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• Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Political, Desire, Deeds

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.152, Vintage

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• Today, blood work and science are able to provide more of a movie of your health, identifying trends before they become an issue.

  Elizabeth Holmes

  Blood, Issues, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The NSF study projected a shortfall of 675,000 scientists and engineers without considering the future demand for such individuals in the marketplace. It simply observed a decline in the number of 22-year-olds and projected that this demographic trend would result in a huge shortfall. This could be termed the supply-side theory of labor market analysis. But making labor market projections without considering the demand side of the equation doesn't pass the laugh test with experts in the field.

  Howard Wolpe

  Years, Numbers, Laughing

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• I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.

  Gao Xingjian

  Creative, Want, Pressure

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• As a technologist, I see the trends, and I see that automation inevitably is going to mean fewer and fewer jobs. And if we do not find a way to provide a basic income for people who have no work, or no meaningful work, we’re going to have social unrest that could get people killed. When we have increasing production - year after year after year - some of that needs to be reinvested in society.

  Edward Snowden

  Meaningful, Jobs, Social Unrest

  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel and Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• Producing and distributing premium TV entertainment content is more 'global' now than at any point in the history of the business. World Screen does an excellent job in following the news, trends and key players. It's a must-read for those in the business of global TV and brings us that much closer to prospective buyers and distributors of our premium content.

  Chris Albrecht

  Jobs, Player, Keys

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• Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.

  Robert S. Strauss

  Wisdom, Cost, Politics

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• I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies.

  Clint Eastwood

  Teenager, People, Want

  "Gran Torino - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

  Jim Cramer

  Guy, Would Be, Economy

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• I have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Atheism, Appreciative, Should

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• Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

  Bella Abzug

  Change, Dream, Struggle

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• The North Korean Communists are implacably pursuing their military buildup in defiance of the international trend toward rapprochement and of the stark reality of the Korean situation, as well as of the long-cherished aspiration of the 50 million Koreans. The North Koreans have already constructed a number of underground invasion tunnels across the Demilitarized Zone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Reality, Usa

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Country, Land, California

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• If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we might indeed find that we have defeated National Socialism merely to create a world of many national socialisms, differing in detail, but all equally totalitarian, nationalistic, and in recurrent conflict with each other.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Victory, Might, Details

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Taken, Numbers

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.

  Meryl Streep

  Fashion, Real, Men

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Reason has never really directed social reality, but now reason has been so thoroughly purged of any specific trend or preference that it has finally renounced even the task of passing judgment on man's actions and way of life. Reason has turned them over for ultimate sanction to the conflicting interests to which our world actually seems abandoned.

  Max Horkheimer

  Reality, Men, Our World

  Max Horkheimer (2013). “Eclipse of Reason”, p.5, A&C Black

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• I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Important, Trying

  "Changeling - Clint Eastwood interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• The missional church is not a new trend or the latest new technique for reaching postmodern people.

  Alan Hirsch

  People, Church, Technique

  Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.160, Baker Books

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• One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.

  Daniel Drezner

  Numbers, September 11, Zombie

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• Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.

  Gary Pruitt

  Views, December, Advertising

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• When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.

  Gao Xingjian

  Art, Pressure, Literature

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• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Moving, People, Locks

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• As best as can be determined, the world is now warmer than it has been at any point in the last two millennia, and, if current trends continue, by the end of the century it will likely be hotter than at any point in the last two million years.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Years, Two, World

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Friends told me that the latest trend, at least in Europe, is public sex. They showed me some clips, and they're terrifying. A couple enters a streetcar, half-full, simply takes a seat, undresses, and starts to do it. You can see from surprised faces that it's not staged. It's pure working-class suburb. But what's fascinating is that the people all look, and then they politely ignore it. The message is that even if you're together in public with people, it still counts as private space.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Sex, Couple, Europe

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