Get Together Quotes - Page 6

• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• Americans just love convening. They are a convention-happy country and they love to get together to talk.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Country, Together, Conventions

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• I would hope to get together with the Latino community, if I could ever have them talk to me without screaming and threatening me. So I hope to get together with the community and try to explain what we do, so that's going to be one of my missions coming up.

  Joe Arpaio

  Community, Trying, Together

  "Arizona's 'one-pizza' Democrats taste success as GOP shares slice of the pie" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2012.

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• Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.

  Curtis Jackson

  Peace, Special, Together

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• War is possible only if you have a lot of enemies. If all the enemies get together and form one front - if you cut down the number of enemies - there would be no war.

  Albert Kesselring

  War, Cutting, Numbers

  "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004.

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• People get together and go to the movies or on hikes, but everyone maintains their own independent domicile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Independent, Buddhism, People

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• When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

  Neil Jordan

  Thinking, People, Together

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• Making movies is like a circus. You get together for a finite amount of time and you build the most extravagant thing you can, which requires teamwork. Most people don't know, but when you see something on screen, it looks perfect. If you go behind the scenes, things are very archaic. You only see the front of the building, not the back.

  Joe Hahn

  Teamwork, People, Perfect

  "Director Joe Hahn Talks MALL, Why He Chose This Material as His First Feature, the Casting Process, His Music Video Background, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 16, 2014.

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• We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.

  Virginia Satir

  Differences, Together, Bases

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• Chris Claremont once said of Alan Moore, "if he could plot, we'd all have to get together and kill him." Which utterly misses the most compelling part of Alan's writing, the way he develops and expresses ideas and character. Plot does not define story. Plot is the framework within which ideas are explored and personalities and relationships are unfolded.

  Warren Ellis

  Writing, Character, Ideas

  "Bad Signal". Comic book by Warren Ellis, 2003.

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• Chicago has very few public spaces where people are encouraged to get together. It's partly to prevent riots, and also to segregate a city with a history of racial segregation.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Space, Cities, People

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon". Interview with Rachel Dewoskin, therumpus.net. April 14, 2013.

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• Mahar-jji used to say 'wherever the Satsang gets together, I am there', kind of echoing Jesus' statement: wherever two or more of you get together in my name, I am there. So Maharaj-ji was a universal part of the spirit in that way. He's always with me, here. He's with whoever is with him. Not only just me.

  Surya Das

  Jesus, Names, Two

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, People, Musical

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.

  Alan Jackson

  Song, Writing, Together

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership. The word 'marriage,' I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

  Elton John

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong". usatoday30.usatoday.com. November 12, 2008.

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• People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening.

  Noam Chomsky

  Media, People, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.23, Seven Stories Press

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• A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.

  Bootsy Collins

  Dog, People, Together

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• I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field.

  Albert Einstein

  Political, Intellectual, Together

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• I guarantee, that if I am elected, I will take over the White House, hang out, shoot pool, scratch my ass, and not do a damn thing . . . Which is to say, if you want something done, don't come to me to do it for you; you got to get together and figure out how to do it yourselves. Is that a deal?

  Utah Phillips

  Guarantees That, Want Something, White

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• Perhaps writers should never be allowed to get together in a workplace context. It's not like studying computer science, after all. The emotions are at large, and are shared and are questioned. There is a vulnerability.

  Graham Joyce

  Together, Emotion, Study

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• I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to create emotions, love and togetherness. Communication, which comes from this idea that sparks off of humanity and becomes something that is cherished and loved by the people, is very fascinating to me.

  Damian Marley

  Song, Communication, Ideas

  "Lollapalooza 2011: Q&A with Damian Marley". Interview with Victoria Rodriguez, www.usatoday.com. August 3, 2011.

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• When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Party, Ideas, Together

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• Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

  Woody Allen

  God, Jobs, Class

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went to Juilliard in New York and used to do cabarets just for fun. Occasionally, I would get together with a jazz musician and play at a restaurant for cash. And I've done some background vocals for recording artists.

  Nicole Beharie

  New York, Fun, Artist

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