Used Quotes - Page 24

• Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Conjunctions, Diplomacy, Verification

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• You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Agreement, Argument, Terror

  "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.

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• It is interesting sometimes to stop and think and wonder what the place you are currently at used to be like in times past, who walked there, who worked there and what the walls have seen.

  Patrick Geddes

  Wall, Past, Thinking

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• No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

  Dante Hall

  Hurt, Worry, Childhood

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• My government is going to deal with all forms of corruption. White-collar corruption will be high on the list and we are going to plug all gaps that are being used by corrupt leaders (and) business people.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Government, White, People

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• On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.

  Patsy Kensit

  Marriage, Breakup, Life Is

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• Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Skills, Iraq, America

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• But when that information travels only to a privileged few, when it is used to profit at the expense of the investing public, when that information comes by way of favored access rather than by acumen, insight or diligence, we must ask, 'Whose interest is really being served?'.

  Arthur Levitt Jr

  Acumen, Investing, Information

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• Watercolour could have been used more by the modernists. It is so direct, and when the white paper convention is accepted, so powerful, even brutal, that it would seem an ideal medium.

  David Milne

  Powerful, White, Paper

  David P. Silcox, David Milne (1996). “Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne”, p.284, University of Toronto Press

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• The evidence that things are changing fast can be seen in the dramatic increase in the influence of blogging. We should be collecting emails as we used to collect telephone numbers and using them to better communicate our message to key voters.

  Adam Rickitt

  Keys, Numbers, Email

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• When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

  Richard Serra

  Art, Bridges, Way

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• When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Appreciation, Art, Long

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• I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

  Edgar Winter

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Coach John Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach Denny Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

  Skip Prosser

  Moving, Player, Thinking

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• Oils of cinnamon and eucalyptus are as powerful against some microorganisms as conventional antibiotics, and are especially effective against flus. Sandalwood oil from Mysore, India, is not only a classic perfume oil but is also a traditional remedy for sore throats and laryngitis. Lavender oil, so often used in toilet waters and scented sachets, has a dramatic healing action on burns.

  Robert Tisserand

  Powerful, Healing, Oil

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• I used to have this dream that somebody was knocking at my door. I'd say 'Who is it?' and they'd answer 'Police.' I'd open the door and they would say to me, 'Pack your bags. We realized you have no talent.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Dream, Doors, Insecurity

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• When I used to do the action scenes, I would have to play it rough. If you hit an actress accidentally, she would usually take it on the chin and say, `Don't do that again.' But with the guys, they would put ice on it, take a 20-minute break and ask for x-rays. It was unbelievable.

  Jessica Alba

  Ice, Play, Guy

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• I want to say categorically that all the vouchers that I have myself used were paid for, and I know nothing about any others that may have been abused.

  Motsoko Pheko

  May, Want, Vouchers

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• Our actions today will protect children from the adverse effects of exposure to pesticides commonly used on foods. The agency also is on schedule to meet all deadlines for ensuring safer pesticides use under the new Food Quality Protection Act.

  Carol Browner

  Children, Adversity, Agency

  "Study urged of pesticide, youth violence link". www.cnn.com. August 9, 1999.

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• A beautiful feature in the colour wood-cut, and one unique in printing, is colour gradation... Two brushes are sometimes used, one charged with more potent colour than the other. Line blocks are nearly always printed with some variation of tone, and often in colour too.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Beautiful, Block, Cutting

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• Of course, your ideas can be stolen... I used to think it was immoral; now I think of it as a compliment... Ultimately, an idea isn't yours; it's only your take on something.

  Peter Wolf

  Thinking, Ideas, Compliment

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• Affirmations need to be used if they are to become incorporated into the fabric of your being.

  Eric Maisel

  Needs, Fabric, Affirmation

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.

  Chet Huntley

  Believe, Government, Self

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• I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

  Andrew Schneider

  Husband, Believe, Thinking

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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