Willing Quotes - Page 16

• I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Real, Believe, Fighting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.

  Jackie Chan

  Strong, Brother, Swim

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• We're in a classic demand-shortfall recession. There aren't enough jobs because total spending is too low. Consumers won't lead the way because they're busy paying down debt and are fearful they'll lose their jobs, if they haven't already. Businesses, which are currently sitting on mountains of cash, won't spend either, because they already have sufficient capacity to produce more than people are willing to buy.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, People, Mountain

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We've long known that firms can pay higher wages if they spend less on workplace safety enhancement. Libertarians ask, "If a worker is willing to accept higher wages in return for his agreement to exercise greater caution while performing his job, why should the government prevent him from making that choice?" It's a rhetorically powerful question, yet it overlooks the fact that the agreement in question will have adverse effects on others.

  Robert H. Frank

  Jobs, Powerful, Exercise

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• We've also taken steps to begin construction of the keystone pipeline and the Dakota access pipelines, thousands and thousands of jobs, and put new buy American measures in place to require American steel for American pipelines. In other words, they build a pipeline in this country and we use the powers of government to make that pipeline happen, we want them to use American steel, and they're willing to do that, but nobody ever asked before I came along.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Taken

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• As long as American democracy remains healthy, there will be reporters willing to pursue the truth, even if that means incurring the wrath of the most powerful person in the world.

  Jonathan Karl

  Powerful, Mean, Wrath

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In light of Trump's irresponsible behavior, even Putin may decide that it was time to recalculate Russian interests. This could happen quite quickly if Trump goes ahead and wrecks one of the few potentially stabilizing developments in the Middle East during the last several years. Similarly, if Israel joins NATO, this might be more than Putin is willing to swallow.

  Richard A. Falk

  Light, Israel, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Iran, Europe, Different

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats. They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans. But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment. That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, America, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I don't care about the sort of things that will bring in chump change over the next two or three years. I think I'm better than others at sniffing out things that will bear fruit in 10 or 20 years while they're still at the seed stage, and I'm more willing to take the risks that entails.

  Masayoshi Son

  Thinking, Years, Two

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• [Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats and Republicans alike are willing to put aside their own party's self-interest to preserve the presidency. That's been true over the decades.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Strong, Party, Thinking

  "Time editors discuss new book about presidents at McDaniel College". Interview with Mary Carole McCauley, articles.baltimoresun.com. April 13, 2013.

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• The reality of Canadian history is that we've been willing to do the important things the world demanded of us: fighting in World War II, in Korea, in the Balkans, where we were involved in offensive military operations, and in Afghanistan, where we have made disproportionate contributions.

  Chris Alexander

  Military, War, Fighting

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ask questions. Listen. Be quiet. Be willing to make a fool of yourself. Be willing to be completely exposed and to give all you've got and to be rejected for your troubles. But expect magic to happen. It just might. And don't worry about winning the audition, just win the room.

  Bill Oberst Jr.

  Winning, Giving, Worry

  Source: www.chud.com

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• The developed world should be willing to help [Africa] and support her and make this energy affordable.

  Wangari Maathai

  Support, Energy, World

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• Most of our competitor nations around the world have a national education system and America is the only major nation in the world that operates off of local school boards. They receive very little direction from state boards of education or from the nation. So local school boards direct basically what happens and too often they're not willing to track or to do the supervision of the education system that will make it world competitive.

  John Glenn

  School, America, Track

  Source: beforeitsnews.com

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• If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

  Plato

  People, Strange, Moderation

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• There is nothing superstitious about forcing bad consequences for the hubris of paternalistic utopianism. Humanity should never be frozen into a vision of the best. A creative society must be willing to tolerate some degree of instability because creativity is inherently unstable.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Creativity, Creative, Humanity

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• We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Cost, Vietnam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Kristina [Klebe] plays her character [in Don't Kill It] pretty straight, and because my character's so crazy and colorful, it works quite well. Kristina really loved the part, so she was very accommodating and willing to explore it and work hard.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Crazy, Hard Work, Character

  Source: dailydead.com

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• In terms of President Trump, I really do hope that he does accomplish some of the things he said on the campaign trail. If he is willing to make investments in infrastructure, but not on the backs of the middle class and the working class, and put people back to work, that would be a good thing. If he's serious about making Obamacare better, and not pulling the rug out from 20 million Americans who benefit from it, that would be a good thing too.

  Nina Turner

  Class, Obamacare, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• We can't continue assuming that politics is something which is decided elsewhere by distant leaders in a distant capital. Protest is insufficient too. If people who are willing to put time into demonstrations also prove willing to work on behalf of candidates in local elections - or to become candidates themselves - they will achieve far more. If all of this upheaval provokes more involvement, then we have a slim chance of ending up with more vibrant democracies eventually. The alternative, as you've hinted, is that democracy fails altogether.

  Anne Applebaum

  People, Leader, Democracy

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Donald Trump is an American presidential nominee who was describing Russia in terms that they haven't heard almost ever. And so there is a belief that Donald Trump would be a collaborative, willing and I think perhaps quite able partner.

  Evan Osnos

  Thinking, Russia, Presidential

  Source: www.npr.org

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• No one doubts that Donald Trump is willing to walk away from a deal if it's a bad one. No one doubts that he's willing to punish our enemies if they transgress U.S. interests, whereas, with Hillary Clinton, she is very predictable.

  Kris Kobach

  Enemy, Doubt, Clinton

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Law, Would Be, Welcome

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• The crucible is a dividing line, a turning point, and those who have gone through it feel they are very different from the way they were before. Believing that they have been transformed or have transformed themselves, those who survive the crucible (and many don't) are more confident, more willing to take future risks. That new self-confidence is grounded in the belief that he or she has done something hard and done it well.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Believe, Self Confidence, Risk

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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