Groups Quotes - Page 29

• Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure, neighborhood and civic groups and professional associations.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Art, Organization, People

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• Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.

  Jerry Saltz

  Hate, Events, Giants

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• A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Bars

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• In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money, no market, and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened; everything in America was being questioned.

  Jerry Saltz

  Mean, Artist, America

  "Great Artists Steal". nymag.com. May 10, 2009.

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• Of all the biennials, triennials, quadrennials, internationals, and massive group shows, Documenta, established in 1955 and held once every five years in Kassel, Germany, is seen as the most serious. A statement show.

  Jerry Saltz

  Years, Germany, Serious

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• Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls, digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007, creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness, operatic uncontrollability, and barbaric sculptural power.

  Jerry Saltz

  Wall, Cutting, Creating

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• I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry.

  Loretta Sanchez

  Race, People, Support

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• Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, People, Special

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

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• Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people, I was rendered all but inarticulate.

  Jessica Savitch

  People, Cameras, Literature

  Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley

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• The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.

  Bob Schieffer

  War, Iraq, Usual

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• An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

  Stacy Schiff

  Book, Interesting, Firsts

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• I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

  Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. August 17, 2010.

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• If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

  Martin Scorsese

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Beautiful Day

  "Dialogue: Martin Scorsese". Interview with Todd Longwell, www.backstage.com. January 6, 2003.

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• I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

  Pete Seeger

  Country, Religious, Catholic

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

  Will Self

  Confused, Eye, Futility Of Life

  "You may now turn over your papers" by Geoff Dyer, Mary Midgley and Will Self, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2010.

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• People must realize that a crime motivated by racial or ethnic prejudice against one group is a crime against all of us.

  Jose Serrano

  People, Prejudice, Realizing

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• The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

  Michael Shermer

  Errors, Sides, Reason

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• Providentially, learned habits can be unlearned, especially in the context of moral groups.

  Michael Shermer

  Moral, Habit

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• Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

  Andrew Shue

  Trying, Clique, Group Of Friends

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• Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.

  Georg Simmel

  Relationship, Two, Ratios

  "The Sociology of Secrecy and of Secret Societies". American Journal of Sociology, Volume 11, Issue 4, pp. 462, January, 1906.

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• Well mine is not gimmicky - it is the 6 food groups that God made, and exercising every day. Trying to think positively.

  Richard Simmons

  Exercise, Thinking, Trying

  "Interview: Richard Simmons diet". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• If any of our songs ever did make it on the top ten, I'd disband the group immediately.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Ten, Ifs

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• It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

  Robert Smith

  Nice, People, Listening

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• I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

  Hope Solo

  Writing, Ipods, Jam

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• One thing I’ve learned through all the ups and downs is that if you’re doing things right, then you have a core group of people. Not just a core group like your homies or your buddies, but a group of people that has a good influence on you, who you respect and admire, and you know that if they’re on your side, you’re doing something right.

  Hope Solo

  Your Side, People, Sides

  "Hope Solo’s Nude ESPN Shoot Included Dropping Her Robe, Sprinting In The Middle Of The Street". Interview with Sasha Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2013.

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