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• It's hard being bisexual, omnisexual, multisexual, whatever you want to call it, when people have their agenda and expect you to just represent their agenda.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Bisexual, People, Want

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• The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Discovery, Records

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• The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

  Nick Cave

  Names, America, Bully

  "The resurrection of Nick Cave". Interview with Thomas Bartlett, www.salon.com. November 19, 2004.

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• War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.

  Pope John Paul II

  War, Past, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1987). “Pope John Paul II, Pilgrim of Peace”, Random House Value Pub

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• This is President Obama’s number one political agenda item because he knows we will never again have a Republican president, ever, if amnesty goes into effect.

  Michele Bachmann

  Numbers, Political, President

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• The secret of our success is found in our daily agenda.

  John C. Maxwell

  Wrestling, Secret, Found

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Workbook: Revised and Updated”, p.26, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Mean, Law, Corny

  Parkinson's Law ch. 3 (1957)

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• I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

  Frank Press

  Transition, Smooth

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• The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

  Dick Wolf

  Different, Tables, Sides

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• You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

  Dougray Scott

  Confused, War, Wish

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• President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Usa, Growth

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• The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.

  Gerry Adams

  Equality, Issues, Unions

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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• On the other hand, we have in Israel, an Israeli government which has been elected by the Israeli people. Their political agenda is not for peace. They are from the camp anti-peace.

  Rafik Hariri

  Hands, Government, Israel

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• What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now.

  Maurice Strong

  Please Me, Development, Please

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• When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority.

  Tom Daschle

  Majority, Degrees, Minorities

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• I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens.

  James L. Brooks

  Moving, Character, News

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, Zero, War

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• We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas.

  Mac Thornberry

  Common Sense, Political, Balance

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• As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.

  Maria Bartiromo

  Knowing, Literature, Facts

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• Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

  Sarah Palin

  Government, Competition, Needs

  Keynote Speech at the Inaugural Tea Party Convention, delivered 6 February 2010, Nashville, Tennessee

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• It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

  Ron Wyden

  Thoughtful, Judging, Needs

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• Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that.

  Robert Redford

  People, Levels, Festivals

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• I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.

  Jackie DeShannon

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• Bringing democratic control to the conduct of foreign policy requires a struggle merely to force the issue onto the public agenda.

  Eric Alterman

  Struggle, Issues, Force

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• This liberal progressive agenda... is the antithesis of who we are as a constitutional republic.

  Allen West

  Republic, Who We Are, Progressive

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