Engaged Quotes - Page 10

• Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

  Laurie Anderson

  Art, World

  Interview with A. M. Homes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• Three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men. I’m a feminist in the true sense of the word. It’s about equality.

  Natalie Dormer

  Men, Feminist, Three

  "Natalie Dormer on Feminism: 'It Just Means Liberation and Equality'" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. November 25, 2014.

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• You've got the oil companies fighting Pope Francis. Fighting the scientists of the world. Fighting the governor of California. They are engaged in literally a life-and-death struggle, and I have no doubt who is going to be the victor.

  Jerry Brown

  Struggle, Fighting, Oil

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• The hour through which you are at present passing, the man whom you meet here and now, the task on which you are engaged at this very moment - these are always the most important in your whole life.

  Paul Evdokimov

  Men, Important, Tasks

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• I'd say 80% of my activity is engaged in the interpretation of social mood.

  Hugh Hendry

  Mood, Social, Interpretation

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• People will be engaged in your work if it is good, interesting or challenging.

  Jillian Mayer

  People, Interesting, Challenges

  "AFI Women Directors: Meet Jillian Mayer" by Kerensa Cadenas, www.indiewire.com. November 12, 2013.

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• The DOJ has employed these investigations in communities across our nation to reform serious patterns and practices of force, biased policing and other unconstitutional practices by law enforcement. I'm asking the Department of Justice to investigate if our police department has engaged in a pattern or practice of stops, searches or arrests that violate the Fourth Amendment.

  Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

  Law, Practice, Justice

  "Source: Justice Department to investigate Baltimore police" by Dana Ford, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2015.

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• I am someone who really does believe very strongly in the Holy Spirit. I feel I'm someone who, since I was a very, very small child, of being engaged in a very strong relationship with the Holy Spirit.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Strong, Children, Believe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Irish artists have a tradition of being very heavily engaged in what is happening in their own society. So it was important that they had a voice.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Artist, Voice, Important

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is my mission to change the world. I'm not kidding: Make no small plans, dream mighty things. I feel if we get enough people engaged in climate change, we will get enough people to change the world. We will revolutionize the way we produce electricity and provide clean water to people.

  Bill Nye

  Dream, People, Water

  "Bill Nye tackles climate change, solutions in new book Unstoppable". Associated Press Interview, www.cbc.ca. November 11, 2015.

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• If you're living in the community and you own your local businesses and you're engaged in the local economy you should have a definite interest in the strength and health of your community, the caring relationships that bind people together.

  David Korten

  Caring, Should Have, People

  "The Big Picture". "Fixing the Future" with David Brancaccio, www.pbs.org.

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• Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.

  Tony Hsieh

  Running, Long, Purpose

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

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• Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fighting, Numbers, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

  Socrates

  Men, Long Ago, Should Have

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• I've worked in almost every other place in Canada except Toronto, funny enough, where my husband's from. The first time I was here it was winter, and I got engaged. The second time I was here it was summer, and I was married. My family lives here, my stepson lives here, so it's a wonderful place. Everyone's very nice and hospitable, unlike Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Summer, Husband, Nice

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• One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dollars, Pursuit, Pursued

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• There's no question that the US is engaged in economic spying. If there's information at Siemens that they think would be beneficial to the national interests, not the national security of the United States, they'll go after that information and they'll take it.

  Edward Snowden

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• When so much is left to the listener's imagination, it is bound to be more scary. But our stories are not just to frighten; they are engaged with the things that are really scary like loneliness and madness.

  Larry Fessenden

  Loneliness, Imagination, Scary

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Clever, People, Intuition

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Our biggest priority should be to stay engaged.

  Penney Peirce

  Priorities, Should

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• I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination.

  John C. McGinley

  Blessed, Imagination, Bored

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• Money is only a byproduct of being engaged in a worthy cause.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Causes, Worthy, Worthy Causes

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• If anyone has engaged unlawful activity, they should be held to account with the full force of the law.

  Tim Soutphommasane

  Law, Should, Force

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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