Offense Quotes - Page 18

• I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

  Michael Leiter

  Home, Law, Community

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Anyone working in the media can tell you that there seems to be an always-ready-to-explode segment of the populace for whom offense is a fate worse than anything imaginable. You'd think offense is one of the most calamitous things that could happen to a human being; right up there with the loss of a limb, or just missing a parking space.

  Dick Cavett

  Fate, Loss, Thinking

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.72, Henry Holt and Company

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• When there is no offense I make no defense.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Defense

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• Christianity has the rancor of the sick at its very core-the instinct against the healthy, against health. Everything that is well-constructed, proud, gallant and, above all, beautiful gives offense to its ears and eyes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Eye, Giving

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• You're not going to have the police force representing the black and brown community, if they've spent the last 30 years busting every son and daughter and father and mother for every piddling drug offense that they've ever done, thus creating a mistrust in the community. But at the same time, you should be able to talk about abuses of power, and you should be able to talk about police brutality and what, in some cases, is as far as I'm concerned, outright murder and outright loss of justice without the police organization targeting you in the way that they have done me.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  Source: collider.com

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• I think the important point is the turning point in combining offense and defense in a reasonable way.

  Fred Ikle

  Thinking, Offense And Defense, Important

  "Ideology of the Reagan Administration". WGBH Educational Foundation Interview, lsopenvault01.wgbh.org. November 24, 1987.

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• You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past. To be tagged as an ID supporter is to become an academic pariah, and this holds even at so-called Christian institutions that place a premium on respectability at the expense of truth and the offense of the Gospel.

  William A. Dembski

  Christian, Intelligent, Past

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• Every offense is not a hate at first.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Firsts

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth Night”, p.442, Bantam Classics

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• The most interesting nerds are the ones who take offense to being called nerds.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Interesting, Nerd, Most Interesting

  FaceBook post by Greg Fitzsimmons from Apr 28, 2013

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• The fact is that really no comedian sets out to offend you. Some comics enjoy the challenge of taking a subject that is likely to be found offensive and trying to make it funny‚ but the object is still to make you laugh. Offense is only a calculated risk. It's highly unlikely that a comedian whose only goal was to repulse you would ever make it past an open-mic stage, far less build a long career of touring theatres and television appearances.

  Doug Stanhope

  Past, Careers, Long

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• If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

  Mick Jagger

  Years, People, Loving You

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• There is no second baseman in the game who can turn the double play better [than Mark Lemke]. Why are people always looking for offense at that position? What's more important is getting outs, and turning the double is a huge factor in getting outs.

  Tom Glavine

  Games, Play, People

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• You need to understand the receiver and the offense you're facing that week. Know his tendencies and what routes he runs out of what formations. This will help you understand the concepts of what the receiver is going to give you on a given play, and make you that much better defending him.

  Antonio Cromartie

  Running, Play, Giving

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• You have to be intelligent. You have to know what other guys are doing because you're in the back end and you see everything, so you have to alert others what to be ready for, and that makes it easier on everyone. It's just like playing offense, but now you're the quarterback of the defense, and you need to be vocal and take on that leadership responsibility. If you do, everything else becomes easier.

  Calvin Pryor

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Guy

  Source: www.nfl.com

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• What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Evil, Unjust, Slave

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• People have no idea what it's like to be that person in the arena. I know, no offense, but a lot of people on television, talking heads and analysts and consultants and strategists and they all have their opinions and they tell what a candidate ought to do, what he should have done, what he could have done. But they've never been in at arena.

  Mike Huckabee

  People, Done, Opinion

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Wrath, Way

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• Anyone observing U.S. politics in recent years could easily conclude that lying about having sex is a serious offense worthy of impeachment, while lying about taking the country to war is hardly worth mentioning.

  Linda McQuaig

  Country, Sex, War

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• If you read Donald Trump's book "The Art of the Deal," you know that he likes to create leverage, he likes to have psychological advantage, he likes to be on the offense. He believes in what he calls truthful hyperbole.

  Wendy Sherman

  Art, Believe, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Public opinion takes no offense at the endeavors of farmers, workers, clerks, teachers, doctors, ministers, and people from many other callings to earn as much as they can. But it censures the capitalists and entrepreneurs for their greed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Teacher, Doctors, People

  Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

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• People charged with drug offenses, though, are typically poor people of color. They are routinely charged with felonies and sent to prison.

  Michelle Alexander

  Color, People, Drug

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

  Shelby Steele

  New York, Criminals, Pieces

  "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.

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• No offense, boys are more immature than girls. Knowing that and not wanting any BS in my life - not having time for it - you just have to be smart about it. Obviously, if you're really attracted to someone and you're in love with them, that's fine. But I see all my brothers and how they act and ... to be picky is good.

  Nicola Peltz

  Girl, Brother, Smart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.

  John Dean

  Source: progressive.org

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