Middle Quotes - Page 39

• I intend to make America strong again. I'm going to be the champion of the middle class, where I came from. If you make me your president, our best days are ahead. I'm ready to be commander-in-chief, ladies and gentlemen, on day one. I intend to win a war that we cannot afford to lose.

  Lindsey Graham

  Strong, War, Winning

  "Republican Candidates "Undercard" Debate in Boulder, Colorado". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. October 28, 2015.

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• Religious distinctions are deeply important for many of the problems in today's Middle East, particularly between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Syria and Iraq.

  Max Fisher

  Religious, Iraq, Important

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Atlanta, Class, People

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, White, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• With 1 million square miles of the Arctic melting unexpectedly this summer, these are warning signs that we have to act and act now. Our addiction to Middle Eastern oil obviously has security implications, and we think it's about time to be generating Eastern Washington wind energy instead of sending our money to the sheikhs.

  Jay Inslee

  Summer, Thinking, Wind

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Iran has, by virtue of its growth and by virtue of the United States' mistakes in Iraq, tilted the balance of power in the Middle East. That is the case, but that doesn't necessarily mean it is a threat.

  Trita Parsi

  Mistake, Mean, Iran

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I think the public is very reluctant to get involved in more foreign wars, especially in the Middle East. And they understand, implicitly, that we go to war in the Middle East because of oil. And if we don't want to go to war in the Middle East, then we have to do something about the oil problem. And I think that view is gaining ground in the U.S.

  Michael Klare

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Permanent Energy Crisis". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2006.

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• There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

  J. K. Rowling

  Class, Hypocrisy, Competition

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Ever since our country came into existence, we have always assumed that we are better than the Arabs. But we are noticing that these are no longer backward people. Suddenly we are confronted with a new situation - the fact that the Arab world maybe thinks just as democratically as we do, perhaps even more democratically. Where does this leave us? After all, we're supposed to be the only democracy in the Middle East!

  Tom Segev

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Contradictions, most of all, a balance between chaos and order. It needs neighborhoods vibrating with energy just as much as cozy little corners and parks; well-tended, middle-class sections as well as an alternative scene; technology centers for innovative youth and social facilities for older people.

  Charles Landry

  Technology, Order, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The Americans view the democratization of the Middle East as the route to peace.

  Gilles Kepel

  Views, Middle East, Routes

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A beautiful word in the middle of a sentence can sometimes reduce me to tears in an interview, and when I'm reading, too. I've sometimes wondered whether I'm at the point of tears all the time because I use my eyes so much that they're strained and on the verge of tears anyway.

  Michael Silverblatt

  Beautiful, Reading, Eye

  Interview with Sarah Fay, believermag.com. June 1, 2010.

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• The fundamental issue, when it comes to Europe's future, will be whether and how we manage to transfer the ideals that once made Europe great - especially its Christian roots - into today's changed world. No one wants to return to the Middle Ages.

  Walter Kasper

  Christian, Roots, Issues

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Failure is not always a bad thing. You just have to be smart while you're in the middle of it. You're in the eye of the tornado of like disappointment to know that it's just a storm and it'll pass.

  Pharrell Williams

  Disappointment, Smart, Eye

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I consider the modernization of the Middle East the central challenge of our time. This region behaves as if it were disturbed, if you'll excuse the clinical expression.

  Zalmay Khalilzad

  Expression, Challenges, Middle East

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't like my wrestling or entertainment in general to be too clean or predictable for me as a fan. When I say clean, I'm not talking about dirty jokes, middle fingers and stuff like that. I'm actually not even a big fan of that. A lot of people talk about the attitude era being so great but a lot of it was terrible crap, sex jokes and over-the-top terrible bad comedy. It was Jerry Springer-like. They made a joke about a woman's breasts. Hilarious, but where's the wrestling? I look back on a lot of stuff now, and I'm like where's the wrestling? It's just a lot of crappy jokes.

  Dean Ambrose

  Sex, Attitude, Dirty

  "Dean Ambrose Thinks John Cena’s As Boring And Predictable As The Rest Of Us Do" by Brandon Stroud, uproxx.com. October 10, 2014.

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• I’m stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I’m alone. Because in France, they’re like, no, you’re not like us, you’re not a French guy. And in America, they’re like, you’re not like us. I’m really alone in my little thing.

  Louis Leterrier

  America, Islands, Guy

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• This week the Obama administration warned China to remove its secret agents from the U.S. Then in the middle of Obama's announcement a plant behind him got up and walked away.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Secret, Agents, Administration

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• The American people must make a fundamental decision. Do we continue the 40-year decline of our middle class and the growing gap between the very rich and everyone else, or do we fight for a progressive economic agenda that creates jobs, raises wages, protects the environment and provides health care for all?

  Bernie Sanders

  Jobs, Fighting, Years

  FaceBook post by Bernie Sanders from Oct 31, 2015

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• The first step of gratitude is to see the gift...if you are in the middle of difficulties and problems, how can you feel gratitude? You've got to fight to find the gift even in the difficulty...when you shift your perspective from the perspective of the mind because life will never make sense to your mind...mind is very logical and life is not. In order for life to make sense you've got to be out of your mind and you've got to be into your soul. When you begin to see life from the perspective of your soul then even in the midst of the worst of it you can see the gift.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Gratitude, Fighting, Order

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• It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle.

  Christine Caine

  Impossible, Quitting, Ends

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Jun 19, 2015

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• Middle management is a disease.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Middle Management, Disease, Management

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• I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

  M. Ageyev

  Dream, Men, Night

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• I've always hated the big United Way drive at work.  Not because of the United Way.  Great organization.  Because of the smell of solicitation in the air, and because we are usually in the middle of it.

  Kris Dunn

  Air, Organization, Smell

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• I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday.

  Gary David

  Friday, Monday, Writing

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