Favors Quotes - Page 26

• I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.

  Theodore Bikel

  Israel

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• As to the kindness you mention, I wish I could have been of more service to you than I have been, but if I had, the only thanks that I should desire are that you would always be ready to serve any other person that may need your assistance, and so let good offices go around, for humankind are all of a family. As for my own part, when I am employed in serving others I do not look upon myself as conferring favors but paying debts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Letting Go, Kindness, Office

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• But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

  Gerhard Richter

  Photography, Cutting, Irrelevance

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• Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  God, Doe, Individual

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• A Student is the most important person ever in this school...in person, on the telephone, or by mail.
  A Student is not dependent on us...we are dependent on the Student.
  A Student is not an interruption of our work..the Studenti s the purpose of it. We are not doing a favor by serving the Student...the Student is doing us a favor by giving us the opportunity to do so.
  A Student is a person who brings us his or her desire to learn. It is our job to handle each Student in a manner which is beneficial to the Student and ourselves.

  William Watson Purkey

  Education, Jobs, School

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Dresses, Income

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• In English, I'm a little bit limited. I speak English as a second language, and that's a little limitation that I have to work around and I have to use it to my favor. So, yes, that's why I end up wanting to do more things in Latin America.

  Gael Garcia Bernal

  Latin, Speak English, America

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• Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence.

  Stephen Baldwin

  Ministry, Praise, Lord

  "Stephen Baldwin: The Jesus Freak of Hollywood". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

  Bram Cohen

  Technology, Rights, Political

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• Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

  Patricia Hill Collins

  Hero, Mean, Numbers

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• The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.

  Herbert Croly

  Organization, Order, Political

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.30, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.

  John Bates Clark

  Loyalty, Class, Feelings

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• For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Smart, Past, Thinking

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• Should I string her up or strangle her in bed, suffocate that venomous head? Or perhaps I'll just whip her to death. Listen, do me a favor, kill my wife.

  Rod Stewart

  Relationship, Wife, Bed

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• You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Jesus, Smart

  Song: The Christian?, Album: Down to Earth

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• I do not favor the gag order.

  Nancy Grace

  Order, Gags

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• Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.

  John Hoeven

  Strong, Support, President

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• Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Jobs, Law, Justice

  "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.

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• We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Block, Decision, Cyprus

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The citizens of the United States cherish sentiments the most friendly in favor of liberty and happiness...beyond the Atlantic. In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries.

  James Monroe

  War, Taken, Rights

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.

  Condoleezza Rice

  War, Support, Balance

  "Condoleezza Rice RNC speech". RNC 2012: Condoleezza Rice delivers speech to Republican National Convention in Tampa, www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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• If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!

  Leven Rambin

  Cute, Crush, Guy

  "What Was Leven Rambin Like at 17?". Interview with Ellen Collis, www.seventeen.com. January 9, 2012.

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• I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

  Mariano Rajoy

  Want, Reducing, Expenditures

  "Will Spain Be the Next Greece?". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. October 28, 2011.

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• In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film.

  Joshua Leonard

  Character, Shining, Connections

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