Department Quotes - Page 31

• Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Homeland Security, Needed, Available

  "Qatar offers $100m to relief fund". www.cnn.com. September 4, 2005.

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• Brothers and Sisters: Our ancient homeland is spotted today with an array of chemical dumps. Along the Niagara River, dioxin, a particularly deadly substance, threatens the remaining life there and in the waters which flow from there. Forestry departments spray the surviving forests with powerful insecticides to encourage tourism by people seeking a few days or weeks away from the cities where the air hangs heavy with sulphur and carbon oxides.

  Winona LaDuke

  Brother, Powerful, Air

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• Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

  Lady Gaga

  Fire, Chicago, Today

  FaceBook post by Lady Gaga from Aug 03, 2015

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• Being movie director you've got the art department, you've got the actors, you've got the camera department, you've got make-up and hair, and props. You've got your finger in all these pies, and you're making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

  Michael Fassbender

  Art, Pie, Hair

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, People, Community

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Book, Years, Marketing

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• My role as the chair of the fashion department at Parsons put me face to face with all the big designers, retailers, and editors. Since I was moving in these new circles regularly, I realized I needed to do something about my own personal style. It was really Diane von Furstenberg who gave me the nudge.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Moving, Editors

  "Project Runway’s Top Gunn". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/February, 2012.

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• In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

  David Heyman

  Independent, Skills, People

  "Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Talks Deathly Hallows, Tentpoles, Gravity". Interview with Anthony D'Alessandro, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2010.

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• Before any movie of yours gets made, it will be vetted by the studio's marketing department. So, you do have to answer the question: Who is your movie for?

  Thomas Lennon

  Marketing, Answers, Made

  Source: collider.com

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• As a younger actor coming up, I wanted to be in films. There's something special about being on film sets; there's an excitement; the people in every department are passionate about what they do.

  Adam Croasdell

  People, Special, Passionate

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• Acting is primarily is where I want to go. But seeing how the visual effects guys work, and the special effects guys and the art department guys, how they work and seeing their visions is really interesting. I don't think those guys get the recognition they deserve.

  James Phelps

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.

  Susan Stroman

  Miracle, Musical, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Why don't we all just go crazy when we know were going to croak? Because the mind's a monkey. You put things in departments and you go ahead. You go on and plan for the future and assume that the future's going to work out okay. Yet we know that sooner or later we're all going to be eating worms, whether it's fifty years or sixty. It might be tomorrow. It might happen today.

  Stephen King

  Crazy, Years, Work Out

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• You only get one shot in your life and you might as well push yourself and try things. There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie; the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations. It's a great, great thing to be involved in if you have the headspace for it, and I do. Try anything once.

  Jason Statham

  Interesting, Design, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them.

  Eva Mendes

  Writing, Wish, Roles

  Source: collider.com

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• Man today is fascinated by the possibility of buying, more, better, and especially, new things. He is consumption hungry... To buy the latest gadget, the latest model of anything that is on the market, is the dream of everybody, in comparison to which the real pleasure in use is quite secondary. Modern man, if the dared to be articulate about his concept of heaven, would describe a vision which would look like the biggest department store in the world.

  Erich Fromm

  Dream, Real, Men

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• I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cutting, Cartoon, Salary

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• I think it is important that independent government agencies be put in charge of investigating misconduct so that police departments are no longer allowed to police themselves. There is a conflict of interest there which, I believe, allows police to excuse their own behavior.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Independent, Thinking

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• The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Justice, Firsts

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

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• Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Mean, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi (1988). “Gandhi on Women: Collection of Mahatma Gandhi's Writings and Speeches on Women”

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• I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Lying, Sick, Cover Ups

  "Tony Abbott signals extending military campaign to Syria - politics live" by Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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• We know that our life is essentially tragic. I'm absolutely not for handing over that very important department of our psyche to those who say, "Why didn't you say so before? God has a plan for you in mind."

  Christopher Hitchens

  Mind, Important, God Has A Plan

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Organization

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