Willing Quotes - Page 13

• [Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing that historical memory matters, that those legacies live on when you don't identify them, when you're not willing to be in dialog with them, when you're not willing to be self-reflective about the very part that you played as part of that apparatus of power.

  Henry Giroux

  Memories, Smart, Self

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intrusive the American government has become - how willing it is to engage in vast crimes against the American public.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Ongoing, Information

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives of fear and violence. Such legitimation is largely provided through a market-driven culture addicted to the production of consumerism, militarism and organized violence, largely circulated through various registers of popular culture that extend from high fashion and Hollywood movies to the creation of violent video games and music concerts sponsored by the Pentagon.

  Henry Giroux

  Fashion, War, Games

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

  Henry Giroux

  Casinos, Imagine, Notion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty. You won't ever pitch for the big leagues, for example. But I believe anyone, regardless of age, can write if he or she is willing to do the work, and I'm talking about spending at least an hour or two at it almost every day for five to ten years.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.

  Benjamin Wittes

  Thinking, Promise, Would Be

  "The First 100 Days: What Clinton And Trump Want To Get Done" by Scott Horsley, wrvo.org. October 27, 2016.

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• We need to be willing to witness ourselves in all the shades of our humanness, and to come into the heart space daily and just hold ourselves with love and compassion.

  Christine McCormick Day

  Heart, Compassion, Space

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

  Gary Shilling

  Ideas, Eras, Return

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• They're willing to accept changes on the part of the U.S. that contribute to more money entering Cuba so they can benefit. But in terms of political changes on the island, an opening, etc., that won't happen, that won't change, and I've always said that, from the beginning. I've even said that it doesn't matter how many tourists who to Cuba, how many times the President visits Cuba; there won't be any changes in the Cuban government's posture. And that is the same as always.

  Marco Rubio

  Government, Islands, Political

  Source: www.univision.com

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• What does have a chance of becoming law is a process that begins with securing the border. Currently the border is not secure and not just immigrants are coming across, but also drugs, weapons a whole series of problems. And I think that if you can prove to the American people that illegal immigration is under control, I think that the American people are willing to do something very reasonable about people who have been here for many years, who are not criminals, who are going to pay a fine, who are going to pay taxes, who are working.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Years, Law

  Source: www.univision.com

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• I think when somebody seeks mercy and forgiveness and means it, and I was with [Donald Trump] the entire time, including when he learned about this, people ought to think about that. They ought to think about when somebody asks you for forgiveness contrite and for mercy - are you willing to give it?

  Kellyanne Conway

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

  Leonard Cohen

  Song, Records, Might

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• The difference between us and the other side is that they use populist and...kind of slogans that are...they fool the people. They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.

  Akbar Ganji

  Differences, People, Fool

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The United States is alone among all the countries in that it does not permit US military forces to be under any threat. Other countries are willing to have forces in peace-keeping operations where they sometimes are under threat, but the US is not willing to do that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Military, United States

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• If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Korea, Soldier

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• There's a notion of art in this country that you have to be nutty or special or "called" in order to be an artist. I believe the questions everyone should ask themselves are, "Do you want to do it? Are you willing to do it poorly? Are you willing to do the work of doing it? Are you willing to persist when everybody tells you it's silly?" If you're willing to do that, then you can do it.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Country, Art, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People in Congress are willing to shut down the entire government or to make it impossible for a Supreme Court nominee to get a hearing or for routine appointments in the executive branch to go unfilled for years because of a hold placed by a senator.

  George Packer

  Government, Years, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Be willing to be where you actually are. In my experience, that is the most inherently meaningful experience you can have.

  Roger Housden

  Meaningful

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Our strength and our security depends obviously on having a strong military, having a strong economy, and also on our ability to have willing allies and nations join us in common global efforts, the principal one today being terrorism.

  Christopher Dodd

  Strong, Military, Effort

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• Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.

  David Brooks

  Trump, Tolerate, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the voters who voted for Donald Trump certainly are willing to tolerate a lot of ugliness, but maybe, if you're in desperate circumstances, or you think America is deeply in trouble, you're willing to tolerate that without necessarily liking it.

  David Brooks

  Thinking, America, Voters

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The possibilities of success are limitless, as long as you're willing to put the work in.

  T.I.

  Long, Limitless, Possibility

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For years, overseas, the U.S. has been willing to not only tolerate what is in effect violent fascism, but implement it in country after country after country, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia, overthrowing elected governments and backing the rise of military dictatorships.

  Allan Nairn

  Country, Military, Latin

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Thinking, Swim

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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