Raises Quotes - Page 37

• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

  Alice Cooper

  Rocks, Fists, Politics

  Song: Freedom, Album: Raise Your Fist And Yell

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• Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

  Phil Ochs

  Voice, Politics, Should

  Song: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, Album: Pleasures of the Harbor

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• Osama, yo Mama didn't raise you right. When you were young, she must have wrapped your turban too tight.

  Ray Stevens

  Politics, Mama, Turbans

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• The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Business, Mean, Government

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• Increasingly, the real estate developers can't get bank loans for their project financing in China. They're now going into the Hong Kong market to raise money in the bond market at very, very high rates, as high as 15, 20 percent.

  James Chanos

  Real, Hong Kong, Loan

  "Jim Chanos' One Big China Regret" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. May 24, 2011.

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• When you raise prices, you've got to make sure you get it to the bottom line. You can fritter it away because of the way you're running the business, with maybe not a totally disciplined approach.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Running, Lines, Way

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• I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes.

  Rick Dees

  People, Different, Way

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• I was never taught how to raise a child, because I wasn't raised properly.

  Corey Feldman

  Children, Taught, Raised

  "Actor Corey Feldman Says Pedophilia No. 1 Problem for Child Stars, Contributed to Demise of Corey Haim" by Steven Baker and David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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• I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise.

  Curt Flood

  Player, White, People

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• I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.

  Edie Falco

  Children, People, Important

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• There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

  Jeff Flake

  Cutting, Republican, Taxes

  "Flake: Past Spending Limits Haven't Worked". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 29, 2011.

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• If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

  Kristin Hersh

  Leader, Bars, Band

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Technology, Bars, Envelopes

  "FASTER THE CHRONICLES: Dwayne Johnson – Exclusive Interview that Covers FASTER, FAST FIVE, THE OTHER GUYS, 3D, More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 15, 2010.

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• To this day, I am the least materialistic person I know, because my father didn't raise me to just go out and buy this or that car. The only reason I wanted to make money as an actor was because I'm passionate about food!

  Hugh Jackman

  Father, Car, Passionate

  "Oprah Talks to Hugh Jackman". www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

  Augustus William Hare

  Philosophy, Levels, Ifs

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.295

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• Raise your hands in the air, pump your fists, and solemnly swear to rock the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Air, Hands, Rock And Roll

  Song: Get The Picture

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• That's why I wanted to be part of this AIDS Project Los Angeles party. We help raise funds for those who are having a tough time with some very basic necessities, like shelter, food, and medical care.

  Brande Roderick

  Party, Tough Times, Hiv

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• You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

  Tom Lehrer

  Dancing, Tango, Masochism

  Song: The Masochism Tango

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• I think film should raise questions, not give answers. I think film should challenge people to reflect, debate and get by themselves to the answer that fits them.

  Diego Luna

  Thinking, Raises Questions, People

  "Diego Luna Talks Miss Bala, Casa De Mi Padre, Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium, and Contraband". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

  Masaharu Morimoto

  Grateful, Japan, Earthquakes

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• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  Ralph Neas

  People, Justice, President

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• The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.

  Richard Owen

  Men, Study, Psychological

  "The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, vol. 111". Journal by Sydney Smith, Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey, William Empson, Macvey Napier, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Henry Reeve, Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot (Hon.), Harold Cox, p. 521, 1860.

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• The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Real, Ideas, Personality

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