Prominent Quotes - Page 5

• My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.

  Zach Braff

  Mother, Dad, Medicine

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

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• Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

  Dave Barry

  Fighting, Paris, People

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Taste, Prosperity, Democratic

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.30

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• Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

  Tacitus

  Beautiful, Style, Veins

  "The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus: And the Dialogue on Oratory".

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• I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive. Yes, I think that those issues are very interesting to play in a character, and they're prominent issues in life, and I think people can relate to them.

  Channing Tatum

  Regret, Character, Thinking

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• It's been so long since a talented writer last occupied the White House; no wonder, then, that American writers have been among the most prominent of all the demographic groups claiming a piece of Barack Obama for themselves.

  Jonathan Raban

  White, Long, House

  Jonathan Raban (2017). “Driving Home: An American Scrapbook”, p.462, Pan Macmillan

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• Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.

  Horace Mann

  Men, Characteristics, Circumstances

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• One interesting feature of criticism is seen in the ease with which it discovers what Addison called the specific quality of an author. In Livy, it will be the manner of telling the story; in Sallust, personal identification with the character; in Tacitus, the analysis of the deed into its motive. If the same test be applied to painters, it will find the prominent faculty of Correggio to be manifested in harmony of effect; of Poussin, in the sentiment of his landscapes; and of Raffaelle, in the general comprehension of his subject.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Character, Interesting, Quality

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• Common sense is so just an understanding that it rises almost to a virtue; in truth, it involves virtues and their participation in judgment. For sound sense implies all powers uniting; none too prominent, so as to tyrannize; none too small, so as to be overborne.

  James Vila Blake

  Common Sense, Understanding, Sound

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• How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

  Bill Nye

  Our Society, Resistance, Inquiry

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.17, St. Martin's Press

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• The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

  Albert Speer

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and thorough reform than any others ever attempted. They teach that Christ's kingdom is not of this world; that the church is not a national, political, or provincial establishment; but a congregation of holy men, separated from the world by the receiving of the Holy Spirit.

  John Quincy Adams

  Men, Political, Church

  John Quincy Adams (1876). “Babtists, the Only Thorough Religious Reformers”, p.21

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• Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Party, Winning

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• During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton.

  Douglas Wilder

  Leader, African American, President

  Wilder: Obama needs to fire DNC "Chairman Kaine, W.H. advisers" by L. Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 9, 2010.

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• Hon Editor Cale Fluhart was a power politically fer years, but he never got prominent enough t' have his speeches garbled.

  Kin Hubbard

  Government, Years, Editors

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• When the last history of high-frequency trading is written, Hunsader, like Joe Saluzzi and Sal Arnuk of Themis Trading, deserves a prominent place in it.

  Michael Lewis

  Lasts, Trading, Written

  "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt". Book by Lewis Michael, March 31, 2014.

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• In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

  Louis Susman

  Sports, League, And Off

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• This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Country, America

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.188, Univ of California Press

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• Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

  Charles Darwin

  Women, Believe, Character

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317, 1871.

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• We have to move the meter in sports in Africa, especially basketball. With the growth of the NBA globally, we have to figure out more ways to develop facilities, coaching, leagues, and youth development in Africa. The talent is incredible. Especially physically. How do we get the youth to start playing at an early age just like in soccer? The future is bright. We now have an NBA office in Africa, we have legends and Hall of Famers, we have African assistant coaches, front office members, and some prominent African players over the last 10 years. So we must plan well for the next 10.

  Masai Ujiri

  Basketball, Soccer, Sports

  "Is African Soccer the NBA’s New Breeding Ground?" by Ange Kagame, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2015.

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• Prominent and influential editors, accustomed to deal with politicians, men of an infinitely lower grade, say, in their ignorance,that he acted "on the principle of revenge." They do not know the man. They must enlarge themselves to conceive of him.... They have got to conceive of a man of faith and of religious principle, and not a politician or an Indian; of a man who did not wait till he was personally interfered with or thwarted in some harmless business before he gave his life to the cause of the oppressed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, Revenge, Ignorance

  Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.47, David M Gross

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• A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Native American, Men, White Man

  Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• I think it will be very challenging for someone who has not been in prominent public life in the age of Twitter to go out on the campaign trail.

  Daniel Pfeiffer

  Life, Thinking, Challenges

  "Which 'Wire' character reminds Obama adviser of Jeb Bush?" by Ashley Killough, www.cnn.com. December 30, 2014.

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• Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Light, White, People

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• I don't take so-called "vacations" often. In fact vacations are more stressful than the lives my wife and I worked hard to set up for ourselves in New York. It seems like being on vacation is like normal living, which is not very satisfying. It means we're figuring out what to make for lunch today, and that seems like such an absurd way to live. The issue of dealing with that doesn't seem to be so prominent back home. It sounds so silly and ridiculous, but it's really the way it is. We love what we do, so I prefer being in the studio; that's really living for me.

  Ryan McGinness

  New York, Silly, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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