Ten Quotes - Page 11

So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.

Newt Gingrich

Country, Atheist, Thinking

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Syria is the proud heir of an ancient civilization that has a unique spectrum of minorities that encompasses Muslims and Christians of various denominations. There are at least ten such ethnic and religious groups.

Ahmed H. Zewail

Christian, Religious, Unique

"Syria: Is the World Waiting for Genocide?" by Ahmed Zewail, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.

Roger Ebert

Film Critics, Target, Today

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One, two, three four five,
All is well I am alive,
Six,seven,eight nine ten,
All is well, no whining then!

Eugene Sue

Eight, Two, Three

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It is better to have a good painting with ten holes than ten bad paintings without any holes.

Edvard Munch

Painting, Holes

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If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Wise, Cousin, Brother

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I was in the top ten percent of my law school class. I am a Doctor of Juris Prudence. I have an honorary Doctor of Laws. So, would somebody please tell me why I spent four mortal hours today conversing with a person named Dizzy Dean.

Branch Rickey

School, Doctors, Law

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion; that the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is called enlightenment.

Dogen

Self, Enlightenment, Delusion

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Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Rumi

Passion, Wine, Men

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I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.

Kevin Grevioux

Writing, Two, Numbers

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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Even before I started going to movies, I loved the idea of them. When I started learning to read as a kid, I started reading the movie pages in the paper and I could tell you what was showing at every theater within a ten mile radius of our house.

Alonso Duralde

Reading, Kids, Ideas

Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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Organisms are starting to move in response to climate change all over the place. Bees are disappearing and we don't have many of the native pollinators left to replace them. We're in deep trouble; there's no question about it. But ecologists tend to think of something that's going to be bad in ten years as very fast, and of course, politicians only think of things in a two-, four-, six-year cycle.

Paul R. Ehrlich

Moving, Thinking, Years

Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.

Doseone

Art, Years, Fifteen

Source: www.believermag.com

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You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

Dan Chaon

Book, Years, Long

Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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At about the age of ten, my friends and I discovered the joys of sitting in graveyards drinking merrydown cider and kissing and stealing our elder siblings' records.

Beth Orton

Sibling, Drinking, Kissing

Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 2003.

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I was a lousy academic. I spent most of my time in the cafeteria. But I met fantastic people from all kinds of fields; law, medicine, history, and they eventually dispersed all over the world to do their fieldwork. I liked the way these people committed to the long term in a sincere, visionary way. Their projects weren't about "next season." They were ten-year commitments. They were lifestyle choices that had traditions of fieldwork built into them - moving around, living on location, discipline, a real rigor for research.

Aleksandra Mir

Real, Moving, Commitment

Source: www.believermag.com

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I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy.

Mr. Krabs

Letting Go, Boys, Thinking

"SpongeBob SquarePants/ Your Shoe's Untied/Squid's Day Off". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

Ned Rorem

Strong, Book, Artist

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It is easier for me to take ten good pictures in an airplane bathroom than in the gardens at Versailles.

Sally Mann

Airplane, Garden, Versailles

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You will be the same person ten years from now except for the books you read, the places you go, the people you meet, and the scripture you memorize.

Jay Strack

Book, Years, People

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It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Powerful, Animal, Names

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In Mexico, a poor country, higher education is of quite good quality -- and is free. Ten years ago the government tried to impose small fees. There was a national student strike and the government backed down. High tuition is not an economic necessity, as is easy to show, but a debt trap is a good technique of indoctrination and control. And resisting this makes good sense.

Noam Chomsky

Country, Government, Years

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This country belongs to all of us. We made this country from nothing, from mud-flats... Over 100 years ago, this was a mud-flat, swamp. Today, this is a modern city. Ten years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!

Mr. Lee

Country, Years, Cities

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Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours.

Mary Rose O'Reilley

Religious, Jobs, Heart

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The government of the enlightened king? His achievements blanket the world but appear not to be his own doing. His transforming influence touches the ten thousand things but the people do not depend on him. With him there is no promotion or praise - he lets everything find its own enjoyment. He takes his stand on what cannot be fathomed and wanders where there is nothing at all.

Burton Watson

Kings, Government, People

Burton Watson (2003). “Zhuangzi: Basic Writings”, p.92, Columbia University Press

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