Response Quotes - Page 19

• A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.

  Luis Valdez

  Ignorance, Eye, California

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• There is an unraveling, a great unraveling that I believe is occurring. Not without its pain, not without its frustration. Perhaps the fundamentalism we see within America right now is in response to these changes. We fear change, and so we cling to what is known.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Believe, Frustration

  Terry Tempest Williams (2006). “A voice in the wilderness: conversations with Terry Tempest Williams”, Utah State Univ Pr

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• Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

  Jeff Cooper

  Thinking, Answers, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Joy, Making Love

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• Health system development is a key to effective detection, response, and control of any outbreak.

  Margaret Chan

  Keys, Development, Outbreaks

  "Are We Prepared? An Exclusive Interview with WHO Director-General Margaret Chan". “Next Outbreak” with Joanne Silberner, www.pbs.org. September 28, 2015.

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• When I walk into a screening, I'm nervous in a different way than I am as an actor. But the response is ultimately I know how I feel about it and that's what matters to me the most.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  What Matters, Different, Actors

  "Jake Gyllenhaal Interview, Nightcrawler". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October, 2014.

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• I certainly felt I had an idea of World War II, and it's probably the idea that many people share: there was this insane aggressor, and there was really only one way to proceed in resisting him. What I didn't realize is that there were many voices belonging to reasonable, interesting, complicated people who had a different way of interpreting the possible responses to the Hitlerian menace.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Ideas, Voice

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try to starve the Continent into a state of revolt and to terrorize German civilians with bombing raids, was part of the total catastrophe.

  Nicholson Baker

  Thinking, Trying, Sides

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Sleep, Fighting

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Gandhi was such an important figure to the pacifists of the '30s, and he was such an extraordinary embodiment of nonviolence, that I thought it was necessary to have him in there. When he would say something about the war, it was to some extent news - and he was sure to have a response that was different from that of other world leaders.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Other Worlds, Leader

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

  Paul Auster

  Writing, People, Giving

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams.

  Roger Kahn

  Basketball, Summer, Baseball

  Roger Kahn (1992). “Games We Used to Play: A Lover's Quarrel with the World of Sports”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Believe, Doe

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• A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

  Paul Goodman

  Teacher, Teaching, Way

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.16, New York Review of Books

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• I contend that most emotional distress is best understood as a rational response to sick societies.

  Oliver James

  Emotional, Sick, Rational

  Oliver James (2007). “Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane”

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• Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

  Tom Allen

  Mercury, Problem, Plant

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• Anarchism is grounded in a rather definite social-psychological hypothesis: that forceful, graceful and intelligent behaviour occurs only when there is an uncoerced and direct response to the physical and social environment; that in most human affairs, more harm than good results from compulsion, top-down direction, bureaucratic planning, pre-ordained curricula, jails, conscription, states.

  Paul Goodman

  Intelligent, Jail, Top Down

  Paul Goodman (1967). “Like a conquered province: the moral ambiguity of America”

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• I mean you really can target your answers to get the instant response and I think that is a very manipulative type of polling. I really have no time for that worm at all.

  Jim Bolger

  Mean, Thinking, Target

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• Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

  Henry Reed

  Dream, Impact, Culture

  Henry Reed (2005). “Dream Medicine: Learning How to Get Help from Our Dreams”, p.266, We Publish Books

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• Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Home, Years

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

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• Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period.

  Martha Beck

  Essence, Needs, Matter

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• Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

  Katie Davis

  Broken, Adoption, Tragedy

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• I prefer that for my own satisfaction over radio, there's no audience. TV, there's no audience. I need the response of the audience, even if it's a silent response.

  Al Lewis

  Needs, Radio, Satisfaction

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• Whatever the attitude, so is the response.

  Ed Parker

  Attitude

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• Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

  Bill Johnson

  Law, Voice, Principles

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