Groups Quotes - Page 28

• I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

  Dan Rather

  Advocating, Fairs

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• These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

  Herbert Read

  Army, Literature, Body

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Literature, Individual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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• My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music.

  Helen Reddy

  Baby, People, Being Ignored

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• God forbid you got seasick because there was no option to go back. So that really did force us to be a group.

  John C. Reilly

  Force

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• I listen to a lot of Chicago blues, I suppose. It reminds me of growing up, I guess. But I'm also obsessed by close-harmony groups. Actually, I'm fascinated particularly by brother duos, how they blend together. The Everly Brothers, the Stanley Brothers, The McQuarrys. There's something inherently magical about harmony.

  John C. Reilly

  Brother, Growing Up, Together

  "Life of Reilly" by Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. December 04, 2004.

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Dragons

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• I was a solid C student because I was doing so many plays. I was a drama nerd, but I was also kind of a Zelig-like character; I would shift between different groups of people. But the people I spent most of my time with were either chorus or swing choir or the drama nerds.

  John C. Reilly

  Drama, Character, Swings

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• I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.

  Anne Rice

  Literature, Outsiders, Members

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• There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Typewriters, People

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• That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

  Anne Rice

  Lonely, Training, Literature

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• People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

  Ann Richards

  New York, People, Made

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• Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.

  Alan Rickman

  People, Actors, World

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• I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.

  Jason Ritter

  Country, Powerful, Smart

  "Blair Underwood & Jason Ritter talk 'The Event'". Interview with Morgan Jeffery, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2010.

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• I believe strongly in writing groups such as Romance Writers Of America that offer support, information and networking.

  Nora Roberts

  Believe, Writing, America

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• The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Religious, Squares

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• I suspect that many corporations have begun to understand that they have an important role to play in the lives of their communities, and that allocating funds to support local groups helps them discharge that function and also burnish their image.

  David Rockefeller

  Play, Support, Community

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

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• I'm intimidated anytime I work with someone who's directly outside my very insulated group of friends.

  Seth Rogen

  Group Of Friends, Intimidated

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• There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

  Kenny Rogers

  Country, Love You, Rocks

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• No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Body, Should

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.84, Best Books on

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• The best method for preventing destructive cult involvement is preventative education. If students and the public at large are more aware of destructive groups beforehand they may better understand and resist their recruitment efforts.

  Rick Ross

  Education, Effort, May

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• I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.

  Ja Rule

  Cash, Clicks, Cash Money

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

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• Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

  Salman Rushdie

  Writing, Fighting, Trying

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• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Ku Klux Klan, Speech

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• Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Class, Income

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