Referring Quotes - Page 10

• I don’t believe in categories of any kind, and when you speak of problems between blacks and whites in the U.S.A. you are referring to categories again.

  Duke Ellington

  Believe, Kind, Problem

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to.

  Angela Davis

  Democracy, Wonder

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• By referring to previous struggles and using them as reasons for not getting on with your life today, you're assigning responsibility to the past for why you can't be successful or happy in the present.

  Wayne Dyer

  Struggle, Responsibility, Successful

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 10, 2015

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• [The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation.
  [Referring to the diverse holdings of the library, including motion pictures, photographs, recordings, posters and other historic objects which collectively far outnumber the books]

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Book, Science, Library

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• When I said there was only one Judy Dench, I was, of course, referring to myself.

  Carl Barat

  Nightlife, Said, Courses

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• My boat is nearing the calm harbour from which it is never more to be driven out. Glory, glory unto Mother! (Referring to the Divine Mother of the Universe.) I have no wish, no ambition now. Blessed be Mother! I am the servant of Ramakrishna. I am merely a machine. I know nothing else. Nor do I want to know.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mother, Blessed, Ambition

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• Homemade' sounds much better when not referring to tattoos.

  Dov Davidoff

  Tattoo, Sound, Homemade

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• Music, not being made up of objects nor referring to objects, is intangible and ineffable; it can only be as it were inhaled by the spirit: the rest is silence.

  Jacques Barzun

  Silence, Spirit, Ineffable

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• Referring to professor Muller's Berkely Earth Surface Temperature Project, "The Best project's treatment of science and of the public has been shoddy. That so many so-called reporters in the mainstream media should have been so uncritical and accepting of what was clearly misrepresentation is shocking. Once again they have been found to be supporters and advocates for a particular point of view when they should have been critical commentators and journalists. Climate science is important. It deserves better.

  David Robert Whitehouse

  Views, Media, Should Have

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