Contributors Quotes

• Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

  Joe Biden

  Party, My Best Friend, Democratic

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Animal, Numbers, Suffering

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• We want to encourage a world of creators, of inventors, of contributors. Because this world that we live in, this interactive world, is ours.

  Ayah Bdeir

  Creativity, Technology, World

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• If we emphasize the life and works of our greatest contributors . . . people will come to realize that moral courage is bravery of the highest type, and America will be called the "Champion of Peace."

  Spark Matsunaga

  Courage, Peace, America

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• Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture. Is there also some X, some further contributor to what we are? There's Chance. Luck. This extra ingredient is important but doesn't have to come from the quantum bowels of our atoms or from some distant star. It is all around us in the causeless coin-flipping of our noisy world, automatically filling in the gaps of specification left unfixed by our genes, and unfixed by salient causes in our environment.

  Daniel Dennett

  Stars, Luck, Important

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• Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

  Jesse Ventura

  Winning, Lobbyists, Way

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• The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

  David Suzuki

  Real, Burning Fossil Fuels, Fossils

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• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

  Ronald Reagan

  Money, Cat, Politics

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

  Colin Powell

  Effort, United States, Relief

  Interview on CNN's "American Morning" With Heidi Collins, www.cnn.com. December 28, 2004.

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• Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Feet, Abuse, Cost

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• The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

  Ashley Montagu

  Country, Loneliness, Together

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• Team Obama is exploiting the power of high government office to intimidate lawful, peaceful contributors who support limited-government causes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Team, Government, Office

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• Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John [in the Extraordinary measures].

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Opportunity, Allies

  "Harrison Ford and Brendan Fraser Interview EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES". collider.com. January 17, 2010.

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• Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.

  Robert Plant

  World, Flash, Be Good

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• My goal is to be a contributor and to encourage others as they realize their dreams.

  Kai Greene

  Dream, Goal, Realizing

  Source: npcnewsonline.com

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• By the way, the European Union Member States together - even the euro area Member States together - are by far the biggest contributors to the IMF.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Together, Imf, Unions

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• The Nation of Islam was the biggest contributor to the Million Man March, but poor people gave their nickels, dimes and dollars; some wealthy Black people gave money to make that March a success - and every nickel, every dime, every dollar was accounted for.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, People, Black

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor.

  Steven Pinker

  Mean, Equality, Differences

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• I urge Governments to considerably reduce funds allocated to the military, not only as a disarmament issue, but also as a potential contributor to social and environmental protection and call for the holding of referenda on this issue worldwide.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  Military, Issues, Government

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Mother, Years, Giving

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• Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.

  William Hartston

  Pain, Victory, Chess

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• I eliminated coffee and fish from my diet. The pesticides in coffee and fish, as well as the mercury in the latter, are considered possible contributors to birth defects in fetal tissue.

  Constance Marie

  Coffee, Birth Defects, Mercury

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• My undergraduate degree was in history, and I wish I had been smart enough to really excel at maths, physics, chemistry or biology because... the voyagers and adventurers and real contributors - that's where they come from.

  Michael Moritz

  Real, Smart, Math

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• We have a freer world because of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the changes in China. Those two have been the main contributors to freedom in our time.

  Milton Friedman

  Two, World, Unions

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Race, Names

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.28, Random House

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