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“I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.”

Thinking Whole Community Rights Particular Concern Regard Institutions Traditional Civil Rights Host Traditional Marriage

Author:Barack Obama

“Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.”

Law Political Force Principles Struggle Democracy Advantage Concern Constant Endless Burning Dedication Disputes Rule Of Law Constant Struggle

Book:A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo

Source: A new dawn: a collection of speeches of President Olusegun Obasanjo

“John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.”

Humans Race Concern Human Race Deep Love Very Deep

Author:Yoko Ono

“What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.”

Ideas Facts Use Concern Popularity Absent Juniors Hallmark Junior High

Author:Susan Orlean

“My only concern was to get home after a hard day's work.”

Hard Home Political Politics Hard Work Concern Hard Days

Author:Rosa Parks

“Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.”

Art Two Artist Concern Constant Genuine Revelations Unending

Author:Boris Pasternak

“It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.”

Should Real Views Policy Changed Concern September Procedures September 11th

Author:George Pataki

“If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.”

Ifs Novel Issues Concern South Publishing South Africa

Author:Alan Paton

“I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.”

Children Has Beens Mother Security Concern Journalist Small Child Paramount

Author:Jane Pauley

“To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.”

Way Acting Concern Scruples

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.”

Humans Problem Violence Human Nature Solutions Concern Blank Slates

Author:Steven Pinker

“Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality - the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.”

World Way Humans Reality Understanding Situation Concern Relation Commit Speakers Semantics

Book:The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

Source: The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

“Two of the many areas of conflict between Judeo-Christian values and leftism concern the separation between the holy and the profane and the separation between humans and animals.”

Humans Two Christian Values Animal Holy Conflict Areas Concern Separation Profane Humans And Animals Christian Values

Author:Dennis Prager

“Journalism, as concerns collecting information, differs little if at all from intelligence work. In my judgment, a journalist's job is very interesting.”

Ifs Littles Jobs Interesting Information Judgment Concern Journalism Journalist Very Interesting Collecting Collecting Information

Author:Vladimir Putin

“Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.”

Men Should Action Suffering Fear Worry Depression Concern Worry And Fear Worry Fear

Author:Pythagoras

“All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.”

Men Needs Littles Used Community Numbers Support Baby Men And Women Concern Used To Be Formation

Author:Quentin Bryce

“I'm just an average woman with average concerns.”

Concern Average

Author:Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

“I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.”

Men Matter Concern Indifference

Author:Jean Racine

“All of the things I used to obsess over, I'm no longer as obsessed with. I have new concerns but they're a little more existential or cosmic.”

Littles Used Concern Obsessed Existentialism Cosmic Existential

Author:Josh Radnor

“When I write a film, there's a particular thing I am wrestling with and the question or concern I'm dealing with has to be big enough for me to dedicate a year or two of my life. If the question isn't big enough, or rich enough, I'll lose interest.”

Ifs Writing Years Two Enough Bigs Film Interest Loses Rich Particular Concern Wrestling

Author:Josh Radnor

“A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.”

Children Problem Life Is Spirit Chance Involved Concern Righteous Personal Problems

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.”

Knows Black White Concern Chuck Berries Black Or White

Author:Keith Richards

“I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.”

Want Children Courage Concern Faults My Children Closest Probability Uprightness

Author:Branch Rickey

“Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.”

Needs Lost Loss Opinion Concern

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have.”

Knows Mother Inspiring Struggle Concern Mothers Day

Author:Ann Romney

“Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.”

War Feelings Principles Concern Ideals Determination Entanglement

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4

“The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.”

Years Sides Numbers Concern Pursuit Journalist Rising

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.”

Ifs Needs Responsibility Concern Welfare Resumes

Book:Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

Writing Kind Art Artist Term Creative Concern Perfection Open Minded Being An Artist

Book:franny and zooey

Source: franny and zooey

“My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.”

People Thinking Facts America Concern Crisis Mediocrity Emergencies Urgency Drifting Sense Of Urgency

Author:Howard Schultz

“The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.”

Matter Serious Consequence Concern Plant Spending Administration Fallen Senate Committees Severe Funding Chairman Capitol Domes Omitting

Author:Charles Schumer

“The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.”

Firsts Problem Bits Community Secret Magic Concern Garden Seasons Prize Episodes Realism Blanket Forts Secret Garden Trampolines

Author:Rob Sheffield

“For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.”

Ifs Writing Wells Play Light Might Form Space Balance Essentials Concern Chairs Timing Essays Theoretical Playwriting

Author:Sam Shepard

“I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.”

Three Support Economic Concern Humanitarian Immigration Reform Primaries Contribution Progressive Concrete Criteria Reformation Immigration Reform Reunification

Author:Jeff Bingaman

“My concern is that we live in an economy in which stabbing someone and waiting for them to complain before we remove the knife has become the normal way of doing business. When did we lose sight of the fact that it's not nice to stab people in the first place?”

People Way Firsts Facts Waiting Loses Economy Nice Normal Concern Sight Complaining Remove Knives Stabbing

Author:Simon Sinek

“We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.”

People Should Wells Children Concern Our Children Aim Be Good Ethical Manifest Good People Concern For Others

Book:Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Source: Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

“What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.”

Doe Book Concern Arguing Frozen Embryos

Author:Peter Singer

“Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!”

People Giving Writing Memories Concern Stronger

Author:Jane Smiley

“My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.”

Doe Has Beens Concern Theater Mirrors Selfish Stingy

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.”

My Own Issues Movement Concern Concerned Feminist Gender Active Pursuit Good Work Doing Good Feminist Movement

Author:Patti Smith

“I was never a singer, I can't play any instruments, I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.”

I Can Play Stars Rocks Training Concern Instruments Males Singers Frustration Plus Rock Star

Author:Patti Smith

“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”

Lying Humanity Responsibility Mankind Concern Salvation Charity

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?”

Jobs Consequence Concern Intention Deeds Impressive

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.”

Looks War Situation Gone Creation Directors Concern Endeavor Combat Veteran Geopolitical

Author:Steven Spielberg

“The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.”

Shows Risk Car Gun Concern Irony Stations Drivers Cash License Coverage Liability Wagons Alamo Cerberus Get Insurance Drivers License

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.”

Needs Made Care Father Air Clothes Bird Consequence Concern Gods Will Grass Heavenly Easter Heavenly Father Lilies Splendor Funny Easter Christian Easter Happy Easter Kids Easter

Author:Charles Stanley

“Secure our borders first. Let us know and let us make sure the American people know that we're taking care of the important business of dealing with the illegal immigration into this country. You cannot begin to address the concerns of the people who are already here unless and until you have made certain that no more are coming in behind them.”

People Knows Firsts Made Important Country Care Certain Behinds Concern Immigration Secure Borders Addresses Illegal Illegal Immigration

Author:Michael Steele

“As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor's soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love.”

Men Love Mean Soul Ends Christian Love Is Break Concern Relation Catholic Fellows Neighbor Anguish Fellow Man God Is Love Means To An End

Author:Edith Stein

“I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.”

Thinking Inspirational Looks Motivational Actors Acting Concern Liberating

Author:Meryl Streep

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