Sponsors Quotes - Page 5

• Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.

  Jon Porter

  Anniversary, Years, Understanding

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• My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Dream, Kids, Goal

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• It's a poor bureaucrat who can't stall a good idea until even its sponsor is relieved to see it dead and officially buried.

  Robert Townsend

  Ideas, Poor, Buried

  Robert Townsend (1988). “Further up the organization”, HarperCollins

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• Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

  Craig Kelly

  Riding, Has Beens

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• It is important to us to understand and discuss a "vision" with both leagues and then sponsor the league that best matches our views and direction on growing the sport. To do that, there must be a tie back to our grass roots efforts. In short, our marketing plan for new players has to ultimately point to a league and its players.

  John Robinson

  Sports, Player, Views

  Source: propaintball.com

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• Iran is the greatest threat to stability in the Middle East. Iran remains the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism, continues its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and has directly threatened the existence of Israel and the United States.

  James Inhofe

  Israel, Iran, Effort

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• When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Baseball, Team, Kids

  "Jerry Bruckheimer Predicts U.S. Film Will No Longer Dominate Internationally". "The Hollywood Masters" with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, Nascar Racing, Wish

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• If you go out there and your main purpose is to get a sponsor, then it's not gonna work. Just go out there and have fun. That's how I got sponsored.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fun, Purpose, Ifs

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• To me, what I've always said is that the president [Barack Obama] has set up an awful situation through his deal with Iran, because what his deal with Iran has done is empower them and enrich them. And that's the way ISIS has been created and formed here. ISIS is created and formed because of the abuse that [Bashar] Assad and his Iranian sponsors have rained down on the Sunnis in Syria.

  Chris Christie

  Isis, Iran, Empowering

  "Rush Transcript second debate: CNN Facebook Republican Presidential Debate", December 16, 2015.

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• I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

  Dick Gephardt

  Kings, School, Holiday

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something objective whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as oppressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior of violence to establish their subjugation.

  Paulo Freire

  Would Be, Violence, Oppression

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• His administration apparently means to define itself as a television program instead of a government...I don't know if it can please both its sponsors and its intended audience.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Mean, Government, Television

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• The symphonic orchestras have sponsors, people who give them endowments, and I think it should be the same way with jazz - because this is a national treasure.

  Lee Morgan

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions, even correct opinions - whenever asked - cheapens what novelists and poets do best, which is to sponsor reflectiveness, to pursue complexity. Information will never replace illumination.

  Susan Sontag

  Illumination, Novelists, Literature

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.154, Macmillan

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• I'm in a perfect position. I don't want to be more famous and I can't lose sponsors, so I can say anything I want.

  Doug Stanhope

  Perfect, Say Anything, Want

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• We need to talk more openly about mentorships and sponsorships. Women don't get the mentoring, and particularly the sponsors, they need to succeed as much as men.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Men, Needs, Succeed

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• There is a great danger to the world, not only to my country [Israel] but to the United States, to the Middle East, to peace, to all of humanity, from the prospect that such regimes that brutalize its own people, that sponsors terrorism more than any other regime in the world - that this regime acquires atomic bombs is very, very dangerous.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Country, Israel, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

  Matt Prior

  Cash, Want, Imagine

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• In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

  Kalle Lasn

  Government, Speaks Out, Unions

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• Finding a sponsor is the toughest part of racing, tougher than driving.

  Shawna Robinson

  Racing, Driving, Findings

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• There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.

  Jonathan Horton

  Sports, Blessed, Successful

  Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians.

  Alberto Gonzales

  War, Order, Atrocities

  "Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban". Memorandum for the President, August 25, 2010.

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• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Two, Radio, Our Society

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Government sponsors untold waste, criminality and inequality in every sphere of life it touches, giving little or nothing in return.

  Doug Casey

  Government, Giving, Littles

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