Participating Quotes - Page 7

• Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer.

  Van Jones

  Dirty, Light, House

  Source: aalbc.com

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• If the participants regret participating, then you won't have something that reveals some greater truth about human condition or allow some other perspective. You need people to want to be there so they can talk at length and want to continue talking to you.

  Rod Blackhurst

  Regret, Talking, Perspective

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I spent my twenties not really participating in the work force in any real way. I acted a tiny bit, but that was just because it was the only way I knew how to make money, and I sublet my apartment and lived in the woods and just tried to figure out who I was and what I wanted, what my real desire was and not just what I was used to doing, and it was a really confusing and painful, but really rich and amazing time.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Real, Confusing, Desire

  "‘Transparent’ star Gaby Hoffmann on nudity, child acting, and what scares her". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Chinese movies are not just about making Chinese local movies. It's about the Chinese money, the Chinese creativeness participating in a global movie. The problem is not the government not supporting this, they of course support this big time. The problem is whether other people are capable of doing the same thing I'm doing.

  Bruno Zheng Wu

  Government, People, Support

  Source: deadline.com

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• Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Keys, Understanding

  "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark". Book by Carl Sagan, Ch. 21: The Path to Freedom, 1995.

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• When you approach someone as a human being, truly and try to be as open as safety allows, some of the bigger reenactments with a whole army of paramilitary people participating, I couldn't say my feelings openly in front of everybody, without it being dangerous for my crew.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Army, People, Safety

  "Filmmaker Interview". "POV", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2014.

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• I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

  Steve Albini

  Mainstream Culture, Way, Racket

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• I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore.

  Carol Leifer

  Sorry, Sleep, Revelations

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• Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids.

  Clint Eastwood

  Kids, Gun, Thinking

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• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We had early on women having the right to vote, then women in the workforce during WWII, just going back in history, and then we had the higher education of women, and then women more fully participating in the economy and in business, the professions, education, you name the subject... but the missing link has always been: is there quality, affordable healthcare for all women, regardless of what their family situation might be?

  Nancy Pelosi

  Names, Missing, Quality

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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  We just have to convince other people that they have power. This is what they can do by participating to make change, not only in their community, but many times changing in their own lives. Once they participate, they get their sense of power.

  Dolores Huerta

  People, Community, Convince

  Source: www.sdfoundation.org

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• But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

  Noam Chomsky

  Government, Corporations, Wikileaks

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• In the face of uncertainty, many companies will default to asking their innovators to study and analyze, which can't actually ever provide a definitive answer. The decision-making systems here are meant to deal with the reality that decisions about innovative ideas will rely on patterns and intuitions. The best venture capital organizations deal with this challenge by staging investment, actively participating in startups they fund, tying decisions to learning as opposed to artificial dates on the calendar, and assembling a diverse team of decision-makers.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Reality, Organization

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic feelings by participating in the situations of others and acquiring an understanding of them. He thinks we also have a duty to make ourselves into the kind of person for whom the recognition that something is our duty would be a sufficient incentive to do it (if no other incentives were available to us). That's what he means by "the duty to act from the motive of duty".

  Allen W. Wood

  Mean, Thinking, Understanding

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Opposites, Creating

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  World, Levels, Cups

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• Participation is bliss because the whole universe is celebrating. Every moment it is celebrating. It is a great celebration, a constant celebration. Only we are not part of it. We have detached ourselves and are in misery. Man is in misery because of the mind. The flowers are participating in the celebration, the moon is participating, the stars are participating, the earth is participating, the oceans are participating, the air and the clouds - everything is participating in that continuous, eternal celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Ocean, Flower

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• This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Foundation, Want

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• A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

  Joan Blades

  Meaningful, Book, People

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• The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Interesting, Community, Advertising

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• Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the mind, experience comes through participating. If somebody asks, "What is a dance?" how can you define it? But you can dance and you can know the inner feel of it. God is the ultimate dance.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Definitions, Innocence

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• I think of mythology as the homeland of the muses, the inspirers of art, the inspirers of poetry. To see life as a poem and yourself participating in a poem is what the myth does for you.

  Joseph Campbell

  Art, Thinking, Doe

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• Every decision you need to make, every task you need to accomplish, every relationship you need to navigate, every element of daily life you need to traverse, God has already perfectly matched up with an equivalent-to-overflowing supply of His grace. If you don’t agree with that, then you either lack a proper appreciation for what you have, or you are doing things that you’re not supposed to be participating in right now.

  Priscilla Shirer

  Appreciation, Decision, Grace

  Priscilla Shirer, Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2015). “The Resolution for Women, LeatherTouch”, p.21, B&H Publishing Group

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• This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

  George Takei

  People, Democracy, Manipulation

  "CJAD" with Peter Anthony Holder, www.peteranthonyholder.com. November 21, 1994.

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