Behinds Quotes - Page 30

• There are... two kinds of people: those who are changing and those who are setting themselves up to be victims of change. As the world continues to march on around us, if I am only maintaining the status quo - if I'm not growing - then I'm falling behind.

  Jim Clemmer

  Change, Fall, Maintaining The Status Quo

  Jim Clemmer (1999). “Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success”, p.14, Jim Clemmer

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• I think in the end we will have negotiations with the House. They don't have any incentive for a long, drawn-out trial. We'll have negotiations with the White House. Despite all their threats they are going to have a prolonged defense. The reality is they are the driving force behind getting this over quickly.

  Phil Gramm

  Thinking, Reality, White

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• I guess the disc jockey thought I was trying to sing or something so ... they had fun with it. But the reality was that it was something, there was a concept behind it.

  William Shatner

  Fun, Reality, Trying

  "Lead Trekkie teams up with musician Ben Folds" by Mark Scheerer, www.cnn.com. March 4, 1999.

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• There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Reality, Moments, Left Behind

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• If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.

  Fredric Jameson

  Reality, Resistance, West

  Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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• There is no shadow of protection to be had by sheltering behind the slender stockades of visionary speculation, or by hiding behind the wagon-wheels of pacific theories.

  Soong May-ling

  Peace, Business, Shadow

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• When I first started seeing (the show) come together, I was blown away. It is unbelievable. And to see Vince singing, and behind him girls hanging by chains, and Harleys on the stage and the pyrotechnics going it's like, this is what I want to see in rock 'n' roll.

  Nikki Sixx

  Girl, Rocks, Singing

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• Noise is an easy thing to hide behind. If you make a lot of noise and shout behind that, nobody can tell what you're singing.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Singing, Noise, Easy

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• Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

  James C. Collins

  Marketing, Mediocrity, Motivated

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• Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock at the bottom of the current.

  Kobo Abe

  Teacher, Teaching, Rocks

  Kobo Abe (2011). “The Woman in the Dunes”, p.80, Vintage

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• When a legislature decides to steal some of our rights and plans to use police force to accomplish it, what's the real difference between them and the thief? Darn little! They hide behind the excuse that they're legislating democratically. The fact they do it by a majority vote has no moral significance whatsoever. Numerical might does not constitute right, no more than a lynch mob can justify its act because a majority participated.

  H. L. Richardson

  Real, Rights, Majority Vote

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• I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.

  Giordano Bruno

  Heaven, Perception, Afar

  "On the Infinite Universe and Worlds". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Communication, Land

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You've got to think outside the box. If you can't, that's going to put you behind the power curve in a big way.

  Joe Teti

  Thinking, Curves, Survival

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• There is a middle class in America for only one reason: organized labor. If not for organized labor, where would you find a job where you had some sense that you had a shot of leaving behind something better than you inherited?.

  Joe Biden

  Jobs, Class, America

  AFF Presidential Forum in Washington DC, March 14, 2007.

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• We are now spending half a trillion dollars on foreign oil, importing 62 percent of the oil we use, and we haven't had the leadership in D.C. to do anything about it. We've got to move to other sources of energy. But we've gotten way behind, and will continue to pay the fiddler. It's not a good future.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Leadership, Money, Moving

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• I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Notebook, Growing Up, Couple

  "Corporate Reform Updates and a Conversation with the FCC Commissioner". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 2, 2003.

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• For the Warrior of Light there is no such thing as an impossible love. He is not intimidated by silence, indifference or rejection. He knows that, behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire. Without love, he is nothing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Heart

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• Chile needs to unite behind the goals of reducing poverty and creating more equal opportunities so that everyone can benefit from what the country has to offer.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Country, Opportunity, Creating

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• What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay?

  Nikki Giovanni

  Gay, Men, Boys

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• The characteristics of a good musician can be summarized as follows: 1. A well-trained ear. 2. A well-trained intelligence. 3. A well-trained heart. 4. A well-trained hand. All four must develop together, in constant equilibrium. As soon as one lags behind or rushes ahead, there is something wrong. So far most of you have met only the requirement of the fourth point: the training of your fingers has left the rest far behind. You would have achieved the same results more quickly and easily, however, if your training in the other three had kept pace.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Heart, Hands, Training

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• Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Political, Screw Ups

  Ann Coulter (2004). “How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter”, p.133, Crown Forum

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• To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny.

  Jens Lehmann

  Play, Insulting, Sitting

  "Almunia comes to terms with Lehmann's 'hate'" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2008.

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