Sometimes Quotes - Page 24

• When people say "the people" or "the public" as though it's the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Finals, Morality

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.

  Naomi Wolf

  Crazy, Want, Biology

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• 80 percent of the export of armament in the world comes from the G8 countries. [The] United States alone exports about 50 percent of the world's armament, [for] which, of course, there has to be buyers, and the buyers are very terribly keen, very often military dictator[s] or sometimes not military dictator[s] but for military purposes. But the sellers are also promoting this trade. And two thirds of the arm exports go to developing countries. I'm in favor of putting a control on it, a ban on it.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Two

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Most people in this country, while they might not be happy about things, also are woefully ignorant about many things. Sometimes people can learn, but other times they have to be confronted.

  Michael Yates

  Country, People, Ignorant

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

  Michael Welch

  Actors, Recognition, Kind

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Peace, Inc. is sometimes as worrying as War, Inc. It's a way of managing public anger. We're all being managed, and we don't even know it.

  Arundhati Roy

  War, Worry, Way

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

  G-Eazy

  Littles, Privacy, Deals

  Source: www.axs.com

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• Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Animal, Thinking

  Source: www.kpbs.org

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• I find that people today tend to use them interchangeably. I use African-American, because I teach African Studies as well as African-American Studies, so it's easy, neat and convenient. But sometimes, when you're in a barber shop, somebody'll say, "Did you see what that Negro did?" A lot of people slip in and out of different terms effortlessly, and I don't think the thought police should be on patrol.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, People, African American

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Ideas, Rights, Justice

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features of what is sometimes called universal grammar: general properties of language that reflect a kind of biological necessity rather than logical necessity; that is, properties of language that are not logically necessary for such a system but which are essential invariant properties of human language and are known without learning. We know these properties but we don't learn them. We simply use our knowledge of these properties as the basis for learning.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Important, Essentials

  Source: chomsky.info

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• The idea that Hezbollah is acting as an agent of Iran is very dubious. It's not accepted by specialists on Iran or specialists on Hezbollah. But it's the party line. Or sometimes you can put in Syria, i.e. "Syrian-supported Hezbollah," but since Syria is of less interest now you have to emphasize Iranian support.

  Noam Chomsky

  Party, Iran, Ideas

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Firsts, Kind, Living My Life

  Source: thesource.com

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• Sometimes you're overthinking, you convince yourself to get out of it and you're like, "Ah I shoulda did that!" You can't live life with regrets. Sometimes you just gotta indulge. But in the same breath, you gotta have restraint and self-control too.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Regret, Live Life, Self

  Source: thesource.com

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• Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Littles, Drummer

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I know a lot of actors don't like to watch themselves and sometimes I don't, but generally I do because I like to just see if there's anything that I can change in the future or make better or anything like that.

  Michael Welch

  Watches, Actors, Knows

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• When I read to children, I try to become the characters. It's great if you can make a separate voice for each character. Sometimes you can lower your voice with excitement or get more intimate about it: you can lean forward and engage the children as a narrator or as a reader. It's particularly important that you find the voice that you want to use for each character, because then children can imagine that person as you're reading aloud. And of course, the illustrations help enormously.

  Julie Andrews

  Children, Reading, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Gore Vidal said "Nixon is us, we are Nixon." I think we have to acknowledge that combination of idealism and sleaze; we want to be better than we are, and we sometimes don't face up to the real questions.

  Oliver Stone

  Real, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

  Michael Bay

  Shooting, More Time, Great Things

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• I do sometimes miss doing that lighter, more humorous work, and I find there's a heavier responsibility that goes along with a literary reputation. You have to start knowing what you're talking about and you have to go have public conversations with writers. That's been pretty intense; I have to really stay on top of things in a way I didn't before.

  Alison Bechdel

  Humorous, Responsibility, Talking

  Source: progressive.org

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• I think sometimes feeling that you've been marginalized opens you up to the realization that, in their own lives, almost everyone experiences marginalization, a kind of foreigner sense.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Thinking, Feelings, Realization

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

  Colin Powell

  Mind

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I always made sure that I kept the dignity, or tried to keep the dignity that they showed, by standing there and singing and not doing too much else, because I didn't know what else to do. But you know, sometimes you can get carried away and I don't know, lose your composure or something.

  Johnny Mathis

  Singing, Too Much, Dignity

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Sometimes you wish you could keep quiet. It's the kind of thing you heard the prophet Jeremiah complain of where he says, "You know God, I didn't want to be a prophet and you made me speak words of condemnation against a people I love deeply. Your word is like a fire burning in my breast."

  Desmond Tutu

  Deep Love, Fire, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• Some think we each have a guardian angel while others think we don't have an assigned guardian angel, while yet others think God at times - but not always and not by assignment to each of us - sends an angel on a mission of guarding. The Bible's evidence that each of us has a specific, assigned guardian angel is not as solid as some think, so I'm with those who think sometimes God sends guardian angels but that we don't have a specific guardian angel.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Thinking, Guarding

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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