Individual Quotes - Page 24

• I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if Im paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see whos funniest, with everyone treated equally.

  Doug Stanhope

  Believe, Want, Comedy

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• The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

  William Blake

  Art, Ignorant, Insult

  William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.561, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Government, Knows, Nations

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• The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

  Arthur Jensen

  Individual Differences, Groups, Fever

  Arthur Robert Jensen (1980). “Bias in Mental Testing”

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• Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.

  Keith Devlin

  Gratitude, Jobs, Goal

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• Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

  Margaret Atwood

  Reading, Different, Pieces

  "14 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Margaret Atwood". Interview with Krystie Lee Yandoli, www.buzzfeed.com. October 9, 2014.

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• There's a whole group of Christians who believe the individual is more important, but in the end I don't think that's what Christ was talking about.

  Lewis Black

  Christian, Believe, Thinking

  "Lewis Black on politics, aging, and being the guy who yells". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2012.

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• Being a leader, it's the art of trying to find the balance, the right times with each individual and what they need at that moment. It requires looking outward as opposed to looking inside.

  Kobe Bryant

  Art, Leader, Balance

  "Kobe Bryant Q&A: Future, fashion, legacy and Lamar Odom". Interview with Sam Amick, www.usatoday.com. February 26, 2015.

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• I'm just a guy that grew up in a total fun-loving environment. I try to create that everywhere I go. Basically what I'm doing is a reflection of me as an individual, me naturally. I'm not staging or putting on anything. I think my approach to the game is an all-out approach, whatever it takes to win. I've always been that way.

  Dave Parker

  Fun, Reflection, Winning

  "Baseball Preview : Q&A With Dave Parker". Interview with Robyn Norwood, articles.latimes.com. April 07, 1991.

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• I was interesting in discovering more about [Elizabeth Taylor], and I always tried to focus more on the woman than the legend or the icon and everybody's own individual version of what that is. She was badass! Really strong. And eccentric and fiery and powerful and clear and blunt. Spoke like a sailor. She was extreme, but she had the ability to love again and again and again and still believe in it every time.

  Justin Bieber

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

  Paul Weller

  World, Changed, Wells

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• Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

  Bell Hooks

  Powerful, Believe, Cutting

  "October 2006 Interview: Bell Hooks". Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October 2006.

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• But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.

  Deborah Tannen

  Ideas, Negative, Different

  Deborah Tannen (1998). “The Argument Culture: Moving from Debate to Dialogue”, Random House Incorporated

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• Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs, everyone's individual pride.

  Scott Weiland

  Pride, Goal, Musician

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• It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual - the man - has three great rights, equally sacred from arbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but to deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty is to still leave him a slave.

  George Sutherland

  Men, Rights, Giving

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• And there was a deeper, less visible effect of the Truman loyalty program. Seeing its consequences for certain individuals and fearing its intrusion on their own lives, many in the government sought protection by strongly asserting their anti-Communism. In the public action that ensued, policy was based not on reality but, instinctively or deliberately, on personal caution...Those who urged a militant and sometimes military anti-Communism were considered sound, trustworthy and personally safe; those who questioned such a course were politically unsafe, possible even slightly disloyal.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Loyalty, Military, Reality

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• There's been a long-standing relationship between me and individual members of the Green Party.

  Cynthia McKinney

  Party, Long, Green

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• Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individuals contribution far more than the individual himself.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Organization, Climate, Research

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• Your brain develops depending on your individual history. What has gone on in your own brain and its consciousness over your lifetime is not repeatable, ever - not with identical twins, not even with conjoined twins.

  Gerald Edelman

  Over You, Brain, Gone

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• Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

  Gerald Edelman

  Brain, Encounters, Development

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• Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Responsibility, Eras, Ends

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• The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Issues, Effort, Community

  "NYC’s SNAP Sugary Beverage Ban Is the Right Idea" by Geoffrey Canada, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

  Lech Walesa

  Technology, Development, Individualism

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• The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

  Aberjhani

  Past, Errors, Empowering

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• To accumulate wealth, power or land beyond one's needs in a limited world is to be truly immoral, be it as an individual, an institution, or a nation-state.

  Bill Mollison

  Land, Needs, World

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