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• I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Unique, People, Goal

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• Sometimes the facts of the crime are so distracting - there's been some tragic murder or horrific incident, and people aren't required to think as carefully and thoughtfully, and directly, about this legacy of racial inequality and structural poverty. And what it's contributing to these wrongful convictions.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Thinking, People, Legacy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.

  Dabney Coleman

  Character, Weekend, Guy

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• Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Communication, People

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• In academic life, false ideas are merely false and useless ones can be fun to play with. In political life, false ideas can ruin the lives of millions and useless ones can waste precious resources. An intellectual's responsibility for his ideas is to follow their consequences wherever they may lead. A politician's responsibility is to master those consequences and prevent them from doing harm. Michael Ignatieff, a former professor at Harvard and contributing writer for the magazine, is a member of Canada's Parliament and deputy leader of the Liberal Party.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Fun, War, Party

  "Getting Iraq Wrong". www.nytimes.com. August 5, 2007.

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• I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

  Dave Edmunds

  Guitar, Way, Compliment

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• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  A. B. Yehoshua

  Dream, Stupid, Bridges

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• I've got three kids. I worry about them but the gospel freed me and freed my wife. We are not trying to make our kids think that we're super spiritual or we've got it all together. They see mom and dad being real people. What they hear dad talking about at home is not different from what they see from dad [at church]. That won't guarantee that they'll avoid the whole PK, MK thing. But we are hopefully not contributing to what normally produces that crisis, which is pretending.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Mom, Spiritual, Dad

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I don't want to torture anything. It's about trying to live a life where I'm not contributing to the cruelty in the world... While I am on this planet, I want everyone I meet to know that I am grateful they are here.

  Jessica Chastain

  Grateful, Trying, World

  "PETA Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrities 2012: Jessica Chastain And Woody Harrelson Win Celebrity Contest". PETA press statement, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 29, 2012.

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• Whether or not I tour forever, I'm not sure. I would love to spend more time living in harmony with nature rather than flying all over the world and contributing to global warming, you know what I mean?

  Jason Mraz

  Mean, Forever, Flying

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• It doesn't take special talents to reproduce--even plants can do it. On the other hand, contributing to a program like Emacs takes real skill. That is really something to be proud of. It helps more people, too.

  Richard Stallman

  Real, Hands, Skills

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• I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make them into responsible and contributing citizens.

  Cesar Pelli

  Cities, Design, Trying

  César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr

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• Making money is no fun. Contributing to and changing the world is a lot more fun.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Fun, World, Making Money

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• The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honored in contributing to those expenses.

  Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

  Men, Advantage, Should

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• No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

  Alistair Cooke

  Sports, Facts, Myth

  Alistair Cooke (1996). “Fun and Games with Alistair Cooke: On Sport and Other Amusements”, p.14, Arcade Publishing

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• It is, indeed, part of the liberal attitude to assume that, especially in the economic field, the self-regulating forces of the market will somehow bring about the required adjustments to new conditions, although no one can foretell how they will do this in a particular instance. There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Attitude, Self, People

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• When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.

  Bryan Brown

  America, Able, This Society

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

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• During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people's creations.

  Alan Bradley

  Careers, Long, People

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• Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Race, Imagination, Understanding

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• To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.

  Edward Norton

  Jobs, People, Consistency

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The life of hope, then, is shot through with social influences at every level. We learn to formulate ideals in tandem with others. We pursue particular hopes, sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing, in the company of those we love. And as we develop habits of hope and the hopefulness which helps us weather our trials, we reach out to others, inspiring them, sharing our own hopes with them, and contributing our abilities as best we can to foster the growth of agency.

  Patrick Shade

  Weather, Agency, Growth

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• I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

  Rickey Henderson

  League, Special, Exciting

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Self, Balance

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

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• It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Country, Government, People

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