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“Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.”

Thinking Way States Values Term Interest Democracy Identity Particular Citizens Ideals Constant Historical Fixed Construction Negotiation Domain Promotion Continuity

Author:Dale Jamieson

“I'm going to continue to push for a no-fly zone and safe havens within Syria not only to help protect the Syrians and prevent the constant outflow of refugees, but to, frankly, gain some leverage on both the Syrian government and the Russians so that perhaps we can have the kind of serious negotiation necessary to bring the conflict to an end and go forward on a political track.”

Kind Ends Helping Government Political Havens Serious Protect Safe Conflict Gains Constant Track Zone Syria Negotiation Refugee Safe Haven

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I honestly think the impulse is to grab something and capture it, and not capture a moment that you want to remember, but just capture an image that you want other people to see right away. It's about how someone is going to "like" this and it's no longer an experience. It's just this constant sharing of images. I personally don't like that very much.”

People Thinking Want Moments Remember Constant Honestly Impulse Capture

Author:Tyler Hoechlin

“The core of the American set of beliefs has remained pretty constant.”

Belief Constant Core

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these conversations: [Barack] Obama is black so that means this, that things are better, or it means that you voted for him because he's black.”

Knows Mean Has Beens Stills Country Black Conversation Constant Violent Barack Frustrated Reminders

Author:Paul Beatty

“The state of love is this constant flux back and forth between who's saving and who's rescuing, who's wanting and not wanting, who's needing and who isn't. It's always going back and forth between two people who are actually attached.”

People Two States Love Is Constant Saving Back And Forth Flux

Author:Jane Alison

“If there was one constant in my ever-changing life, it is Joey McIntyre.”

Ifs Constant Life Changing Joey

Author:Andrea Barber

“We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.”

“It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.”

People Ifs Knows World Way Feels Years Sometimes Seems Discovery Constant Being True Proven Humbling Right Words Proclamation New Discoveries Layman Proven Wrong

Author:Larry Wilmore

“Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it.”

Humans May Culture Human Beings Creativity Advantage Constant Genuine Rebellion Disadvantages Mistrust

Author:Paula Scher

“[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are hid-den in the dream. Instead, for me the dream is a mixture of thoughts and sensations that man has when he is asleep, a mental state relatively protected from the constant noise that society makes.”

Men States Dream Desire Simple Deals Constant Noise Substance Unconscious Interpretation Sensations Discovering Protected Mixtures Dens Interpretation Of Dreams

Author:Erich Fromm

“There's a constant conflict, really, within me. As much as I really enjoy what I do at home... I play on my own little soccer team and I've been taking part in the community and living the life of any ordinary guy, I always find myself wistful and enveloped in a feeling I can't really get out of my system.”

Littles I Can Play Feelings Home Guy Enjoy Community My Own Team Conflict Ordinary Constant Soccer Live Life Soccer Team

Author:Robert Plant

“We unified, we looked past and we're impervious to the constant criticism of naysayer.”

Past Criticism Constant Unified Naysayers Impervious Constant Criticism

Author:Kellyanne Conway

“[I spend a] lot [time travelling]. Between the restaurants, filming for TV, producing MasterChef, seeing the kids... it's pretty constant.”

Kids Seeing Tvs Constant Restaurants Time Travel Masterchef

Author:Gordon Ramsay

“It's going to sound like the easy answer, but I love them both. I do! I really don't prefer one over the other. With movies, you really dive into a character for two to three months, but then it's gone. With a TV series, you have a constant location you're living in, and you're always working on the same character along with people who are like your own family. I'm lucky to have done both.”

People Two Done Character Three Easy Sound Answers Gone Tvs Like You Months Lucky Constant Series Location Three Months Tv Series Always Working Easy Answers

Author:Laura Vandervoort

“The police [in South Africa] would check in on you randomly. And they would come into the house, and they would look through that registry and look at all the names of all the people who were registered to be living in the house. And they would, you know, cross-reference that with the actual inhabitants of the dwelling.I was never on that piece of paper. I was always hidden. My grandmother would hide me somewhere if the police did show up. And it was a constant game of hide and seek.”

People Ifs Knows Looks Shows Games House Names Pieces Paper Crosses Police Constant South Checks Grandmother South Africa My Grandmother Dwelling Hide And Seek

Author:Trevor Noah

“When I saw the president [Barack Obama], I was a little disappointed that, you know, we were under constant attack. We never felt comfortable.”

Knows Littles Felt President Saws Comfortable Constant Barack Disappointed President Barack Obama

Author:Donna Brazile

“The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance.”

Ifs Looks Bigs Universe Difficult Chance Views Millions Fashion Hundred Evidence Constant Expansion Bangs

Author:Richard Dawkins

“The other way is the multiverse way. That says that maybe the universe we are in is one of a very large number of universes. The vast majority will not contain life because they have the wrong gravitational constant or the wrong this constant or that constant. But as the number of universes climbs, the odds mount that a tiny minority of universes will have the right fine-tuning.”

Way Universe Numbers Fine Majority Constant Tiny Climbs Minorities Odds Large Numbers Tuning Multiverse Fine Tuning

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If you look at the Associated Press wires, there's a constant flow of information coming in. At that time I happened to have direct access to AP wires. The day the marines landed in Haiti and restored [ Jan Bètran] Aristide there was a lot of excitement about the dedication to democracy and so on. But the day before the marines landed, when every journalist was looking at Haiti because it was assumed that something big was happening, the AP wires reported that then [Bill] Clinton administration had authorized Texaco to ship oil illegally to the military junta.”

Ifs Looks Bigs Democracy Happened Military Information Happenings Flow Direct Bills Presses Constant Clinton Oil Access Ships Administration Journalist Excitement Dedication Marine Wire Haiti

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Song Bits Constant Performing Pace Strain Pace Yourself

Author:Neil Young

“With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world.”

World Firsts Has Beens Important Country Influence Military Office Approach Constant Russia Around The World Regions Principal Superpower

Author:Barack Obama

“There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement.”

Needs Made Values Mistake Constant Improvement Administration Made A Mistake I've Made Mistakes Constant Improvement

Author:Barack Obama

“In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere.”

Knows Wells Looks Age Turns Television Pages Constant Active Oppression Officials Elsewhere Severe Turn-on Misinformation Facebook Page

Author:Barack Obama

“Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.”

Weakness Constant Misery Strain

Author:Swami Vivekananda

“This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.”

Battle Constant African American Accomplished Stereotype Latino

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“It's just a constant thing when the mind starts to wake up to itself.”

Mind Wake Up Constant

Author:Byron Katie

“We have a reversal of a longstanding trend, from rising inequality across nations and constant or declining inequality within nations, to declining inequality across nations and rising inequality within them.”

Nations Constant Inequality Rising Trends Reversal

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".”

Long Has Beens Struggle Constant Democratic Governance Madison Constant Struggle

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.”

Different Matter Past Political Natural Challenges Century Constant Tendencies Realms Serving Survived Status Quo Natural Science

Author:Noam Chomsky

“What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region.”

Form Decision Views Influence Constant Preserves Regions Iran Regimes Israeli Proxy Hezbollah

Author:Barack Obama

“Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment.”

People Way Sometimes Social Technology Media Information Source Towns Constant Plant Social Media Employment Primaries Concrete Globalization Manufacturing Primary Source

Author:Barack Obama

“Prior to me, no one in my family is in the field of IT, but I can feel that my brothers are following my footsteps very anxiously and enthusiastically. They are posing a constant challenge to my world record.”

World Feels I Can Challenges Records Fields Brother My Family Constant Following My Brother Footsteps Posing World Records

Author:Arfa Karim

“That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have.”

Ifs Thinking Want Has Beens Felt Support Stage Position Consequence Constant Folks Right Thing Gracious

Author:Barack Obama

“When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.”

People Ifs Matter Audience Listening Ears Constant Rhythm Consistently

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Open office plans, cell phones, constant notifications: these are all things that fight against sustained attention on a task. For some people and some tasks, that doesn’t matter. But for a lot of important work, it matters a lot.”

People Important Matter Fighting Attention Plans Office All Things Tasks Constant Phones Cells Working It Cell Phone Important Work Notifications

Author:Kevin Drum

“[My father] had this quirky thing of not believing in gravity. And giving me a constant headache about that one. He would say if I showed any interest in gravity, I was becoming a dupe of the system. He could see indications I was beginning to believe in it.”

Ifs Giving Believe Father Interest Becoming Constant Gravity Indication Headache Quirky Dupes

Author:Paul Laffoley

“Life is going to be a constant peeling back of layers, a constant unlearning of what we've been taught or believe to be true. I think that I've come to terms with the fact that that's just going to happen for the whole duration of my life. I feel really good about being able to look myself in the face and say, "Oh, who are you now?" And that might change.”

Thinking Feels Believe Looks Whole Facts Might Happens Able Faces Life Is Term Taught Constant Being True Layers Duration Peeling

Author:Alicia Keys

“You cannot be a party in stagnation. You have to have the constant reinvigoration of fresher ideas and the debate in terms of role of government and the rest is as ancient as - as old as America.”

Ideas Government America Term Party Roles Constant Ancient Debate Stagnation Role Of Government

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.”

Ifs Years Book Poverty Proud Tired Constant Horrible All Time Broke Embarrassed Desperation Highways Downers Being Broke

Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“Democracy is about constant vigilance. It's not straightforward, there will always be setbacks and you get particular be it religious fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalism - a partly conservative approach and actually trying to put women in a more traditional role. And we have to resist that.”

Trying Christian Religious Roles Democracy Particular Approach Constant Conservative Traditional Fundamentalism Straightforward Setback Vigilance

Author:Mary Robinson

“Farming, from an outside perspective, can be viewed as a romantic, free and off-the-grid life, but the constant work of it means a routine you must follow or everyone dies.”

Mean Dies Perspective Constant Routine Farming And Off Grids

Author:Amy Pietz

“I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to the university, I just couldn't reconcile that book and some of its points of view with stuff I was learning in my academic career. And so then you have a choice: either you give up your academic career and close your mind and become a constant fundamentalist, or you give up your religion and become a citizen of the modern world and get a modern education, or just spend the rest of your life balancing the two things together, forcing them into a dialogue.”

“The Dalai Lama is my personal (and the world's) hero and has been for me since I was 17 and I first learned about him. His openness and acceptance of the world and his focus on others are constant inspirations for me.”

World Firsts Has Beens Inspiration Focus Acceptance Hero Constant Openness Lama Dalai

Author:Nick Morgan

“I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.”

“What hasn't been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal government. And what it says is, for every regulation presented for passage that Cabinet secretary has to identify two that person would eliminate. And that's a big deal.”

Persons Two Bigs Government Form Order President Deals Trump Constant Passages Regulation Secretary Federal Government Big Deal Cabinets

Author:Reince Priebus

“I thought what Steve Bannon said was probably more chilling or more threatening than anything the president [Donald Trump]says, I mean, because he said, it's a constant day. We have to defeat the press.”

Mean Said President Trump Presses Constant Defeat Threatening Chill

Author:Mark Shields

“I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Film Stage Constant Scripts Screens Edits

Author:Daniel Kaluuya

“I'm a constant editor. Every few months or so I make a ton of 4x6 prints. I put them on a magnetic board and I live with them for a while to see what bubbles to the surface. A lot of this was part of Disco Night originally, and I suddenly started realizing, "If I keep working on this because I'm not done and I put all that in Disco Night, how can this be one book? Is it going to be too long and bloated and crazy?".”

Ifs Long Book Done Night Realizing Crazy Months Constant Surface Boards Print Editors Bubbles Magnetic Disco

Author:Peter van Agtmael

“The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting, in unstable meteorological conditions, and to do so in near constant motion.”

Has Beens Problem Brain Conditions Constant Solve Setting Settings Related Surviving Unstable

Author:John Medina

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