Simple Quotes - Page 40

• We need a wholesale reevaluation of what health feels like. Most Americans don't even know what that is anymore. I want to tell people, "Listen, there are places where you can focus on your health, and it can actually be simple."

  Mehmet Oz

  People, Focus, Needs

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• We think that if we get tested, that means you have to have HIV. Or we think that just by knowing someone with HIV, we're going to get HIV or because he's gay or she's a lesbian or whatever. This false information has been put out there and it's created this stigma that stops us from going to find out if we're infected. The truth is it doesn't matter who you are, if you're having sex, you need to be getting tested, plain and simple.

  Jay Ellis

  Sex, Mean, Gay

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I also think it's important for us to hold our elected officials accountable and part of how you do that is simple, call them and let them know when you agree or disagree with what their decisions are and suggest how they should come out on certain legislation that important to you.

  Aldis Hodge

  Thinking, Decision, Important

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• I think if more people would understand how simple and what really feminism is, I would imagine that most men I know are feminists without verbalising or saying so.

  Hozier

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• There are all sorts of institutions in the economic world which depart from the simple price/market model which I worked on in an earlier incarnation and which has been sort of the mainstream of economic theories since Adam Smith and David Ricardo. There are all sorts of contractual relations between firms and individuals which do not conform to the simple price theory - profit-sharing schemes and so forth - and the explanation for these suddenly became clear. We now understand why these emerged and that they are based on differences in information in the economy.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Differences, World, Profit Sharing

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• When you look at the Bible, and I read the Bible very seriously, for a lot of my life, I believed the Bible ordained the death penalty, and the Bible seemed to be very clear about that. But the more I look, the more troubled I became because it's not that simple. In the Bible, there's some 30 death-worth crimes, like working on the Sabbath, or disrespecting your parents. Are we that fundamental that we should bring back that death penalty?

  Shane Claiborne

  Parent, Looks, Fundamentals

  Source: medium.com

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• There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember.

  George Harrison

  Player, Guitar, Calling

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• The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

  Van Jones

  Messages, Turns

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.

  George Saunders

  Love Is, Vices, Helping

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm particularly attuned to lyrics, and very often a bad set of lyrics will ruin a song for me, while my friends will be just grooving on the music. I don't mean that it has to be about anything in particular, but there has to be some art applied to it, simple or otherwise.

  Bruce Cockburn

  Song, Art, Mean

  Source: progressive.org

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• If you work hard, you have a better chance of producing something that you're proud of. If you don't, you won't. It's really simple.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hard Work, Proud, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• I fired Mike Flynn because of what he said to Mike Pence, very simple. Mike was doing his job, calling countries and his counterparts, so it certainly would have been ok with me if he did it.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Jobs, Calling

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The primary source of waste in government is that legislators are often under heavy pressure to vote for projects that will benefit their campaign contributors, even when those projects fail a simple cost-benefit test. But with the Supreme Court showing little interest in permitting tighter rules on campaign contributions in recent years, there is little reason to be optimistic that we'll start curbing this kind of waste any time soon.

  Robert H. Frank

  Optimistic, Government, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

  Robert H. Frank

  Couple, Party, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• In my journey to becoming an artist who writes, I tend to start my idea process with simple, concrete messages that relate to what kids may be experiencing as they navigate through childhood and adolescence putting together building blocks of the foundations on which they will become adults.

  Floyd Cooper

  Block, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• Common sense, to me, is simple. And I've never understood why there aren't a lot of people trying to figure out how the United States became this special place and then try to replicate it around the world, because that's the solution to the human condition. The solution to poverty, the solution to misery, the solution to backwards living is the United States of America. Why not learn how that happened, learn why and how we happened. What is it that made it special?

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Common Sense, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The remarks that [Steven] Lerner gave at Pace University: "'Unions are almost dead. We cannot survive doing what we do but the simple fact of the matter is community organizations are almost dead also. And if you think about what we need to do it may give us some direction which is essentially what the folks that are in charge - the big banks and everything - what they want is stability.'" So we have "'to destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement'".

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Organization, Giving

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Do less of what you're terrible at and more of what you're good at. I don't know if that sounds too simple, but it's been working for me.

  Bob Goff

  Sound, Terrible, Knows

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• If we have to continue to live under sequestration, it will have a maximum impact on our ability to fulfill the president's strategic guidance. We can't do it all. It's as simple as that, with the limitations of the budget as severe as they are. These deep, abrupt cuts have forced us to make decisions that are not in the interest of America.

  Chuck Hagel

  Cutting, Impact, America

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I always think about the simplest things in a relationship that have frustrated me. It always sort of comes down to communication. Even something as simple as probably the worst thing that could happen is, 'Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno. Where do you want to go to dinner?' 'I dunno.' That might be the worst thing in the world.

  Mandy Moore

  Communication, Thinking, Frustrated

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• Every religion you are, every ethnicity you are, every sex you are, if you're gay or straight. You should be considered as equal as anybody else. That's super-simple, but apparently we have to still march for it.

  Bianca Balti

  Sex, Gay, Ethnicity

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• How did it come to be that you think men and women are the same? Well, there's a simple answer to the question: Feminism.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Men, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The thing that bothers me the most about the media is simple accuracy.

  Bobby Knight

  Media, Accuracy, Bother

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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• If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

  David Eagleman

  Smart, Brain, Enough

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.233, Vintage

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