Supporter Quotes - Page 5

• I want to do things - scuba diving, sky diving, seeing the world. I'm an avid supporter of living life to its fullest and not always waiting for tomorrow.

  Teri Polo

  Live Life, Avid, Sky

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• Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.

  Gwen Ifill

  Optimistic, Views, Ideas

  Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor

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• I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

  Shannen Doherty

  Avid, Fabulous, Conservative

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• I'm looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and to be playing for Arsenal in the Premier League and Champions League. I will give my best to Arsenal and want to make all the supporters happy.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Team, Champions League, Giving

  "Arsenal confirm the signing of Alexis Sánchez from Barcelona" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2014.

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• I will resign as party leader to take full responsibility for troubling the public and party supporters.

  Seiji Maehara

  Party, Responsibility, Leader

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• But Rangers don't need to go there and win, they need to go there and get a point. I think the hardest thing about it is there will be no supporters. Playing in an empty ground will be a problem for the players.

  Graham Roberts

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

  Dan Harris

  Obama Supporters, Black, President

  "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

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• Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts - it's a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.

  John Motson

  Yellow, Fabulous, Kaleidoscope

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• The government has to treat all citizens equally. I am a strong supporter not of a weak version of civil unions, but of a strong version, in which the rights that are conferred at the federal level to persons who are part of the same-sex union are compatible. When it comes to federal rights, the over 1,100 rights that right now are not being given to same-sex couples, I think that's unacceptable.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Sex, Couple

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• No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are, to a great extent, nonsensical

  Thomas Huxley

  Clever, Mistake, People

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• The Kremlin said Yeltsin was committed to the deal, however. President Yeltsin states clearly and unequivocally that he is an initiator of the unification of the two fraternal states and their peoples, a consistent and firm supporter of it, ... It is a geopolitical necessity and an economic reality.

  Sergey Yastrzhembsky

  Reality, Two, President

  "Last-minute glitches mar Russia-Belarus merger". www.cnn.com. April 1, 1997.

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• Globalization is a reality. And this makes most leaders today realize that populist illusions can't be sustained before they collapse into stagnation and leave their political supporters deeply disillusioned. You can't inflate away your troubles or allow mountains of debt to build up if, as a country, you have to make your living in a globally competitive environment... Building prosperity requires caution and patience. It requires time. Populism is a short cut that doesn't work.

  Fernando Henrique Cardoso

  Country, Cutting, Reality

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• I've always been a big supporter of the Constitutional right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition government for redress of grievances. It's just that I never envisioned it taking the form of thousands of people screaming 'you asshole!' at me.

  Lowell P. Weicker, Jr.

  Government, People, Political

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• The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections of the pupil, who puts forth, as a parasite, tendrils by which to cling, not knowing to what - to a supporter or a destroyer.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Block, Teaching, Knowing

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1835). “Lodore”, p.39

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• Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.

  Aaron David Miller

  Real, Ideas, America

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• I have long been a supporter of the Head Start program because each and every year I witness the dramatic positive impact that early intervention services have on children's lives in my congressional district.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Children, Impact, Years

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• I'm a great supporter of the European Union. I didn't support entry to the Euro, not because I'm against it in principle but because I didn't think it was economically right for Britain. But that doesn't make me any less pro-European.

  Gordon Brown

  Thinking, Support, Unions

  "Gordon Brown: The TIME Interview". Interview with Catherine Mayer, content.time.com. May 10, 2007.

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• There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn’t give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.

  Jose Mourinho

  Two, June, Giving

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• I am an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Israel, Circumstances, Situation

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• The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Men, Office, Democracy

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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• Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

  Derek Bailey

  Music, Children, Skills

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• But, then again, I wouldn't call myself an indie-rock supporter even if there are some really good bands out there and there will always be some real good new bands.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Real, Rocks, Indie Rock

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• It was lovely to receive the affection from some of the supporters of our biggest rival, ... It doesn't happen to you very often in your career.

  Ronaldinho

  Careers, Lovely, Rivals

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• I've always been a strong supporter of environmental protection and initiatives in that area. But I'm willing to set priorities. If we have to make reductions in one place, we'll have to-in order to increase another place, I'm willing to do that.

  Judd Gregg

  Strong, Order, Priorities

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