Fairs Quotes - Page 13

• It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Powerful, Intelligence, Literature

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• In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

  Cynthia McKinney

  White, America, House

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• Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

  Arthur Miller

  Fighting, Boys, Way

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.33, Heinemann

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• I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

  Ezra Miller

  Way, Moments, Share

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• When you're visiting an antiques fair, turn left once you've passed through the entrance. Everyone else will turn right, which means you can get to the bargains before them.

  Judith Miller

  Mean, Antiques, Entrances

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• If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

  Michael Moore

  Christian, Believe, Pregnancy

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• Nobody has been arrested on Wall Street for the crash of 2008. They're not paying their fair share of the taxes. And now with the Citizens United case of the Supreme Court, they get to buy politicians up out in the open.

  Michael Moore

  Wall, Citizens United, Politician

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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• I've loved 'Vanity Fair' since I was 16 years old. You know, we're all colonial hangovers in India, steeped in English literature. It is one of these novels that I read under the covers at my convent boarding school in Simla.

  Mira Nair

  Hangover, School, Years

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• I don't care what a man is as long as he treats me right. He can be a gambler, a hustler, someone everybody else thinks is obnoxious, I don't care so long as he's straight with me and our dealings are fair.

  Joe Namath

  Men, Thinking, Long

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• You just need to put yourself in someone else's shoes and then see how they feel and then you will understand why they are reacting or why they are behaving the way that they are behaving. We need to be fair.

  Navid Negahban

  Shoes, Needs, Way

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• 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Simple, New Job

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Effort

  "Muslim Americans Weigh In On 2008 Campaign". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 28, 2008.

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• We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

  Michelle Obama

  Honesty, Integrity, Squares

  Speeach at the Democratic National Convention, www.npr.org. September 04, 2012.

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• If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

  Michelle Obama

  Dream, Country, Giving

  "Michelle Obama speaks to the Democratic national convention - as it happened" by Richard Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.

  Olusegun Obasanjo

  Mean, Europe, Unions

  "US to match EU sanctions on Zimbabwe" by Andrew Meldrum, David Pallister, Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2002.

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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  Gary Oldman

  Mistake, Jewels, America

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

  John Boyd Orr

  Creating, Revolution, Demand

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Fun, World Suffering, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Giving, Atheism

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

  George Osborne

  Strong, Thinking, People

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life's not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Believe, Thinking

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• Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling - I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window.

  Michael Palin

  Curiosity, World, Window

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