Significant Quotes - Page 16

• We need to have a bigger and more significant role for national parliaments. There is not, in my view, a single European demos.

  David Cameron

  Views, Needs, Roles

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• I feel that the term "new age" is used by basically hostile media to diminish and marginalize a conversation that is very significant. It's held in place by journalists who are constantly looking for hooks and sound bites to keep them from having to make the effort of a deeper understanding and a more profound level of communication with the public.

  Marianne Williamson

  Communication, Media, Profound

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• How could someone with a renowned ability to inspire, communicate complex ideas, and connect with voters find himself in this position? The President [Barack Obama], though a dedicated student of history, has seemingly failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations: They've required single-minded determination, and the willingness to battle until the fight was won.

  Arianna Huffington

  Determination, Fighting, Ideas

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• The choices that make a significant difference in our lives are the tough ones. They're not often fun or easy, but they're the ones we have to make, and each is a deliberate step toward better understanding who we really are.

  Alexandra Stoddard

  Fun, Character, Differences

  Alexandra Stoddard, Marc Romano (2013). “Making Choices”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized.

  Kevin Allen

  Responsibility, Years, Careers

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I believe the Democratic Party has got to be firmly on the side of working families, taking on the big money interests, who today, to a very significant degree, control our economic and political life.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Believe, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of reality, and furthermore that we all rely to a significant extent on the idea that models which provide elegant, simple and satisfying explanations are more likely to be true.

  L.A. Paul

  Simple, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Future, Significant Change, Safety

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• Two significant developments in the past several decades have been the collapse of communism as an ideology and the general acceptance, in rhetoric, if not practice, of liberal democracy.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Acceptance, Past, Practice

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• The [Nobel] award [of Bob Dylan] is no affront to literature; it is an insult to pop music. It is a condescending ruffle of pop's hair while handing it a lollipop. An act of beaming condescension whose transparent message is: "This one guy, and just this one guy, he's so good, he transcends his trivial idiom and elevates himself into our significant one."

  David Bennun

  Awards, Hair, Guy

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm probably harder on myself than I need to be, but it's important to me if I'm going to ask an audience for an hour of their time that I don't waste their time. I want to give them something significant to chew on.

  Bryan Fuller

  Giving, Important, Needs

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I will be as careful as I can in making the most significant decisions any president and commander-in-chief can make about sending our men and women into harm's way.

  Hillary Clinton

  Men, Decision, President

  Source: time.com

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• The question is always how you get the number of troops needed. They do not have to be coalition forces. We also have to expand the training program for the Afghan National Army and the national police, in particular. and Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already announced support for a significant increase in the Afghan army.

  David Petraeus

  Army, Numbers, Support

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• Pakistan are very keen to carry out the operations themselves. And there's significant effort on the part of the US and other countries to provide assistance that can enable Pakistan to do just that.

  David Petraeus

  Country, Effort, Pakistan

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• The death of Fidel Castro, of course, is not as significant when you first look at it, because Raul Castro, his brother, has been in power for years. But, in fact, he's been a looming figure even during his illness that I think has made a difference in holding us back in trying to open up more negotiations and move ahead with opening up relations between America and Cuba.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Brother, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Office, Pressure, Suits

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Thinking, Political, World

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

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• Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

  Jennifer Pozner

  Thinking, Reality, Way

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

  Bob Hawke

  Trying, Able, Figures

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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• Values must be demonstrated through behaviors, but they are truly significant when they represent the beliefs of an entire organization.

  Bill Capodagli

  Organization, Belief, Behavior

  "Bill Capodagli on “The Disney Way”: Part 2". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 19, 2016.

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• Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.

  Morgan Parker

  Thinking, Trying, Different

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• I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.

  Peter R. Mansoor

  Thinking, Significant Change, Administration

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.

  Julian Assange

  Government, Qatar, Long

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• The two tendencies are antithetical in significant respects. These are distinctions that should be kept in mind, however one feels that the problems and dilemmas that constantly arise should be resolved.

  Noam Chomsky

  Two, Mind, Problem

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because they claim that [Franklin] Roosevelt was impeded by the Neutrality Act. On the other hand, he bitterly condemned a Mexican businessman for sending several guns to the Republic. If you look back, oil was the one commodity that [Francisco] Franco could not receive from the Germans and the Italians, so that was quite significant.

  Noam Chomsky

  Book, Gun, Government

  Source: thehumanist.com

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