Issues Quotes - Page 4

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

  Emma Bonino

  Macedonia, Relation

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

  Aulis Sallinen

  Doe, Impression, Regard

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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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• Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory is one of the contributions of the intelligentsia to enhancing their own power and the power of those they serve.

  Noam Chomsky

  Simple, Effort, Political

  Noam Chomsky (2004). “Language and Politics”, p.345, AK Press

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

  James Brown

  Happiness, Dance, Adversity

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• Christian Research Institute want to remain relevant with respect to the culture's issues and the reason we want to do that is so that people can use the deviations as spring boards or opportunities to share the truth, light, grace and peace that only Jesus Christ can bring to the human heart.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Christian, Jesus, Spring

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.

  Roy Blunt

  Senior, Jobs, America

  "Obama warns on student loan interest" by Josh Boak, www.politico.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then they are calmed by the obscure location and the arrival of their kind. Keep the address to yourself, let the rabble fund it themselves. Wow, this crappy performance art is really making me feel no so terrible about my various emotional issues.

  Colson Whitehead

  Art, Hipster, Emotional

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• I've got a bit of an independent streak. I'm not afraid of bipartisan compromise on issues that are important to the nation.

  Heather Wilson

  Independent, Important, Compromise

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• I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

  Gillian Flynn

  Thinking, Interesting, Want

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• The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Lying, Hands, Choices

  Hilaire Belloc (2002). “An Essay on the Restoration of Property”, p.20, IHS Press

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• Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Morality

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• For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Rights, Hands

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Race, Prejudice, Victim

  Nelson Mandela (2013). “Long Walk To Freedom”, p.52, Hachette UK

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• Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

  Eric Alterman

  Disappointment, Accomplishment, Argument

  Eric Alterman (2011). “Kabuki Democracy: The System Vs. Barack Obama”, p.1, Nation Books

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• One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Ethics, Ends

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• The bigger issue, was the whole takeover of the food industry by big corporations.

  Jerry Garcia

  Corporations, Bigs, Bigger

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