Imports Quotes - Page 7

• You do not need to import greatness from another; you just need to act on your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Greatness, Needs

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• When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

  Chris Lowe

  Girl, Clubs, West

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• It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be static rather than dynamic, and this tendency is made into a propulsion by civilization, where the obvious only is seen, and the unexpected rarely happens. When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

  Jack London

  Simple, Civilization, Adjusting

  Jack London, black Horse Classics (2017). “Jack London: The Complete Novels [Classics Authors Vol: 6] (Black Horse Classics)”, p.1689, Jack

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Pbs, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing.

  Charles Stross

  New York, Track, Agents

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• Haiti is extremely stratified socially with a number of large families controlling most of the economy, and import-export.

  Michele Montas

  Numbers, Haiti, Economy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Practice, Matter, Students

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• The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them out. Thy mind, oh man, if thou wilt lead a man unto salvation, must stretch as high as the utmost heavens, and search into and contemplate the darkest abyss, and the broad expanses of eternity; thou must commune with God!

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Mind

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• My solutions are to include Africa in the global economy, and not African charity, AIDS research, but African infrastructure development. And I think that Africa can import and needs everything the whole world can manufacture. And they have got enough money to pay for it. It's just that the money is in the ground.

  Andrew Young

  Thinking, Needs, Research

  "Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young Shares Life Lessons With New Generation". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2010.

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• I have a great admiration for English actors and actresses and have used them at every opportunity over the years, but now I won't have to import them to New York.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Opportunity, Years

  "Titanic star to play in Woody Allen's first British movie" by Kirsty Scott, www.theguardian.com. June18, 2004.

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• Most of our imports come from other countries

  George W. Bush

  Country, Other Countries

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• Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now?  Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you?  To what end were we billions of oddballs born?

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Wall, Men

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.123, Vintage

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• If Mexican farm labor is so much cheaper, maybe we should be growing our fruits and vegetables in Mexico. There's absolutely no reason to import Mexicans to do something they could do at home and then sell to us. I believe this is what economists call "competitive advantage".

  Ann Coulter

  Believe, Home, Vegetables

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• Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Strange, Commodity

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• Britain has a lot of wind. It's our wind. We don't have to import it.

  Edward Davey

  Wind, Britain

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• Film is the packaging of information in cans. Videotape is involved with the feeding back of process. Film rips information away from the situation for use elsewhere. Videotape can be fed back into a given situation and enrich experience. Film extends man as a spectator. Videotape extends man as a cybernator. Film imports information. Videotape implodes indigenous data.

  Paul Ryan

  Rip, Men, Data

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• There won't be some overnight miracle cure. But the measures I take will be sustainable. Our goal is to cease food imports within four years. This will create a minimum of 2 million jobs in agriculture.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Jobs, Years, Agriculture

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In our Revolution we believe that we have broken the chain of a consumer economy based on imports, and we are free to decide our destiny . And in order to realize the interests of the Somali people, their achievement of a better life, the full development of their potentialities and the fulfilment of their aspirations, we solemnly declare Somalia to be a Socialist State.

  Siad Barre

  Believe, Destiny, Order

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• As Cindy Sheehan was gathering public sympathy as the Gold Star mom against the killing in Iraq, the Republican party decided to import an easier target to pummel. So they brought over the 'I-salute-your-courage, Saddam' religious fundamentalist crack-pot who can't tell us where the money went.

  Greg Palast

  Mom, Religious, Stars

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• Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, Iraq, Dumb

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• We aren't leveraging this great economic engine, the strongest economy in the world. And yet we have this totally weak response. We import $500 billion a year more in products than we export.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Years, World, Economic

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• Of what import are brief, nameless lives . . . to Galactus?

  Stan Lee

  Nameless

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• When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

  Barack Obama

  Want, Economic, Social

  Final 2012 presidential debate, www.cbsnews.com. October 22, 2012.

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• For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last night that asserted that the famous AK-47 - the original peoples' rifle (and Authority's greatest mistake) - is rare in this country, and that the only ones here were originally smuggled in from the Middle East, or possibly from South America. The idiots who wrote this mess seemed unaware that after legal imports - mostly from China - were illegally cut off by executive order, they began to be manufactured here.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Jobs, Mistake

  "Tastes Like Chicken". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 28, 2010.

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