Engagement Quotes - Page 16

• We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Speaks Out, World, Able

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• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Warren Beatty

  Issues, Pushing, Vote

  Interview with Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. October 9, 2005.

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• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

  Lamar Alexander

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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• Every day, through engagement in the arts, our children learn to open their imagination, to dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Art, Children

  "Michelle Obama's best pop culture moments: From mom dancing to Muppets" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. January 15, 2014.

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• Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.

  Joichi Ito

  Inspiration, Creativity, Past

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• As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Queens, Inspiration, Writing

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• I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me.

  Herschel Walker

  Inspiration, Giving, Stories

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• Every decision you make ... is a decision about Who You Are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Decisions You Make, Decision, Who You Are

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• The current administration has made the decision to cut dollars going for community development block grants, for various incentives to bring cities back.

  Stephanie Tubbs Jones

  Block, Cutting, Cities

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• There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.

  Michael Gartner

  Passion, Personality, Decision

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• My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is at stake in whatever decision he makes.

  Leon Kass

  Jobs, Decision, President

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• Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

  Ruth Buzzi

  Fun, People, Choices

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• With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision.

  Roger Mahony

  Decision, Grace, Holy

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• I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.

  Sally Kirkland

  Decision, Actresses, Being The Best

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Keys, Government, Iraq

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• "Yield" was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

  Jack Irons

  Spring, Yield, Decision

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• It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

  John E. Hines

  Light, Facts, Mysterious

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• My goal in the new administration is to engage all of the stakeholders, everyone who can help us meet the challenges of the 21st century, and ensure that we work together.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Goal, Challenges, Working Together

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• This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.

  David Foster Wallace

  Two, Done, Lines

  Review with Contemporary Fiction, 1993.

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• If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

  James L. Buckley

  Book, People, Assuming

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• I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

  Mark Strand

  Bores

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• We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Sex, Sleep, Breathing

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• It is against this concept of the sovereign state, a state isolated by protectionism and militarism, that internationalism must now engage in decisive battle.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Battle, Sovereign, States

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• To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Religious, Squares, Moral

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• The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.

  Ed Markey

  War, Terrorism, Torture

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