Support Quotes - Page 25

• I'm more of a hands-on person. I like working with young people from the standpoint of providing support for the grassroots programs. State, national and Olympic champions begin at a grassroots level.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Hands, People, Champion

  "Five minutes with Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Interview With Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. May 2, 2012.

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• The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

  Franz Kafka

  Literature, Spirit, Cease

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• I unabashedly, unashamedly, unequivocally support the explosion of entrepreneurs in the capitalist system.

  Jack Kemp

  Entrepreneur, Explosions, Capitalist

  "Is Jack Kemp Mr. Right?" By Maureen Dowd, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 1987.

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• My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.

  Anna Kendrick

  Stars, Twilight, Goal

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• Among doctors in general, I think more than half support what I'm doing.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Thinking, Doctors, Half

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• Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Men, Giving, United States

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• When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

  Gayle King

  Office, Actors, Want

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• About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up.

  Adam Kinzinger

  Help And Support, People, Old Friends

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• If we allow public funds to be used to support our relatively benign, morally grounded schools, we will have to allow those public funds to be used for any type of private school.

  Jonathan Kozol

  School, Type, Benign

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• It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.

  Barbara Kruger

  Class, People, Hard

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• My parents couldn't give me a whole lot of financial support, but they gave me good genes. My dad is a handsome son-of-a-gun, and my mom is beautiful. And I've definitely been the lucky recipient. So, thank you, Mom and Dad.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Beautiful, Mom, Dad

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• The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

  Talib Kweli

  People, Way, Down The Road

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• I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

  Anne Lamott

  Heart, Successful, Church

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• Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in what's going to be some very trying times.

  Joe Lando

  Appreciate, Trying, World

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• I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.

  Queen Latifah

  Keys, Organization, Mourning

  "Queen Latifah 'Joyful Noise' Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 1, 2012.

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• It would be great if firefighters across the country had the guarantee that they would be making enough money to support their family right from the get-go, but that's not the case.

  Denis Leary

  Country, Guarantees That, Firefighter

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• We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

  Annie Lennox

  Fashion, Powerful, Mean

  "Cosmo meets... Annie Lennox". Interview With Fiona Cowood, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2012.

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• Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves.

  Annie Lennox

  Long, People, Needs

  "Question time: Annie Lennox". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2009.

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• The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up.

  Jay Leno

  Iraq, Today, Administration

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• Yesterday Senator John Kerry changed his mind and now supports the ban on gay marriages. I'm telling you this guy has more positions than Paris Hilton.

  David Letterman

  Change, Gay, Yesterday

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• I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.

  Carl Lewis

  Athlete, Two, Focus

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• Ladies and gentlemen, even my own staff challenges me. When I issue edicts, commands, orders, ideas, you would think that there would be overwhelming blanket acquiescence, approval, and support.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Order, Ideas

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• Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Obamacare, People, Agendas

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• The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

  Walter Lippmann

  Class, Diversity, Mind

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.

  Christian Louboutin

  Engineering, Balance, Weight

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