Agendas Quotes - Page 19

• It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.

  Darryl Pinckney

  Mean, People, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.

  Molly Antopol

  Book, Writing, Hard Times

  Source: therumpus.net

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• These acts of terrorism are being committed by American citizens in this particular instance at a Planned Parenthood site, certain with a political agenda, fueled by the extremist rhetoric that we`ve seen from some on the hill and from people all across the country as it relates to a woman`s right to choose.

  Hakeem Jeffries

  Country, People, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Strong, Passion, Genius

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• Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Art, People, Support

  "Jeffrey Deitch’s Party House" by Edward Lewine, www.nytimes.com. April 20, 2012.

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• I rarely get a moment to myself, but I love the way that my agenda is dictated by the children, not my work.

  Monica Ali

  Children, Way, Moments

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• I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

  Ryan Adams

  Play, Creative, Ego

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

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• When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

  Peter Hain

  Opportunity, People, Justice

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• I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance to seize our own destiny, build our own industries, and create our own technological revolutions right here at home.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Home, Destiny

  "Jay Inslee, Washington Congressman, Resigning To Focus On Gubernatorial Campaign" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2012.

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• I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.

  Vanilla Ice

  Yesterday, Goal, Tomorrow

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• We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

  Olli Rehn

  Commitment, Needs, Enlargement

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• Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

  David Limbaugh

  Personality, Liberty, Guarantees

  "Unpresidential Plummet". Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. September 2, 2010.

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• As long as I feel I am doing what I think is right and just for my country, for the Greek people, that is enough for me. Saving Greece from this crisis was the first thing on the agenda. We are now on a much more normalised road.

  George Papandreou

  Country, Thinking, Long

  "Reinvigorating Greece is an Olympian task for prime minister Papandreou". Interview With Helena Smith, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• The Democrats' agenda isn't working for women. Their vision has produced big government and limited opportunity. Our vision is for limited government and opportunity for all. Women deserve better than what President Obama has delivered.

  Reince Priebus

  Opportunity, Government, Vision

  "Will Obama Apologize to Women for His Failures?" by Reince Priebus, townhall.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

  Edward Ruscha

  Social

  "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.

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• Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.

  Amartya Sen

  Issues, Important, Thank God

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• I think cinema should provoke thoughts, sure, but using it as I soapbox I think is the wrong place. I never want to be part of something like that, where there's an agenda there that's not about telling a story, where its someone getting on a soapbox and preaching their own beliefs onto somebody.

  Jeremy Renner

  Thinking, Cinema, Stories

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

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• Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

  Donald Sutherland

  Lying, Ambition, Iraq

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• In my time in the U.S. Senate, I tried to craft an energy policy... I will be part of President Obama's efforts to achieve energy independence and enhance the landscape. I am also part of his reform agenda.

  Ken Salazar

  Effort, Independence, President

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• Everybody comes to the journalist with an agenda.

  Shepard Smith

  Journalist

  "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 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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• 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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