Strong Quotes - Page 31

• Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.

  Patti Smith

  Media, People, Together

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I don't think we in Ireland have to follow slavishly what other countries have done. Ireland has its own strengths - in family life, in the local community, in the concept of meitheal, a very traditional form of cooperation in rural Ireland. Three or four or five neighbors get together, exchanging labor, farm equipment, and so on. There are strong solidarity overtones. That tradition is being translated today into community self-development.

  Mary Robinson

  Country, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The actual, the forming of ties with a group of people around you where they help you grow as a professional, solve problems, get opportunities, and you help them, is actually the constitutive base of the foundation of a strong, modern career.

  Reid Hoffman

  Opportunity, Careers, Ties

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done.

  Barack Obama

  Done, Preference, Legislation

  "Obama Warns Trump Against Relying On Executive Power". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. December 19, 2016.

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• We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again!

  Donald Trump

  America, Safe, Proud

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Great groups give the lie to the remarkably persistent but incorrect notion that successful organizations are the lengthened shadow of a great woman or man. However, each great group has a strong leader. In fact, great groups and great leaders create each other.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Independent, Feminist, Political

  Iowa State University Interview, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. February 23, 2017.

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• Hopefully what you do as an actor is strong enough and has enough of an impact that people get what you're trying to communicate.

  Christina Ricci

  Impact, People, Trying

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I think being mediocre and in the middle would be the worst. It's more interesting to get strong reactions, and to have the mixture of people who get it and the people who don't get it. And to invite a dialogue.

  Sofia Coppola

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.chud.com

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• History is watching us now. We don't have much time, but history is watching. It's waiting to see if we will rise to the occasion, and if we will show the whole world that America is still free and independent and strong.

  Donald Trump

  Independent, America, Waiting

  Speech by Donald Trump Accepting the Republican Party's 2016 Presidential Nomination, www.thecairoreview.com. July 21, 2016.

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• No one is strong enough  -  given the magnitude of the task, everyone has to step up their game.

  Bill McKibben

  Games, Tasks, Steps

  Source: thinkprogress.org

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• I'm one of the many people who has said that the Hillary Clinton we know in private was effective, strong, courageous, and funny. And the campaigner we saw was less so, more scripted. Many people have made that observation, and it was my observation, too, but I'm grateful for what she did.

  Daniel Fried

  Grateful, People, Saws

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Night, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• So much of what I am doing in my fiction is just trying to get into interesting places in terms of language or form, places that don't bore me. And this happens via hundreds of quick micro-decisions that are done "to taste," so to speak. So the experience is one of groping toward that interesting place - trying to leap away from anything that seems boring, or about which I don't have strong opinions. Essentially trying to avoid that moment where, devoid of any strong feeling, I start conceptualizing.

  George Saunders

  Interesting, Decision, Feelings

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• My point is that the great challenge of an artist is to balance those two things: to be strong enough to have your own personal vision that you will put on the page or the canvas or the screen, no matter what people say, but it requires a radical sensitivity. You have to be completely open to what the world is telling you, to what your audience tells you. And balancing those two things is nearly impossible.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Artist, Two, People

  Interview with Malcolm Gladwell, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 13, 2017.

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• For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like. Women have their own set of skills that are worth exploring and seeing on screen.

  Brie Larson

  Believe, Hero, Skills

  Source: collider.com

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• The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.

  John Pilger

  Military, Party, Wings

  Source: progressive.org

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• What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Religious, Stuff, Tribes

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.

  Philip Kotler

  Carbon Footprint, Air, Water

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don't know where [Osama bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him, to be honest with you. I'm more worried about making sure that our soldiers are well supplied, that the strategy is clear, that the coalition is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Soldier, Honest, Osama Bin Laden

  Source: www.today.com

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• Playing Amanda [in Defiance] was a wonderful opportunity for me. She was strong, dynamic, a complete badass, not defined her relationship with a man. She could hold her own. I really loved her.

  Julie Benz

  Badass, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My favorite jewelry designer is Suzanne Belperron, a great Parisian jeweler who was known for her bold and creative use of stones. I admire the fact that she was a strong successful woman during a time when women did not play a large role in the work force.

  Kara Ross

  Successful, Play, Creative

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks.

  Barack Obama

  Team, Decision, President

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I'm as proud and assertive in my Quebec identity as any Quebecer. I believe it's to Quebec's advantage to be part of the Canadian federation. But I will be extremely strong and forceful in defending Quebec's interests within Canada.

  Philippe Couillard

  Believe, Identity, Proud

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether it's Jimmy Carter or Woodrow Wilson or Harry Truman - that's just great. FDR inscribing Bibles and sending them to the troops. God bless him! But when a Republican president cites Jesus Christ as his favorite philosopher, as George W. Bush did on a famous occasion, then, well, the liberals cry out that [Tomás de] Torquemada is on the loose and warn gravely of the coming Inquisition.

  Paul Kengor

  Jesus, Interesting, Guy

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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