Appeals Quotes - Page 21

• Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Islam, Reason

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal.

  Farrah Gray

  Racism, African American, Levels

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• We don't think well of our presidents when they are serving. Even Kennedy, with such a short presidency, was beginning to lose his remarkable appeal to the American people when he was suddenly sainted by death.

  Charlton Heston

  Thinking, People, President

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

  Jason Aldean

  Country, Thinking, Form

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• I saw a charity appeal in the Guardian the other day, and it read "Little Zuki has to walk 13 miles a day just to fetch water". And I couldn't help thinking, she should move.

  Jimmy Carr

  Funny, Moving, Humor

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• You have the sex appeal of Norman Fell.

  Jim Norton

  Funny, Sex, Humor

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• I wanted to make sure that my act was family friendly for tonight, but I don't have babies. So I thought that maybe I could pretend that I had babies and that way I could appeal to the people in the audience who have babies and to the people who like to pretend that they have babies.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Baby, Humor

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• I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good projects, but I just really like the script or the characters.

  Megan Fox

  Reading, Character, Sitting

  "Exclusive: Megan Fox Talks FRIENDS WITH KIDS, Video Games, Comic Book Movies, THE DICTATOR, Judd Apatow, TRANSFORMERS 3, More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 15, 2011.

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• Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Strength, Being Strong, Lying

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• There's a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it's a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow.

  Hugh Allen

  Wisdom, Revenge, Fighting

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• I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty. That the reasons flyers fly, whether they know it or not, is the aesthetic appeal of flying.

  Amelia Earhart

  Flying, Aviation, Flight

  Amelia Earhart (1937). “Last flight”

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• We've got a recipe for disaster. It's huge -- this combination of body image issues and the drug's weight loss appeal.

  Robert Hughes

  Loss, Issues, Drug

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• I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.

  John Piper

  Sacrifice, Screw Ups, Longing

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.251, Multnomah

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• I love when I get to play these characters that are bigger than life. There are roles in animation that I never get to do in real life - and it appeals to my ego as an actor to play the Queen of Everything. I admit it.

  Virginia Madsen

  Queens, Real, Character

  "Virginia Madsen Is Wonder Woman's Queen Hipolyta". movieweb.com. January 07, 2009.

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• With 'Hostel II' I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I'm going to make a movie that's going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they'll have their moments. But there'll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!

  Eli Roth

  Strong, Guy, Males

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, Scorpios, Film History

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. March 24, 2010.

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• That's part of the appeal of time-travel movies: The notion of going back and fixing something.

  Rian Johnson

  Fixing, Time Travel, Notion

  "Rian Johnson’s Feedback Loop". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

  Arthur Frommer

  Thinking, Dubai, Cities

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• Frankenstein feels like an ancient tale, the kind of traditional story that appears in many other forms. It appeals to something very primal, but it's also about profound things, the very nature of life and death and birth - about, essentially, a man who is resisting the most irresistible fact of all, that we will be shuffling off this mortal coil.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Men, Profound, Life And Death

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Thinking, Land, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• My books are always tactical, bullet lists, this is what you need to do because I'm trying to appeal to people who are trying to change the world and they need checklists.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Book, People, Trying

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• The message is one of the beautiful things about the film. And I think part of the appeal is simply that they are prehistoric creatures, they are no longer around and that makes them magical and makes us feel quite emotional, because we know that those creatures did not survive in the long run, so there's poignancy in their fight for survival.

  John Leguizamo

  Beautiful, Running, Fighting

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

  John Drinkwater

  Men, Desire, Matter

  John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.35, Library of Alexandria

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• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

  Diana Trilling

  Running, Saws, Defense

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• A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

  Andy Grove

  Careers, Journalism, Lost

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