Willing Quotes - Page 14

• Donald Trump is in office. It's not just another Republican candidate - Donald Trump. And people were so disaffected with the liberal message that they were willing to vote for him.

  Steve Inskeep

  People, Office, Messages

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, in.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• You can't just have a clean public space - you also have to have people willing to use it, and something that will draw them in.

  Bette Midler

  Space, People, Use

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that some of it is electoral - helping candidates that are willing to take dramatic actions, not just to say a few words about how climate change might be a problem.

  Bill McKibben

  Thinking, Climate, Might

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

  Bill McKibben

  Oil, Atmosphere, Chemicals

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• [John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on Freedom of the Will that he had derived none of his views from the work of Calvin, though he was willing to be called a "Calvinist" for the sake of convention.

  Oliver D. Crisp

  Views, Sake, Conventions

  Source: edwardsstudies.com

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• Some kinds of activists are more willing to try stuff out, see if works and think on their feet, but some of the people who are working on [change] find that very difficult: They've been schooled into thinking you have to come up with the perfect plan in advance. It has become a bit technocratic.

  Duncan Green

  Thinking, Feet, Perfect

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Americans will get along with all other nations willing to get along with us. We will deal fairly with everyone. We will seek common ground, partnership not conflict.

  Donald Trump

  Common, Conflict, Partnership

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• In countries where there are real civil wars, people go through a lot, and we should be willing to go through a lot to help them.

  Van Jones

  Country, Real, War

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What the white man in America needs to realize is there's a new thinking among black people today which makes them not willing to sit around and wait for five years to get this problem solved, much less a hundred years.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

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• If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.

  Malcolm X

  Pay The Price, Ifs, Deserve

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• You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

  Malcolm X

  Men, White Man, House

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action.

  Malcolm X

  Waiting, Black, Devil

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• I was encouraged, though, because I saw feminist writers - male and female - calling out the bias. I feel like more and more writers are cognizant of the problems and are willing to try to challenge them.

  Paula Broadwell

  Feminist, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I don't care if you're a liberal icon or a conservative icon. If you are not willing to be active in your democracy and do what is necessary to deal with our problems, I think you should be voted out.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, Icons, Democracy

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I tend to keep my mind open to the different forms of art out there and I am always willing to try new stuff.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Mind, Trying

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Firsts, Clean, Ownership

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• If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Answers, Rare Occasion, World

  Source: inters.org

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• In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa and other parts of Africa reversed it to the patrilineal where everything comes down through the male side and the woman has no basic rights except that which the male is willing to grant her.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Rights, East Africa, Lineage

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation.

  Barack Obama

  Europe, Climate, Principles

  Remarks by President Obama and Chancellor Merkel of Germany in a Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 17, 2016.

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• My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where our values and interests align. But that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms.

  Barack Obama

  Russia, President, Trump

  Source: time.com

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• Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Ambition, Frustration, People

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I hope people appreciate Chancellor Merkel because, although she traditionally is considered center-right and I'm considered center-left, the truth is that we share those core values, and those are worth protecting. As the senior leader in Europe, as the leader who's been longest lasting, I think she has great credibility, and she is willing to fight for those values. I'm glad that she's there, and I think the German people should appreciate her. Certainly, I have appreciated her as a partner.

  Barack Obama

  Senior, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I've always been willing to take risks and chances. Often I'm on talk shows and hosts will ask 'How do you feel about it, when people say you're controversial?' And I say that, 'I think if I stop being controversial, I wouldn't be doing my job.

  Andrew Weil

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• In terms of creating new music, I'm willing to even branch out and take a slight gamble, but I'm not going all the way far left. I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel.

  Keith Sweat

  Creating, Trying, Branches

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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