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“I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.”

Humans Country Helping Kids Race Media Drug Fame Human Race Emphasis Don't Trust Plugs

Author:Pete Seeger

“As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.”

People Writing Play Problem Culture Felt Deals Issues Wind Periods Finished Sensitive Abstract Resolve Emphasis Always Believe Embedded

Author:Arthur Miller

“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.”

World Looks Mother Grows Lines Growing Up Emphasis

Author:Rachel McAdams

“Winter does adversely affect [the roads] and our roads have been let go, so they're more and more porous. We're going to have to put more and more emphasis on permanent patch and maintenance, so I expect a great deal of roads breaking up in the spring.”

Doe Has Beens Deals Letting Go Spring Adversity Winter Permanent Emphasis Patches Maintenance

Author:Bill Vaughan

“My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.”

Wells Age Young Parent Achieve Huge Mark Pressure Raised University Keep Going My Sister Emphasis Young Age Attorney

Author:David Schwimmer

“I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.”

Bigs Sides Teacher Students Mom My Mom Grades Emphasis Good Students Good Grades

Author:Tyler Hilton

“our domestic lives reflect the major trend that dominates the consumer marketplace today: an ever-increasing emphasis on variety and choice. ... we find ourselves inventing our lives as we go along, improvising in an effort to take advantage of the bewildering range of choices that we face.”

Today Faces Choices Effort Our Lives Majors Advantage Variety Consumers Range Trends Emphasis Marketplace Inventing Improvising Domestic Life

Author:Sally Helgesen

“But perhaps the most important innovation in the doctrine of jihad was its outright prohibition of all but strictly defensive wars. “Fight in the way of God those who fight you,” the Quran says, “but do not begin hostilities; God does not like the aggressor” (2:190). Elsewhere the Quran is more explicit: “Permission to fight is given only to those who have been oppressed ... who have been driven from their homes for saying, 'God is our Lord' ” (22:39; emphasis added).”

Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.”

“The existence of a medium, after all, is its absolute justification, if as so many seem to think, it needs one and all comparison of potentialities is useless and irrelevant. Whether a water-color is inferior to an oil, or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence. [emphasis added] Let us rather accept joyously and with gratitude everything through which the spirit of man seeks to an ever fuller and more intense self-realization.”

“The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.”

Seems Theory Mathematics Method Physics Mathematical Emphasis Equations Algorithms Differential Equations

Book:The Neumann Compendium

Source: The Neumann Compendium

“For myself I never plan the way I deliver a message. I do prepare the content, and then I open my mouth and give it. And so the expression, the gestures, the emphasis on words, all of that just comes.”

Way Giving Plans Expression Messages Mouths Gestures Emphasis

Author:Anne Graham Lotz

“The facilities are amazing here in McLaren. If you compare them to Sauber, who have good facilities in Formula 1, it's another level. But in terms of the people, the way they approach their jobs, is really amazing when you come into McLaren. The emphasis they have is very good and it gives you a big boost when you drive for this team.”

People Ifs Way Giving Bigs Jobs Term Levels Team Approach Very Good Compare Formulas Emphasis Facility Boost Really Amazing Formula 1

Author:Sergio Perez

“It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the debate over Elian...I have to say that rarely have I been prouder of my fellow conservatives.”

Looks Individual Moral Modern Example Fellows Debate Emphasis Conservatism

Author:Ramesh Ponnuru

“Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. Thats democracy.”

People Persons Able Political Force Democracy Citizens Authority Vote Finals Voting Emphasis Rejecting

Author:Dmitry Medvedev

“Can any deny that in the modern church setup the main cause of anxiety is money? Yet that which tries the modern churches the most, troubled the New Testament Church the least. Our emphasis is on paying; theirs was on praying. When we have paid, the place is taken; when they had prayed, the place was shaken!”

Trying Causes Church Taken Modern Praying Anxiety Paid Deny Testament Emphasis New Testament Setups

Author:Leonard Ravenhill

“A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.”

Way Choices Reading Actors Lines Numbers Cutting Pace Instruction Location Costumes Emphasis Lenses Casting Translations Screenplays Manuals

Author:David Nicholls

“Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.”

Thinking Humans Book Three Asks Minutes Subjects Ignorance Conversation Tables Boredom Thoughtful Dull Speakers Shocking Emphasis Human Thought Table Of Contents

Author:Stendhal

“The export of oil, the export of minerals, will for many decades continue to be a critical part for the growth of African economies. The emphasis is on diversification. We have for many years - not just in South Africa but in many parts of the continent - spoken about beneficiation. And I think part of the secret, in relation to beneficiation, is you have got to make it attractive, profitable for the private sector - and it will take off. You may have to look at mechanisms like tax concessions... You will not have to worry about beneficiation if it makes commercial sense.”

“Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.”

World Christian Religious Results Numbers Christianity Posts Our Society Emphasis Consensus Ethos

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation.”

Giving Should Enough Action Contemplation Emphasis Enough Time

Author:Robert McNamara

“Understanding child development takes the emphasis away from the child's character--looking at the child as good or bad. The emphasis is put on behavior as communication. Discipline is thus seen as problem-solving. The child is helped to learn a more acceptable manner of communication.”

Children Character Problem Understanding Communication Development Discipline Behavior Acceptable Problem Solving Emphasis Child Development

Author:Ellen Galinsky

“You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.”

Should Trying War Communication Revolution Goes On Civil War Sooner Or Later Emphasis Uptight

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“Capitalism improves the quality of life for the working class not just because it leads to improved wages but also because it produces new, better, and cheaper goods.... Indeed, with capitalism, the emphasis shifted to producing goods as cheaply as possible for the masses--the working class--whereas artisans had previously produced their goods and wares mostly for the aristocracy. Under capitalism every business wants to cater to the masses, for that is where the money is.”

Want Quality Class Produce Mass Capitalism Goods Working Class Wages Emphasis Quality Of Life Cheaper Aristocracy Artisans

Author:Thomas DiLorenzo

“The defensive (or passive) investor will place chief emphasis on the avoidance of serious mistakes or losses. His second aim will be freedom from effort, annoyance, and the need for making frequent decisions.”

Needs Loss Decision Effort Mistake Serious Aim Investing Chiefs Investors Passive Emphasis Avoidance Annoyance Serious Mistakes

Book:The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

Source: The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed

“We are convinced that the intelligent investor can derive satisfactory results from pricing of either type (market timing or fundamental analysis via price). We are equally sure that if he places his emphasis on timing, in the sense of forecasting, he will end up as a speculator and with a speculator's financial results." And "The speculator's primary interest lies in anticipating and profiting from market fluctuations. The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices.”

“One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.”

Should Term Company Share Activity Picks Praise Investing Customers Irony Enterprise Pockets Investors Emphasis Brokers Liquidity Turnover Marketability

Author:Warren Buffett

“Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.”

Values Risk Expectations Investing Profit Minimum Emphasis

Author:Walter Schloss

“The throat: how strange, that there is not more erotic emphasis upon it. For here, through this compound pulsing pillar, our life makes its leap into spirit, and in the other direction gulps down what it needs of the material world.”

World Needs Spirit Our Lives Strange Materials Leap Throat Emphasis Erotic Compounds Pillars Material World

Author:John Updike

“The emphasis in doing any in-depth photography is on building relationships, quality relationships. It's what I call thirty-cups-of-coffee-a-frame photography. You need to enter into the community - not just photographically, but intellectually and emotionally.”

Needs Community Quality Building Photography Depth Coffee Cups Thirty Emphasis Coffee Cup Building Relationships

Author:Lynn Johnston

“Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.”

Thinking Feels Higher Deeper Substitutes Emphasis Few Words

Author:Elie Wiesel

“My parents always put more of an emphasis on who I was as opposed to what I achieved. They were never like, "You won that! You did this!" It was all about, "You've got a good heart. You're a good friend. You're a good daughter." So that other stuff in no way defines my sense of self.”

Way Heart Self Stuff Parent Like You Daughter Good Friend Emphasis Sense Of Self Good Heart

Author:Emma Stone

“There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.”

Thinking Way Trying Art States Film Culture United United States Horror Directors Picks Europe Filmmaker Copies Emphasis Horror Film Art And Culture

Author:Wes Craven

“[A] society which makes freedom its primary goal will lose it, because it has made, not responsibility, but freedom from responsibility, its purpose. When freedom is the basic emphasis, it is not responsible speech which is fostered but irresponsible speech.”

Made Purpose Goal Loses Responsibility Speech Responsible Primaries Emphasis Irresponsible

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“All I want to say, with the utmost emphasis at my command, is that the description of India as a military country is wrong.”

Want Country Military India Command Description Emphasis

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.”

Ends Principles Compromise Emphasis

Author:Andy Andrews

“The issue is that we, with our fears, our attacks, our judgments, our blame, and our constant emphasis on the realm of the body rather than the realm of love, eclipse the experience of true love.”

Body Issues Judgment Blame Constant Realms Emphasis Eclipse

Author:Marianne Williamson

“My bench never heard me mention winning. My whole emphasis was for each one of my players to try to learn to execute the fundamentals to the best of their ability. Not to try to be better than somebody else, but to learn from others, and never cease trying to be the best they could be; that's what I emphasized more than anything else.”

Trying Whole Winning Ability Player Heard Fundamentals Cease Being The Best Emphasis Benches

Author:John Wooden

“I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.”

Thinking Age Speak Emphasis Chasing Millennials

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“If we all gave all our goods to the poor, the church would fall apart. If we all hated our father and mother, as Jesus told us to, there'd be an end of the church's emphasis on the family as being the one important thing holding the whole society together. There are all sorts of ways in which the church's teachings contradict directly what Jesus says in the Gospel.”

Ifs Way Important Ends Whole Together Mother Fall Father Jesus Church Poor Teaching Important Things Hated Goods Emphasis Falling Apart Our Father

Author:Philip Pullman

“I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.”

People Enough Levels Leader Saws Too Much Projects Agree Strategy Initiative Execution Emphasis High Level Implementation

Author:Lawrence Bossidy

“I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.”

People Looks Fashion Clothes Rap Jeans Emphasis Skinny Hipster Skinny Jeans

Author:Fashawn

“I place a lot of emphasis on process and revision because I believe that all of my students can become better writers through hard work.”

Believe Hard I Believe Process Students Hard Work Emphasis Revision

Author:Cate Marvin

“There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.”

People Religion Prayer Needed Morality Mass Pages Madness Cruelty Manners Ritual Emphasis

Book:Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

Source: Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio : Raising the Standards of Popular Culture

“On the geological time scale, a human lifetime is reduced to a brevity that is too inhibiting to think about deep time. ... Geologists ... see the unbelievable swiftness with which one evolving species on the Earth has learned to reach into the dirt of some tropical island and fling 747s across the sky ... Seeing a race unaware of its own instantaneousness in time, they can reel off all the species that have come and gone, with emphasis on those that have specialized themselves to death.”

Thinking Humans Earth Race Gone Seeing Sky Lifetime Species Scales Evolve Islands Dirt Unbelievable Emphasis Fling Brevity Tropical Geologist Swiftness Geological Time Tropical Islands

Author:John McPhee

“In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.”

Should Mean Government Certain Social Economic Degrees Conservative Favors Liberalism Emphasis Mixtures Conservatism Beneficial Estimation Describe Myself Small Government

Author:John Howard

“There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.”

Trying Differences Views Audience Comedy Materials Depends Essentials Tragedy Point Of View Clever Emphasis

Author:George P. Baker

“There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things. Sure there are links; the same kind of sensibilities went into it and I worked on writing that script as well so there was an emphasis on a minimalisation of dialogue as far as possible, to focus on the visual and to put it in another language, of course.”

People Writing Wells Kind Certain Courses Language Sound Focus Scripts Various Speed Dialogue Visuals Links Sensibility Emphasis

Author:Mel Gibson

“[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are taught, not on actually making discoveries. People are being treated as herded cattle instead of as human beings capable of making original, creative discoveries.”

People Humans America Human Beings Creative Teaching Taught Capable Discovery Tests Originals Treated Emphasis Cattle Teaching And Learning Memorizing

Author:Kesha Rogers

“What takes its place is very dry education. And the tools that actually can teach you - singing and playing, learning how to participate with other people, spiritual richness - are replaced with a big emphasis on how to memorize things. That's such an incomplete education. Survival of the fittest used to mean being bigger and stronger.”

People Mean Bigs Spiritual Used Teach Survival Singing Tools Bigger Stronger Dry Replaced Emphasis Richness Incomplete Survival Of The Fittest

Author:Wynton Marsalis

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