Dependent Quotes - Page 38

• For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?

  Kathy Ireland

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.

  Tony Judt

  Agility, Pleasure

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.18, Penguin

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• America is becoming more and more dependent upon imports from foreign manufacturers than we are exports from our country in all fields: in appliances, in clothing, even food. This year America may become for the first time in its history a net food importer.

  Marcy Kaptur

  Country, America, Years

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• Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Fall, Clueless, Axes

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Hands, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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• Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.

  Doris Lessing

  Our Society, Collapse, Precarious

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• The more dependent you are, the more ignorant you must be, and that's how they want you.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Ignorant, Want

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• That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Government, People

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• The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

  Dan Lipinski

  Facts, Energy, Burning Fossil Fuels

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• Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.

  James Lovelock

  Mistake, Grants, Ifs

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• I don't have a dime left. I am dependent on my friends for food and a small old-age pension.

  Bela Lugosi

  Age, Dimes, My Friends

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• There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

  Mary Martin

  Communication, World

  Kenneth Martin, Mary Martin (1987). “Kenneth and Mary Martin: 11 September-31 October 1987, Annely Juda Fine Art”

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• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  Karl Marx

  Independent, Individuality, Individualism

  BookCaps, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (2012). “The Communist Manifesto in Plain and Simple English”, p.61, BookCaps Study Guides

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• So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

  Russell Means

  Government, People, Corporations

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• How one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don't do for us.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, Turns

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• I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality.

  Alan Moore

  Writing, Creative, Steps

  "Moore's murderer". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2002.

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• The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

  Anne M. Mulcahy

  People, Cost, Assets

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• I think the key to happiness is allowing ourselves to not feel bad or guilty for feeling it, and letting it be contagious. And to not be dependent on other people to create your own happiness.

  Brittany Murphy

  Thinking, Keys, People

  Interview with Drew Barrymore, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 2003.

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• Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Ideas, Mixing, Speech

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by Dee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Country, Men, America

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Joshua Loper". Interview with Linda M. Pavonetti and Richard F. Abrahamson, www.scholastic.com.

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• When I tell children that they are far too dependent on their gizmos, they do not deny it. But they really don't care. This is their real life - texting about trivial things; listening to numbing music on their private headphones. The machines block everything out - you create your own little trivial world.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Children, Block, Real

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• Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

  Dennis Prager

  Fighting, Self, Discipline

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Sep 09, 2016

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• To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.

  Dennis Prager

  Growing Up, Parent, Age

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• Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

  David Ricardo

  Gold, Arbitrary, Scarcity

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.263

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