Usual Quotes - Page 17

• We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Taken, Mean, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I'm sure there has been something ridiculous [to sign], but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such.

  George Wendt

  Spring, Mind, Ridiculous

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• The problem with the finance sector is not that it has crashed (though that has done enormous damage around the world) but the damage that it did even in its pomp. It is for that reason that we must not go back to business as usual. Most of all it is imperative we reduce the dominance of finance. And that means economically, ideologically, and in terms of political voice.

  Doreen Massey

  Mean, Voice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The usual practice is that the people in their jobs keep their jobs until their successors are named. Now, that`s the way the [George] Bush administration treated the [Bill] Clinton people. And that`s the way the [Barack] Obama administration treated the [George W.] Bush people.

  Daniel Fried

  Jobs, Practice, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• In the domain of pharmaceuticals, we need a metric for health impact, and with this metric we can then assess the value of the introduction of a new product and pay its innovator accordingly, say on the basis of the product's measured health impact during its first ten years on the market. In exchange, innovators must of course renounce the usual rewards they are otherwise entitled to, namely the patent-protected markup on the price of their product.

  Thomas Pogge

  Years, Impact, Patents

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Peak oil is already upon us. It is destroying our banking system, that is, our system for marshalling capital, and that is about to put us out of business-as-usual. So, we have to carry on with business-not-so-usual. This could mean anything from your children finding careers in farming (rather than show biz or plastic surgery) to reorganizing households differently to traveling from New York to Boston by boat.

  James Howard Kunstler

  New York, Children, Mean

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Opposites, Creating

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• The 1980's was the first time in the history of imperialism that people from the imperial society went in substantial numbers to stay with the victims in the hope that their presence would offer some protection and some help. These were not the usual students from elite universities. These were people straight out of middle America.

  Noam Chomsky

  Numbers, America, People

  Source: www.madre.org

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• I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Answers, Violence, Temples

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning.

  Judith Butler

  Confused, May, Dynamics

  Source: ilga.org

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• And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some apparent or usual protections, and a need to re-examine "identity" in the light of an acknowledgement of our entanglements and interdependence.

  Laura Mullen

  Grief, Light, Identity

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on that, that's the usual phrase - should I say the jury is deadlocked?). Staying with the pain, attending to it, being present to and with it - that's the task, because that's the only (as far as I can tell) hope of finding a way forward.

  Laura Mullen

  Pain, Real, Healing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Feelings, Curiosity, Mind

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.215, Courier Dover Publications

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• The Islamists had control over territory that was about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany. For years, we have been putting the lives of our troops on the line, we have taken huge losses and the Europeans cut the budget? If money is more important than the lives of our children, what else is this than the usual arrogance and superficiality? And where is all this terror coming from? It is a result of mistakes the West committed in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 1980s, when they armed the Islamic rebels against the Soviet troops.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Children, Mistake, Taken

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Except for the usual house chores, doing income tax, etc., I am free to write whenever I want.

  Yuriy Tarnawsky

  Writing, House, Income

  "No Tall Tales". Interview with David Moscovich, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

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• World War III would become a great possibility, but such a scenario is quite possible under any new US administration... To answer your question: business as usual.

  Andre Vltchek

  War, Answers, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress.

  Karan Bajaj

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

  Michael Gove

  Heart, Challenges, Vision

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• The British people rejected politics as usual and government as usual. They want and need a new approach to running this country.

  Michael Gove

  Running, Country, Government

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• The early Christians felt a deep collision with the empire in which they lived, and with politics as usual. They carelessly crossed party lines and built subversive friendships. And we should do that too.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, Party, Lines

  "Plotting goodness together: An interview with Shane Claiborne". Interview with Jonathan Merritt, religionnews.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.

  Annie Leonard

  People, Political, Feelings

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• This year I've really decided to get into the best shape of my life, and I've gotten there by changing not only what I eat but when I eat and how often, as well as my usual workout routine. The combination has made such a big difference, and I finally feel in the best shape of my life.

  Brian McKnight

  Workout, Years, Differences

  "Interview: Musician Brian McKnight". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We play the music we want to play and we play the places we want to play. I'd hate to be on the usual record company where you get an album out and you do a tour, and you do all the Odeon's and all the this that and the others. I couldn't just do that at all.

  Ian Curtis

  Hate, Play, Albums

  Source: disordertc.wordpress.com

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• We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being swept away. This gives us access to something much vaster and deeper than our usual compressed minds. All of us can access this. It's not so difficult. With some instruction and practice, anybody can do it.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Thinking, Practice, Giving

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• I got into my usual obsessive writing frenzy, using all the material I'd worked on for so long and crafting it into a little novel [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries].

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Writing, Long

  "Helen Fielding on 'Bridget Jones's Baby'". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. November 7, 2016.

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