Involved Quotes - Page 9

• When John Kennedy was assassinated I was twenty-three, a stockbroker on Wall Street and married, and I never ever thought that politics would be anything that I would be a part of. But I realized that I had to get involved. Then, when Martin Luther King was assassinated and the Vietnam War was raging, I felt that my world was falling apart. I had these two beautiful children - three and one - and I just said, "I have to make it better."

  Barbara Boxer

  Beautiful, Kings, Children

  Source: progressive.org

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• Look at The Iliad, there's all this stuff about men loving children. The King of Sparta was the most brutal warrior of ancient Greece, and the only thing he liked to do was horse around with kids when he was back from slaughtering. One thing that feminism revealed is that being a distant patriarchal figure was not something men wanted to be. They want to be more involved in the lives of their children, and you can see that once they're allowed to have that connection, they crave it.

  Stephen Marche

  Horse, Kings, Children

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns about spending that's out of control or generally philosophically believe that the government should be less involved in certain aspects of American life rather than more involved. And they have every right and obligation as citizens to be involved and engaged in this process.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Party, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think it's a scary thing for a lot of people to think of the government not being involved in their lives, particularly single women.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

  Donald Trump

  Media, America, Political

  Source: time.com

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• I also know that it's not about me, it's about all of you and it's about our country, I know that, I fully understand that. That's why I got involved. It's about all of us together as a country. It's a movement the likes of which we have never in history in this country seen before, never in history. Even the pundits, even the media - that truly dislikes Donald Trump for their own reasons - will admit this is a movement the likes of which people have never seen before.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Media, People

  Source: time.com

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• I remember on page one of The New York Times the article about Fred Leuchter. The heading was "Can Capital Punishment Be Humane" and it was the story about an electric chair repairman and execution machine designer. And then buried in the back of the paper was the fact that Fred Leuchter had also been involved in holocaust denial.

  Errol Morris

  New York, Punishment, Holocaust

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm asked unendingly to become involved in series involving true crime and as it so happens the Netflix series that I'm working on is about a true crime.

  Errol Morris

  Netflix, Crime, Happens

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".

  Errol Morris

  Doe, Lines, Election

  Source: collider.com

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• There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."

  Reid Hoffman

  Two, People, Green

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The common thread linking the major Islamic terrorist attacks that have recently occurred on our soil - 9/11, the Ft. Hood shooting, the Boston Bombing, the San Bernardino attack, the Orlando attack - is that they have involved immigrants or the children of immigrants. Clearly, new screening procedures are needed.

  Donald Trump

  Children, Islamic, Common Threads

  Donald Trump's Speech On Fighting Terrorism, www.politico.com. August 15, 2016.

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• The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to ask, do people involved in social struggles engage with Fanonian concepts and find something relevant for them, even if they have never heard of Fanon because Fanon is implicitly in the struggles?

  Nigel Gibson

  Struggle, Circles, People

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some thinking and discussion, and thus some kind of organization involved in it.

  Nigel Gibson

  Thinking, Organization, Interesting

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• Great groups deliver great results. And for everyone involved in a great group, great work is its own reward.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Rewards, Groups, Great Work

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I learn to be kind of balanced, because when I was a teenager and in my early 20s, I would get very involved with political issues and stuff like that. And now, I still have an opinion on everything, but I try to balance staying informed and having a positive attitude.

  Bianca Balti

  Attitude, Teenager, Issues

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I was just really happy to see Barry [Jenkins] and Mahershala [Ali] and everyone else involved with "Moonlight" get their moment.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Moments, Moonlight, Really Happy

  Source: www.npr.org

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• You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in front of all your peers and being able to thank everyone involved and particularly when it's a movie that has some pivotal social relevance, like "Moonlight," particularly in a time where, with this new transitional government, LGBT rights are just being stripped. This win means something.

  Cheo Hodari Coker

  Mean, Winning, Rights

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from the moment that you involve yourself fully in writing a novel, for example, or an essay, then you are involved as a woman, in the same way that you can't deny your nationality - you are French, you are a man, you are a woman... all this passes into the writing.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Jobs, Writing, Men

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• If you are writing something in which you are really involved, you don't even need to think about it any longer. The situation itself demands your total commitment as an individual, just as in your political commitments.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Commitment, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Because of who I am and what place I have now in India, I'm petitioned all the time to get involved. It's exhausting and very difficult to have to say, 'Look, I'm only one person. I can't do everything.' I know that I don't want to be worn to the bone where I lose my sense of humor.

  Arundhati Roy

  Who I Am, India, Looks

  Source: progressive.org

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• Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Citizens, Affair, Scientist

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction, that deep, Imago attachment is more powerful than logic, and in fact disables logic. So, any explanation or analysis or reflection on such a feeling is already many steps removed from the experience.

  Melissa Febos

  Powerful, Smart, Reflection

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Like every working mother, there's guilt involved in deciding how you're going to balance family and work.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mother, Balance, Guilt

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Knowing, Acting

  Source: www.shockya.com

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