Orientation Quotes - Page 10

• We learn our sexual preferences and orientations.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Preference

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• I will represent all of the people of Ohio, regardless of their background. I don't care if you are a Democrat, a Republican, a Libertarian or a vegetarian, I will be blind to race, religion or any kind of orientation.

  Josh Mandel

  Race, Ohio, People

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• The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Country, Japan, Asia

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• When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for ALL - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

  Christine Pelosi

  Apology, Color, Talking

  "Careful, 'Having It All' Women, Your Privilege Is Showing" by Christine Pelosi, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.

  Cat Deeley

  Dream, Hard Work, Passion

  "Tim Gunn and Cat Deeley on Good Hosts, Bad Reality Shows and Unfair Judges". Interview with Debra Birnbaum, variety.com. August 5, 2014.

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• I think Donald Trump is dividing the American people. He is not good for America. It's not good for our standing in the rest of the world. To divide people based on race, a color, a religion, a sexual orientation, it's just ... it's just wrong.

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Color, America

  "The Long March of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts.

  Eric Andre

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.towleroad.com

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• I am a Muslim. I am a practising Muslim. I don't - i accept proper relationship with a man and woman and the family life. It is not our business to knock at every door and checking people's orientation and casting aspersions or having prejudice against people.

  Anwar Ibrahim

  Men, Doors, People

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see the same way on these [religious] issues. It's the way liberals and conservatives will never see the same way on individuals whereas it’s different orientations and they go too deep down and when we're dealing with questions that can't be definitively answered by science that's where you're sort of... your orientation swells in to fill up the gaps and so we're never always going to agree.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Issues, Different

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 20, 2010.

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• Women - - and men - - need to understand that a woman's transition is often much longer. The caretaker must leave the place of orientation to the needs of others to the place where she focuses on herself.

  Esther Perel

  Men, Transition, Needs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I wanted to create something that was quite edgy and belonged to me. It wasn't about my sexual orientation, because I'm heterosexual. It was saying that appearance is just temporary, and I want to be as strong as a man.

  Annie Lennox

  Strong, Men, Want

  "The Look: Annie Lennox". Interview with Harry Brant, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2014.

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• Just as a man's denominational orientation is the result of upbringing, and only the religious need as such slumbers in his soul, the political opinion of the masses represents nothing but the final result of an incredibly tenacious and thorough manipulation of their mind and soul.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Men, Political Opinions

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feelings of moral superiority while asking nothing in return. With contempt you don't need to right the wrong (as with anger) or flee the scene (as with fear or disgust). And the best of all, contempt is made to share. Stories about the moral failings of others are among the most common kinds of gossip, they are a stable of talk radio, and they offer a ready way for people to show that they share a common moral orientation.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gossip, People, Giving

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.60, Basic Books

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• Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

  Alan Sokal

  Self, Achievement, Political

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• I could never write about the sort of people John Cheever or John Updike or even Margaret Atwood write about. I don't mean I couldn't write as well as they do, which of course I couldn't; they're great writers, and I'm no writer at all. But I couldn't even write badly about normal, neurotic people. I don't know that world from the inside. That's just not my orientation.

  Jim Woodring

  Mean, Writing, People

  Interview with Ross Simonini, staging.believermag.com. 2008.

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• Pressure to produce over the short term - a gun to the head of everyone - encourages excessive risk taking which manifests itself in several ways - fully invested posture at all times, the use of leverage, and a market centric orientation that makes it difficult to stand apart from the crowd and take a long term perspective.

  Seth Klarman

  Gun, Perspective, Long

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• God works to over throw the ungodly, and increasingly the world will come under the dominion of Christians, not by military aggression, but by godly labor, saving, in vestment, and orientation toward the future... This is where history is going. The future belongs to the people of God, who obey His laws

  David Chilton

  Christian, Military, Godly

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• The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Rights, Race, Order

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• If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

  Alfie Kohn

  Relax, Might, Faculty

  Alfie Kohn (1999). “Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes”, p.221, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

  Simone Weil

  Soul, Transformation, Virtue

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.37, Routledge

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• Wall Street can be a dangerous place for investors. You have no choice but to do business there, but you must always be on your guard. The standard behavior of Wall Streeters is to pursue maximization of self-interest; the orientation is usually short term. This must be acknowledged, accepted, and dealt with. If you transact business with Wall Street with these caveats in mind, you can prosper. If you depend on Wall Street to help you, investment success may remain elusive.

  Seth Klarman

  Wall, Investment Success, Self

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• Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm.

  Seth Klarman

  Long, Important, Clients

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• Man's genius has with God's help produced marvelous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly interested in those which directly touch man's spirit and which have opened up new avenues of easy communication of all kinds of news, of ideas and orientations.

  Pope Paul VI

  Mother, Communication, Men

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• In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed ... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Men, Strange, I've Changed

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• They're not trying to prevent Hollywood from making movies. They're asking that the most powerful image-building machinery in the world stop grinding out killer dykes and twisted homo sex fiends as if sexual orientation had anything to do with criminal behavior.

  Roger Ebert

  Sex, Powerful, Trying

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