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“What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes our climate, our oceans, it starts wars.”

War Animal Ocean Impact Climate Connected Terrorism Chains Fund Ivory Food Chain Start Wars

Author:Nikki Reed

“Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that.”

Facts Able Technology Wall Chains Globalization Transportation Integrated Supply Chain

Author:Barack Obama

“I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain - I've always had a soft spot for this little club.”

Littles Bigs Support Team Clubs London Spots Chains Symbols Soccer Necks Fanatics Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur

Author:Adam Richman

“I think any filmmaker will tell you when they wandered from theater to theater to watch their prints, it was disheartening to see the poor levels of light and the disrespect for films that existed in certain theater chains. It was always inconsistent. And in the lab, too, the photochemical process was very difficult to watch, because sometimes they were shipping prints that you didn't even know were two points off or three points off. We suffered greatly to make these films, and they'd be out-of-focus, with the sound too low.”

Thinking Knows Two Sometimes Light Film Certain Three Process Difficult Sound Poor Levels Watches Focus Lows Theater Chains Filmmaker Print Disrespect Labs Inconsistent Shipping Disheartening

Author:Oliver Stone

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”

Literature Freedom Chains

Book:The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

“[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell only blockbusters and leave the real work to small presses.”

Real Easier Sells Presses Greed Lists Chains Publishers Publish Real Work Blockbuster Booksellers

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.”

People Kind Use Products Cost Normal Trade Chains Granted Globalization Manufacturing Reduction Supply Chain

Author:Christine Lagarde

“When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include many others in a long chain. My own contribution might then be slight, just through the perceptual and linguistic competence involved in knowing what someone is saying or writing, etc.”

Writing Long Might My Own Accepting Knowing Involved Chains Contribution Seats Etc Testimony Competence Small Parts

Author:Ernest Sosa

“In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible.”

Economy Chains Integrated Global Economy Supply Chain

Author:Barack Obama

“As you climb of the organizational ladder, you have to redefine your role in the value chain from player to captain to coach to manager, and for some, to owner. These are different roles and you won't be able to succeed as a manager when you're acting like a player.”

Different Able Values Acting Roles Player Succeed Coaches Chains Managers Climbs Owners Captains Ladders Organizational

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Most of the time I don't even talk about any direct lineage of songs, because I feel like it just chains them down into my own consciousness, and the whole fun of them is being able to live in others' consciousness.”

Feels Whole Able Song Fun My Own Consciousness Direct Chains Lineage

Author:Regina Spektor

“God's love is bigger than our failures and stronger than any chains that bind us.”

Love Is Bigger Stronger Chains God's Love Chains That Bind

Author:Jennifer Rothschild

“It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?”

Garden Ancient Stranger Chains Persian

Author:Bob Dylan

“When I was a chain smoker, I used to wake up and the first thing I'd do was reach for a cigarette, basically. And now I do the same thing for a smartphone, basically.”

Firsts Used Wake Up Chains Cigarette Smokers Smartphones

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Traditional folk music is about survival of the fittest song just like evolution is about survival of the fittest organism and generally the more times a song has been passed down the generations the more brilliant and concise it becomes as every link in that chain can add something good or remove something unnecessary.”

Has Beens Song Generations Evolution Survival Music Is Add Folks Brilliant Traditional Chains Remove More Time Links Unnecessary Organisms Folk Music Survival Of The Fittest Concise

Author:John Spiers

“You soon realize that the peak you've climbed was one of the lowest, that the mountain was part of a chain of mountains, that there are still so many, so many mountains to climb...And the more you climb, the more you want to climb - even though you're dead tired.”

Want Stills Realizing Mountain Tired Chains Climbs Lowest

Author:Indira Gandhi

“A lot of people expend great time and effort explaining why they don't like me, but none of them ever try to explain why their opinion should matter to me. I think most of them sense, but would never be brave enough to admit, their subordinate role in the food chain relative to me.”

People Thinking Should Trying Matter Enough Effort Opinion Roles Brave Like Me Chains Relative Be Brave Explaining Great Times Subordinates Food Chain Don't Like Me

Author:Jim Goad

“Then why does Kenneth Anger wear a picture locket on a chain around his neck? On one side of the locket there is a picture of you; on the other there is an image of a frog with an inscription: "Bobby Beausoleil changed into a frog by Kenneth Anger." A voodoo amulet, so to say.”

Doe Sides Changed Chains Necks Frogs Inscriptions Voodoo Kenneth Amulets

Author:Truman Capote

“The way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.”

People World Way War Real Might Responsibility Taken Written Conditions Crime Bears Command Chains Real World Rome Investigation Statutes War Crimes Chain Of Command

Author:John Bolton

“Any of these contemporary war situations, whether civilian or soldier on either side - that's what I was interested in. The people who are being affected. Not so much the political speak at the top of the food chain, but the people who are affected by it on the ground.”

People War Political Speak Sides Situation Soldier Contemporary Chains Affected Civilians Food Chain

Author:PJ Harvey

“Visit your local supermarket or retail chain. You'll experience a lot of visual stimulus, but it's unlikely that your other senses will encounter any compelling messages.”

Messages Senses Locals Chains Encounters Visuals Compelling Unlikely Stimulus Supermarkets Retail

Author:Martin Lindstrom

“How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!”

Years America Culture Three Language Nations Land Hundred Slavery Chains Mules

Author:Malcolm X

“The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the "Good Ship Jesus," and we have lived in hell ever since.”

Men Earth Culture Jesus Black White Hell Our Lives Century Position Civilization Devil Europe Ships Chains Caves Silk Resumes Crawling Satin Fours

Author:Malcolm X

“Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.”

Thinking Influence Trump Command Chains Hopefully Chain Of Command

Author:Paula Broadwell

“People often talk about Plotinus' system. The reason they do this is that Plotinus postulated a kind of series or chain of principles, so at the top there's what he called the One. Below the One is what he called Intellect. Below Intellect is Soul, and the effect of the soul is the physical world that we actually live in.”

People World Kind Soul Reason Principles Effects Series Intellect Chains

Author:Peter Adamson

“The soul must be distinct from intellect because even at its best, what the soul does when it's thinking, is it thinks linguistically, it thinks in a temporarily extended way, so it for example, might go through the steps of an argument chain, as if you were going through a syllogism and seeing that something followed from the premises, whereas intellect simply grasps the forms.”

Ifs Thinking Way Doe Soul Might Form Steps Seeing Example Argument Intellect Chains Premises

Author:Peter Adamson

“Central Europe is full of little countries standing shoulder to shoulder with no window to the sea. They are like the passengers in a rush-hour train which has stopped between stations for three centuries. And they all hate one another. And they're all crushed together waving their national flags, clanking their national chains, jabbering their national language.”

Littles Country Together Hate Three Language Hours Sea Century Europe Standing Window Train Shoulders Chains Stations Flags Crushed Passengers Rush Hour National Language

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I think when you're governing, it will become increasingly apparent that if you were to just eliminate trade deals with Mexico, for example, well, you've got a global supply chain. The parts that are allowing auto plants that were about to shut down to now employ double shifts is because they're bringing in some of those parts to assemble out of Mexico. And so it's not as simple as it might have seemed.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Might Simple Deals Example Trade Plant Chains Allowing Mexico Governing Supply Chain

Author:Barack Obama

“What I know is it is a disservice to those who continue to serve to think that there's going to be a civil-military breakdown because those who serve, they know who they serve. They know what their loyalties are, that's why you take an oath to the Constitution and your loyalty lies in the chain of command and your buddies. That's always been there. We are a professional military.”

Thinking Knows Lying Military Constitution Loyalty Command Chains Buddy Oath Breakdown Disservice Chain Of Command

Author:Michael T. Flynn

“Pop music can somehow survive being inhibited and mangled by its harsh and stupid commercial chains, and there is surely irreducible potential because of the 'star system' and the volatile attention pop receives for multiples of wickedness, ridicule, discontent, eccentricity, desire to thrive importantly in a genuinely popular context.”

Desire Stars Attention Stupid Pops Chains Thrive Harsh Wickedness Ridicule Discontent Pop Music Eccentricity

Author:Paul Morley

“The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of these purpose-built Borders and Chapters and every new mall that goes up has a giant chain bookstore with a purpose-built author reading space, whoah, what's gong on there.”

Has Beens Purpose Reading Space Europe Built Chains Borders Giants Chapters Bookstores Malls Gongs

Author:William Gibson

“We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.”

Ifs Knows Fall Gold Caring Chains Marketplace Not Caring Devalue

Author:Alice Walker

“I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. This is the sort of investigation that some people who live in Fairyland might like to undertake, but which bears no relationship at all to conditions in the real world.”

“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.”

World Has Beens Kids Poor Rich Huge Cold Creating Research Chains Funding Alliances Delivery Vaccines Meningitis

Author:Bill Gates

“Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.”

Individual Illusion Karma Chains Reincarnation Burn Out Maya Illusion

Author:George Harrison

“A keystone habit leads to other positive habits and disciplines. These positive traits start a chain reaction that produces other positive outcomes. The presence of these important habits help you become more faithful in other areas of your life. On the other hand, the absence of these key disciplines can impact you negatively.”

Important Helping Hands Produce Keys Habit Discipline Areas Impact Absence Reactions Chains Faithful Outcomes Traits Keystones Chain Reactions Positive Outcome

Author:Craig Groeschel

“I might not wear chains or I may just wear a watch or I may not wear any jewelry at all or I may just go all out on an outfit or just rock some basic s*** just a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and ones. But, I still standout more than a lot of people in the room so I can't really describe it but I know from the outside looking in people can explain better than I can.”

People Knows May Stills I Can Might Rooms Watches Rocks Chains Shirts Pairs Jeans T Shirt Jewelry Outside Looking In

Author:Lil Herb

“A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.”

Ifs Wells May Problem Bigs Growing Safe Understood Fishes Chains Plastic Marine Food Chain Big Changes

Author:Tim Winton

“Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.”

Children Facts Stories Force Our Lives Trouble Logic Mirrors Chains Submit Causality

Author:Melissa Febos

“If you think "sagging," and, how many women you've got, and how big a chain you've got, and how much dope you're slangin', and how much money you've got in your pocket makes you a "man," then you're sadly mistaken. You're going to be a misguided soul your entire life.”

Ifs Thinking Men Soul Bigs Chains Pockets Mistaken Dope Misguided Sagging

Author:Steve Harvey

“The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods.”

Industry Moved Stores Chains Groceries Fast Food Grocery Stores Food Chain Food Industry

Author:Michael Moss

“We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).”

Mean Bigs Dies Economy Economic Streets Boxes Locals Chains Commerce Retail Rebuilding Main Street Walmart

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“If any one age could be singled out as the worst in the history of Christendom, it would be the administration of Pope Pius XII, the most reactionary head of the most reactionary single force in the world - a force that binds men's minds, a force that divides them, a force that chains them so that they are unable to think and act for themselves.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Mind Would Be Age Force Worst Chains Administration Divides Pope Reactionaries Christendom

Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“Church wealth are moving into everything-gas stations, banks, television stations, supermarket chains, hotels, steel mills, resort areas, farms, wine factories, warehouses, bottling works, printing plants, schools, theaters-everything you could conceivably think of that has nothing to do with religion, they are moving into big. They're even coming in as stockholders in the big oil companies, and the Bank of America is almost entirely owned by the Catholic Church.”

“A lot of my music is just self-observation. Like telling you, "Oh man. What did I just do? How much did I just pay for this chain? Why did I do that? Wait a minute." Let me talk about that. Or like, the temptation. Let me talk about that. Let me observe myself.”

Men Self Waiting Pay Minutes Music Is Let Me Temptation Observation Chains Self Observation

Author:J. Cole

“Genre categorization is a capitalist (rather than artistic) thing, a symptom of marketing and major-chain bookshelf placement.”

Majors Marketing Chains Artistic Genre Capitalist Symptoms Bookshelves Placement Categorization

Author:Lee Klein

“I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.”

Stills Fighting Black Higher Gold Slave Chains Necks Heritage Ancestor Steel Symbolic Wrists Tag Ankles Price Tag

Author:Mr. T

“Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?”

Ifs Funny Marriage Witty Chains Ties Friendly Pens Bankers Saving Money

Author:Alan King

“Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.”

Source: I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr

“First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.”

Men Firsts Feminism Bottom Feminist Scales Chains Reacting Food Chain

Author:Neil LaBute

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