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• I would like to submit an entirely different agenda, one that is built on love, cherishing and timelessness. One that acknowledges that in living, we accumulate. We admire. We desire. We love. We collect. We display.

  Dominique Browning

  Desire, Different, Cherish

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• I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

  Sherman Alexie

  Thinking, Selfishness, Rage

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside the White House, as you learned, sometimes with painful experience, have competing agendas, have differing points of view, have priorities they're trying to protect.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Views, Painful Experiences, White

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation and discrimination on a reluctant nation's social agenda. Would black churches have been able to take the lead in the struggle had they been dependent on funds doled out for 'faith-based initiatives' . . . ?

  Susan Jacoby

  Powerful, Struggle, Independent

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• TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Tvs, Sole

  Interview with Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

  Terry Eagleton

  Struggle, Heart, Political

  "Culture conundrum" by Terry Eagleton, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2008.

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• Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

  Jim Talent

  Interesting, Insightful, Conservative

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• An agenda is not a bad thing.

  Kathy Ireland

  Bad Things

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• Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.

  Gary Zukav

  Strings Attached, Giving, Expectations

  "Why Painful Things Happen to Good People" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• It's now clear that from the very moment President Bush took office, Iraq was his highest priority as unfinished business from the first Bush Administration. His agenda was clear: find a rationale to get rid of Saddam.

  Edward Kennedy

  Unfinished Business, Iraq, Office

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

  Scott Weiland

  Air, Stories, Magazines

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• I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.

  Richard V. Allen

  Determination, Generosity, President

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• A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.

  Andrew Bird

  Sight, Cities, Creative

  "Andrew Bird Talks ‘Break It Yourself,’ And His Obsession With Maps". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I have no particular career agenda.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Careers, Particular

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• MoveOn loves government. It remains enamored of government spending as fuel for its liberal agenda; and anything that threatens to close that spigot in any degree is perceived as a dire threat - worthy of Chicken-Little warnings that the sky is going to fall.

  Bob Barr

  Fall, Government, Sky

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• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  Saffron Burrows

  Hands, Years, Nuts

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• Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.

  Alan Cumming

  Kids, Piercings, Want

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

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• Once you have awakened to the question of faith, you cannot simply return to your everyday agenda like a committed atheist could. You cannot retreat to the comforts of atheism.

  Martin Walser

  Atheist, Everyday, Atheism

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• The agenda should be crafted by the employee who reports to the manager not the manager.

  Keith Rabois

  Should, Employee, Managers

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• Choosing an agenda that supports the apparatuses of racial violence always pays better.

  Dean Spade

  Support, Pay, Violence

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• God will never adjust His agenda to fit ours. He will not speed up His pace to catch up with ours; we need to slow our pace in order to recover our walk with Him. God will not scream and shout over the noisy clamor; He expects us to seek quietness, where His still small voice can be heard again.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Order, Voice, Needs

  Charles R. Swindoll (2011). “The Owner's Manual for Christians: The Essential Guide for a God-Honoring Life”, p.76, Thomas Nelson

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• I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.

  Jon Stewart

  Thinking, World, Administration

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• The Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, and the related Accra Agenda for Action, are useful policy instruments that set out the mutual responsibilities of donors and recipient countries.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Responsibility, Paris

  "Exclusive Interview with WHO's Dr. Margaret Chan". Frontlines Interview, www.usaid.gov. April/May, 2011.

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• The 21st Amendment gives the states the right to decide what the drinking ages should be and other aspects relative to alcoholic beverages, and I support that. As a United States senator, I want to weigh in - this is not my agenda.

  Pete Coors

  Drinking, Giving, Support

  Meet the Press Debate, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2004.

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• I do have comfort, because as an actor you don't want that anxiety of wondering if you're going to continue with a certain role or if you're going to be employed the next year. It's nice to be comfortable with that and then you can concern yourself with the stories and nothing else. There's no other agenda than putting out a good product.

  Tim DeKay

  Nice, Years, Anxiety

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