Agendas Quotes - Page 31

• Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology.

  Barack Obama

  Science, Math, Technology

  Seventh President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, Broadcast 20 December 2008

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• However much I may like to talk about or be interested in a more philosophical or moral agenda, [film] is, ultimately, about narrative. And it's about telling stories that are engaging and dramatic.

  Edward Zwick

  Philosophical, Stories, Crafts

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• The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Perfect, Environmental

  "Bush Will Doom Us Says London Mayor". www.aljazeera.com. November 19, 2003.

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• The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

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• I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

  David Byrne

  Song, Writing, Character

  "Byrne, Baby, Byrne". Interview with Michael Archer, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2010.

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• He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists.

  Michael Apted

  Artist, Trying, Different

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• Going through intense change with an ignorant and apathetic citizenry, driven by a corporate agenda, is a really, really scary proposition. But going into it with an educated and empowered citizenry that feels it can determine the course of its society and can hold its corporations and governments accountable has a lot of power and potential to it. To me, that's what makes activism so important.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Government, Scary, Ignorant

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The most aggressive views governing this country speak a lot about inclusion. We still have some people in this country who don't really get that we all have the same agenda, aspirations, hopes, and fears. I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

  Russell Simmons

  Country, Views, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You have to open yourself to a poem with a quiet, receptive mind, in the same way you might listen to a difficult piece of music... If you seize upon a poem and try to extort its meaning before you are ready, it remains opaque. If you bring your own personal agenda to bear upon it, the poem will close upon itself like a clam, because you have denied its unique and separate identity, its inviolate holiness.

  Karen Armstrong

  Unique, Mind, Trying

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• There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.

  Tom Peters

  Class, Alive, World

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Justice, Together

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• There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

  Jay Sean

  Perfect, Wells, Company

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• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Tea, Principles

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• Mentorship is critical for young people. Mentorship by others for my children is very high on my agenda.

  Peter Woo

  Children, People, Mentor

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• Every day, I come home with a spring in my step. We've got to work together to stop the Obama agenda and take this country back.

  Ted Cruz

  Country, Spring, Home

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• We like to think we're superior to the people who, centuries ago, burned 'witches' for no better reason than a neighbor's belief that his crop failure or impotence was caused by that woman's action. But reporters are still prone to the same mental errors that caused these killings: seeing patterns where there are none, finding causes where there is only coincidence, ignoring our sources' political agendas and turning scanty evidence into panic.

  John Stossel

  Thinking, Errors, People

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• I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Trying, Cards

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• He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Taken, Home

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Water Bound”, p.152, Penguin

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• Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

  Amitai Etzioni

  Simple, Faces, Problem

  Amitai Etzioni (1993). “The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda”, Crown

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• In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

  Michael Pollan

  Cells, Medicine, Peers

  "Food Chains, Dead Zones, and Licensed Journalism". Interview with Russell Schoch, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2005.

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• And often when things turn to TV series there are so many different people with different agendas that things can morph. And so, you know, that was why having the executive producer title was important to me because even if I was the star and I had a concern, you know, that concern would only go so far. But having the title of executive producer actually makes them have to actually listen to me complain.

  Debra Messing

  Stars, People, Important

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

  Melinda Gates

  People, Birth Control, Asia

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• The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.

  Jay Carney

  Thinking, Order, People

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• In fiction I think we should have no agenda but to tell the truth.

  Wallace Stegner

  Thinking, Should Have, Fiction

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• Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Children, Growing Up, Parent

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