Affiliation Quotes

• I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

  John F. Kennedy

  Hope, Religious, Voting

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• I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.

  Edward Said

  Causes, Uncommitted, Has Beens

  Silvia Nagy, Edward W. Said (2006). “Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said”, p.209, Lexington Books

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• I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.

  William Eldridge Odom

  Party

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• I promised to have no partisan affiliation and no subsidy except advertising.

  Benjamin Day

  Subsidies, Advertising, Partisans

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• The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

  Don DeLillo

  Independent, Literature, Influence

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

  Amy Lee

  Christian, Spiritual, Ideas

  "More Goth than gospel" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2003.

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• Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

  Aaron McGruder

  Gun, Political, Terrorism

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• We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, School, Symbols

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• Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Religious, Corny, Intention

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

  Paul Fussell

  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Sage, Literature, Occupation

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Political, Able, Rise Above

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• I love being able to be political without any political affiliation.

  Lady Gaga

  Love Is, Political, Able

  "Lady Gaga Discusses Activism, Outing And Reading Her Male Alter Ego, Jo Calderone, As A Transgender Man". Interview with Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2011.

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• As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

  Angela Davis

  Struggle, Fighting, People

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• If the media isnt slanted toward the Left, why is everyone so worried about my affiliation with Glenn Beck but not with Alec Baldwin?

  Adam Carolla

  Media, Worried, Left

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• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Loyalty, Distance, Mean

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

  George Shearing

  Facts, England

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• I would describe my spirituality as exactly the opposite of having a religious affiliation.

  Bill Maher

  Religious, Opposites, Spirit

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• Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.

  John Podhoretz

  Race, Political, Gender

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• What some now call 'emerging Christianity' or 'the emerging church' is not something you join, establish, or invent. You just name it and then you see it everywhere- already in place! Such nongroup groups, the 'two or three' gathered in deep truth, create a whole new level of affiliation, dialogue, and friendship.

  Richard Rohr

  Names, Two, Church

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.127, John Wiley & Sons

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• No one can deny that a network (a world network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible for us to act or think otherwise than collectively.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Thinking, Psychics, Woven

  PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN (1964). “THE FUTURE OF MAN”

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• The affiliation clause in our Constitution is a privilege: a courtesy to a sympathetic body. Were you not a Mason, or Co-Mason, you would have to be proposed and seconded, and then examined by savage Inquisitors, and then-probably-thrown out on the garbage heap. Well, no, it's not as bad as that; but we certainly don't want anybody who chooses to apply. Would you do it yourself, if you were on the Committee of a Club? The O.T.O. is a serious body, engaged on a work of Cosmic scope. You should question yourself: what can I contribute?

  Aleister Crowley

  Privilege, Serious, Savages

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• That's what running does to lives. It's not just exercise. It's not just achievement. It's a daily discipline that has nothing to do with speed, weight, social status, sexual orientation, political affiliation, where you live, what car you drive, or whether anyone anywhere loves you. It's about the slow and painful process of being the best you can be.

  Martin Dugard

  Running, Love You, Exercise

  Martin Dugard (2011). “To Be a Runner: How Racing Up Mountains, Running with the Bulls, or Just Taking On a 5-K Makes You a Better Person (and the World a Better Place)”, p.230, Rodale

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• Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

  Daniel Goleman

  Achievement, Focus, East

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• While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.

  Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

  Funny, Sympathy, Laughter

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