Thought Provoking Quotes - Page 15

• Good satire hopefully provides thought-provoking conversation.

  Lizz Winstead

  Satire, Conversation, Hopefully

  "Lizz Winstead, Freely Speaking". Interview with Lianne Stokes, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• I'm not a film snob at all. I much prefer a really good Hollywood blockbuster than a thought-provoking art house movie because entertainment is sort of where it's at.

  Ricky Gervais

  Art, House, Hollywood

  "Night At The Museum - Ricky Gervais interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• People talking without speaking,/ People listening without hearing...Sounds of Silence.

  Paul Simon

  Talking, People, Silence

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• There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of a tramp who has died of the cold is not news. Today what counts as news is, maybe, a scandal. A scandal: ah, that is news! Today, the thought that a great many children do not have food to eat is not news. This is serious, this is serious! We cannot put up with this! Yet that is how things are. We cannot become starched Christians, those over-educated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Children, Heart

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Joy of Discipleship: Reflections from Pope Francis on Walking with Christ”, p.21, Loyola Press

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• Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Falling In Love, Fun, Sleep

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Sep 17, 2014

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• Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.

  Dan Poynter

  Advice, Marketing, Minutes

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• I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Needs, Interest, Provoking

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• Experiences have clearly shown that an approach which 'de-medicalizes' birth, restores dignity and humanity to the process of childbirth, and returns control to the mother is also the safest approach.

  Michel Odent

  Inspiring, Mother, Medicine

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• The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

  Russell Baker

  Communication, Miracle, Bells

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• ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the "culture of waste." If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm.

  Pope Francis

  Drama, Men, Idols

  "Pope Francis On World Environment Day Speaks Of Food Waste, Lack Of Attention To Needs Of Poor", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2013.

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• In today's world where, more than ever, the ongoing concentration of money and power in the hands of a self-selected few, relies on political and public apathy, Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo.

  Nomi Prins

  Self, Hands, Political

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• I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

  Spike Lee

  People, Trying, Culture

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• A house that has a library in it has a soul.

  Plato

  Healing, House, Soul

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• You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Listening

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.96, Lulu.com

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• Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• Traditional charity and aid are never going to solve the problems of poverty.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Poverty, Problem

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• He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safer for children to grow up in.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Country, Running, Baby

  The Lathe of Heaven ch. 6 (1971)

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• Fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Foolish Man, Wisest Man, Make You Think

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

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• When people gain income, they gain choice, and that is fundamental to dignity.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  People, Choices, Income

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• Trade is now clearly designed to favor the wealthiest and most powerful corporations at the expense of the rest of us. The three wealthiest people on earth now control more assets than the combined incomes of 600 million people in the world's 48 poorest countries.

  Jim Wallis

  Country, Powerful, People

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• We often don't realize what our action & our inaction do to people we think we will never see & never know.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thinking, People, Our Actions

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• The only way to end poverty, to make it history, is to build viable systems on the ground that deliver critical and affordable goods and services to the poor, in ways that are financially sustainable and scaleable. If we do that, we really can make poverty history.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Way, Poverty, Poor

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• Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

  James Russell Lowell

  Reading, Eye, Voice

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• It's only a drop in the ocean - but the ocean wouldn't be the same without that drop.

  Mother Teresa

  Ocean, Drops In The Ocean, Provoking

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• If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Philosophical, Together, Saws

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3573, Delphi Classics

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