Missions Quotes - Page 29

• In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Powerful, Video

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• So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Liberty, Foundation

  "Rush: Obama bastardizing Constitution" by David Mark, www.politico.com. February 28, 2009.

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• It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

  Rachel Maddow

  Littles, Stuff, Potatoes

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Tanks

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• I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, and I feel like I've returned to the athlete I once was. I'm integrating all the parts of me - jock, musician, writer, poet, philosopher - and becoming stronger as a result.

  Alanis Morissette

  Athlete, Stronger, Jocks

  "Alanis Morissette's new outlook on health". www.cnn.com. November 13, 2009.

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• I don't have time for the news clippings. I got my own mission.

  Nas

  News, My Own

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

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• Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Mistake, Mean

  "Obama Libya Speech Strongly Defends Intervention" by Ben Feller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2011.

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  Barack Obama

  Goal, Trying, Bombs

  Address to the Nation on the End of Operation Iraqi Freedom, delivered 31 August 2010, Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• When I was growing up and somebody like Robert De Niro had a movie come out, it was a cultural event. Because he had such a confidence and a single mission that was so intimate.

  Sean Penn

  Growing Up, Events, Intimate

  "Sean Penn: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2012.

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• But 'Cuban Linx' was a project that really needed to come, and I really wanted to get it off my chest because I know that the fans were really skeptical about it, like 'is this really gonna be what it's supposed to be?' So once everybody caught it for what it was and everybody was happy, that's mission accomplished for me.

  Raekwon

  Fans, Cuban, Projects

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• I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.

  John C. Reilly

  Names, People, World

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

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• Mission accomplished. The Museum of Modern Art's wide-open, tall-ceilinged, super-reinforced second floor was for all intents and purposes built to accommodate monumental installations and gigantic sculptures, should the need arise. It has arisen.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Needs

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• A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Hope And Faith, Feels, Asks

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• I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Differences, Church

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• Often, organizations need bold, grand gestures to galvanize people towards a new mission or refocus their attention.

  Howard Schultz

  Organization, People, Needs

  "Howard Schultz on ‘How Starbucks Fought for Its Life’" by Gloria McDonough-Taub, www.cnbc.com. March 29, 2011.

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• Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Loss, Trying, Realization

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• My life mission is to spread peace to the world.

  Mattie Stepanek

  World, Spread

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• Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

  Matt Taibbi

  Airplane, Two, United States

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• I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

  Twyla Tharp

  Impact, Years, Fit

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• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Jobs, Cancer, Accomplish

  "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.

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• But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

  Jim Wallis

  Believe, Humility, Reflection

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• The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.

  Ellen G. White

  Humble, Simplicity, Example

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• In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to God; to unite the finite with the infinite.

  Ellen G. White

  Men, Infinite, Christ

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.370, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Simple, Perspective, People

  Interview with Charlie Rose, techcrunch.com. November 7, 2011.

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