Members Quotes - Page 10

• I've spoken in front of members of the U.S. Congress about a new dream of living in communities where everybody is welcome and everyone can live and go to school and work without facing the fear of bullies.

  Lauren Potter

  Dream, School, Community

  "On World Down Syndrome Day, Speaking Out on How Bullying Hurts and Kills Dreams" by Lauren Potter, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  William C. Brown

  Country, Religious, Media

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• We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Children, Taken, Independent

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• To properly reflect the changes of the world and of the UN, with its growing number of member states, we would like to see an enlargement of the SC that gives room for new members, not least developing countries.

  Anna Lindh

  Country, Numbers, Giving

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• A U.S. Senator should have the same right as a member of the Knesset...to disagree with any government when its actions may not be in the United States' interest.

  Charles H. Percy

  Government, Should Have, United States

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

  Mindy Kaling

  Sex, Smart, Fighting

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• I am committed to working with Speaker Hastert and the other members of the Illinois congressional delegation to do all that I can to ensure that Illinois' funding needs are adequately met.

  Bill Lipinski

  Illinois, Needs, Mets

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• I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Thinking, World, Worried

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

  Brian Lamb

  Party, People, Political

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• I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

  Derek Luke

  School, College, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

  Friedrich List

  May, Welfare, Individual

  Friedrich List, Erwin von Beckerath, Karl Goeser, Friedrich Lenz, Edgar Salin (1931). “Schriften, Reden, Briefe: Grundlinien einer politischen Ökonomie”

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• When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

  Trevor Nunn

  Kids, Years, Actors

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• I took time off from school and traveled to Italy when I was 19, living with my extended family members. I must have slept in 30 different houses those months, taken in by people who'd never even met me.

  Christina Perri

  Taken, School, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.

  Charles W. Pickering

  America, People, House

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• I'm very involved in FIU. I'm class of '96 and my wife is class of '97. I'm a member of the foundation board. We talk about where the university is strategically and the evolution of programs for the near and distant future.

  Danny Pino

  Class, Wife, Foundation

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• Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

  David Petraeus

  Cutting, Ties, President

  Interview with Jennifer Griffin, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2010.

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• I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

  Lana Parrilla

  Children, Thinking, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

  Michael Polanyi

  Body, Juniors, Scientist

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• Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.

  Michael Polanyi

  Men, Body, Doe

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• The first thing to make clear is that scientists, freely making their own choice of problems and pursuing them in the light of their own personal judgment, are in fact co-operating as members of a closely knit organization.

  Michael Polanyi

  Light, Organization, Choices

  Michael Polanyi (1962). “The Republic of Science, Its Political and Economic Theory: A Lecture Delivered at Roosevelt University, January 11, 1962”

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• Non-citizen terrorist suspects are not members of the American national community, and they have no proper claim on the rights Americans accord one another.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Community, Citizens

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.192, Random House

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• Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

  Todd Phillips

  Needs, Audience, Completion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As a former member of President Obama's economic team, I have a soft spot for the fiscal stimulus legislation he signed just a month after his inauguration.

  Christina Romer

  Team, President, Months

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• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  Karl Radek

  Party, Mean, Ideas

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