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• Once you open that door to a values conversation, it's going to undercut a right-wing economic agenda, which values wealth over work and favors the rich over the poor, or resorts to war as the first resort and not the last.

  Jim Wallis

  War, Doors, Wings

  "God’s Politics: An Interview With Jim Wallis". Interview with Michal Lumsden, www.motherjones.com. March 10, 2005.

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• When we met, my agenda was "Get Elle Fanning." I believe Elle's was "Get the role." But we didn't know that.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Believe, Roles, Mets

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• And it's a question of who the parliamentary party thinks is the right person to lead - not just in terms of the negotiations but also the wider 'one nation' agenda that we set out in our manifesto last year and that we were elected on.

  Nicky Morgan

  Party, Thinking, Years

  "World At One", www.telegraph.co.uk. June 24, 2016.

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• I don't write fiction but I do write narrative; I write memoirs that I treat like stories, so whenever I'm using somebody I actually know as a model, I am submitting them to the agenda of a storyteller, and I feel free to do what I want.

  Vivian Gornick

  Writing, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.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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• You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work of devotion and surrender, whether we can put aside our own agendas and allow the spirit to move through us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Book, Spirit

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

  Nick Xenophon

  Running, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• When I look at that record in light of the 1985 job application to the [Ronald] Reagan Justice Department, it's even more troubling.That document lays out an ideological agenda that highlights Judge Samuel Alito in belonging to an alumni group at Princeton that opposed the admission of women and proposed to curb the admission of racial minorities.

  Edward Kennedy

  Jobs, Light, Justice

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women's health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, 'take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.' It was done on ten thousand male medical students.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Heart, Doctors, Males

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• Somehow, the agenda has been put into the form of talking about a set of transitions from state A, the present, to a state B that's sustainable. The problem is that there is no such state. You have to assume that the transitions are going to continue forever and ever and ever. You have to talk about systems that are continuously dynamic, and that are embedded in environments that themselves are continuously dynamic.

  George Cowan

  Talking, Forever, Transition

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• I think it depends on what agenda that female president brings. It's not good if that female president brings an agenda which is actually hostile to the cause of living wages. Women need equal wages to men, but not equal wages at poverty.

  Jill Stein

  Men, Thinking, President

  "Meet Jill Stein, the Woman Determined to Take On Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in November". Interview with Krystal Marie Ball, www.glamour.com. July 25, 2016.

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• Radical feminism, male lesbians, transsexuals, musical condoms with suspenders, and lotsa drummers drumming are all manifestations of a political agenda with roots in the 1960s. This is all fruit we are reaping from the sexual revolution.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Roots, Radical Feminism, Political

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• The power is to set the agenda. What we print and what we don't print matter a lot.

  Katharine Graham

  Matter, Journalism, Newspapers

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• Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Gay, Made, Activist

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• [On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Writing, Exotic, Familiar

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• When I became a judge, I stopped being a practicing attorney. And that was a big change in role.The role of a practicing attorney is to achieve a desirable result for the client in the particular case at hand. But a judge can't think that way. A judge can't have any agenda, a judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case and a judge certainly doesn't have a client.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Hands, Judging

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Monsters, Polemics, Obvious

  "'Monster'". www.salon.com. December 26, 2003.

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• Representative democracy frequently manifests a disconnect between parliamentarians and the people, so that parliamentarians have agendas that do not correspond with the wishes of the electorate. This has led in many countries to apathy, cynicism and large-scale absenteeism in elections. What is needed is not only parliaments, but parliamentarians who genuinely represent the wishes of the electorate.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Country, People, Democracy

  "Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred-Maurice de Zayas". July 01, 2013.

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• I don't pretend to be an expert on intellectual property law, but I do know one thing. If a music industry executive claims I should agree with their agenda because it will make me more money, I put my hand on my walletand check it after they leave, just to make sure nothing's missing.

  Janis Ian

  Hands, Law, Missing

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• In fact, it's the greatest threat to liberty of all kinds, whether it is freedom of religion, whether it is freedom of speech, whether it is freedom of the press, whether it is freedom of association, all of the rights that are enshrined in the First Amendment are threatened by the active, aggressive homosexual lobby and the homosexual agenda.

  Bryan Fischer

  Rights, Freedom Of Speech, Liberty

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• To move forward, what's required is a unified space agenda based on exploration, science, development, commerce, and security.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving Forward, Space, Development

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• If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

  Barack Obama

  Guy, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.

  Chris Matthews

  Emotional, Desire, Medicare

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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