Various Quotes - Page 37

• Women who work at home rearing children and attending to various household tasks are expected to provide something that is absolutely essential yet costs nothing, like the air we breathe.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Children, Home, Air

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken to a sense of his duties'; he would have serious misgiving as to whether the Lord would pardon his neglect in not living up to his privileges; he would become very religious, and would attend to his meetings ... which seemed just then to be very numerous, and in various other ways he would show his anxiety to live up to his religion.

  T. B. H. Stenhouse

  Religious, Men, Wife

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• So many visitors came to rub and kiss different parts of him for the fulfillment of their various wishes that his entire body had to be rebronzed every month. He was a changing god,
  destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and recreated by their belief... Those who prayed came to believe less and less in the god of their creation and more and more in their
  belief.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Believe, Kissing, Wish

  "Everything Is Illuminated". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, April 16, 2002.

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• That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.

  Terry Eastland

  Mean, White, House

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• Mankind is supposed to have evolved in the treetops. But I have examined my sense of balance, the prehensility of my various appendages, and my attitude toward standing on anything higher
  than, say, political principles, and I have concluded that, personally, I evolved in the backseat of a car.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Attitude, Car, Political

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.134, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

  Naftali Bennett

  People, Want, Feds

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• My comments concerning persons afflicted with AIDS as well as various minority groups have left people wondering if I am a racist.

  John Rocker

  People, Groups, Minorities

  "John Rocker Apologizes For Racist Remarks". "CNN News" with Andria Hall, www.cnn.com. March 2, 2000.

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• The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers in order to receive a clean and abundant supply of water from reservoirs in the mountains. A much likelier outcome is that they will be drinking an ever stronger mixture of sewage and mine acid and mud and cropspray and various other defecations of the industrial paradise.

  Wendell Berry

  Drinking, Silly, Army

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• It is much easier to make intellectual messes than it is to clarify complicated issues, especially when real solutions would challenge the status quo and require much careful thought across many fields of knowledge. Problems of climatic change, biotic impoverishment, population growth, and the choices to be made by various technologies and the transition to a sustainable and decent society with an economy that works over the long-term are difficult, complex, and intertwined problems with many possible answers.

  David W. Orr

  Real, Technology, Issues

  David W. Orr (2012). “The Last Refuge: Patriotism, Politics, and the Environment in an Age of Terror”, p.53, Island Press

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• Are we lost, or are we found at last? On earth we strive for our various needs, because so goes the fundamental law of man. Aloft, at least for a little while, the needs disappear. Likewise the striving. In the thoughts of man aloft, food and evil become mixed and sometimes reversed. This is the open door to wisdom. Aloft, the earth is ancient and man is young, regardless of his numbers, for there, aloft he may reaffirm his suspicions that he may not be so very much. This is the gateway to humility.

  Ernest K. Gann

  Humility, Men, Doors

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• A hero is also someone who, in their day to day interactions with the world, despite all the pain, uncertainty and doubt that can plague us, is resiliently and unashamedly themselves. If you can wake up every day and be emotionally open and honest regardless of what you get back from the world then you can be the hero of your own story. Each and every person who can say that despite life’s various buffetings that they are proud to be the person they are is a hero.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Pain, Hero, Doubt

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• In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

  Martin Jacques

  Expression, Car, Design

  "Auto-political" by Martin Jacques, www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2008.

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• It always happens at the end that you're always under the gun because of various schedules and all that.

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Gun, Schedules, Ends

  Source: collider.com

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• I was interested in [Hunter S. Thompson novels]. The rebel in me fell in love with it, and the artist in me was confused by it, and interested and turned on. Ever since, his work has meant different things to me, at different times, and I still get new meaning out of it and appreciate it, in a different way. His work is very visceral, and you can take from it what you want, in various moments of your life.

  Amber Heard

  Confused, Artist, Appreciate

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Age, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system.

  Colin Powell

  United States, Essentials, Done

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.

  John Riggins

  Sports, Football, Achievement

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• [I'm planning]for starters, build a permanent border wall between the US and Mexico that Mexico "must pay for". The plan proposes various sticks to force Mexico to cooperate, such as impounding all remittance payments to Mexico from illegal wages earned in the US.

  Donald Trump

  Wall, Borders, Mexico

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Normally, I'm a very controlling director. Directors are controlling. It's part of the job, but there's various degrees of it and the constructs I normally work on are very controlling constructs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Directors, Degrees

  "Danny Boyle Exclusive Interview 127 HOURS; Plus Updates on Shekhar Kapur’s PAANI, FRANKENSTEIN, the Olympics, and a Lot More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. November 7, 2010.

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• My father was able to play a number of musical instruments and I fell in love with classical music in my teens and I allowed it to influence me. I like to think I took and still do from classical music and various techniques, I have made classical albums and recorded seven different pieces of Bach on different albums and its all music too me.

  Steve Hackett

  Father, Thinking, Play

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• It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

  David Bowie

  Addiction, Long, Alcohol

  "Q&A with David Bowie: The man who fell ... then got up again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, www.latimes.com. April 4, 1993.

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• I think one reason is that philosophers are more insecure to speak accessibly because non-philosophers are skeptical that philosophers have any special expertise. After all, all people - not just philosophers - have attitudes and points of view on various philosophical questions, and they rather resent being told that there are professionals who can think about these things better.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Attitude, Philosophical, Insecure

  "Interview with Rebecca Goldstein on Plato at the Googleplex, philosophy for the public, and everything". Interview with Ophelia Benson, www.butterfliesandwheels.org. March 20, 2014.

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• We are still in various kinds of patriarchal systems. The very definition of patriarchy is that men control women as the means of reproduction, so the idea that a woman's main role is to have children often means society wants more workers, more soldiers. The idea that how many children we have should be controlled by the family, the church, the nation - by anyone but women themselves - is still very deep and very strong.

  Gloria Steinem

  Strong, Children, Mean

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If the woman needs to be more soft I'll gain weight and then I'll lose weight for another film that I did where I wanted her to be more wiry. I enjoy using my body as something that helps me get to a character.

  Sandra Bullock

  Character, Needs, Weight

  "The Proposal - Sandra Bullock interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• To be an actor you need various things. You need to have a head for choosing the roles. You have to be, hopefully, easy to work with so people enjoy working with you. You have to deal with missing roles, with not being asked to work, with doing good work and then being castigated by the critics for it. You have to have a skin that can deal with all of that. I, fortunately, seem to have the makeup which allows me to deal with the business. I mean, not as everybody.

  Jeremy Irons

  Mean, Makeup, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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