Raises Quotes - Page 33

• I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

  Robert Rodriguez

  Growing Up, Home, Kids

  "Robert Rodriguez Interview" by Daniel Barna, www.askmen.com.

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• I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Daughter, Thinking, Want

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• Why does it raise eyebrows when a woman uses cuss words?

  Mallika Sherawat

  Eyebrows, Doe, Use

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• Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.

  Chris Brogan

  People, Social Media, Quitting

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• The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without live stock; she always raises mixed crops; great pains are taken to preserve the soil and to prevent erosion; the mixed vegetable and animal wastes are converted into humus; there is no waste; the processes of growth and the processes of decay balance one another; ample provision is made to maintain large reserves of fertility; the greatest care is taken to store the rainfall; both plants and animals are left to protect themselves against disease.

  Albert Howard

  Mother, Pain, Taken

  SIR ALBERT HOWARD, C.l.E., M.A. (0101). “An Agricultural”, p.12, Prabhat Prakashan

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• New York has become an example of everything that is wrong with America. White Americans, fearing the crime and social alienation in New York City, commute endless hours to raise their families in safe, clean neighborhoods. The numbers of non-Americans, especially those from the Third World, are growing, and it is the hard working White New Yorker that pays the bill.

  David Duke

  New York, Hard Work, Numbers

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• Leftists would like to pretend that any criticism of their views raises the specter of domestic repression. But in a country with a First Amendment, no suppression from government is likely, and in the citadels of the media and the academy, the far left is actually vastly overrepresented.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Country, Government, Views

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• Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Party, July

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• How I feel about and behave toward myself is the basic determinant of most of my behavior. If I improve my self-regard, I will find that dozens of behaviors change automatically. If, for example, I increase my feelings of self-competence, I will probably be less defensive, less angered by criticism, less devastated if I do not get a raise, less anxious when I come to work, better able to make decisions, and more able to appreciate and praise other people.

  William Schutz

  Behavior Change, Self, Appreciate

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• A little criticism makes me angry, and a little rejection makes me depressed. A little praise raises my spirits, and a little success excites me. It takes very little to raise me up or thrust me down. Often I am like a small boat on the ocean, completely at the mercy of its waves. All the time and energy I spend in keeping some kind of balance and preventing myself from being tipped over and drowning shows my life is mostly a struggle for survival: not a holy struggle, but an anxious struggle resulting from the mistaken idea that it is the world that defines me.

  Henri Nouwen

  Ocean, Struggle, Self

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.42, Image

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• "Maybe I just don't want another rejection," he shrugs. "I've had enough of that in my so-called acting career." Oh, so this is what it's all about. "But you're not auditioning for a role," I try to persuade him. "Aren't I?" he raises his eyebrows.

  Alexandra Potter

  Eyebrows, Careers, Rejection

  "Don't You Forget About Me". Book by Alexandra Potter, 2012.

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• We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant puzzle, and each one of us is a very important and unique part of it. Collectively, we can unite and bring about a powerful change in the world. By working to raise our awareness to the highest possible level of spiritual understanding, we can begin to heal ourselves, then each other and the world.

  Betty Eadie

  Spiritual, Powerful, Unique

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• If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fear, Moving, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Is it important that the rent of
  land be retained as a source of
  government revenue. Some persons
  who could make excellent use of
  land would be unable to raise money
  for the purchase price. Collecting
  rent annually provides access to
  land for persons with limited
  access to credit.

  Franco Modigliani

  Government, Land, Important

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• We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

  Berl Katznelson

  Generations, Raised, Wanted

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• Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Jobs, Creating, Space

  CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2008.

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• Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Men, Culture, Barbarians

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• We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise; and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.72

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• We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs. Beaten down, sickly, virtue has now been allowed to enter in all its tatters and sit in the corner, as long as it doesn't raise its voice.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Dog, Voice, Long

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• I just ask that everyone continue to raise awareness and fight for pediatric cancer. The fight's not over.

  Devon Still

  Cancer, Fighting, Awareness

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• You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mother, Men, Voice

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• Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God.

  Kevin Myers

  Kids, People, Tools

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• I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Opportunity, Civilization

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Issues, Politician

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

  Dave Barry

  Fighting, Paris, People

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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