Engaged Quotes - Page 16

• I've been looking for ways to audition more, because it also keeps me sharp and keeps my ambition at its firm edge. That's something that I'm actively engaged in conversations about now with my reps: What's out there that I can really either put myself on tape for, or meet with the director for and read for? How do we do that? We're now at the end of the Star Trek reboot trilogies and whether we are going to do another movie remains to be seen, and so I feel like I'm at the end of this cycle that began with me coming out of school and auditioning and building my way up.

  Zachary Quinto

  Stars, Ambition, School

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

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• Power and speed aren't enough to overcome someone who is strategic, who knows what you'll do before you do it and can turn it on you; someone who is mentally engaged and combines the whole package.

  Conor McGregor

  Overcoming, Speed, Enough

  "Conor McGregor On The Truth In Trash Talk, Custom Suits And His Knitting Circle". Interview with Joel Balsam, www.askmen.com.

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• If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Writing, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We are all so privileged to be citizens of America, and we all need to be engaged.

  Dick Gephardt

  America, Needs, Citizens

  Source: patch.com

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• What's really important about WikiLeaks is that the Russian government has engaged in espionage against Americans. They have hacked American websites, American accounts of private people, of institutions. Then they have given that information to WikiLeaks for the purpose of putting it on the Internet.

  Hillary Clinton

  Government, People, Important

  Transcript of the Third Presidential Debate, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the writing that you really want to do and also to be an active, engaged, compassionate, giving human being in the world, to the people around you and to your broader community.

  Emily Barton

  Writing, Thinking, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.

  Charlie Brooker

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as critically engaged citizens rather than assume that knowledge and education are merely about the learning of skills - a reductive concept that substitutes training for education and reinforces the flight from reason and the goose-stepping reflexes of an authoritarian mindset.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Thinking, Skills

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors, even though they have exposed the corruption, lawlessness and host of antidemocratic practices engaged in by established governments. Police can take DNA samples of all people arrested of a crime, whether they are proven guilty or not. The United States is incarcerating people in record numbers, imprisoning over 2.3 million inmates while 6 million people at any one time [are] under carceral supervision - more than were in Stalin's Gulag.

  Henry Giroux

  Government, Dna, Practice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The value of making young people stupid, subject to an educational deficit has enormous currency in a society in which existing relations of power are normalized. Under such conditions, those who hold power accountable are reviewed as treasonous while critically engaged young people are denounced as un-American.

  Henry Giroux

  Educational, Stupid, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the globe's resources, and create a formative culture for producing engaged and socially responsible citizens is no longer a rhetorical issue, but offers up new categories for defining how matters of representations, education, economic justice, and politics are to be defined and fought over. At stake here is the need for both a language of critique and possibility.

  Henry Giroux

  Issues, Justice, Defining

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My work first engaged with the early russian avant-garde; the paintings of moholy-nagy, el lissitzky's 'prouns' and naum gabo's sculptures, but in particular with the work of kasimir malevitch - he was an early influence for me as a representative of the modern avant-garde intersection between art and design.

  Zaha Hadid

  Art, Design, Sculpture

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• The paid Trump surrogates help CNN keep his supporters engaged with their shows, but it also sends their own reporters busy chasing after many of their false claims. That's not a virtuous news cycle. It's an insidious one.

  David Folkenflik

  Cnn, News, Helping

  "Donna Brazile's Resignation Illustrates Cable TV's Pundit Problem". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. November 2, 2016.

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• Look, "Gender trouble" includes a critique of the idea that there are two ideal bodily forms, two ideal morphologies: the masculine and the feminine. I want to suggest that today the intersex movement is very engaged with criticizing that idea.

  Judith Butler

  Ideas, Two, Looks

  Source: ilga.org

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• The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Knowing, Notion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from Panama. He was deeply involved in civil rights causes, which scared my mother - she was also an immigrant, from Barbados, who had her hands full with six kids, and she worried that my father would get deported. But because of his passion for politics and civil rights, we paid close attention to current events. We would watch political conventions together - for fun!

  Gwen Ifill

  Mother, Fun, Father

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• With Hillary Clinton as our commander in chief, our international relations will not be reduced to a business transaction. I also know that our armed forces will not become an instrument of torture and they will not be engaged in murder or carry out other illegal activities.

  John R. Allen

  Illegal Activities, Murder, Clinton

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I still care deeply about so many thing. And so I'm going to be engaged. I'm going to be out there as - with a platform to talk about the things that I care about: foreign policy and, you know, violence against women, you know, the inequity in the tax structure.

  Joe Biden

  Care, Violence, Structure

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When we're fully engaged in the present moment, no matter what we're doing, the question of meaning never seems to arise. It's because we feel fulfilled and that is inherently meaningful.

  Roger Housden

  Meaningful, Matter, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I live in California, where there's a lot of driving entailed. I'm usually going somewhere to be on time to meet someone so I'm necessarily engaged in time. And yet, how can I in that moment of driving my car, be aware of that which is not going anywhere?

  Roger Housden

  California, Car, Driving

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• [Charles ] Kushner engaged in a conspiracy, with co-conspirators, to hire prostitutes to entice witnesses who were cooperating with the federal investigation.

  Jared Kushner

  Conspiracy, Investigation, Witness

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I felt so nourished by the process of making [Moana], of you're always engaged with other artists from different disciplines, and it's about bringing your art form to the table. It's so many art forms mashed together.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Art, Discipline, Together

  Source: deadline.com

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• If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Needs, Care

  Source: thesource.com

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• I think I have felt most profoundly that in our disruption of the most basic physical processes of creation, we are engaged not only in the act of suicidal self-destructiveness, but also in an act of thorough-going blasphemy.

  Bill McKibben

  Suicidal, Thinking, Self

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• We have to get our states to adopt what are called "renewable portfolio standards" pledging to use a lot of renewable energy by 2015 or 2020. We have to work with businesses and shops to get them engaged in the same way.

  Bill McKibben

  Energy, Use, Way

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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