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“We also know that ISIS is recruiting who are not in those databases. So of course, we're going to miss them. And then we now learn that DHS says, "No, we can't check their social media."”

Knows Courses Social Media Missing Social Media Checks Isis Databases

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.”

People Needs Trying Believe I Believe Process Understanding Community White Color Accounts Add Historical Privilege Checks Interaction

Author:Bocafloja

“It isn't like we don't work with you because you are white, or not want anything to do with you. It is more like you have to check your privileges, the whites have the responsibility to put themselves at attention with the form they operate in with people of color and try to always lay out that pattern to connect with people and say, "I am conscious of my privileges and I am accounting for myself."”

People Want Trying Form White Attention Responsibility Color Like You Conscious Lays Privilege Patterns Checks Accounting

Author:Bocafloja

“I think the American people are gonna be reasonable with what do you do with someone who has been in this country for 10 or 12 years who hasn't otherwise violated our laws - because if they're a criminal they can't stay. They'll have to undergo a background check, pay a fine, start paying taxes. And ultimately, they'll given a work permit and that's all they're gonna be allowed to have for at least 10 years.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Country Law Given Pay Fine Taxes Criminals Backgrounds Checks Reasonable Permit Paying Taxes Background Checks

Author:Marco Rubio

“One of the most troubling aspects of the Rubio-Schumer Gang of Eight Bill was that it gave President [Barack] Obama blanket authority to admit refugees, including Syrian refugees without mandating any background checks whatsoever. Now we've seen what happened in San Bernardino. When you are letting people in, when the FBI can't vet them, it puts American citizens at risk.”

“The vast majority of Americans want a government that creates the conditions for them to have a chance to get into the middle class, the kind of growth and the kind of educational opportunities. Most people would - the vast majority of Americans would much rather have a job that pays more than a welfare check.”

People Want Kind Government Jobs Opportunity Growth Chance Pay Class Middle Conditions Majority Educational Checks Welfare Middle Class

Author:Marco Rubio

“I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.”

Trying Sweet Shapes Checks Temptation Binge

Author:Morris Chestnut

“I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.”

Want Book Together Father Records Daughter Checks

Author:Norah Jones

“I never thought I'd end up as a computer freak, but that's how the cookie crumbles. I do spend a lot of my time on the Internet, and often check out the different E-zines on the web, especially if something Iron Savior related is going down.”

Ifs Different Ends Internet Computer Checks Related My Time Iron Savior Freak Cookies Zines

Author:Yenz Leonhardt

“I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.”

People Stills Cutting Checks Alleys Bowling Bowling Alleys

Author:Kevin Hart

“It's naive and even irresponsible for a grownup today to get her or his information about foreign policy and war and peace exclusively from the administration in power. It's essential to have other sources of information, to check those against one's own common sense, and to form your own judgment as to whether we ought to go to or persist in war.”

War Today Form Common Information Policy Source Ought Essentials Judgment Checks Common Sense Administration Foreign Policy Persist Naive Irresponsible Grownups

Author:Daniel Ellsberg

“I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.”

Looks Done Guy Stuff Checks Lazy Paradox

Author:Jeff Bridges

“When you're hurting another person, past a certain point you're cracking them open and whatever's inside them gets all over you. So you should kinda check out whether you want that to happen.”

Want Should Persons Happens Past Certain Hurt Checks Over You

Author:Patrick Califia

“Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.”

Lost Easier Glory Checks Repeats Basking

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Inside an organization there are only cost centers. The only profit center is a customer whose check has not bounced.”

Cost Organization Profit Customers Checks

Book:Management Challenges for the 21st Century

Source: Management Challenges for the 21st Century

“Your taxes are due a week from today. You can make out your check directly to Halliburton. Or you can do what I'm going to do. I'm filing my first joint return. No, I'm not getting married, I'm sending the IRS an actual joint with a note that says, 'If you think I'm paying for this war, you must be high.'”

Ifs Thinking Firsts War Today Can Do Week Return Taxes Married Notes Dues Checks Joints Getting Married Irs Make Out Filing

Author:Bill Maher

“Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life.”

“I don't look at myself in the mirror. I'll flash past a mirror in the morning to check how I'm dressed, that's it.”

Looks Past Morning Mirrors Checks Flash

Author:Elle Macpherson

“Too many Americans now believe that the checks they receive every month from the unemployment office - like the checks they get from the welfare office, from Medicare, from Social Security - are inalienable rights. They are not.”

Believe Social Rights Security Months Office Checks Welfare Unemployment Social Security Medicare Inalienable Rights

Author:Ben Shapiro

“Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"”

Writing Enough Stuff Bills Coffee Checks Get Back Mail Garbage Junk Grind Bananas Advertisements Distasteful Junk Mail

Author:Andy Rooney

“The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.”

Ifs Thinking Way Giving Writing Love Is Millions Dollars Checks Lots Of Money Million Dollars Irritating Lovable

Author:Warren Buffett

“Whitney Houston came in. Someone dared me to do "the Gap act" on her. You know, the Gap act. So I went up to her like I didn't know who she was, and I said, 'Hi, I just wanted to let you know about our sale items and make sure to check out our new colors'. She looked at me like I was crazy.”

Knows Said Wanted Crazy Color Checks Gaps Items Houston Whitney

Author:Amy Adams

“Believe me, you don't walk away from the kind of money you make with a daily television show. You might get awful tired of it sometimes, but take a second look at the check and you get less tired right away.”

Believe Looks Kind Sometimes Shows Might Walks Television Tired Checks Awful Believe In Me Television Shows

Author:Johnny Carson

“Comedians are - at the end of the day, we're just a bunch of people that lack a little bit of - we're very insecure, and we want to be loved and liked by everybody. And you know, I could check my Twitter and there could be 150 people that say wonderful things. There'll be one person who says something negative. And all we focus on is that negative.”

People Knows Want Littles Persons Ends Bits Focus Wonderful Little Bit Negative Checks Bunch Comedian The End Of The Day Insecure Wonderful Things

Author:Russell Peters

“We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail.”

Ideas Winning Given Interest Levels Special Fields Battle Fairs Election Checks Contribution Voters Usual Ideological Special Interests Playing Fields Level Playing Field

Author:John McCain

“The more helpful our phones get, the harder it is to be ourselves. For everyone out there fighting to write idiosyncratic, high-entropy, unpredictable, unruly text, swimming upstream of spell-check and predictive auto-completion: Don't let them banalize you. Keep fighting.”

Writing Fighting Harder Phones Checks Helpful Spells Swimming Unpredictable Completion Entropy Unruly Swimming Upstream Spell Check

Author:Brian Christian

“Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.”

Way Want Feels Wells Mean Made Changed Ready Sick Checks Uncomfortable Crucial Insecure Starting Over Get Well Things Have Changed Pressured Being Sick

Book:Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Source: Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

“Memorial Day orators will say that a G.I.'s life is priceless. Don't believe it. I know what value the U.S. government assigns to a soldier's life: I've been handed the check. It's roughly what the Yankees will pay Roger Clemens per inning once he starts pitching next month.”

Knows Believe Government Life Is Values Next Pay Months Don't Believe Soldier Checks Yankees Memorial Priceless Pitching Roger Memorial Day Orators

Author:Andrew Bacevich

“The government's assertion that it must be unhindered in protecting our security can camouflage the desire to increase Executive power, while the press's cry of the public's right to know can mask a quest for competitive advantage or a hidden animus. Neither the need to protect our security nor the public's right to know is a blank check.”

“Our veterans know the meaning of service better than anyone else and they aren't about to quit working when they come home. The best reward we can provide our vets for their service isn't a medal or a check; it's a livelihood and a means of supporting themselves and their families.”

Knows Mean Home Rewards Quitting Checks Coming Home Veteran Medal Livelihood Our Veterans Vets

Author:Mitt Romney

“Do not tell me that I have not shown courage in standing up to the gun people, in voting to ban assault weapons, voting for instant background checks, voting to end the gun show loophole and now in a position to create a consensus in America on gun safety.”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.”

People Firsts Made Remember Three Poor Months Hundred Dollars Scripts Radio Checks Fifty Cash Three Months

Author:Rod Serling

“When starting a new business, people get blinders on. They have an idea, they stick to the idea, but they don't test it or check with their potential audience to see if this is a good idea. It happens all the time. Talk to your customers, see what they like and what you can change or not change.”

People Ifs Ideas Happens Audience Tests Sticks Starting Customers Checks Good Ideas New Business Blinders Starting New Business

Author:JJ Ramberg

“A lot of us start out nimble. You need to stay that way. You want to have that in your culture. Check to see why things are going wrong and fix them. Understand what's going on in your business so you know if there's a drop somewhere.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Needs Culture Checks Nimble

Author:JJ Ramberg

“There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!”

Want Home Certain Checks Coming Home Hospitals Here And There Exhausting

Author:Julian Schnabel

“The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'”

People Process Band Music Is Checks Hey Introducing New Music

Author:Mark Hoppus

“After my family leaves in the morning, I'll make my first coffee of the day and then I head upstairs to go to work. At least, that's my plan. I'm not going to check email. I'm not going on Facebook, or sneaking a glimpse at my Instagram feed. No. I'm not going to down that road. But with multiple devices, by the time I get upstairs [to my study] I may well have heard my iPhone ding and - it's Pavlovian.”

Firsts Wells May Morning Study Plans Heard My Family Coffee Checks Devices Multiple Glimpse Email Instagram Iphone Upstairs

Author:Dani Shapiro

“The art was just a way of hooking people in, saying: "Hey, maybe there's something cool about the tenant meeting. If the picture's really cool and weird, maybe I should check this out." And I think all of my art has really developed out of that realization.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Should Art Meetings Checks Hey Realization Really Cool Tenants

Author:Eric Drooker

“It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don't want to inadvertently end up doing someone's bidding.”

Want Ends Young Political Artist Black Differences Suicide Checks Making A Difference Voting Bidding

Author:Darryl Pinckney

“I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a living, I've learned to check, double-check and triple-check my sources.”

Way Hard Levels Source Checks Statements I've Learned Hard Way

Book:Core of Conviction: My Story

Source: Core of Conviction: My Story

“I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.”

Checks Parenthood Planned Parenthood

Author:Chris Christie

“In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.”

Way Believe Humans Sometimes Facts Problem Running Political Wish Process Rocks Population Solve Disaster Checks Giants Frustrated Famine Slowness Pandemics Human Population Malthus

Author:Annalee Newitz

“Early on, America took one path and went down the advertising road, and in the UK they founded the BBC and developed a different kind of public broadcasting. There was a point where TV was so beholden to commercial interest that people - civil society - actually rose up and said, "This is ridiculous: we have our soap-selling soap operas, cigarette-sponsored news broadcast; we have our rigged quiz shows - let's put some checks and balances here."”

“I worked every waking minute, nights and weekends, in order to make enough money to buy those summers off, and even then we wouldn't have made it except that my mother helped out with a yearly check and my father bought me a car when my old one die”

Made Enough Mother Night Order Dies Father Minutes Car Summer Checks Made It Waking Weekend

Author:Debra Dean

“You have to walk through the kennel and check out the older animals before you can get to the puppies and kittens - and let me tell you, sometimes the adopters never make it to the puppies and kittens.”

Sometimes Walks Animal Let Me Checks Puppy Kitten

Author:Beth Ostrosky Stern

“The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it out, see what looks correct, what looks wrong, look at other material which wasn't discussed, figure out what the truth really is. That's what you've got a brain for.”

Firsts Looks Brain Figures Materials Ought Checks Verify

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think my methods are more suggestive than assertive. Check out those passages again and see what you think.”

Thinking Method Checks Passages Assertive

Author:Paul Lisicky

“I go to social media, check out my granddaughter's new boyfriend, but the Department of Homeland Security can't figure out they need to be tracking they jihadi web sites?”

Needs Social Security Media Figures Social Media Checks Department Site Homeland Tracking Homeland Security Granddaughter Department Of Homeland Security New Boyfriend

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I used to retain information extremely fast, so perhaps it's hardening a bit and I don't take the impression as well as I used to. Instead of writing in free flight, I had to check on the stories all the time. So I have decided I better to do it while I am fresh!”

Writing Wells Stories Used Bits Information Decided Impression Checks Flight

Author:Marina Warner

“I've found that depending on the amount of the check, disciplined inspiration can be called upon willingly. I think the name of the lesser known tenth muse was Dollar Dollar Bill Y'all.”

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Author:Kevin Keck

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