Rising Quotes - Page 10

• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hero, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

  Michael Hardt

  Military, Practice, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

  Kshama Sawant

  War, World, Historic

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

  Akbar Ganji

  Expectations, Revolution, Demand

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Khomeini obviously had many problems, but he had one clever side to him. He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.

  Akbar Ganji

  Clever, Expectations, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Tiger Rising is, again, about a motherless child. His name is Rob Horton. He is dealing with the death of his mother, when he and his father move to a new town. And two things happen the same day that Rob gets sent home. One is he meets a girl named Sistine Bailey, who is what my mother would call "a piece of work," and he finds a real tiger in a cage in the woods behind the motel where he lives with his dad. And that's the story: what happens with the Sistine tiger, the real tiger and Rob's grief.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Girl, Mother, Children

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. In-depth Written Interview.

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• Rob Horton, the main character of The Tiger Rising, was a secondary character in an adult short story I wrote, and he wouldn't go away after I'd finished the short story. I couldn't figure out what he wanted, so I wrote to find out.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Character, Going Away, Adults

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Book, Home, Florida

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A friend of mine said Winn-Dixie is the way that people want the world to be and Tiger Rising is the way that it is.

  Kate DiCamillo

  People, Dixie, World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Kids, Dark

  TeachingBooks.net Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. November 12, 2005.

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• Climate change is a reality and if left unchecked, rising ocean tides will harm Georgia's Atlantic coast and threaten our state's robust tourism and shipping industries.

  James L. Barksdale

  Ocean, Reality, Tourism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

  Bob Dylan

  Waiting, Age, Curtains

  "Song: "The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar" ("Shot of Love")". 1981.

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• It was in D.C., and I couldn't believe how they were just three guys, but they sounded like six guys. It was amazing. I got spoiled, because that was my first concert. I wish in retrospect I had seen someone like Air Supply, and then my expectations could keep rising. Nothing against Air Supply. "I'm All Out Of Love" is still a classic.

  Rich Fulcher

  Believe, Love Is, Air

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• An improv artist's best instrument is their ability keep their antennae clean so they're able to receive what I call the connection to creativity. It's the thing that you see in any amazing moment that any human being is performing. Whether it's watching Michael Jordan navigating through all these attackers and then suddenly rising up and putting the ball in the most amazing way, or watching an actor on stage playing Shakespeare, but not thinking about the actor anymore or the stage or you or the chair, any of these kinds of moments of transcendence.

  Reggie Watts

  Creativity, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People in low-lying countries like Bangladesh with almost 140 million people who are managing to feed themselves, whose carbon emissions can't really be calculated (they are a rounding error in the UN's attempts to do national comparisons), and yet, most of whose people are at risk from increased flooding due to rising sea levels.

  Bill McKibben

  Country, Lying, Errors

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

  Paula Broadwell

  Dream, Stars, Athlete

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy. Drowning in that water is as sweet as rising.

  Robert Bly

  Sweet, Water, Soul

  Source: www.utne.com

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• "Once there, always there", would give you less freedom than you recently enjoyed, but more security. Security not in the sense of safety from terrorists, burglars, or pickpockets... but security in the sense of knowing where you are, who you are, on what kind of future you can count, what will happen, whether you will preserve your position in society or whether you will be degraded and humiliated - this sort of security. This sort of security for many, many people - a rising number of people - looks at the moment more attractive than more freedom.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Numbers, Knowing, People

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• Once upon a time, when I was young, people saw a wedding as an event that determined the rest of their life. For a rising number of people today, it is quite normal to "try and err", marry, divorce, marry again.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Divorce, Numbers, People

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Trends, Inequality, Constant

  Source: www.theoryculturesociety.org

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• All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

  Noam Chomsky

  Literature, Frightened, Mass

  Source: www.iww.org

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• One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.

  Seamus Heaney

  Easter, Mean, Years

  Source: harvardmagazine.com

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• Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

  Kevin Drum

  Cancer, Different, Levels

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that the vast majority of Londoners can't afford to buy, are being forced out of the boroughs they grew up in, or in the worst cases, are being made homeless. If nothing is done, people will continue to be driven out of the city and London will cease to be a hub for creativity and entrepreneurship.

  David Lammy

  Reading, Creativity, Cities

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• I think it's very realistic to think we could provide additional protection for renters because for many people - renting is now the only option. It is also entirely necessary if we are to protect Londoners from rapidly rising rents.

  David Lammy

  Thinking, People, Protection

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