Reaching Quotes - Page 36

• Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and Medicare and federal government solutions. But if you think through the analysis, strengthening state rights is a good corrective of the aggregation of an over-reaching federal power.

  Naomi Wolf

  Hippie, Thinking, San Francisco

  "Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land?". Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.alternet.org. March 29, 2010.

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• [Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Blow, Support, Might

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I don't know who wants war in America, but I was very happy when Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War by reaching out to Russia. And - and they ended up discarding their Marxist Leninist baloney that had threatened the world for so long.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  War, Russia, America

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Al-Hallaj has a special destiny. He came at a time when worldliness, the luxury, were inundating the Islamic world. His function was to act as kind of an antithesis to this, and he paid for it with his life, and he was very happy to do so. He smiled as he went to the executioner. That was done because it shook the conscience of the Islamic peoples of that time. But the vast majority, the vast, vast, vast majority of Sufis, they have not met the destiny of al-Hallaj. They have spoken about reaching "the Truth" and there is nothing dangerous about it.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Destiny, Luxury

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• How did the Turks become Muslim? They became Muslim through the Sufis. The Arabs never conquered the Turks. There were people in early Islam who were speaking like Hallaj, who spoke about the Truth, about reaching the Truth, about being one with the Truth, and not only they were not killed, but they were great heroes of their own culture, and there is a university in Turkey named after one [Sufi Saint.]

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Hero, Turkeys, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Trying, Peers

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• We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

  Willie Aames

  Kids, Technology, Video

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• Philosophers and theologians have argued for centuries over the morality of targeted assassinations - a technique that the Israelis use with some frequency - without ever reaching anything approaching consensus.

  Eric Alterman

  Technique, Use, Morality

  "Dick Cheney's Shadow Government" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 14, 2009.

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• I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

  Kevin Bacon

  Happiness, Anger, Sadness

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• I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

  Juliette Binoche

  Knowing, Space, Needs

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• A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Responsibility, Reaching Up, Voice

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• I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

  Jeff Bridges

  Eye, Perfect, Target

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• An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

  Bill Bryson

  Iowa, Space, Looks

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• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

  Martin Buber

  Individual, Divine, Approach

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• Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

  Eric Cantor

  Walking Away, Views, Expression

  "Republicans to Add NPR Funding to 'You Cut' Budget Slashing Contest". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2010.

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• They love 3-D. It's fun to watch a movie in 3-D with your children, or with a group of children, because, from time to time, you see little hands reaching up to grab things that they think are right there. It's remarkable and it does, obviously, add another dimension, literally, to the movie.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Children, Kids

  "Steve Carell Interview DESPICABLE ME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to anyone, when they try to discourage you, because they do that, believe me!

  Mariah Carey

  Dream, Determination, Giving Up

  Mariah Carey's remarks at Madison Square Garden, 1995.

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• Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

  Kris Carr

  Healthy, Juice, Green

  "What’s in My Fridge?" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I love being manipulated by what I see. I love weepies and romantic comedies where you're reaching for the Kleenex at the right moment.

  Nick Cave

  Comedy, Moments, Kleenex

  "Outback outlaws". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2006.

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• The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Peace, War, Mean

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• What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

  Harlan Coben

  Book, Writing, People

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• 'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Children, School, Accountability

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• I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

  Michael Franti

  Thinking, People, Soul

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• Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Lying, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1979). “Collected Works”

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• So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

  Jerry Garcia

  Numbers, Want, Problem

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