Substance Quotes - Page 5

• To get some of the substance of why [Michael] Flynn [is Defense Adviser] is so controversial.

  John Heilemann

  Defense, Controversial, Adviser

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• Whites who otherwise were able to tolerate a black president, Obama, because on certain issues he appealed to them on substance, Trump was able to reach down into some of those same people and pull out this racism inside them.

  Allan Nairn

  Issues, Racism, People

  Source: www.democracynow.org

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• Everything I learned and didn't do in New York I would put into place here in the London West Hollywood. It's fascinating, when you look at the critics' reviews, and we had a great one in the New York Observer and all that, and then the New York Times came and it was a devastation; two stars out of four. They said that I played safe because it wasn't fireworks. Then they judged the persona over the substance that was on the plate.

  Gordon Ramsay

  New York, Stars, Two

  Source: www.crushable.com

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• The reality which is pretending be reality right now, impersonating reality, is just a pretty flimsy structure. There is not a lot of substance to it. You can't find people who are actively involved of affected by it. What you see is a completely different world, what you see is the world of the homeless, and so forth.

  Jerry Garcia

  Reality, People, Different

  Source: medium.com

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• Trump is what Obama critics think Obama is: Someone who's focused on symbolism rather than substance.

  Jonathan Chait

  Thinking, Symbolism, Trump

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Suicide, Ideas, Might

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

  Victoria Scott

  Girlfriend, School, College

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• I have a real respect for tobacco as a substance, and it just seems very funny how the Western attitude is, "Wow, people are addicted to this, think of all the money you can make off it."

  Jim Jarmusch

  Attitude, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.jonathanrosenbaum.net

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• My brother, this "religiosity" is not the standard by which true men of God are measured. In all the rituals that Islam has, deeply imbedded in those rituals are principles of truth. And sometimes we get lost in the religiosity; we get lost in the "symbol," but we miss the substance of the truth that is buried in the ritual!

  Louis Farrakhan

  Brother, Men, Missing

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid.

  Clint Eastwood

  Trying, Addresses, Littles

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.

  Cornel West

  Kings, Real, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.

  Mark Colvin

  Years, Degrees, Republican

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The structures of the WTO need to be reformed to increase participation. There must be a greater sense of shared ownership of the substance of the trade negotiation agenda. Decisions about issues to be negotiated, and in which sequence they should be taken, should rest with all WTO members, not only the most powerful.

  Mary Robinson

  Powerful, Taken, Issues

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Therefore, the substance of [Donald] Trump policies never got covered, because it wasn't what interested the media.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Trump, Policy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I mean, the Ace of Spades example that Jonah Goldberg remembered here (and that made me remember it, too), is that Chris Matthews interview with [Barack] Obama, during the run-up to Obamacare. Not one question about it. And when you stop and think, there never is for the Democrat. The media never questions the substance of anything the Democrats do.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The sum and substance of education is the right training that effectually leads the soul of the child at play on to the love of the calling in its adult life.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Children, Play, Soul

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• Barack Obama is an opportunist, mostly supported by the financial institutions. He had no positions on anything. He's very intelligent. If you look at his program, almost no substance. Change, hope, what's that? I mean, he had some policies, but it was almost certain that he would give them up instantly, which he did.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Intelligent, Giving

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

  Jon Gordon

  Struggle, Men, Guy

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• In marriage you got to go through the same struggles as a relationship, that's if the relationship is real, because there's a lot of non-real relationships going on in the world right now. And I think that's just because of the day and age we're in, a lot of these relationships are taking place over text messages, it's not real substance. But when you got a real one, it's already like a marriage.

  J. Cole

  Real, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Psychedelic substances, if they are used in proper ways, are very helpful for mankind.

  Albert Hofmann

  Way, Helpful, Psychedelic

  Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for research with this substance to the health authorities. I hope that LSD will again become available in the normal way, for the medical profession. Then it could play the role it really should, a beneficial role.

  Albert Hofmann

  Play, Drug, Trying

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.

  Albert Hofmann

  Pain, Essence, Drug

  "Stanislav Grof interviews Dr. Albert Hofmann Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California". Interview with Stanislav Grof, www.maps.org. 1984.

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• I don't want the Obama era to be more about symbolism than substance when it comes to black people. I love him, but I love black people even more.

  Tavis Smiley

  I Love Him, Symbolism, People

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• One has to be cautious and respectful of the power of the "substance" guides. I don't advocate imbibing the "little saint children," as Maria Sabina calls the magic mushrooms, or anything else for everyone. I find that certain substances reconnect me to a primal context of purpose that goes beyond identity and ownership. The writing-when I've worked it this way-is the kind of information you take back from dreams. Or it's hypnotic writing rather than getting off on some sort of pleasure trip or intellectual trip.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Children, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The only substance properly so called is the soul.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul

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