how to box, that was the number one thing my trainer taught me. He said you can't get angry at every single time I hit you because that's why you're here. You're going to get hit. Acknowledge that you're going to get hit and now focus on how you're going to fight properly. And living through the times is exactly the right way to put it because I have seen a slice of this only on a different continent.

  Trevor Noah

  Fighting, Numbers, Focus

  Source: www.npr.org

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