Quarters Quotes - Page 11

• Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

  Minnie Maddern Fiske

  Night, Generosity, Sorrow

  Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”

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• Why do three-quarters of NATO [countries] get away with not paying anything? They have to pay their bills.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Country, Pay, Bills

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis.

  Jill Lepore

  Marketing, Stage, Schemes

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• I'd done light comedy. In some quarters, About Last Night... is a romantic comedy. So it wasn't like I'd been doing Sophie's Choice my entire career. But for whatever reason, nobody had really given me the room or the ability to be out and out funny. And Lorne [Michaels] and Mike [Myers] and Chris [Farley] and Dana [Carvey], that crop really helped me do that.

  Rob Lowe

  Night, Careers, Light

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• That is the way successful countries, and Canada has been one of the most successful countries over the past quarter century, they operate. That when you win, you win within limits, when you lose, you accept the outcome.

  David Frum

  Country, Successful, Winning

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on.

  Pablo Picasso

  Race, Goes On, May

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Every day we'd trudge up the hill - it was a three-quarter-mile walk up this steep hill to the Leach Pottery, and we would take our lunch with us and generally, I guess, make a nuisance of ourselves.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Lunch, Three, Nuisance

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Poverty persists, essentially, because the people at the bottom - the bottom quarter and also the bottom half - see the gains from the rising global average income wiped out by severe declines in their relative share.

  Thomas Pogge

  Average, People, Income

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I've been trying to watch my weight a bit, but when I come to Las Vegas, all bets are off. I get enough healthy food in L.A. where the food is the size of a quarter and costs $40 - when I'm in Vegas, I want a steak!

  Billy Gardell

  Vegas, Healthy, Trying

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• Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.

  Travis Tritt

  Who Cares, Care

  Song: Here's a Quarter

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• Oil is a tangible commodity, so there is a global market. The fact that we may need less may affect the global price because we're big consumers: we probably take about a quarter of global demand. But if suddenly, let's just use a crazy example, fighting in the Middle East led to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and no oil could get out through the Strait of Hormuz, well that would affect China, India, Europe, it will affect the whole global economy. It will affect us, too, then.

  Thomas Friedman

  Crazy, Fighting, Europe

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• Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

  Arundhati Roy

  Water, India, Three

  Source: progressive.org

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• Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with living quarters, laboratories and everything needed for the comfort of its crew, who would be relieved and provisioned by a regular rocket service. (1945)

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Space, Orbit

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• The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as three-quarters, does not deserve to be published at all, and is only published for economic considerations which have nothing to do with the real interests of science.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Real, Science, Doe

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• I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Fighting, Trying, Politics

  "Song: 'We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us About'". 1983.

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• When I think about work-life balance, I don't imagine it as a perfect day where I got to spend the exact right amount of time having an impact at work and snuggling with my kids at home. I never achieve that. But over the course of a month, or a quarter, or a year, I try to make time for the people and experiences I value.

  Jane Park

  Kids, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Marc Maron's podcast success has nothing to do with my podcast success. If I do a quarter of a million downloads, I can show that to an advertiser as a fact, and that's that.

  Jay Mohr

  Facts, Shows, Downloads

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• If Coolidge were a stock, he'd be a buy. The experts have historically ranked Coolidge in the bottom quartile or bottom half of all presidents. But his economic performance and his statesmanship suggest Coolidge belongs in the top quarter of presidents. The disparity between the Coolidge price and Coolidge value is huge. So revision is warranted.

  Amity Shlaes

  President, Experts, Half

  Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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• Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.

  David Swanson

  War, Cities, Names

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

  Stuart L. Hart

  Land, Energy, Typical

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• I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing in conflict between agreeing with Richard [Dawkins] in practically all of his conclusions about the natural world, and also saying that I am still able to accept and embrace the possibility that there are answers that science isn't able to provide about the natural world - the questions about why instead of the questions about how. I'm interested in the whys.

  Richard Dawkins

  Able, Answers, World

  Source: inters.org

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• At the moment, the 4 percent of us in this country produce a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide - once you look at maps of rising sea levels and spreading mosquitoes, you realize that we've probably never figured out a way to hate our neighbors around the world much more effectively.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Hate, Sea

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• I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land, and my home after all
  was down in de old cabin quarter, wid de ole folks, and my brudders and sisters. But to dis solemn resolution I came; I was free, and dey should be free also; I would make a home for dem in
  de North, and de Lord helping me, I would bring dem all dere.

  Harriet Tubman

  Dream, Home, Land

  Quoted in Sarah Bradford, Harriet, the Moses of Her People (1969)

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• If you care anything about your personal security, you should first of all pray for order and tranquility throughout the four quarters of the land.

  Nichiren

  Land, Order, Insecurity

  Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

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• You have to emote much more to get what you're trying to get across to come through a quarter inch of latex that's superglued to your face.

  Armie Hammer

  Trying, Faces, Latex

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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