Incidents Quotes - Page 3

• What about those [Donald] Trump supporters out there and we've seen several incidents of this, with racially-charged intimidation of students and things like that? Doesn't President-Elect Trump have some responsibility to say something about that?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Responsibility, President, Students

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I disagree with the analysis that you've put about what happened in relation to the student demonstrations and protests and the incident with the Prince of Wales' car. We're very clear that we have to separate out the political responsibility from operational responsibility of the police.

  Theresa May

  Responsibility, Car, Political

  "The Conservative Party’s always stood in every seat, and I think it’s important to us". Interview with Paul Goodman and Mark Fox, conservativehome.blogs.com. February 16, 2011.

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• Any incident could instantly blow up. Both sides [USA and Russia] are modernizing and increasing their military systems, including nuclear systems.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Blow, Russia

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, America

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• In the Rather/Bush incident, it was totally unfair. CBS was trying him and convicting him and trying to execute him on national television. They had made up their minds. CBS made the fatal error of trying to become the political opposition to George Bush. And, when they did that, they put themselves in an arena where they can get knocked on their fanny.

  Roger Ailes

  Errors, Political, Mind

  Source: www.campaignsandelections.com

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• Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kids, Night, Essence

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• [Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.

  Seungri

  Want, Jokes, Bits

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.

  Charlie Brooker

  Mean, Thinking, Space

  "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm.

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• I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.

  Paul Beatty

  Writing, Talking, Should Have

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Pain, Compassion, Going Away

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We have also seen this spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country right now. What should President-Elect [Donald] Trump do to get that under control?

  George Stephanopoulos

  Country, President, Should

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I do have to ask the following: I feel very bad about that [spate of incidents, racially-charged incidents, across the country ].

  Rudy Giuliani

  Country, Feels, Following

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

  Charles Koch

  Teacher, School, Math

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There are some cases that have come to my attention where there's been a head injury, or getting struck by lightning and surviving, with really no disability or residual. So there are cases that I'm aware of where there's been some incident which triggered the acquired savant ability, but is not associated with long term disability, so that can occur. But I think that's probably the exception rather than the rule in that I think many of the acquired savants do end up with some residual disability.

  Darold Treffert

  Thinking, Long, Lightning

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Girl, Book, Writing

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• It's just cheaper to be White in America than it is to be Black, because of educational advances, because of the police incidents, because of the poverty we grow up in as African-Americans. So, it's just cheaper in this country if you're born a Caucasian than being born a Black person.

  Warren Ballentine

  Country, Growing Up, Educational

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• So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

  Salman Rushdie

  Special, Satanic, Study

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 07, 2012.

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• There is no doubt that this fusion of terrorist and Muslim feeds virulent forms of Islamophobia, which is also encouraged by such incidents as the Westgate Mall massacre in Nairobi and the Anglican Church bombing in Pakistan. 9/11 greatly intensified this tendency toward fusion, but it had also been nurtured by Israeli propaganda that portrayed their Palestinian and Arab adversaries as "terrorists." In fact, the US government approach after 9/11 was modeled in many of its features on Israeli tactics developed during the long occupation of Palestine.

  Richard A. Falk

  Government, Long, Doubt

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be.

  Richard Branson

  World, Nasty, Used

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What geographic profiling does is it takes a look at the locations of a connected series of incidents - say murders in a serial murder case or robberies in a serial bank robber case - and it spatially analyzes the point pattern of incidents, and creates a probability surface from those, working from the basis of an algorithm that says people offend close to where they live, but not too close.

  Kim Rossmo

  People, Doe, Looks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Accidents are just incidents in God's good plan for you.

  Rick Warren

  Plans, Accidents

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.97, Zondervan

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• The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.

  William McFee

  Art, Done, Pleasure

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

  Rebecca West

  Sex, World, Life Is

  Rebecca West (2011). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17”, p.82, Open Road Media

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• For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

  Agnes Repplier

  Reading, Character, Novel

  Agnes Repplier (1895). “Essays in Miniature”

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• An incident that left an impression on me was the 1999 sub-junior national boxing championship held in Calcutta. I had trained extremely hard to get there but got kicked out in the first round itself. 'If others can win, why can't you?' I repeatedly asked myself.

  Vijender Singh

  Winning, Boxing, Juniors

  "Vijender Singh on Boxing, Bollywood and Modeling". Interview with Preetika Rana, blogs.wsj.com. June 1, 2012.

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