Clique Quotes - Page 3

• An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, May, Significant

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

  Jack Dee

  Groups, Gang

  "I'm not an interesting celebrity. I don't snort cocaine or wear women's underwear" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2007.

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• Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, and guess what? They're just normal people, too.

  Leo Howard

  Mean, People, Giving

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• Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Thinking, Healthy, Littles

  Interview with Amy Kaufman, www.thewrap.com. October 7, 2010.

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• When I look at music, everything is blurred, and I like it that way. I grew up like that, hanging out with different types of people who listened to so many different types of music. I never wanted to be part of any one clique. I loved it all.

  Travis Barker

  People, Way, Different

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• I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.

  Xavier Dolan

  School, Ghetto, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You know, I was a nerdy kid going through high school, and then I got to college and that all vanished. I mean, a lot of my good friends - when we were in high school, we would never have been able to hang out together because we were in such different cliques or whatever. Now, who cares?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Mean, Kids, School

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• There is ...a huge tacit conspiracy between the U.S. government, its agencies and its multinational corporations, on the one hand, and local business and military cliques in the Third World, on the other, to assume complete control of these countries and "develop" them on a joint venture basis. The military leaders of the Third World were carefully nurtured by the U.S. security establishment to serve as the "enforcers" of this joint venture partnership, and they have been duly supplied with machine guns and the latest data on methods of interrogation of subversives.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Military, Gun

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• I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

  Ishmael Reed

  New York, Believe, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to impose upon the nation their modish fads and fallacies, and have nearly succeeded in doing so. In this cultural issue, we are, without reservations, on the side of excellence (rather than "newness") and of honest intellectual combat (rather than conformity).

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Art, America, Issues

  "Our Mission Statement" by William F. Buckley Jr., www.nationalreview.com. November 19, 1955.

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• I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

  Cat Power

  Impossible

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.

  Lizzo

  Father, Names, Houston

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Evolution is always the work of pioneers, and their followers are always small in number. This following is not a clique; it is the result of all the existing social forces; it is composed of all those who through innate or acquired capacity are ready to represent the existing degree of human revolution.

  Piet Mondrian

  Numbers, Degrees, Pioneers

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• My sister Suga Tee is doing conscious rap. She speaks to the youth. She has an album coming out soon. She got saved but she is still doing her thing. She still spits good game. She's talented. She sings. I don't know if a lot of people know this but Suga Tee has a beautiful voice. So ya'll look out for her album you dig? And look forward to a future Clique album.

  E-40

  Beautiful, Rap, Games

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• We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Understanding, Criminals, Fascists

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• I was pretty lucky, I went to a really great school. I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  Zoe Kravitz

  School, Who I Am, People

  "Exclusive Q&A: Zoe Kravitz & Ezra Miller". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 22, 2011.

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• The Arab world is full of corruption, in the time of the dictatorships and in the time of anarchy. This corruption is not only in politics and the economy, but also in the field of creative activity. There's an elite that controls the festivals, the newspapers, and the reviews. They are just a corrupt clique with no interest in creativity.

  Hassan Blasim

  Creativity, Creative, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't like cliques. I used to go out a lot in London with friends. And London can be very cliquey. I mean if you don't belong to one set you don't go to a particular party.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Party, Mean, London

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Jobs, Military

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• It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

  Ken MacLeod

  Two, Long, Opaque

  Ken MacLeod (2012). “Learning The World: A novel of first contact”, p.113, Hachette UK

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• Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, "What is truth?" Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry.

  William Stanley Jevons

  School, Body, Sacred

  "The Theory of Political Economy". Book by William Stanley Jevons, 1871.

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• Economic analysis is the first principle of Marxism. Professors who were genuine leftists would have challenged the entire economics-driven machinery of American academe the wasteful multidepartmental structure, the divisive pedantry of overspecialization, the cronyism and sycophancy in recruitment and promotion, the boondoggling ostentation of pointless conferences, the exploitation of graduate students and part-time teachers, the subservience of faculty to overpaid administrators, the mediocrity and folly of the ruling cliques of the Modern Language Association.

  Camille Paglia

  Teacher, Association, Firsts

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.19, Vintage

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• Hollywood can be an exclusive place. Who gets to be on TV, or who gets to make TV can be a small clique of an industry. There's so many talented, skilled people, all over the world, that might not have the connections or the opportunities to work in TV.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Opportunity, People, Hollywood

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV Season 2, Influencing Other Work, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 12, 2015.

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• There's a particular hierarchy in the prison - class distinctions, high-school cliques. You have to learn how to navigate.

  Laura Prepon

  School, Class, Hierarchy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There's a lot of people that try to come between my clique and try to stop what we're doin', but we got no mercy for 'em.

  Ace Hood

  People, Trying, Ems

  Source: djbooth.net

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