Sometimes Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. And that's what gives it ultimately urgency too, because unless you do it now, this important thing gets again and again postponed.

  Amartya Sen

  Giving, Important, Disaster

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

  Amartya Sen

  Educational, Expansion, Poverty

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are made up of an entire parliament of pieces and parts and subsystems. Beyond a collection of local expert systems, we are collections of overlapping, ceaselessly reinvented mechanism, a group of competing factions. The conscious mind fabricates stories to explain the sometimes inexplicable dynamics of the subsystem inside brain. It can be disquieting to consider the extent to which all of our actions are driven by hardwired systems doing what they do best while we overlay stories about choices.

  David Eagleman

  Choices, Mind, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.157, Vintage

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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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• The European Union, ok, right, it has a bureaucracy, right. It`s sometimes difficult to deal with but so what? You hire a couple of people like me to work the European Union, and it can be done. It`s pretty good.

  Daniel Fried

  Couple, People, Done

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• 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 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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• There is a kind of nonlinguistic thought going on which we are trying to represent in language, and we know that sometimes we fail.

  Noam Chomsky

  Trying, Language, Kind

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I've occasionally been asked to talk on Israel-Palestine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it elicits hysteria in the community.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Hysteria, Community

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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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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• Sometimes, if you ask people to "go downstairs and get me this or that," they'll say, "It's rainin" or "It might rain," or "There's some bumpy roads on the road," or bla-bla-bla. They give you all those excuses, so when they do something which is easy, you're supposed to say, "Damn, you did that?"

  Miles Davis

  Rain, Damn You, People

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.

  Sophia Loren

  Girl, Men, Needs

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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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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• In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't care to "make-up" his answer, he said exactly the same thing [that we needed to clean up the dirt of the Church]. He was the brave one who helped so many open this door. So, I want to remember him because sometimes we forget about this hidden works that were the foundations for "taking the lid off the pot."

  Pope Francis

  Stupid, Doors, Knowing

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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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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• Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see that as success and it's just not.

  Mary Portas

  Eye, People, Ego

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

  Marine Le Pen

  Immigration, Culture, Contradiction

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Work Out, Able

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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