Shakers Quotes - Page 2

• The EU might have become a large federal nation. But they would have had to do things differently. Number one, they would've had to make people feel like participants in a common project of autonomous law-giving. Much more political accountability, much more participation. That didn't happen, I think, because the movers and shakers were more concerned with economic union than political union.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Thinking, Numbers, Law

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Calvin [Trillin] was much more of a mover and a shaker. That's all I'm saying. I was a "weenie." That was another term back then.

  Kevin Sessums

  Term

  Source: fourtwonine.com

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• Fashion has always been nourished by the past. At the end of the day, where the inspiration comes from doesn't matter. It's what you do with it. How you treat it, how you translate it into a contemporary wardrobe. You put it in a shaker.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Fashion, Inspiration, Past

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Some people think God is going to guide those humans. The Oneida community and the Shakers both believed that they had received revelations about how to build the New Jerusalem that the Bible says is coming

  Christine Jennings

  Thinking, People, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

  David Wain

  College, Media, People

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• Lady, if you laugh and you don't make a noise, you're a shaker, and it's freaking me out.

  Christopher Titus

  Laughing, Noise, Ifs

  "5th Annual End of the World Tour". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Great opportunity for technology/media companies to meet the movers and shakers in the broadcast and media industries.

  Kay Koplovitz

  Technology, Opportunity, Media

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• The movers and shakers on our planet, aren't the billionaires and generals, they are the incredible numbers of people around the world filled with love for neighbor and for the earth who are resisting, remaking, restoring, renewing and revitalising.

  Bill McKibben

  Numbers, People, World

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• Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Adventure, Writing

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• I had always been told the bible was a book about love, but I couldn't find enough love in it to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the bible; God is vengeance. There is no other book between whose covers life is so cheap.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Bible, God, Book

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• He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

  Alice Hoffman

  Stars, Sky, Salt

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.76, Penguin Group

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• The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's eugenics studies were initially endowed by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, the head of the Krupp munitions monolith, and James Loeb, of the Kuhn-Loeb banking family. Loeb's relatives, the Warburgs, were banking partners of William Rockefeller, and both families were responsible for setting up the American Harriman family - also movers and shakers in eugenics - in business.

  Jim Keith

  Eugenics, Banking, Study

  Jim Keith (2003). “Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness”, p.14, Adventures Unlimited Press

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• Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.

  Benjamin Zablocki

  Years, Community, Membership

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• Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Alcohol, Drug, Salt

  Song: Margaritaville Live

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• I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.

  Eva Zeisel

  Mother, Brother, Cousin

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• Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

  Ann Voskamp

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Darkness

  "How To Find The Holy Grail of Joy" by Ann Voskamp, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2011.

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• If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life," "God," "soul," "cross," etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Religious, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1911). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.

  John Fletcher

  War, Blood, People

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• For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.

  Isaac Stern

  New York, Taken, Airplane

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• We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Vegas, Two, Drug

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Night, New Orleans, Air

  "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

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• The women are the movers and shakers in the community...they initiate things...they keep things going.

  Pat O'Shane

  Women, Community, Movers And Shakers

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• I studied every page of this book, and I didn't find enough love to fill a salt shaker. God is not love in the Bible; God is vengeance, from Alpha to Omega.

  Ruth Hurmence Green

  Love, Atheist, Book

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• Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Growing Up, Father

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