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• An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

  Leon Panetta

  Extremist Groups, Gains, Chemicals

  "Network Insecurity" by John Seabrook, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2013.

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• I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

  Katy Perry

  Differences, Your Boyfriend, Trying

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• Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

  John Podhoretz

  Kind, Restless, Newts

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• Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Hate, Self, Lines

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• It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Humility, Self, Ideas

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• If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Speaks Out, People, Choices

  "Cartoon conflicts" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2006.

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• All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Lying, Eye

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• A rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings. Reject the insidious pressures in society that would blunt your critical faculties to all that is happening around you, that would caution silence in the face of injustice lest you jeopardise your chances of promotion and self-advancement.

  Jimmy Reid

  Race, Self, Silence

  "The People Speak: Democracy is not a Spectator Sport". Book by Colin Firth (p. 226), September 13, 2012.

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• I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical.

  Julia Roberts

  Cute, Children, Couple

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• In our system leadership is by consent, not command. To lead a President must persuade. Personal contacts and experiences help shape his thinking. They can be critical to his persuasiveness and thus to his leadership.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Leadership, Thinking, President

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

  Jose Saramago

  Thinking, Political, Atmosphere

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

  Adam Savage

  Attitude, Thinking, Creative

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• Diversity on the bench is critical. As practitioners, you need judges who 'get it!' We need judges who understand what discrimination feels like. We need judges who understand what inequality feels like. We need judges who understand the subtleties of unfair treatment and who are willing to call it out when they see it!

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Judging, Diversity, Needs

  "Stereotyping and Prejudice". Book editing by Charles Stangor, Christian S. Crandall, July 24, 2013.

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• As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.

  Will Self

  Writing, Dark, Landscape

  "Constellation of Genius, 1922: Modernism Year One by Kevin Jackson - review" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Growing Up, Secret

  "Maurice Sendak's dark visions delighted generations of children" by Esther Addley, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

  Paul Simon

  Done, Stuff, Importance

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• Well obviously the economy is critical to everything we do and we need to get the economy back in shape, the deficit down, the debt paid off, so that the economy can grow again and grow properly.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Needs, Debt, Shapes

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• There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Real, Patriotism, Questioning

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'What was done to my country was un-American'". Interview with Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2012.

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• It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Order, Challenges, Important

  "Exclusive: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About...well, Everything". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2011.

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• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Running, Book, Writing

  "J. Michael Straczynski’s Superman: Outsider with a vulnerable heart". Interview with Jevon Phillips, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 5, 2012.

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• The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

  David Suzuki

  Issues, Leader, World

  David Suzuki, Ian Hanington (2017). “Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do - A Post-Paris Agreement Game Plan”, p.67, Greystone Books Ltd

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• You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

  Tim Tebow

  Cutting, Glowing, Bones

  Tim Tebow, Nathan Whitaker (2011). “Through My Eyes”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Sports, Heart, Aquariums

  Morihei Ueshiba (2005). “The Art of Peace”, p.134, Shambhala Publications

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• Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

  Eddie Vedder

  Song, Government, Proud

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