Social Quotes - Page 26

• I've always had to keep the walls in place, and the only way to do that is to keep yourself constantly occupied... From the time I was 8 years old, until I went to college, I worked... There was no social life.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wall, College, Years

  "The High Priestess of Creative Movement". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 25, 1993.

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• Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

  Russell Kirk

  Responsibility, Order, Moral

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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• We can develop a social vaccine (Self-esteem). We can outgrow our past failures - our lives of crime and violence, alcohol and drug abuse, premature pregnancy, child abuse, chronic dependency on welfare, and education failure.

  John Vasconcellos

  Children, Self Esteem, Pregnancy

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• Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Plus

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.399, Basic Books

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• The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

  Woody Allen

  Years, Hell, Should

  Sleeper, www.imdb.com. 1973.

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• Anyday, one can walk down the street in a big city and see a thousand people. Any photographer can photograph these people - but very few photographers can make their prints not only reproductions of the people taken, but a comment upon them - or more, a comment upon their lives - or more still, a comment upon the social order that creates these lives.

  Langston Hughes

  Taken, Order, Cities

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.141, University of Missouri Press

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• I don't think my comedy is that political. It's more social. But whatever. When you make comedy and you do stand-up, you work alone. Movies have to go under so much scrutiny. A stand-up special is a vision, and a movie is a consensus in a lot of ways.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Political, Vision

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

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• The `50s were terrifying with nuclear bomb stuff but boring in a social way and then the `60s were happening, and remember, there was no AIDS.

  Robert Klein

  Nuclear, Bombs, Stuff

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• Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli.

  Bill Maher

  School, Gay, Men

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.158, Rodale

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• If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you'd resign in protest. To do otherwise is to be an enabler, a mafia wife.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Ignorance, Wife

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Wish, Way, Action

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• I think of myself as a comedian who has the pleasure of writing jokes about things that I actually care about, and that's really it. I have great respect for people who are in the front lines and the trenches of trying to enact social change, but I am far lazier than that.

  Jon Stewart

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "Jon Stewart, in his own words" by Brandon Griggs, www.cnn.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I don't really have girlfriends in movies, if you've noticed. Well, I have a few girlfriends, I just... I stay at home a lot. I'm just not very social. I don't do a lot with them, and I'm very homebound. I'll talk to my family, I talk to Brad... But I don't know, I don't have a lot of friends I talk to. He is really the only person I talk to.

  Angelina Jolie

  Girlfriend, Home, Lots Of Friends

  "Angelina Jolie Has Few Girlfriends - But Has Special Friend in Gwen Stefani" by nationalledger.com, December 9, 2011.

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• The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman.

  Colin Ward

  Responsibility, Cities, Police

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• Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Wealth, Mark, Evidence

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.26, M.E. Sharpe

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• Jesse Ventura is basically proof that the people of Minnesota are not social drinkers... they are obviously alcoholics.

  Lewis Black

  People, Minnesota, Proof

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• During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.

  Jacques Derrida

  Writing, Order, Years

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• We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Cutting, Talking, Benefits

  "Elizabeth Warren: Don’t cut Social Security. Expand it!". Elizabeth Warren's remarks on the Senate floor in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2013.

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• As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

  Cory Booker

  Community, Movement, Progressive

  "A Great American Tradition: Community Organizing" by Cory Booker, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 10, 2008.

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• I think teenagers in the States grow up too fast. In Canada, kids are exposed to different things. Like school is very different; it's not nearly as social. Canadian teenagers see it as a much more serious place.

  Neve Campbell

  Growing Up, Teenager, School

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• You know, to listen to Senator Lieberman, Senator Kerry, Representative Gephardt, I'm anti-Israel, I'm anti-trade, I'm anti-Medicare and I'm anti-Social Security. I wonder how I ended up in the Democratic Party. I'm not a new entrant to the Democratic Party. I've been here a long time.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Israel, Long

  Transcript to CNBC/WSJ Democratic Presidential Debate, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2003.

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• They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.

  D. L. Hughley

  Girl, Teenage, Black

  The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.

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• At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.

  Salma Hayek

  Important, Causes, Stills

  "Salma Hayek Interview GROWN UPS". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 22, 2010.

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