Contribution Quotes - Page 40

• I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Cheesy, May, Sound

  "Chelsea Clinton, Living Up to the Family Name" by Amy Chozick, www.nytimes.com. December 3, 2011.

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• Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.'

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Philosophy, Writing, Criticism

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• A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.

  Kevin Rudd

  Opportunity, Australia, Challenges

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

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• It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It's also a very clear path to happiness.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Success, Passion, Luxury

  Sheryl Sandberg's Commencement Address Barnard College in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Thinking, Campaigns

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

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• I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

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• I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

  Patti Smith

  Certain, Music Is, Originals

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Sacrifice, Immigration

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• What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business interests. Then once they hold that office, they spend all their time in office paying back over and over again those campaign contributions through various favors and contracts and that sort of thing.

  Matt Taibbi

  Office, Campaigns, Favors

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• In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

  Helen Thomas

  Nice, Past, Men

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• I do not believe we can effectively move Australia to a lower emission economy, which is what we need to do if we're going to make a contribution to a global reduction in greenhouse gases, without putting a price on carbon.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Moving, Australia

  "Malcolm Turnbull, Member for Wentworth". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. May 30, 2010.

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• You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

  Steve Vai

  Rocks, Historical, Talent

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

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• As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based.

  Steve Vai

  Mean, Thinking, Purple

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

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• At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Meaningful, Moving, Giving

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• I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

  Joss Whedon

  Years, Guy, Substance

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• Players should know that if you can't make the contribution of the winning shot, that your attitude every day when you come to practice, or the positive contribution you make through cheering and keeping up team morale, is just as important in the overall picture.

  Sue Wicks

  Basketball, Cheer, Attitude

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• What we forget is that African Americans made the largest contribution to America, economically, before the Civil War of any sector of society. I read that the railroads were worth about $2 billion, but slavery was a $3 billion asset.

  Andrew Young

  War, America, Slavery

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• A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

  Dylan Thomas

  Art, Writing, Creativity

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

  Steven Pressfield

  Art, Selfish, Creativity

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.165, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Every individual has a unique contribution.

  Jack Kornfield

  Unique, Individual

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• What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy. And if some of us are prepared to sacrifice much in life in order to pursue such aspirations, surely that in itself, whatever the outcome, cause for pride and contentment.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Sacrifice, Pride, Order

  FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Jun 24, 2013

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• It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Weed, Cutting

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• They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship, philosophers judging the merits of thinkers and authors, not according to the value of their contributions but according to their achievements on battlefields, are the spiritual leaders of our age of perpetual strife.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Spiritual, Judging, Leader

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• If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.

  Chaim Potok

  Waste, Made, Chosen

  Chaim Potok (2016). “The Chosen”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Art, Play, Vision

  Performing Arts Journal Inc, James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim (1986). “Wordplays 5: An Anthology of New American Drama”, Paj Publication

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