Willing Quotes - Page 15

• I got Joan Baez to talk and Alan Ginsberg and some of the guys in the band. And by the end of the piece, another emissary came and said, `Bob [Dylan] is willing to speak to you now.' And I said with great pleasure, `No, thanks. The piece is over.'

  Nat Hentoff

  Guy, Band, Pieces

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called "negro cause," the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, "Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?" If that white man told me, "Yes," I'd shake his hand.

  Malcolm X

  Men, Thinking, White Man

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's an ideological power grab. It's like in this Congressional rebellion they are willing to sink the ship to destroy the captain.

  Jesse Jackson

  Minorities, Captains, Ships

  Source: praisecharlotte.hellobeautiful.com

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• Everything depends very much on who you are, what your values are, what your commitments are, what circumstances you live in and what options you're willing to undertake, and that determines what you ought to be doing.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Circumstances, Determine

  Source: www.iww.org

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• Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Successful, America

  Source: time.com

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• I find it disturbing that no member of the Senate Armed Services Committee is willing to acknowledge that record of failure and to ask our next secretary of defense what he proposes to do to amend that sorry record.

  James Mattis

  Sorry, Defense, Records

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• If you begin acting contrary to the public's interest, and there is no alternative governmental model, with which you're willing to engage, we, the people, will have to put forth our own extra governmental models and methods of trying to restore the balance of liberty to the liberal tradition of Western society.

  Edward Snowden

  People, Trying, Liberty

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• The thing I believe in most in the world is my own fallibility, so I am willing to believe that I may be wrong too.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Believe, World, May

  Source: m.motherjones.com

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• If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.

  Max Lucado

  Mother, Rags, Tables

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

  Max Lucado

  Bars, Bedroom, Born

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's like, come on, why is this scary? Jesus, every generation before you was willing to kick ass.

  Cody Wilson

  Jesus, Father, Government

  Source: motherboard.vice.com

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• There is a connection between environment and stress on both ends, with excessive clutter and excessive attention to detail both holding the power to distract us from our ability to love fully, work productively and relax effectively. So, what makes sense to me is for each of us to think this through on a few fronts: what constitutes a comfortable environment for us, how much effort we're willing to put into it relative to other priorities, and how well-matched we need our partners' preferences to be to ours.

  Carolyn Hax

  Stress, Thinking, Priorities

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• There's been a lot of guys that come out of Texas who have made it really big. So it's not a geographic thing, it's a how hard are you willing to work for it.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Texas, Guy, Made

  "THE FESTIVA INTERVIEW: Gabriel Iglesias". Interview With Sandra Gonzalez, www.themonitor.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I don't know what specific frontiers Germany could adopt for her purposes, but I think that those willing "to lend" a frontier to her can be found.

  Joseph Stalin

  Thinking, Germany, Purpose

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• Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

  Wole Soyinka

  Religious, Lines, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• America can be a partner with China. We don't have to be an adversary in any way, shape or form. We can work with them, we can collaborate with them, if they're willing to be responsible.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Shapes, Way

  Source: genius.com

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• I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

  Barack Obama

  Regret, Assessment, People

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You have to negotiate from positions of strength. And right now with Iran, we're not negotiating from a position of strength. The Europeans are negotiating from the position of "Please give up your nuclear weapons program, and by the way if you do we'll give you several boatloads of carrots." The Iranians are quite willing to keep on negotiating on that line for a long time.

  John Bolton

  Giving Up, Iran, Long

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I think the world has changed dramatically since September 11th. It should force us to recognize that we are going to have to defend the free institutions of our society against those who are simply not willing to belong to a civil order.

  James M. Buchanan

  Thinking, Order, September 11

  Source: www.aims.ca

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  Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Mistake, Facts, Ifs

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• One has to be willing to face the fact that what has transpired in Iraq is not exactly a very successful exercise.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Successful, Exercise, Iraq

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  War, Mean, Iraq

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• We have never recognized that Iran lives in a dangerous neighborhood. And it's not surprising that they want some protection. We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Iran, Want, Protection

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, "this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know." You should really get involved in that.

  Bill Gates

  Hero, Class, People

  Source: www.geekwire.com

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