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“It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.”

“But I must work on in full calmness and serenity... The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt and duty towards it, because I have walked on the earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures, not made to please a certain tendency in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. So this work is the aim-and through concentration upon that one idea, everything one does is simplified. Now the work goes slowly-a reason the more to lose no time.”

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts Kind Form Millions Planets Concern Years Ago Sacred Access Obscure Shamanism Anthropologists

Author:Terence McKenna

“Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.”

People Should Humans Animal Mines Drug Concern Safety Data Humans And Animals

Author:Terence McKenna

“The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.”

Kind Concern West Financial Wild West Financial Services

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.”

Universe Strong Events Ego Concern Devotion

Author:Albert Einstein

“We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.”

Concern Concern For Others

Author:Dalai Lama

“The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition.”

Men Kind War Government Fighting Winning He Man Concern Vietnam Attrition

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“I felt like I had to prove myself, but I feel that you have to do that anyway, as an actor. You're there to do a job, and that's your primary concern.”

Feels Jobs Actors Felt Prove Concern Primaries Prove Myself

Author:Giles Matthey

“The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.”

Ifs Feels Trying Mind Process Loses Worry Creative Please Concern Scary Spread Violent Appeals Creative Process

Author:Alex Hirsch

“I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed.”

People Concern Committed Investigation Marathon Sprint

Author:Barack Obama

“We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition.”

People Process Weapons Concern Ammunition

Author:Barack Obama

“We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed.”

Ifs Running Law Concern Reports Law Enforcement Enforcement

Author:Barack Obama

“We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that.”

People Thinking Wells Values Interest Concern Usa Privacy Resolution Usa Freedom

Author:Barack Obama

“In the province of Quebec where I come from, we speak French and the only cosmopolitan city is Montreal. Every time we tackle the subject of immigration and racial tension, it's an issue that concerns Montreal. Also, in Quebec, we have this added issue that we want people to speak French, because French is always on the verge of disappearing to some extent. I work, play and do everything in French.”

People Want Play Speak Cities Issues Subjects Concern Disappear Immigration Tension Provinces Verge Montreal Quebec Speaks French Racial Tension Work Play

Author:Philippe Falardeau

“[Ted] Cruz is not at all popular in the Senate. Republicans say he may be too disliked to be a nominee. And there is a real concern about that. I think the one way to go after Trump maybe is go after him as a closet Democrat. That he has supported Democrats in the past.”

Thinking Way May Real Past Trump Republican Concern Democrat One Way Senate Closets Cruz

Author:Dalia Mogahed

“Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.”

Way Kind Action Findings Concern Tools Hollywood New Ways Avant Garde

Author:Violante Placido

“So, in 1993, in what was probably the first salvo of the first Crypto War, there was concern coming from the National Security Agency and the FBI that encryption would soon be incorporated into lots of communications devices, and that that would cause wiretaps to go dark. There was not that much commercial use of encryption at that point. Encryption, particularly for communications traffic, was mostly something done by the government.”

Firsts War Done Use Government Causes Dark Security Communication Concern Agency Devices Traffic National Security Fbi Encryption

Author:Matt Blaze

“I think my main concern is because I worry about demagoguery. It`s real. You see the people standing up there and applauding.”

People Thinking Real Worry Concern Standing Real You Demagoguery

Author:Bernie Sanders

“While the machinery of law enforcement and indeed the nature of crime itself have changed dramatically since the Fourth Amendment became part of the Nation's fundamental law in 1791, what the Framers understood then remains true today - that the task of combating crime and convicting the guilty will in every era seem of such critical and pressing concern that we may be lured by the temptations of expediency into forsaking our commitment to protecting individual liberty and privacy.”

“A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.”

“A demonstration of sincere concern can be a strong building block of love.”

Strong Building Concern Block Sincere Demonstration Building Blocks

Book:Help Me, I'm Married!

Source: Help Me, I'm Married!

“A warrior is always aware of what is worth fighting for. He does not go into combat over things that do not concern him, and he never wastes his time over provocations.”

Doe Fighting Waste Concern Warrior Combat Provocation Worth Fighting For

Author:Paulo Coelho

“You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.”

Knows Want Government Republican Concern Democrat Debt Smaller Government

Author:Rand Paul

“I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.”

Thinking I Can Bigs Stuff Hours Worry Concern Handle Meaning Of Life Meaning Life Big Stuff

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“Running is a part of my medicine. It's what helps relieve my stress, and it's what helps me get away from the concerns of business and anything else that's going on in my life that I need to escape from at times - to find who I am. Running really helps me with that.”

Needs Helping Running Concern Stress Medicine Who I Am Help Me Get Away

Author:Ziggy Marley

“Normally I am not so violent. Everything comes from the question: Where will I die? It is a strong concern.”

Dies Strong Concern Violent

Author:Mick Jagger

“My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.”

Humans Values Interest Religious Compassion Commitment Concern Harmony Meetings Affection Promotion Human Values

Author:Dalai Lama

“The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line.”

Firsts Lines Views Doubt News Concern Organization Bottom Point Of View Managers Journalist No Doubt Owners Bottom Line Allegiance

Author:Bill Kovach

“By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.”

Men Trying Care Attention Objects Concern Regard Toilets Always Trying Her Beauty Adornment

Book:Erotism

Source: Erotism

“The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things.”

Art Reality Concern Photograph Vehicle Sophisticated Spontaneous Transparent

Book:Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

Source: Animal Faith and Spiritual Life

“There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.”

Kind Culture Term Progress Seeing Concern Landscape Wilderness Opposing Environmentalist

Author:Michael Pollan

“I had gained a greater appreciation of hearing the concerns of woman, doctors, and so many others.”

Greater Concern Doctors Appreciation Hearing

Author:Jesse Jackson

“They've found a link between chemicals in shampoo and obesity. If you're eating shampoo, your weight is the least of your concerns.”

Ifs Found Eating Concern Weight Links Chemicals Obesity Shampoo

Author:Craig Ferguson

“If you reduce sculpture to the flat plane of the photograph, you're passing on only a residue of your concerns... You're not only reducing the sculpture to a different scale for the purposes of consumption, but you're denying the real content of the work.”

Ifs Different Real Purpose Concern Photograph Scales Passing Passings Planes Flats Consumption Sculpture Reducing Passing On

Book:Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980

Source: Richard Serra, Interviews, Etc., 1970-1980

“Choice or freedom of choice is just an existential concern. But for photographers, it's a lifetime's preoccupation.”

Choices Concern Lifetime Photographer Existential Freedom Of Choice Preoccupation

Author:Marc Riboud

“You're in a bar - grow up. You're drinking poison. You're trying to have sex unsafely with someone you don't know. Is secondhand smoke really the chiefest of your health concerns at this point?”

Knows Trying Sex Grows Growing Up Concern Drinking Bars Smoke Poison Smoking Drinking Poison Secondhand Smoke

Author:Greg Proops

“While I have devised various formal strategies for articulating [my] concerns, I think fundamentally the work is driven by a basic curiosity. I seek to find out things about people by making photographs of them.”

People Thinking Concern Strategy Curiosity Photograph Various Driven Formal Articulating

Author:Dawoud Bey

“Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.”

Littles Made Ideas Artist Source Concern

Author:Van Deren Coke

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“In my work, I present questions and concerns. [It's] the opportunity to put a system of antibodies into circulation, without any pretense of making the world a better place, but to start a conversation with the world.”

World Opportunity Conversation Concern Better Place Pretense Circulation Antibodies

Author:Paolo Pellegrin

“Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.”

“The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.”

People Photography Concern Cameras Instruments Threat Sensitive Appropriate Mortality Fleeting Vans Similarity Haiku Good Photography

Author:Dennis Stock

“Essential to our personal faith and development is the unmistakable knowledge that our Father and our Savior want us to succeed. They want us to return to Their presence. Because of Their love for us, They have given us resources to obtain comfort, direction, and strength for our journey home. I speak of prayer, the wonderful and sublime ability to communicate and share our concerns with the Father; the Holy Spirit, which will enlighten and comfort us; and the words of the prophets, both ancient and modern. These resources give us understanding and direction in dealing with our challenges.”

“The concern of the musician is to play the music. It is there demanding to be given sound to.”

Play Given Sound Musician Concern

Author:Robert Fripp

“Those who suffer from the abuse of drugs have themselves to blame for it. This does not mean that society is absolved from active concern for their plight. It does mean that their plight is subordinate to the plight of those citizens who do not experiment with drugs but whose life, liberty, and property are substantially affected by the illegalization of the drugs sought after by the minority.”

Mean Doe Suffering Liberty Citizens Drug Concern Abuse Blame Property Active Experiments Minorities Affected Subordinates Plight

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I do not intend to spare myself, not to avoid emotions or difficulties. I don't care much whether I live a longer or shorter time... the world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain debt toward it, because I have walked on this earth for thirty years, and out of gratitude I want to leave some souvenir.”

World Want Feels Years Care Earth Certain Emotion Gratitude Concern Difficulty Don't Care Debt I Don't Care Thirty Spares Thirty Years Souvenirs

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in, live in the same buildings, eat the same food instead of hiding behind glass and steel and bodyguards, maybe we'd get better leadership and a little more concern for the future.”

People Ifs Littles Walks Behinds Leader Streets Building Concern Glasses Get Better Hiding Steel Bodyguard

Author:Bruce Boxleitner

“As the years progress, what women and men will discover is that the most lasting and rewarding educational experiences come not from specific information provided in classroom lectures or assigned textbooks, but from the values obtained in active engagement in meaningful issues. We achieve for ourselves only as we appreciate the problems and concerns of others-and only as we see our own lives as part of a much greater social purpose.”

Source: Black Liberation in Conservative America

“What makes the existence and the evolution of society possible is precisely the fact that peaceful cooperation under the social division of labor in the long run best serves the selfish concerns of all individuals. The eminence of the market society is that its whole functioning and operation is the consummation of this principle.”

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