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• We're too passive. We're feeding on too much rubbish and I think we should strive to just shrug away that comfort zone and be able to get the most of each one of us, which means restructuring the way we deal with time and the priorities we have in life, so being what we want to be I think should be something that we should keep in mind.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Mean, Thinking, Priorities

  "Big Think Interview With Ingrid Betancourt". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.

  Dov Davidoff

  Girl, White, Dating

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 19, 2011

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• Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant.

  Aldous Huxley

  Practice, Tyrants, Majority

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.84, Transaction Publishers

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• I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Choices, Determined

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1952.

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• There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

  Chris Hedges

  Giving Up, Want, Corporations

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• Using the passive voice is always very helpful. Mind you, a lot of that propaganda English emanates from here. The British establishment has always used the passive voice. It's been a weapon of discourse so those who committed terrible acts in the old empire could not be identified.

  John Pilger

  Passive Voice, Mind, Weapons

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.

  Junot Diaz

  Thinking, One Day, Looks

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• I'm not going to look back. 'Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.' I don't have anything specific in mind. I want to do what comes my way. No plans, no idea, I believe in things happening organically. Right now the plan is to wrap things up - we've got one more Abbie Hoffman Fest to put together - whatever happens after that is unknown. I'm not going to push anything beyond passive behavior.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Believe, Ideas, Mind

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think that is so interesting. It is le Carré. There must be so much of him when he was younger. He's an interesting character. I don't want to say the word "passive" because there is something very active about the way he is passive, if that makes any sense: the nature of his watching and his listening is active. It is always so alive because he is, essentially, a spy.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Tom Hiddleston talks John le Carré's The Night Manager". Interview with Ian Nathan, www.empireonline.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat.

  Killer Mike

  Grandmother, Rights, Political

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators, are active; not passive observers.

  James C Humes

  Inspiring, Leadership, Secret

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• When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Dream, Littles, Ballerina

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I suppose musicians have the kind of arrogant attitude that they can actually offer the world something, because through their passive power, they're able to be the strongest arms that they can be, incredibly strong. That's what keeps us going.

  Lisa Gerrard

  Strong, Attitude, Able

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Every candidate has passive support. It's just people that are gonna vote for him no matter what.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Support, Matter

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• All philosophers make the common mistake of taking contemporary man as their starting point and of trying, through an analysis of him, to[21] reach a conclusion. "Man" involuntarily presents himself to them as an aeterna veritas as a passive element in every hurly-burly, as a fixed standard of things. Yet everything uttered by the philosopher on the subject of man is, in the last resort, nothing more than a piece of testimony concerning man during a very limited period of time.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mistake, Men, Trying

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• As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

  Amma Asante

  People, Left Out

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.

  Katrina Onstad

  Sports, Weekend, Volunteer

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• So many people are passive participants in their very short time of having a consciousness, and those who aren't inspire me. Like Malala Yousafzai or a ninety-two-year-old yoga instructor.

  Dylan Gelulla

  Yoga, People, Inspire

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• My friend jewelry designer Courtney Crangi has been obsessed with Star Wars all her life and has seen the movies 150 times. When we first started talking about it, I was amazed that her knowledge made mine - which was even then pretty impressive - seem pathetic. And I think there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the leader of the rebellion is Princess Leia. American theatergoers had never seen a princess like that. She's not a delicate flower, she's not passive, she's often the only one who has a clue.

  Cass Sunstein

  Couple, War, Flower

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• There's no passive success on radio. Well, in radio, one of the ways in which you engage people and make them active listeners and have them glued so that they don't want to do anything else, you have to find ways to incorporate this mystery called the theater of the mind. And it's the one ingredient that radio has that television does not that if used properly, if perfected and learned and executed properly, it can have a much greater impact than TV because it can create a much more intimate, direct connection with the audience.

  Rush Limbaugh

  People, Mind, Mystery

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You don't fully understand the meaning of a work until the audience responds to it. Because the audience completes the circle, and adds a whole other shade of meaning. Whenever you view something, and this is why great works of art survive decades and centuries, is because there's a door within the work that allows the audience to walk through and complete the meaning of the work. An audience isn't passive, nor are they unintelligent.

  Cate Blanchett

  Art, Great Work, Audience

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was making Marvel Studios movies, Amy Pascal was running Sony. Occasionally, she would share drafts with certain people at the studio and I would read them, and see cuts of the movies. But what I've learned with is that I'm no help whatsoever giving passive comments on other people's projects.

  Kevin Feige

  Running, Cutting, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• If you read about a tree, and there is a description, you have to grow that tree in your mind. So that's an active way of looking at media, whereas a movie or a TV will be passive, because they are showing you the tree. In the same way, when somebody sings a song for you, those words get so much in the foreground, that even if you take a minor key of music and then put like happy lyrics to it and people think it's a happy song. So, in a song, you are told what to feel, whereas, in an instrumental music, you get as much out of it as you are willing to put into it.

  Ottmar Liebert

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: to.pbs.org

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• Among my greatest disappointments about the mutual fund industry - in addition to excessive costs and excessive focus on the short-term - is that fund managers have been passive participants in corporate governance.

  John C. Bogle

  Disappointment, Focus, Mutual Fund

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I do think it's smart to see a marriage as "a garden and a gardener who constantly swap roles." You really have to switch from one to another. Being the gardener would be the more active role in the situation. Being a garden would be more passive. You've got to be both the one who gets help and the one that's helping. That's the circulation in a couple. You should switch from one position to another. I think it's good to be always aware that love can fade. There's something I really like about that sentence. It's as if love should be seen as work...because it is.

  Carla Bruni

  Couple, Smart, Garden

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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