Sake Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

  Andrew Eldritch

  People, Life Is Hard, Hard Life

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• We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

  Joseph Stalin

  Real, Liberty, Quotation Marks

  Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”

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• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Theatre, Facts

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• All I cared about was the music, like hearing Townes [ Van Zandt] talking about "For the sake of the song"; it's all that mattered. In spite of me a couple of things happened, mainly the Eagles and Seven Bridges Road. That certainly helped me survive. Joan Baez, Rita Coolidge, and Ian Matthews did it.

  Steve Young

  Song, Couple, Eagles

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• [Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.

  Bill Ayers

  Christian, Running, Mean

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• People follow my movies for a reason, and that's because I believe in them, and I don't want to just make movies for the sake of making movies.

  Karla Souza

  Believe, People, Want

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• The thing to do is just make sure that as part of a disability community, we're not isolating ourselves by drawing differences for the sake of progress.

  Zach Anner

  Drawing, Differences, Community

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• Diversity for diversity's sake is nothing more than affirmative action and can make no claim to being part of America's greatness.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Greatness, America, Diversity

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior visual exposure to the actress. That neuron does not respond to pictures of Bill Clinton or Halle Berry. Only Jennifer. I used the story to explain the almost ridiculous plasticity of the organ. There is no such thing as Jennifer Aniston in our evolutionary history - she was born in 1969, for heaven's sake - but we are flexible enough to devote an entire cell to her if we have previously encountered her in some fashion.

  John Medina

  Fashion, Cells, Heaven

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Truly brave people accept that they may not see victory in their own lifetime. You just keep at it for the sake of those who come after you. You might not win but you stand a better chance by doing something.

  Tim Winton

  Winning, People, Brave

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Spiritual, Animal, World

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

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• He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's "uses base" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable.

  Plato

  Giving, Use, Done

  Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.903, e-artnow

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• The contrast between the two, the sweetness and the badness, wrenches the heart of the lover as such sweetness on its own would not, and the lover shudders all the more at dread of the beloved's recklessness, for the sake of the sweetness that is there, and the shudder only makes more violent the shuddering that announces love.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Heart, Two, Lovers

  Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (2014). “Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away”, p.295, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We may look great on Instagram, but we're still lonely and depressed and anxiety-ridden. I hope, for the sake of our future generations, that our moral compass stays intact.

  Nelly Furtado

  Lonely, Anxiety, Generations

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't do that with men - nobody says Picasso, the male artist. Curators call me up and say, "We want your work to be in a show about women artists," and I'm like, why? For Christ's sake, do we have to attach a gender onto everything?

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Men, Musician

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think there's a need for the participation of the military for the stability of the transformation period of Burma. If the military and the people do unite together for the sake of our country, we can reach the development of our country in a very short time.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Country, Military, Thinking

  "From Prison to Parliament: Burma Pro-Democracy Leader Aung San Suu Kyi Wins Seat in Landmark Vote", www.democracynow.org. April 2, 2012.

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• If something is very, very funny but possibly controversial, if it's truly funny, then it's worth doing. Things aren't worth doing for the sake of being controversial.

  John Mulaney

  Controversial, Ifs

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

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• It is for the poor people's sake, above all, that we urgently need more unity and better organization and need to concentrate our reform efforts in order to really to achieve reforms, one by one.

  Thomas Pogge

  Order, Organization, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, world's mythology, the Arthurian legends. And the unabridged dictionary. And they're still my favorites. They get better each time I read them.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Growing Up, Book, Get Better

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Kids, Sacrifice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• All I can do is go by the words of Christ, who was the only talker we had, for f - 's sake. Buddha didn't speak. The Holy Ghost didn't speak. But I think it all boils down to the same thing - it's all about unity, love, compassion.

  Shane MacGowan

  Thinking, Compassion, Unity

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• I'm very optimistic that there are sincere believers out there that are okay with tradition but don't want to endorse traditionalism for the sake of traditionalism but want to embrace tradition because it's God-honoring. I think that's a beautiful thing.

  LeCrae

  Beautiful, Optimistic, Thinking

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• If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied. I always say to teachers, for goodness sake, take the kids out first to look at the stars in order to understand infinity.

  Jean Houston

  Teacher, Stars, Kids

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Artists used to argue about art for art's sake versus social realism etc, and now it's like the most dominate argument is related to "art for the market's sake." It's a necessity, somewhat, for some people.

  Lee Klein

  Art, People, Etc

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  Elaine Equi

  Rap, Wine, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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