Issues Quotes

• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Environmental, Important, Awareness

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

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• Climate change is happening, humans are causing it, and I think this is perhaps the most serious environmental issue facing us.

  Bill Nye

  Thinking, Environmental, Climate

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  I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Environmental, Habitat

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• In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Sides, Debate, Virtue

  Biographical, www.nobelprize.org. 2001.

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• Don't automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn't considered key aspects of the issue.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Keys, Presidential, Aspect

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• We found that when people put this issue on the table, it turns out that men acknowledge the issue, and employers and employees can work out solutions just as working mothers do.

  James Levine

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Men

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• I am absolutely opposed to political correctness. You cannot confront hate speech until you've experienced it. You need to hear every side of the issue instead of just one.

  Jane Elliott

  Hate, Political, Needs

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• If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.

  Aulis Sallinen

  Doe, Impression, Regard

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• The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

  Paul Gillmor

  Creating, Community, Addresses

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• In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

  George Orwell

  Birthday, Lying, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Always try the problem that matters most to you.

  Andrew Wiles

  Motivational, Important, Trying

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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  The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing.

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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• Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff.

  Mike Davies

  Life, Positive, Attitude

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• The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

  Cecil Taylor

  Quality, Quality Of Life, Values

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• Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Two, Looks

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• Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

  Michael M. Honda

  Equality, Sisterhood, Equal Pay

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• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Special, Dolls

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Race, Culture

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• In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it

  Rosie Perez

  Taken, Reality, Sequence

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• Macedonia's handling of ethnic relations and other issues is encouraging.

  Emma Bonino

  Macedonia, Relation

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• Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues -- communicating with an audience.

  Casey Kasem

  Men, Talking, Playing Music

  "Casey Kasem's Reflections on the Power of Radio and Music" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. June 15, 2014.

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Political, Historical, Democracy

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

  Epictetus

  Being Yourself, Doe, May

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