Determined Quotes - Page 8

• Jerusalem is a holy site for Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Israelis and Palestinians both lay claim to it as their capital. Jerusalem is the most sensitive of all the issues that need to be addressed in order to achieve a peace agreement between Israelis and Palestinians. But Donald Trump determined an important aspect of the United States' position towards Jerusalem before any agreement. Most of the rest of the world feels that it ought not to be dealt with first, that it ought not to be dealt with separately, and that it ought not to be dealt with unilaterally.

  Richard N. Haass

  Christian, Important, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• How we live is determined by what is ultimately fueling us - our deepest desire or end goal. Do we really want to know and follow God, or are we more interested in a comfortable, pleasurable life for ourselves? Jesus asked his disciples early on, "What do you seek?" And he's still asking that question today. To be motivated to live in the presence of God, we have to believe that "the good life" is really found in him and him alone.

  Kenneth Boa

  Jesus, Good Life, Believe

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Heroes are never perfect, but they're brave, they're authentic, they're courageous, determined, discreet, and they've got grit.

  Wade Davis

  Hero, Perfect, Brave

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• I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

  Paula Deen

  Positive, Way, Share

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• I mean in the community that I grew up in, you know, a very, you know, mixed, almost entirely African Diaspora community, one of the things that we were not ever supposed to say was how much self-hatred and colorism determined and guided what we would call our desire. In other words, what we would consider beautiful.

  Junot Diaz

  Beautiful, Mean, Self

  "Author Explains Tales Of New Vision, New Life". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. June 10, 2009.

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• I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Motivational, Leadership, World

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• Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.

  Marilyn French

  Humanness Is, Inferiority, Lists

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• I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

  Carol Gilligan

  Differences, Gender, Disturbing

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.12, Harvard University Press

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• I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

  Bear Grylls

  Self, Lines, Nonsense

  Bear Grylls (2011). “Mud, Sweat and Tears”, p.7, Random House

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• We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But if he was wrong, they'd go back to the Urals and fight. They'd never surrender.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Fighting, Moscow, Surrender

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• Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.

  Naomie Harris

  Determination, Needs, Actors

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• Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Dream, Travel, Book

  "Living memories". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2005.

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• People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.

  Daniel Kahneman

  People, Worry, Personality

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• Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Feelings, Family Relationship, Factors

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• I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

  Tony Kushner

  Gay, Men, Facts

  "Abraham Lincoln Gay? Tony Kushner Explains Why Biopic Excludes Lincoln’s ‘Lavender Side’" by Meredith Bennett-Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I have never seen a player as driven and determined as me, quietly determined; that's why I always want to do the best.

  Frank Lampard

  Player, Want, Driven

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• Reality is observer-determined - it's a spatio-temporal process, which fortunately means that things must change.

  Robert Lanza

  Mean, Reality, Process

  "What Is Death?" by Robert Lanza, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• People sometimes forget all the films that we've done. They remember the likes of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing.' But I've been working since 1986. From the beginning, I was determined to not just be a flash in the pan. I've got to keep up with Woody Allen. He's lapping me.

  Spike Lee

  People, Done, Likes

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• England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Drawing, Gutters, Rooms

  "The New Frontier's Man" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. November 11, 2007.

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• If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

  Leona Lewis

  Dream, People, Inspire

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am positive - determined to move forward with my life, bring up my babies, and do the best job I can as a mother, entertainer, and person.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mother, Baby, Jobs

  "Jennifer Lopez Gives Vanity Fair Her First Interview Since Announcing Her Divorce From Marc Anthony". Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. August 2, 2011.

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• One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

  David Mamet

  Country, Adventure, Cities

  "Hands Off Our Guns" by David Mamet, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 26, 2013.

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• The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

  David Mamet

  Black And White, Government, Assessment

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• The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined to break down genre barriers. He's done amazing things.

  George R. R. Martin

  Prejudice, Done, Unions

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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