Essentials Quotes - Page 23

• Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Diversity, Goal

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• Our Government understands that local, community organizations are essential in addressing social issues like economic development, poverty, education and integration in Canadian communities. The Community and College Social Innovation Fund will connect the innovative talent of researchers and students at colleges and polytechnics to meet the research needs of local community organizations to build stronger, safer, healthier communities.

  Ed Holder

  College, Organization, Issues

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• I'm not against banking. Banking allowed our modern society to happen, it is essential. It connects the work through finance, so banking is good.

  Adam McKay

  Banking, Finance, Modern

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that he doesn't feel are absolutely essential and totally in keeping with his own view and perspective. But not too many writers are that independent and that strong-willed.

  Rod Serling

  Strong, Independent, Unique

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a nation. They should be criticizing the prioritizing of funds for military and prison expenditures over funds for higher education. And this argument should be made as a defense of education, as a crucial public good, and it should be taken seriously. But they aren't making these arguments.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, Taken, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Doubt, Progress

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Character, Broken

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• We can become very short-sighted in terms of objectives. The first thing to go during times of economic crisis and budget cuts is funding for things that are essential and not-quantifiable, like the arts. Save Big Bird

  Julia Stiles

  Art, Cutting, Bird

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• Being deeply aware of fragility and ecstasy seems to me an essential part of being alive and living fully - and there's no way for me to separate this from my poems.

  Alex Lemon

  Fragility, Alive, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.

  Zephyr Teachout

  Writing, Creativity, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten.

  Rachel Zucker

  Survival, Underrated

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did a lot of this through writing flashbacks. Many of the flashbacks took place at Cal's school and I eventually cut them because they didn't seem essential and they slowed the pace of the story in the first third of the book. They were essential to me, though, in that I learned about my characters.

  Edan Lepucki

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.

  Anne Elizabeth Moore

  East Germany, Play, Issues

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There is a lot of incredible talent out there, however, talent alone is not enough. Being a great singer does not matter, if you are not singing great songs. Having great songs will not be obvious to record executives if they are not professionally produced. Consistently performing those songs extremely well is essential.

  Wendy Starland

  Song, Singing, Singers

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• For me, the genders are an essential element of numbers and letters, not something that could be removed from them.

  Leni Zumas

  Numbers, Elements, Letters

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the most important thing [for moms] is - I always liked help with feeding essentials like breastfeeding stuff, because it's really tricky.

  Kim Kardashian

  Thinking, Important, Breastfeeding

  "Kim Kardashian on North West's Princess Style, Wipe Warmers, and Why Pregnant Women Should Never Leave the House". Interview with Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. July 10, 2014.

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• From a client perspective, I really think the work Microsoft's doing with Surface, with HoloLens, with Xbox, that stuff's absolutely essential to the company's future. Because innovation in the future will either be from the cloud out to all devices, or from devices as supported by software in the cloud. I think it's important for Microsoft to participate both ways.

  Steve Ballmer

  Xbox, Thinking, Clouds

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Law, Justice, People

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• The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

  Elena Ferrante

  Treatment, Traps, Materials

  Elena Ferrante (2016). “Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey”, p.305, Penguin

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• It is essential for world peace that the world religions make peace with each other. If they don't, we can hardly expect the nations of the world to lay down their arms.

  Thomas Keating

  World Religions, Arms, Making Peace

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Love is the essential energy of the universe. It is the force that puts the stars in the firmament, and it makes the blood run through the veins.

  Tom Shadyac

  Running, Stars, Love Is

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• I think I always keep coming back to certain pieces, the idea of essential, elegant, easy wardrobe.

  Garance Dore

  Thinking, Ideas, Pieces

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

  Patricia Churchland

  Knowing, Understanding, Progress

  "Causal machines". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 10, 2012.

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• I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Law, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Creflo Dollar is compromising, confusing or outright contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Joel Osteen does exactly the same thing. Now, not necessarily the exact same doctrines, but he is compromising, confusing or contradicting essential Christian doctrine. Their view of faith is a force, words are the containers of the force, and through the force of faith, one can create his or her own reality. That's not biblical faith. That's a false faith, or faith that doesn't satisfy and ultimately will lead people into harm's way.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Biblical, Reality

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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