Groups Quotes - Page 20

• It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

  Syd Barrett

  Pace, Months, Trouble

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

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• There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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• It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.

  Gary Bauer

  Gun, Racist, Violence

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• Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Balance, Important, Consideration

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. February 28, 2011.

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• There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  People, Like Family, Needed

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• What I've found in my career is that 70 to 75 percent of comics are nice and have some sense of social skills, but there are those who end up in comedy because they don't know how to socialize. I don't want to deal with that group.

  Lewis Black

  Nice, Skills, Careers

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• There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.

  Jo Brand

  Feminist, Different, Straightforward

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• I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'

  Jo Brand

  Gay, Names, People

  "Jo Brand exclusive". www.mirror.co.uk. August 15, 2007.

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• Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

  Richard Branson

  Want, Company, Can Do

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• I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

  Jeff Bridges

  Team, America, Amazon

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• Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

  Peter Brimelow

  Teacher, Mean, Boss

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• School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

  Eli Broad

  School, People, Office

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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• Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

  Julie Burchill

  Racist, Strange, Born

  "Once we had anarchy in the UK. Now all we have is monarchy in the UK" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

  Jeb Bush

  Generations, Language, Rate

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• I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, College, Cities

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Needs, Care

  "Carson at CPAC: How to destroy America in 4 steps". humanevents.com. March 17, 2013.

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• I think every group of black guys should have at least one white guy in it.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Thinking, Should Have

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• I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

  Noam Chomsky

  Birthday, Mother, Past

  "Question time". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.

  Eric Clapton

  Sports, Kids, Loner

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• I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.

  Leonard Cohen

  Reading, Singing, Jazz

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

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• I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

  J. Cole

  Long, Guy, Age

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• Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

  Gail Collins

  Party, Humble, Organization

  "The Taxman Cometh". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 15, 2013.

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• The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.

  Gail Collins

  Nsa, Uprising, Special

  "Data, Data, What Do You See?". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 12, 2013.

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• Genesis fans are a religious group!

  Phil Collins

  Religious, Fans, Genesis

  "Pop star Phil Collins shows passion for all things Alamo". Interview with J.R. Gonzales, www.chron.com. May 4, 2012.

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