Serving Quotes - Page 25

• We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Turkeys, Two

  "Turkey Targets Northern Iraq Again". www.aljazeera.com. April 22, 2008.

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• All my serving utensils are measured. It's not obvious, because they're really beautiful, but I have the option of tracking what I'm eating. That helps me be smart about it.

  Ali Vincent

  Beautiful, Smart, Utensils

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• I think those who choose to find joy in serving others, those who choose to find their voice, to pursue their vocation and to act on their vision oftentimes have to sacrifice much.It's almost like a crucifixion in terms of the cross you have to bear.

  Cornel West

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It is for women to come forward and choose the path of sacrifice for serving the nation.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Sacrifice, Path, Nations

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• Try not to be too angry or disappointed with your fellow Americans. Most of them don't care about politics as much as the majority of my readers, and the education they have received about it from the government's public school system is nothing more than a septic tank full of warmed-over self-serving statist lies and leftist propaganda.

  L. Neil Smith

  Lying, School, Government

  "Only Nixon". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. November 09, 2008.

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• Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special. These self-serving protective shields allow us to believe that each of us is above average on any test of self-integrity. Too often we look to the stars through the thick lens of personal invulnerability when we should also look down to the slippery slope beneath our feet.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Stars, Integrity, Believe

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• Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?

  Dorothy Norman

  Dream, Artist, Self

  Dorothy Norman (1969). “The Hero: Myth, Image, Symbol”, Anchor Books

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• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Lonely, Art

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• It is much easier to organize control over one industry serving many markets than over one market served by the products of several industries.

  Joan Robinson

  Easier, Organize, Products

  Joan Robinson (2014). “Contributions to Modern Economics”, p.167, Academic Press

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• Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

  Eiji Yoshikawa

  Self, Law, People

  Eiji Yoshikawa (2000). “Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan”, p.359, Kodansha International

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• The reason the lawyers lead the line to the guillotine or the firing squad is that, while law is supposed to be a device to serve society, a civilized way of helping the wheels go round without too much friction, it is pretty hard to find a group less concerned with serving society and more concerned with serving themselves than the lawyers.

  Fred Rodell

  Law, Squad, Lines

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• The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Hands, Giving

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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• Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.

  Michel Chossudovsky

  Self, Causes, Analysis

  "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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• Only if we grant power to something can it have power over us. It becomes a serving and sustaining potency when we again are able to place it into the realm where it belongs, instead of submitting to it.

  Jean Gebser

  Able, Potency, Realms

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me.

  Erich Fromm

  Respect, Unique, Individuality

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.26, A&C Black

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• I was reared in a pub - as a young fellow, serving in the pub I learnt far more there about human nature than I learnt in any university or school. I think it gave me a great insight into people.

  Brian Cowen

  School, Thinking, People

  "Hot Press" Interview, hotpress.com, May 23, 2007.

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• For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Country, Strong, Independent

  "Shake Hands with the Devil". Book by Roméo Dallaire, 2003.

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• President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes - eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said 'Thanks Obama' but actually meant it.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Eight, Drug, President

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• May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.

  James E. Faust

  Offending, Worry, Devil

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• I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

  Leah Chase

  People, Cooking, Sandwiches

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• The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Girl, Women, Boys

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• Men and women serving in the military deserve better than what they're giving - what we're giving them. They don't know what they're going to be doing tomorrow.

  John McCain

  Military, Men, Giving

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• You have a certain objectivity, as a member of the audience, and you can come away maybe being provoked into a certain discourse or a certain arena of questioning, regarding how you would deal with things that your character has to deal with. Whereas when you're doing a film, once you start asking, "What would I do?," you're getting the distance greater between yourself and the character, or you're bringing the character to you, which I think is self-serving, in the wrong way. The idea is to bring yourself to the character.

  Colin Farrell

  Distance, Character, Thinking

  "Colin Farrell Talks DEAD MAN DOWN, Working with Noomi Rapace, SAVING MR. BANKS, WINTER’S TALE, EPIC, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 6, 2013.

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• With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

  Ray Liotta

  Interesting, Challenges, Scripts

  "Q&A: Ray Liotta on Killing Them Softly, Goodfellas". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. November 28, 2012.

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• So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War.

  Ann Coulter

  Sex, War, Vietnam

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