Significant Quotes - Page 19

• Fighting disparities is very significant.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fighting, Disparity

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• There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

  Jesse Jackson

  College, Race, Class

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• Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Husband, People

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• When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Sacrifice, Remember

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

  Gustav Klimt

  Artist, Looks, Want

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• All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Feminist, Political

  "50 Art Ideas You Really Need to Know" by Susie Hodge, Quercus, (p. 270), September 29, 2011.

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• The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  People, Dating, Google

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• George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Half, Briefing, Surrogates

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• As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

  Dan Lipinski

  Country, Idaho, Hydrogen Fuel

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• I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Thinking, Purpose, Pieces

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 7, 2013.

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• Money can't buy life.

  Bob Marley

  "Autopsy: The Last Hours Of Bob Marley examines singer's death" by James Wray, www.monstersandcritics.com. February 25, 2017.

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• If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.

  Bob Marley

  Ifs

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• Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

  Bob Marley

  Moving, Years, Prejudice

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

  Bob Marley

  Men, Important, Natural

  "Bob Marley: 'What we need is some positive vibration' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Karl Dallas, www.theguardian.com. 1975.

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• We are seeing, we have seen in the last figures a significant drop in the number of net migrants coming into the United Kingdom. So we are cutting out abuse, we've restricted the number of economic - non-EU economic migrants. We're cutting out abuse across the student visa system, particularly, and we're having an impact.

  Theresa May

  Cutting, Impact, Numbers

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

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• No company that I ever hacked into reported any damages, which they were required to do for significant losses. Sun didn't stop using Solaris and DEC didn't stop using VMS.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Loss, Damage, Sun

  "Ghost in the Wires: The Kevin Mitnick Interview". Interview With Ken Hess, www.zdnet.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  Boards, Sucker

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• What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

  Elon Musk

  Space Flight, Differences, Trying

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". Interview with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Country, America, Usa

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• To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.

  Henri Nouwen

  Blessing, Giving, Affirmation

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Discernment: Reading the signs of daily life”, p.169, SPCK

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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Impact

  " To strike is a right - stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, World, Way

  Conversation with P. J. O'Rourke, www.theatlantic.com. September, 2004.

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• Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Writing, Order

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.63, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The most pressing and significant problems in the global economy are unsustainable structural issues with regard to the E.U. - fiscal deficits and the structure of the E.U. itself.

  Henry Paulson

  Issues, Problem, Economy

  "Disaster Movie Gets a Sequel, With Subtitles". Interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, dealbook.nytimes.com. August 08, 2011.

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• I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back.

  Steven Pinker

  Numbers, Looks, Opening

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