Spite Quotes - Page 15

• I was very fortunate to have had a mother and father who loved me in spite of my failings.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Father, Failing

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

  George W. Bush

  Unconditional Love, Parent, Challenges

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

  George W. Bush

  Years, People, Parent

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doubt, Trying, Wish

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Things work in spite of me sometimes.

  Will Smith

  Sometimes

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• [Donald Trump] went on to, you know, otherize Muslims, otherize Latinos, otherize women, that he built out from that. And it can be true that a unique, you know, individual like Barack Obama can succeed in spite of that and still be the case that that force is quite, quite strong.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Strong, Unique, Succeed

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I may, to underline first of all that I am very much impressed that in spite of the very tough election campaign, this transition period in the United States of America follows democratic principles and is all about the American people. It's about the destiny of the American people.

  Angela Merkel

  Destiny, America, People

  Source: time.com

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• Tennis is still very successful in spite of itself.

  Jim Courier

  Successful, Tennis, Stills

  Source: www.powersharesseries.com

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• I certainly don't mean to suggest that all investigative journalism prior to 9/11 in the US was praiseworthy. But there were more examples to which one could point, and there were at last some activist photographers who understood that getting information into the public sphere in spite of military censorship was a right and obligation within democracy. That strain in war journalism did nearly vanish during that time.

  Judith Butler

  Military, War, Mean

  Interview with Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. October 11, 2013.

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• My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Strong, Children

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hong Kong has a reputation for freedom in spite of the People's Republic of China. It has a strong tradition of free speech.

  Edward Snowden

  Strong, People, Hong Kong

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player. One of my earliest memories is him kind of forcing a guitar on all my brothers and me. You know, "You have to practice three hours a day!" I hated guitar at the time. I kind of picked up trumpet to spite him.

  Zach Condon

  Brother, Memories, Dad

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wrote this book [ Desperate Marriages] because of my own marriage. My wife and I struggled greatly in the early years of marriage. In spite of the fact that we were Christians before we got married, we prayed about getting married, we believed it was God's will for us to get married, and we still had great struggles.

  Gary Chapman

  Christian, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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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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• Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Matter, States, Stills

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• The death penalty has succeeded in America, not in spite of Christians, but because of us. The Bible Belt is the Death Belt. Wherever Christians are most concentrated is where executions are happening, and that's deeply troubling to me.

  Shane Claiborne

  Christian, America, Execution

  Source: medium.com

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• Everyone in Afghanistan and Pakistan is a potential target. My heart goes out to the UN family in Afghanistan: in spite of everything, they are showing fortitude. But they will need the support of the whole world at this difficult time.

  Chris Alexander

  Heart, Support, Pakistan

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

  Plato

  Wings, Long, Evil

  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.902, e-artnow

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• The failure to find the right niche for people - or to let them find their own perfect niches - is a major reason that so many workplaces are mediocre, even toxic, in spite of the presence of talent. Leaders of great groups give them whatever they need and free them from everything else.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving, Perfect, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in spite of seven years of their warnings. Their main problem is that they don't have the character to admit that they are wrong. They don't have enough character to rethink their deeply held assumptions.

  Philip Kotler

  Party, Character, Years

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• Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

  John Lydon

  Running, Attitude, Real

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Justin Lin is one of the most impressive people I've met professionally. I don't think he sleeps, or I think he sleeps 20 minutes every few hours during the night. Mostly, between shooting days, he was making rough cuts and other decisions with creative things on the Star Trek. He blew me away; in spite of working insane hours most days, his energy is incredibly generous and calm. Within the eye of storm, there was Justin there. He's someone who takes the temperature down and makes you feel calm in the middle of that, which is the greatest asset a huge production could have.

  Lydia Wilson

  Sleep, Eye, Cutting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we as black people tap into a divine system that a lot of other cultures and races can't tap into and that system allows us to prosper in spite of everything that's been thrown our way from slavery to segregation to mass incarceration. We have a privilege pre-ordained by God that nothing and no one can stop.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Spiritual, People, Black

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• You have to start looking in the mirror and saying, 'this is who I am, this is what I am and this is how I'm going to be' and start demanding more from yourself. In spite of everything that this system has thrown at us, we still have to live at the end of the day. We still have to find purpose and find ways to prosper and make a profit so you have to find ways to stand on your own two feet and fulfill your potential as a black man or black woman on this planet no matter how marginalized or oppressed you may be.

  Charlamagne Tha God

  Men, Black, Purpose

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• In spite of all the cultural restrictions, in spite of marital or political difficulties, a strong woman continues to create and makes the world go round, such as Abigail Adams and Alexandra Bergson, Harriet Scott, and Emily Dickinson all did. History is full of women creators in the arts, many of whom created under oppressive circumstances.

  Barbara Harbach

  Strong Women, Art, Political

  Source: www.barbaraharbach.com

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