Issues Quotes - Page 36

• We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

  Karen Finney

  Fighting, Thinking, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

  Robert Moss

  Dream, Everyday, Mind

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• Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

  Martin Parr

  Technology, Thinking, Phones

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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• The big issue was cutting. I finally cut as much as I could, about a fourth of the story, and actually liked it.

  ZZ Packer

  Cutting, Editing, Stories

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• I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.

  Bonnie Wright

  Fashion, Support, Important

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• For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

  Richard Attias

  Jobs, Employment, Entrepreneurship

  "Africa and the Six ‘I’s: Independence, Investment, Infrastructure, Innovation, Incubation, Inspiration" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2013.

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• It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Cancer, Thinking, Achievement

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• It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a particular adjustment diverges from what the judges deem tolerable. On such issues experience has over and over again shown the difficulty of securing unanimity. This is disastrous because disunity cancels the impact of monolithic solidarity on which the authority of a bench of judges so largely depends.

  Learned Hand

  Impact, Judging, Benches

  "The Bill Of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 72, 1958.

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• What shall be said, then, of those who insist upon ignoring the question of slavery as not involved in this deadly feud, and maintain that the only issue is, the support of the government and the preservation of the Union? Surely, they are "fools and blind"; for it is slaveholders alone who have conspired to seize the one, and overturn the other. As long as the enslavement of a single human being is sanctioned in the land, the curse of God will rest upon it.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Land, Government, Long

  "The War — Its Cause and Cure". teachingamericanhistory.org. May 03, 1861.

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• War is the sure result of the existence of armed men. That country which maintains a large standing army will sooner or later have a war. The man who prides himself on fisticuffs is going, some day, to meet a man who considers himself the better man, and they will test the issue.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Country, War, Pride

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future

  Carl Rogers

  Attitude, Acceptance, Expression

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• There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction.

  Ayn Rand

  Truth, Integrity, Knowledge

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.101, Penguin

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• The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Debate, Syndromes

  "Mediasaurus: the Decline of Conventional Media". Speech at the National Press Club, Washington D.C., April 07, 1993.

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• People are whupped. I'm whupped. My wife is whupped. Unless it's your job to be curious, who really has the time to sit and ask questions and explore issues?

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, People, Wife

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• Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.

  Bill Moyers

  Mean, Revolutionary Ideas, Democracies Have

  "The Power of Democracy". Speech accepting the Public Intellectual Award of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on February 07, 2007. "Moyers on Democracy". Book by Bill D. Moyers, p. 92, 2008.

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• My administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.

  George W. Bush

  Climate, Roles, Administration

  President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. June 11, 2001.

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• Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of greed and trade, and not of honest cosmos-facing.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Greed, Cosmos, Paper

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• The American agenda is sweeping everything before it, and although it's not perfect, the EU is better on environmental issues. It's a less rapacious form of capitalism.

  Ken Livingstone

  Perfect, Environmental, Agendas

  "Bush Will Doom Us Says London Mayor". www.aljazeera.com. November 19, 2003.

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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• We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

  Clay Aiken

  Law, Numbers, People

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues.

  William Shakespeare

  Spirit, Fine, Touched

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, and All's Well that Ends Well”, p.29, Bantam Classics

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• There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.

  Mark Twain

  Sunday, America, Church

  Mark Twain (2015). “A Tramp Abroad: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.155, 谷月社

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• Society is celebrity-based and we are determined to use [celebrities'] voices to make sure no one forgets there are issues over the use of animals. Celebrities can be great for our cause and can really make people sit up and think for the first time about animal abuse.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Thinking, Animal, Voice

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• Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.

  Alex Garland

  Real, Book, Thinking

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• It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

  Hark-Joon Lee

  Stars, Reality, Rights

  "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.

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