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“Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.”

Real Attitude Movement Taught Lessons Authority Conservative Campaigns Resentment Adoration Envious Reactionaries Populist Vicarious

Book:For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Source: For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

“The flamingoes are the most delicately colored of all the African birds, pink and red like a flying twig of an oleander bush. They have incredibly long legs and bizarre and recherché curves of their necks and bodies, as if from some exquisite traditional prudery they were making all attitudes and movements in life as difficult as possible.”

Ifs Long Body Difficult Attitude Movement Bird Red Legs Flying Traditional Necks Bizarre Curves Exquisite Twigs Long Legs Oleanders

Book:Out of Africa

Source: Out of Africa

“The most realistic distinction between the investor and the speculator is found in their attitude toward stock-market movements. The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices. Market movements are important to him in a practical sense, because they alternately create low price levels at which he would be wise to buy and high price levels at which he certainly should refrain from buying and probably would be wise to sell.”

“[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement.”

Felt Attitude Leader Movement Rose Characteristics Dislike Defining Bakers Older Women Top Down

Author:Gail Collins

“I love to leave, to be ready-for, to be on the run! That's my boyish side, it's the pant's me! Pants which allow for the attitudes, gestures and movements of a man but that are still female in taste and free enough so that I can slip my hands inside!”

Men Stills I Can Enough Hands Running Sides Attitude Movement Ready Taste Female Slips Pants Gestures Boyish

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“An anti-something movement displays a purely negative attitude. It has no chance whatever to succeed. Its passionate diatribes virtually advertise the program they attack. People must fight for something that they want to achieve, not simply reject an evil, however bad it may be.”

People Want May Fighting Evil Chance Attitude Achieve Movement Succeed Negative Program Passionate Rejects Display Negative Attitude

Book:Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

Source: Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, The

“I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.”

Ideas Body Would Be Can Do Attitude Movement Personality Fascinated Cunning Calculating Horsemen Headless Body Movement

Author:Roberto Orci

“Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are twenty rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others. The fact that they see themselves as antiracists or feminists or whatever does not make them any less rabble-rousers.”

“The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.”

Should Attitude Accepting Movement Assuming All Time Giver Sanctions Rejecting

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“The thought must have its own center of gravity; it cannot just be either here or there. We must find this center of gravity. It is the same for the body; if it is not centered, no movement will be possible. It is the same for the feeling. These Movements are designed to enable us to pass from one center of gravity to another; it is the shift that creates the state. The gesture, the movement, is what is important, not the attitudes.”

Ifs Important States Feelings Body Attitude Movement Gravity Gestures Center Of Gravity

Author:Jeanne de Salzmann

“Certainly here in the U.S., we've had fundamentalist movements that have taken very critical and hostile attitudes toward immigration and the assimilation of immigrants into our society and culture. So these tendencies are fairly universal. The problem is what if they get out of hand and become the dominant factor in a society, which can only lead to the oppression of minorities or even to war with neighboring societies with differing cultures. That's why it seems to me it's important to try to keep these tendencies toward extremism under control.”

“I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.”

Mean Different Stories Sound Attitude Millions Design Movement Clothes Shoes Landscaping

Author:Christian Louboutin