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“I thought that perhaps the most creative mix for a society would be nine parts solid worker from institutions like MIT to one part poet from Marrakech, but in spite of the fact that I myself had been trained to be one of the solid workers, which meant that all of my sympathies lay with that group, I would not surrender the poet. The problem was to find him.”

Facts Problem Would Be Creative Groups Poet Institutions Lays Workers Surrender Nine Spite My Sympathy Mit Marrakech

Author:James A. Michener

“With the initial focus groups and the initial look-sees, the Rams are a very popular team in Southern California. And so one of the reasons that it was attractive to us to work against them is because they have that good flavor.”

Looks Reason Focus Groups Team California Attractive Southern Flavor Initials Very Popular Rams Southern California Focus Groups

Author:Jerry Jones

“As a buying group, visionaries are easy to sell but very hard to please. This is because they are buying a dream - which, to some degree, will alwasy be a dream.”

Hard Dream Easy Groups Please Degrees Sells Buying Visionaries

Author:Geoffrey Moore

“The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.”

Ifs Stills Ends States Lasts Groups Drug Hollywood British Terrorist Violent These Days Comeback Dealer Gangsters Saudis Insulted Drug Dealers Ethnic Groups

Author:Simon Hoggart

“I'm very interested in clans and the way people group together, and there's a lot of group shots. There's a lot of people in positions that people feel like they're in attack mode, kind of pointed at each other in the frame. I'm not a big fan of shooting something that looks like it could belong in any movie, I'm not a fan of okay, "wide shot, wide shot, medium shot, close-up, close-up, we'll figure it out in post." I hate that.”

People Way Feels Looks Kind Bigs Together Hate Groups Fans Figures Position Shots Okay I Hate Wide Mediums Posts Shooting Clans

Author:Justin Simien

“British diplomats who worked in Iran during the 1980 hostage crisis are deeply upset by Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning film 'Argo,' which suggests they refused shelter to the group who managed to get out of the U.S. embassy.”

Film Winning Groups Crisis British Upset Iran Shelter Oscars Hostage Diplomats Embassy Argo Hostage Crisis

Author:Simon Hoggart

“With the groups who asked me to join them - like the Rolling Stones, Spirit, David Bowie, and Blood, Sweat & Tears - I said no right away because I was way too much into my own thing.”

Way Said Spirit My Own Too Much Groups Blood Tears Stones Sweat Rolling Rolling Stones Bowie

Author:Shuggie Otis

“My advice to emerging documentary filmmakers would be: try to find other people, a group, a cooperative that you can work with. Filmmaking is hard and lonely and decidedly unglamorous. Find like-minded souls and share the joy and the misery.”

People Trying Soul Hard Would Be Joy Groups Share Advice Lonely Misery Filmmaker Filmmaking Documentaries Emerging Cooperatives

Author:Pamela Yates

“One thing you think about when you do get nominated is that there is a coalition of people that think you performed okay in the role. You start to think about how much of a blessing it is to have your peers and then people outside of your peer group to say bravo.”

People Thinking Roles One Thing Groups Blessing Okay Peers Coalitions Bravo Peer Group

Author:Hosea Chanchez

“I made a film about adolescence and what going through it is like for a specific group of girls. Adolescence is always about wanting desperately to be individuals, and also about wanting desperately to fit in. For every teenager it's about finding that balance.”

Made Film Girl Individual Groups Balance Fit Findings Teenager Adolescence

Author:Linda Goldstein Knowlton

“The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.”

Trying Causes Process Groups Disease Research Impression Corporations Interviews Fund Profitable

Author:Ravida Din

“I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.”

Interest Groups Musician Albums Cds Album Covers

Author:Robert Crumb

“I would hate for people to generalize about every Haitian from something that one Haitian did, or a group of Haitians did.”

People Hate Groups Haitian

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“The people did not elect me. I speak with one voice that may echo other people, but I am part of a group of people. That's not distancing yourself from a community, that's also allowing the space for others to speak for themselves.”

People May Speak Voice Community Space Groups Allowing Echoes

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“I guess my other advice is that it's really good to be comfortable among groups of men! It's just a very common work setting and I don't actually think about it too much, but there must be some comfort level that I've developed over the years.”

Thinking Men Years Levels Common Too Much Groups Advice Comfort Comfortable Setting Settings

Author:Mitchell Baker

“Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.”

Different Would Be Kids Culture Fighting Understanding Teacher Groups Chicago Lumps Vietnamese Administrators Fighting Each Other

Author:Malik Yusef

“When I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a group, or I wanted to work for Greenpeace, or I wanted to be a Buddhist monk. Those were the only three things I really wanted to do. I was doing some sort of soul searching in life.”

Soul Wanted Three Groups Buddhist Teenager Monk Three Things Soul Searching Buddhist Monk Greenpeace

Author:Dave Wakeling

“In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.”

People Has Beens Religious Poor Groups Highest Greed Divorce Priorities Homosexuality Poor People Disturbing Elevation Callousness

Author:Jimmy Carter

“When I came to England I was quite surprised to see that you people have it too. But why people are so interested in other people's private lives is beyond me. It's like group hypnosis, or something - a giant distraction.”

People Life Is Groups England Giants Distraction Private Life Hypnosis

Author:Robert B. Weide

“When some of the gangs got involved with the drug trade, particularlythe crack cocaine trade, and the lethal violence started to flare up in the '80s, then there was a great deal of public attention on gangs and a great deal of concern about what was going on in these social groups.”

Social Deals Attention Violence Groups Involved Drug Concern Trade Cracks 80s Gang Cocaine Flare Social Groups Flare Up

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“There's only one thing worse than not paying attention to girls in gangs - it's paying attention to girls in gangs. The public reaction to girls and women who engage in nontraditional behavior - the hysteria that often surrounds girls in these groups - is almost as interesting as the behavior itself.”

Girl Interesting Attention One Thing Groups Behavior Reactions Pay Attention Surround Gang Hysteria

Author:Meda Chesney-Lind

“I think even if you're on a screen or you're in a play, it's always a group effort. It's not just the actors, it's the editor.”

Ifs Thinking Play Actors Effort Groups Screens Editors Group Effort

Author:Stockard Channing

“Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev can no longer attend concerts by his favorite group Deep Purple without having to fear that the musicians will wear T-shirts with Pussy Riot written on them.”

Written Groups Musician Ministers Shirts Prime Concerts Prime Minister T Shirt Purple Riot Pussy Deep Purple

Author:Alexei Navalny

“When I was a kid I started a baseball team. I was a terrible player, but I put together a group of neighborhood kids. I started a hockey team. I put the kids together and got a sponsor. So I can always kind of organize people and get things done.”

People Kind I Can Done Kids Together Player Groups Team Terrible Baseball Neighborhood Hockey Organize Things Done Sponsors Baseball Team Hockey Team

Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“A very small group of powerful people is deciding what's going to happen with your data, and they're using bots to help implement what they want to do. That has nothing to do with democracy. It's all about efficiency. And that's the really scary thing about it.”

People Want Helping Happens Powerful Democracy Groups Scary Data Efficiency Small Groups Scary Things Really Scary

Author:Daniel Suarez

“I worry most about proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in such a way that they could be acquired by non-governmental organizations, like terrorist groups, especially the radical groups. When a nation state has a nuclear weapon, it's a little bit easier to control the use of it, but for non-governmental groups it's much more difficult.”

“I love solving the problems of having groups work together and removing barriers. But to actually turn around and be in the center of that is an awkward place to be.”

Problem Together Turns Groups Barriers Working Together Awkward Group Work

Author:Edwin Catmull

“Russia has the largest reserves of natural resources, including iron and natural gas. The market will develop in the long term, and the VW Group will benefit from it.”

Long Term Natural Groups Benefits Resources Including Russia Long Term Gas Iron Reserves Natural Resources Natural Gas

Author:Martin Winterkorn

“The biggest thing I've noticed with some of my favorite directors is their gift of sticking a bunch of strangers in a room together and making them comfortable and making them into a cohesive group. There's magic involved, because you don't know why anybody would pick this group of people.”

People Knows Together Rooms Magic Groups Involved Directors Comfortable Picks My Favorite Stranger Bunch

Author:Alison Pill

“History teaches us that nobody can prevent a resistance group from arming when it has the support of the people.”

People Teach Support Groups Resistance

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“One of the reasons I work serially, but also one of the reasons that I try to claim space in painting, is I'm desperately interested in asking: How can a group of images, or even two images, have meaning together?”

Trying Two Reason Together Space Groups Painting Claims Asking

Author:Cynthia Daignault

“Wild groups of chimpanzees attack their enemies like gangs. What they completely lack, precisely because of their strong territorial behavior, is a friendly relationship with their neighbors.”

Strong Enemy Groups Behavior Neighbor Friendly Gang Chimpanzees Territorial

Author:Frans de Waal

“We, who think like animals living in small groups, must structure a global world. We believe in universal human rights and believe racism and war are wrong. On the other hand, it is our nature to be cooperative and loving almost exclusively with the members of the group to which we feel we belong.”

Thinking World Feels Believe Humans War Hands Animal Rights Groups Members Racism Universal Structure Human Rights Small Groups Cooperatives

Author:Frans de Waal

“Most people who think they can't live up to the great painters of the past, often times have a group of people they think they're better than.”

People Thinking Past Groups Painter

Author:Laura Owens

“The roots of the Palestinian conflict must be sought in history. The Holocaust and Palestine are directly connected with one another. And if the Holocaust actually occurred, then you should permit impartial groups from the whole world to research this. Why do you restrict the research to a certain group? Of course, I don't mean you, but rather the European governments.”

Ifs World Should Mean Whole Government Certain Courses Groups Conflict Research Roots Connected Whole World Permit Holocaust Palestinian Palestine

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“One group of scholars or persons, most of them politically motivated, say the Holocaust occurred. Then there is the group of scholars who represent the opposite position and have therefore been imprisoned for the most part. Hence, an impartial group has to come together to investigate and to render an opinion on this very important subject, because the clarification of this issue will contribute to the solution of global problems.”

Persons Important Problem Together Opinion Issues Groups Subjects Position Solutions Opposites Motivated Holocaust Scholar Clarification

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“The German people of today bear no guilt. Why are the German people not permitted the right to defend themselves? Why are the crimes of one group emphasized so greatly, instead of highlighting the great German cultural heritage? Why should the Germans not have the right to express their opinion freely?”

People Should Today Opinion Groups Crime Bears Guilt Heritage Cultural Heritage Highlighting

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.”

May Today Process Groups Effects Method Profound Alliances Medication Psychotherapy

Author:Leston Havens

“Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.”

People Giving Understanding Support Groups Influence Products Intellectual Give Me Prison Notebook Hegemony Influencing People

Author:Okky Madasari

“Saturday mornings in spring should always start with a jolt of dance by Paul Taylor performed by Taylor 2. The touring ensemble, an adjunct of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, offered a rare New York performance... It was an impressive event, presented by a group of highly individualistic dancers.”

Should Company Morning Groups Events New York Spring Performances Dancer Saturday Impressive Touring Ensemble Individualistic Saturday Morning

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.”

Humans Groups Team Overcoming Tendencies

Book:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

Source: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable

“Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.”

Thinking Humans Different Body Individual Christianity Groups Members Mere Lists Organs Items Contributing

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like; we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.”

Feels Groups Members Envy Close Friends Unendurable

Author:Alain de Botton

“I just want to get my voice heard again and to allow people to know me outside of a group situation. I also want young girls who look up to me to know not to give up, even when people try and take you away from your destiny.”

People Knows Want Giving Trying Looks Young Girl Voice Situation Destiny Heard Groups Giving Up Look Up Know Me Not Giving Up Our Destiny Your Destiny

Author:LeToya Luckett

“I used to do Korean classical music and started training to join an idol group after someone set me up an interview with my current agency. The common thing between Korean classical music and becoming a singer is that I get to go on stage which why I decided to get professional training for K-pop music without holding any bias.”

Used Common Groups Stage Goes On Becoming Training Decided Currents Pops Singers Agency Interviews Idols Bias Classical Music Pop Music Korean Common Things Professional Training

Author:Kim Him-chan

“Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.”

People World Want Kind Two Force Groups Remedy Inconsistent

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.”

Feels Trying Wells Art Body Groups Performances Aim Architecture Flesh Performance Art

Author:Spencer Tunick

“A body is a living entity. It represents life, freedom, sensuality, and it is a mechanism to carry out our thoughts. A body is always beautiful to me. It depends on the individual work and what I do with it and what kind of idea lies behind it - if age matters or not. But in my group works, the only difference is how far people can go if it rains, snows etc.”

People Ifs Kind Ideas Matter Body Age Beautiful Lying Individual Differences Behinds Groups Depends Rain Snow Sensuality Etc Mechanism Entity Our Thoughts Individual Work Group Work

Author:Spencer Tunick

“Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.”

People Trying Bigs Groups Dinner Food Love

Author:Sasha Grey

“Economist and Africa expert Collier analyzes why a group of 50 nations, home to the poorest one billion people, are failing. Considering issues such as civil war, dependence on extractive industries, and bad governance, he argues that the strongest industrialized countries must enact a plan to help with international policies and standards.”

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