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“I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.”

Thinking Sometimes Whole America Bits Nice One Thing Groups Dog Discipline Musical British Alternatives Soulless

Author:Jon Lord

“It's really important to be active in your community, whatever community that is... find allies and find people who you relate to and who make you stronger as a group.”

People Important Community Groups Stronger Active Relate Allies Makes You Stronger

Author:Katie Leclerc

“No other youth group like the Scouts has trained so many future leaders while at the same time being a nature organization with its outdoor focus.”

Leader Focus Groups Youth Organization Future Leaders

Author:Richard Louv

“I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.”

Thinking Feels Writing Wells Children Stories Age Young Groups Adults Young Adult Small Child

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.”

Three Groups Group Of Friends

Author:Sienna Miller

“Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.”

Men Ideas Effort Groups Female Males Russia Protest Something New Domain Emerging Accessories

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.”

Jobs Groups Injured Latino Ethnic Groups

Author:Grace Napolitano

“There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.”

People Thinking Way Faces Groups Bases Meetings Contact Efficient Ongoing Face To Face Blogging Replacements

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.”

Trying Years America Parent Half Study Groups Six Excellent Permission Boston Scholarship Yale Consulting Half A Year

Author:Indra Nooyi

“My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.”

Years Able Wife Groups Grew Research My Wife Cleveland

Author:George Andrew Olah

“I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.”

Knows Real Party Groups Group Of Friends

Author:Jack Osbourne

“I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.”

People Believe Use Rights Groups Constitution

Author:Jean O'Leary

“I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.”

Wanted Stuff Groups Politician Mature

Author:Richard O'Brien

“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.”

Form Political Left Black Violence Groups Students College Army Activism Liberation Radicalism Panthers Black Panther Weathermen Political Violence

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The Japanese tend to be far more co-operative and docile and group-oriented. It would be easier to get the entire population of Tokyo to wear matching outfits than to get any two randomly selected Americans to agree on pizza toppings.”

Two Would Be Funny Groups Easier Agree Population Japan Pizza Selected Outfits Tokyo Matching Docile Toppings

Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five apples, five days... We are merely thinking of those relationships between those two groups which are entirely independent of the individual essences of any of the members of either group. This is a very remarkable feat of abstraction; and it must have taken ages for the human race to rise to it”

“The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.”

Ideas Funny Names Groups News Definitions Miles Spots Posts Thoughtful Pens New Ideas Essays Blogs Blogging Miles Away Bloggers

Author:Steve Rubel

“The Jews cannot be classed as a 'race' per se, they are an ethnic group. '...the Jews form an ethnic group; that like all ethnic groups they have their own racial elements distributed in their own proportions; like all or most ethnic groups they have their 'look,' a part of their cultural heritage that both preserves and expresses their cultural solidarity...they have developed a special racial sub-type and a special pattern of facial and bodily expression.”

Looks Form Race Groups Special Expression Type Elements Patterns Jew Preserves Proportion Heritage Solidarity Facial Cultural Heritage Ethnic Groups

Author:Carleton S. Coon

“I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.”

Thinking Together Term Groups Banding Together

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“We may say that a basic substance is one which has a lone pair of electrons which may be used to complete the stable group of another atom, and that an acid is one which can employ a lone pair from another molecule in completing the stable group of one of its own atoms.”

May Used Groups Substance Pairs Atoms Stable Acid Molecules Lone Electrons Completing

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.”

Running Forever Successful Wonderful Groups All Things

Author:Aubrey O'Day

“I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.”

Thinking Leader Democracy Groups Advantage Dependent

Author:Azim Premji

“The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.”

States Character Social Community United United States Groups Indian Canada Customs Integrated Social Groups

Author:Azim Premji

“I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.”

World Want Firsts Ends Shows Guy Found Groups Musician West London Theatre Broke Want Me Palaces Dolls Broke Up West End

Author:Clarke Peters

“By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.”

Looks Mean Important Names Groups Important Things Reasonable

Author:Andy Partridge

“In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.”

Years Strong Groups Cooks Luke Great Year Liam

Author:Andy Pick

“I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I've got a lovely little flat and my work's here.”

Littles Groups Lovely Flats Group Of Friends

Author:Billie Piper

“I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group.”

Thinking Want Two Actors Rich Groups Divided

Author:Franka Potente

“Group discussion is very valuable; group drafting is less productive.”

Groups Valuable Discussion Productive Drafting

Author:Jon Postel

“A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.”

People Two Different Form Literature Force Hours Pay Attention Comedy Groups Painting Photography Tragedy Pay Attention Screenplays Soundtracks

Author:Paula Patton

“I was taught that you didn't want to be part of the group - that it was better to do your own thing.”

Want Groups Taught

Author:Todd Phillips

“Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.”

Important Political Groups Personification

Book:Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

Source: Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice

“I like PETA as a group for many reasons, but one of the reasons that I admire them is that they say and do the things that other groups won't do.”

Reason Groups Admire Peta

Author:Maggie Q

“My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.”

People Has Beens Together Groups Finance Managers Corporations Estates Exes Attorney Planners Trustees

Author:Randy Quaid

“One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.”

People Years Firsts Whole Bigs Song Five Groups Fronts First Time Criminals Suits Five Years Smooth Gloves Kindergarten Five Year Olds Blazers Fedoras

Author:Chance the Rapper

“It's lovely to work with a group of actors who make you laugh and smile.”

Actors Laughing Groups Lovely Make You Laugh Laughs And Smiles

Author:Kelly Reilly

“The problem is that the Iraqi people are facing atrocities from both sides - Zarqawi and also the American troops at times. The Zarqawi groups uses car bombs, the Americans use other bombs. You also know what they do in the prisons.”

People Knows Use Problem Sides Groups Car Prison Bombs Troops Both Sides Atrocities American Troops

Author:Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

“I don't know whether the number of any particular Latino group has made or will make any particular difference in the issues that I am concerned with.”

Knows Made Differences Numbers Issues Groups Particular Concerned Latino

Author:Charles Rangel

“I did a dance sequence in my second short film, which was my best short film, called 'Hairway to the Stars,' and I think Chris Wink, the founder of Blue Man Group, was in that. It's a black-and-white dance sequence. We were Glorious Food waiters together.”

Thinking Men Together Film Stars Black White Groups Blue Glorious Black And White Founders Sequence Waiter Short Films Best Short

Author:David O. Russell

“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.”

Thinking Children Happens Young Parent Sides Groups Adults Our Children Young Adult Your Children Mentor

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.”

People Years Past Moving Race Groups Identity Variety Manners Southern Accents Yankees Brainwashing Brainwashed Confederate Ethnic Groups Brainwash Yankee Fans

Author:John Shelton Reed

“I like comedy as a group sport.”

Sports Comedy Groups

Author:Maya Rudolph

“Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.”

Thinking Enemy Groups Fans Concerned Quests Tribes Bumps Zeppelins Public Enemies Unveiling Bumps In The Road Tribe Called Quest

Author:Michael Rapaport

“In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.”

Groups Weapons Research Tasks Scientist Nuclear Physics Nuclear Weapons Thesis Nuclear Physics

Author:Andrei Sakharov

“I don't think anyone will deny that girls are academically superior as a group.”

Thinking Girl Groups Deny Superiors That Girl

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.”

Earth Found Groups Species Fossils Fractions Sample Never Expect Paleontology

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.”

Different Play Groups Musician Series Singers Now And Then Tempo Composing Instrumentalists

Author:Karlheinz Stockhausen

“There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.”

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