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• I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.

  Bo Burnham

  Stupid, Thoughtful, Thinking

  Source: www.popmatters.com

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• I felt that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing because I was supplying a product to people that wanted it and it was accepted. I mean nobody really was making any negative statements about marijuana.

  George Jung

  Mean, Marijuana, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Opponents, Seekers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.330, Rajpal & Sons

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  I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

  Amy Winehouse

  Style, Important, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Sometimes I write music, sometimes I don't. I think I'm just writing more what's close to my heart, and musical stuff is close to my heart, and it's fun to write, and when something's fun to write you don't think about what statement you're trying to make or what genre you're trying to hone in on.

  Rachel Bloom

  Fun, Writing, Heart

  Source: gawker.com

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• Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Player, Sweat, Bass

  Source: artvoice.com

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• Most pastors railing against gay marriage have never cried out on racism, any type of injustice or police brutality. They've never once made a statement about health care. Many of them are silent on community issues. They are very silent, but they have become the leaders of this particular movement.

  Otis Moss III

  Gay, Issues, Racism

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not a poet. I'm not up onstage to get something off my chest. I'm making musical statements, or, most of the time, musical questions for people to figure out, and I'm not going to get in the way of that.

  Mike Patton

  People, Musical, Way

  The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. January 2013.

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• I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

  Emily Haines

  Song, Writing, Down And

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

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• The meeting of science and art is definitely interesting for the 21st century, and I think to use scientific expertise and knowledge to preserve an artistic statement is very interesting. It takes things a step further.

  Marc Quinn

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  "Marc Quinn interview: Just a load of shock? (2000)". Interview with R.J. Preece, www.artdesigncafe.com. September 15, 2009.

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• I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Jesus, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as "we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology". The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Self, Differences, Use

  Source: www.orthodoxytoday.org

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• Like, I'm trying to make a statement that clean comedy is somehow better or loftier than dirty comedy, and I don't feel that way at all. I just think it's different. It's different. There's rock music, there's jazz music, there's reggae music: All of those forms are different.

  Brian Regan

  Dirty, Thinking, Rocks

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Drinking, Bridges

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Monday, Military, Party

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Wings, Cracks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.

  Serj Tankian

  Philosophical, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Art, Creative, Doe

  "Confessions of a Genius Art Forger". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Sven Röbel, www.spiegel.de. March 9, 2012.

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• Who doesn't love a statement sock? I mean, we won't go in to details, but your underwear has to be bright, too.

  Bubba Watson

  Mean, Details, Underwear

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Names, Chinese

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

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• If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'

  C. K. Prahalad

  Wake Up, Gone, Tomorrow

  Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad (1996). “Competing for the Future”, p.145, Harvard Business Press

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• To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'.

  Galileo Galilei

  Wise, Modest, Ready

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• I have never united myself to any church because I found difficulty in giving my assent without mental reservation to the long, complicated statements of Christian doctrine which characterize the articles of belief and the usual confession of faith.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Long, Giving

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• I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Thinking, Years, Done

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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