Gaps Quotes - Page 36

• I believe in the power of journalism. To make informed decisions, you have to have an understanding of the dynamics of a situation. And journalism does bridge gaps and creates dialogue.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, Bridges, Decision

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

  Maggie Q

  People, Sometimes, Circumstances

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• Even if not one migrant turns out to vote, this was a historic debt that Mexico owed its compatriots abroad. This represents a new political space for our migrants, an opportunity to bridge the gap between two societies, those living in Mexico and those living abroad.

  Ruben Aguilar

  Opportunity, Bridges, Two

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• It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.

  Sigmund Freud

  Gowns, Philosopher, Poet

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• The result of neo-colonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world. Investment under neo-colonialism increases rather than decreases the gap between the rich and poor countries of the world.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Country, Countries Of The World, Colonialism

  Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: the last stage of imperialism”, Nelson

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• The gap between what one knows and what one thinks one knows may be higher in the ranks of the elite. The result is supposedly-clever government interventions, introduced with excessive confidence, leading to disastrous results.

  Arnold Kling

  Clever, Thinking, Government

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• Right now, if there's a gender gap problem, it's not Ronald Reagan with women; it's with Walter Mondale with men.

  Patrick Caddell

  Men, Gender Gap, Problem

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• We have a problem with women in leadership across the board. This leadership gap - this problem of not enough women in leadership - is running really deep and it's in every industry. My answer is we have to understand the stereotype assumptions that hold women back.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Running, Boards, Answers

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.

  Betty White

  Writing, Play, Laughing

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• I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Needs, Attention

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

  Joseph Lowery

  Commitment, People, Needs

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• Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

  William Julius Wilson

  Class, Economic, Middle

  "William Julius Wilson: Ending Poverty Is Possible". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 13, 2012.

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• Sometimes legends find themselves remembered more for what they have not done than for their accomplishments. But those resume gaps can also help drive them to achieve even greater things in new arenas.

  Don Yaeger

  Accomplishment, Legends, Arena

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• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  Queen Rania of Jordan

  School, Kids, Technology

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• At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps even welcome, like clearings in the woods, the better to allow the heart's rays to stream out without obstacle. The unlit shadows should remain obscure, which is the very condition of enchantment.

  Andre Breton

  Heart, Poetry, Understanding

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• The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.

  Alex Lemon

  Knives, Joy, Stories

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The novelistic attribute of my work is very much like the Russian way of creating novels. Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky - their work has so many gaps. But for the reader, you cannot erase those gaps because they are important. They contextualize the whole struggle. My cinema is like that.

  Lav Diaz

  Struggle, Creating, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that, then you want sneak in a lesson about history and about politics and whatever else you might think about.

  Fred D'Aguiar

  Character, Thinking, Sneak In

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you're paying attention to human interactions - to the gap between who we are and who we think we are, or the gap between what happened and what we remember - you're going to end up thinking (obliquely or otherwise) about what it means to act ethically, and I think that's all to the good.

  Roy Kesey

  Mean, Thinking, Remember You

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think in many ways what my films are about is that search for my grandpa's dentures: for that humanizing narrative that bridges the gap between "us" and "them" to arrive at a "we."

  Brian Lindstrom

  Thinking, Bridges, Grandpa

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a huge gap in security, it's a huge problem we've had with our immigration system for many years.

  Adam Schiff

  Years, Immigration, Problem

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the achievement gap. And it hasn't happened. Yet the new law, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is based on the same test-based and market-driven framework and ideology, except it lets the states do it.

  Diane Ravitch

  Thinking, Law, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Years, Trying

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• Of course, there remains the question of why we should find mind-brain identities so persistently counter-intuitive, if they are true. But this is a simple psychological question, and there are a number of plausible explanations. Indeed this is a topic that is quite extensively discussed outside philosophy, by developmental psychologists and theorists of religion among others, under the heading of 'intuitive dualism'. It is rather shocking that so few of the many philosophers working on 'the explanatory gap' are familiar with this empirical literature.

  David Papineau

  Philosophy, Simple, Numbers

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

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• I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.

  Bun B

  Thinking, Years, Proud

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