Being Done Quotes - Page 7

• The gap between the rich and the poor cannot keep growing without nothing being done about it.

  Kofi Annan

  Done, Growing, Gaps

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• I think the oversight is great, and I think that oversight ought to be devoted almost entirely to the question is this being done at market you know. In other words, you want to make sure that the government isn't investing foolishly. But you don't want to care about which congressional districts it goes to or whether banks get favored over.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Government, Investing

  "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.

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• It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it.

  Barack Obama

  Government, People, Abuse

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Take the creation of the Pacific partnership or the creation of the Atlantic partnership. We are somewhat concerned because this is being done bypassing the World Trade Organisation, since it has proved impossible to reach compromise solutions with developing economies within the framework of that organisation. Is that good? Not really, in my opinion.

  Vladimir Putin

  Done, World, Opinion

  Source: www.rt.com

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• We just see a sort of cascading amount of data of the damage that is being done by those increased temperatures.

  Bill McKibben

  Data, Done, Damage

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  New York, Style, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all . . . . It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain

  Frederic Bastiat

  Spring, Ideas, Libertarian Party

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

  Ruth Ozeki

  War, Engineering, Iraq

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• If youre a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Coal, Done

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• God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Self, Done, Worship

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.309, Manonmani Publishers

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• I used to be like "Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?" But then, we do that all the time in the theater. Retelling stories is what we've done since we were sitting around campfires. It's a part of the human spirit. It doesn't have to be negative to creativity. It can be completely opposite.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Creativity, Opposites, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.

  Conor McGregor

  Beautiful, Sports, Powerful

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• There are a lot of things that got me into working with photos. The main thing is that I saw both what was being said and not being said with photos in the newspapers... I found out how you can fool people with photos, really fool them... You can lie and tell the truth by putting the wrong title or wrong captions under them, and that's roughly what was being done.

  John Heartfield

  Lying, People, Titles

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• There is a lot of social photography being done now to point to the untruth of photography. It's getting very dull now. So, okay photography doesn't tell the truth. So what? Everyone has known this forever.

  Abelardo Morell

  Photography, Forever, Done

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 2, 2003.

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• Try to find if something out there is similar. If it's already being done, now you need to find out if you can do it better or cheaper. If you have a good product and no one's buying, improve it and tweak it.

  Cameron Johnson

  Trying, Needs, Done

  Interview with Deborah Jeanne Sergeant, medium.com. December 12, 2015.

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• Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning fossil fuels. [...] Even if the world warms as much as the consensus expects, the net harm still looks small alongside the real harm now being done by preventable causes; and if it does warm this much, it will be because more people are rich enough to afford to do something about it.

  Matt Ridley

  Real, Ocean, Pressure Groups

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• If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Hurt, Looks, Done

  "Feminism unmodified: discourses on life and law". Book by Catharine MacKinnon, 1987.

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• I realize that we all do express ourselves, but those who express that which is always being done are those whose thinking is almost in every way in accord with everyone else. Expression on this basis has become dull to those who wish to think for themselves.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Thinking, Expression

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• I think it's a complete injustice, the way it's (the trial) being done

  Dionne Warwick

  Thinking, Done, Trials

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• But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not doing some particular thing which seems to thee to be right, why dost thou not rather act than complain?- But some insuperable obstacle is in the way?- Do not be grieved then, for the cause of its not being done depends not on thee.- But it is not worth while to live if this cannot be done.- Take thy departure then from life contentedly, just as he dies who is in full activity, and well pleased too with the things which are obstacles.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Art, Pain, Complaining

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.92, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in our homes. And let us not forget how important the work of the mother and father are to raising responsible citizens.

  Ann Romney

  Country, Mother, Wall

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• There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Home, Thinking, People

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• I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

  Alan Rickman

  Expectations, Done, Defying

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• Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

  Chalmers Johnson

  Names, Effort, Ignorant

  "Who armed Iraq?" by Paul Rockwell, www.sfgate.com. March 2, 2003.

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• Some of us are lucky enough to fall in love once or twice but the luckiest of us are those who find that someone they simply can't live without and have the pleasure of falling in love with them day in and day out for the rest of their lives. Relationships aren't about simply falling in love once and being done with it, they're about loving someone until the end of your days and growing that love endlessly.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Falling In Love, Romantic Love, Loving Someone

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