Adopted Quotes - Page 18

• Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

  Josephine Decker

  Generosity, Thanks, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

  Arnold Palmer

  Years, Waiting, Balls

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• Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We know about the issue of children being sold and adopted and taken away but what is so extraordinary is how these two people come through something like - how both of them do, in actual fact. I think that she's one of the most considerable people I've ever met, Philomena.

  Judi Dench

  Children, Taken, Thinking

  "Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.

  Dalai Lama

  Generations, New Inventions, Seven

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Fighting, Violence

  Speech as the official date for Indian independence approached, June 16, 1947.

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• And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

  Maya Angelou

  Taken, Love Life, Kids

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• Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Mean, Ideas, Doe

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• Life is not for the faint of heart.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Heart, Adoption, Life Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every paper published in a respectable journal should have a preface by the author stating why he is publishing the article, and what value he sees in it. I have no hope that this practice will ever be adopted.

  Morris Kline

  Practice, Should Have, Paper

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• Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

  William McDonough

  Tragedy, Culture, Warning

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• A whole range of activities remained largely unregulated, spontaneously generating separate forms of organisation, and existing independently of any consecrated 'official' To overlook the extent of private initiative would be to ignore a major impulse to early Christian expansion. In homes, whole families adopted a style of life modelled on the Apostles.

  Judith Herrin

  Christian, Home, Style

  Judith Herrin (1989). “The Formation of Christendom”, p.57, Princeton University Press

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• As Buffett has often observed, value investing is not a concept that can be learned and gradually applied over time. It is either absorbed and adopted at once, or it is never truly learned.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Buffett, Concepts

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• Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.

  Dick Morris

  Dream, Jumping, Eight

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• In America, Qualification is simply an attitude. I've adopted it. So, yes. I am qualified.

  Eugene Mirman

  Attitude, America, Qualified

  Eugene Mirman (2009). “The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

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• You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

  Jess Row

  Past, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

  Bella Heathcote

  Australia, People, Calling

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• One of my brothers in my adopted family converted to Islam and I love him with all my heart. I have Muslim women who understand my pain and they give me lots of love and support. But what Black Americans never think about is that the African version of Islam is totally different from American Islam. They've never seen mothers doused in gasoline and set on fire for ’religious' reasons. So they don't know what I'm talking about.

  Kola Boof

  Mother, Religious, Brother

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• Hundreds of thousands of kids now have a chance to be adopted because I worked to change our adoption and foster care system.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kids, Adoption, Care

  "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do they create? What sort of demons? And of course North Korea falls clearly into this category since the socialist revolution at the end of the Second World War. Somehow they adopted the myth of the power and dynamics of their volcano.

  Werner Herzog

  War, Fall, Volcanoes

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Don’t start. I saw Marcie climb inside your Jeep.” “She needed a ride.” I adopted a hands-on-hips pose. “What kind of ride?” “Not that kind of ride,” he said slowly.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Hands, Saws, Hips

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• In the war room, love? What if someone comes in?” I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good story to tell.” “Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended. “Prove me wrong.

  Maria V. Snyder

  War, What If, Stories

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Fire Study”, p.185, Harlequin

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• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Opinion, Global Warming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Innovation, Language, Multitudes

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Peter Anthony Motteux, John Gibson Lockhart (1822). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.277

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