Simple Quotes - Page 39

• There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in the South don't want an education, they don't want to vote, they're simple people, they don't want this, they don't want that.

  Bill Ayers

  People, Black, Want

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.

  George Saunders

  Book, Ideas, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

  George Saunders

  Love Is, Vices, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Novels and stories are sometimes very complex staging grounds to say, in fact, very simple things. Things impossible to say otherwise because they are repeated in so many exploitative contexts - adverts and TV shows and political speeches.

  Zadie Smith

  Tv Shows, Political, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hard Work, Proud, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• I fired Mike Flynn because of what he said to Mike Pence, very simple. Mike was doing his job, calling countries and his counterparts, so it certainly would have been ok with me if he did it.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Calling

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The message that I am conveying to President Trump, to the Cabinet, to leaders in both Houses is real simple. Let's do what we promised. Let's deliver on the promises and if we do that, we'll win at the ballot box and if we don't, the people will hold us accountable for that too.

  Ted Cruz

  Real, Winning, People

  Source: time.com

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• Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience.

  Craig Groeschel

  Sight, Understanding, May

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Optimistic, Government, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

  Robert H. Frank

  Couple, Party, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The truth is that business is simple: create great products, merchandise them at the point of sale, continuously innovate and surprise, reward and achieve a position of loyalty with your front line, and seek new truth from the market. Deliver the goods at a competitive cost. Price to earn a decent but not competitively inviting return. Not much else matters.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Loyalty, Lines, Rewards

  Interview With Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. November 28, 2015.

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• If I was to say "I'll only do movies," then I'd struggle to find a varied career. My priority is an interesting career, that's why I keep a low rent, I don't go on big holidays, and I keep it very simple.

  Rufus Sewell

  Struggle, Holiday, Careers

  Source: www.thehollywoodnews.com

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• I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Impact, America

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My brain is very simple. Like when you break everything down. I see things in a simple way. And that simplicity for some reason becomes funny to other people because they don't look at it that way.

  Carlos Mencia

  People, Simplicity, Brain

  Source: www.nj.com

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• I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Art, Mean

  Source: progressive.org

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• The research points pretty clearly to the rise of companionate marriage, and I just think it's going to keep being popular, for the very simple reason that it's basically the only way to afford a family life in the 21st-century in advanced economies. It's one of the major reasons for the spike in income inequality. Surgeons used to marry their secretaries. Now they marry other surgeons.

  Stephen Marche

  Thinking, Way, Income

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Common Sense, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.'" So we have "'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement'".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Organization, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The media outlets did not even attempt to confirm the most basic facts [about me] because even a simple investigation would have shown that these were nothing more than false smears.

  Donald Trump

  Media, Facts, Investigation

  Source: time.com

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• I'm one simple way I think I've succeeded was capturing Elsa [Dorfman]. There's something about Elsa, her personality, and her work that I believe is there.

  Errol Morris

  Believe, Thinking, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• I do not over-intellectualise the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.

  Tom Clancy

  Trying, Stories, Process

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• Evolution is a very, very important idea. It is the explanation for all of life - a stunningly simple, yet powerful explanation. If you think about it, before Darwin, we hadn't the foggiest idea of how we came into being. Now we do. It's still such an exciting idea that it is well worth everybody understanding it.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.

  Bianca Balti

  Sex, Gay, Ethnicity

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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