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“That's the definition of a mini-series. A mini-series is a show that has no continuing story or narrative elements between one group of episodes and another, so no, I wasn't surprised.”

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Author:John Landgraf

“We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.”

People Knows World Country Actors Violence Groups Terrible Terrorist Commit Our Country Around The World Lone Acts Of Violence Isil Lone Wolf Terrorist Groups

Author:Barack Obama

“The problem is sitting in the birthplace of Islam, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, where this interpretation of Islam has gone out into the world over the last four decades, creating militancy groups from Indonesia, to now, San Bernardino, California, vicious attack. We have to take back the faith. And we have to take it back with the principles of peace, social justice, and human rights, women's rights, and secularize governance.”

“I think you get to see, through the different cult members, why people are attracted to a group like this. Everyone is there for a different reason and from a different background. That was part of what was interesting for us, in researching cults and exploring it. A lot of this happens in California.”

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Author:Brit Marling

“It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.”

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Author:Brit Marling

“I don't know if any specific religion is the one to subscribe to. I'm not saying, one way or the other. I don't want to get involved in that. But, I think having faith in this experience we are having as a group of people on Earth helps a lot.”

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Author:Zal Batmanglij

“When you take that to the next level of guiding a group of filmmakers to actually depict him, it's even more challenging. The one that that I think everybody involved believes is that we won't move forward with this until we believe it's right. There's no deadline that a movie has to be made by. We have to believe that we have served the responsibility, however long it takes us to get to that point.”

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Author:Christopher Meledandri

“I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.”

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Author:Joichi Ito

“This deep insecurity has been going on for a while. I mean I picked it up in 2014 sitting in focus groups of women who were feeling terrified, not just about that ISIS was coming, but terrified that their children couldn't be safe at school, terrified about what was happening in Ferguson and other places.”

Mean Children Has Beens Feelings School Focus Groups Safe Happenings Sitting Insecurity Terrified Isis Ferguson Focus Groups

Author:Chuck Todd

“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.”

People Trying Bits Voice Alive Groups Music Is Folks Boring Minorities Ballet Folk Music Minority Groups

Author:John Lennon

“After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.”

Needs Should Different Problem Order Natural United Views Enemy Groups Revolution Solutions Should Have Reform Revolutionary Splits Dialectics Different Views Sorting Sorting Out

Author:John Lennon

“Every group, every system has a set of values and morals and when you get outside those, then the alarms ring. I was politically incorrect to 95% of the country; luckily my 5% had the bread to come see me.”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.”

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Author:Lenny Bruce

“Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity.”

“I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.”

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Author:Michael Shannon

“I try to watch as many movies as possible within a group setting instead of just in front of my laptop. It's better to watch something and chat about it with your programming peers afterward.”

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Author:Tim League

“The British Union of Fascists, Oswald Mosley`s group, the black shirts, they were banned in Britain in 1940. And Max Mosley`s dad, Sir Oswald Mosley, ended up spending three years in World War II, 1940 to 1943, interned in the U.K. as basically an enemy of the state. He spent that time in prison, as did Max Mosley`s mother.”

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Author:Rachel Maddow

“If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.”

“Nine out of ten groups that came out in '89 are gone. I'm still here.”

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Author:Lenny Kravitz

“A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance, this new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact.”

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Author:George Orwell

“Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it.”

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Author:Steven Biko

“Now consciousness, what is consciousness? Consciousness is being aware of one's surroundings, recognizing the existence, truth or fact of something; being aware of the very moment, the very instant that you are in; being aware of how you affect the human social, political, and natural ecology you are a part of and how it affects you. Consciousness is being informed and instructed through your groups peculiar culture on the effects of the varied ecologies on your immediate and distant ancestors, and to be aware of their interpretation of that experience.”

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Author:James Small

“The Beatles meant everything to me growing up, and John was part of that. I loved Lennon's persona. He knew who he was and he knew what he represented to a worldwide public... I think he incited and inspired a whole group of youth to speak out and say what they felt.”

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Author:John Travolta

“Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.”

People Needs Social Groups Revolution Who We Are Social Revolution

Author:Ziggy Marley

“My best business decision was to be independent as a musician and artist. My worst was compromising on certain aspects of a deal for the sake of other members of my group when I shouldn't have, because I was right in the end.”

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Author:Ziggy Marley

“If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.”

People Ifs Important Ideas Might Novel Groups

Author:Sylvia Plath

“I love being on the periphery with a group of people who have the same values that I do. People who don't get off on fame, who just like the process of making movies and thrive.”

People Values Process Love Is Groups Fame Thrive Periphery

Author:Kristen Stewart

“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.”

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Author:David Mamet

“My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“I have no hang-ups in life. I don't care about groups and camps. I have been brought up with certain values and ethics. I have never been egoistic about my stardom and lineage. I don't have any qualms about breaking the ice with my colleagues. I can walk up to any actor and greet him, irrespective of what kind of equation I share with him.”

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Author:Abhishek Bachchan

“Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.”

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Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There are a lot of actors in the world, there's a small number that actually get to work as actors, and there is a tiny group of actors that are celebrated in the way that I have been. I feel incredibly lucky.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group organization.”

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Author:Mary Parker Follett

“Where did we come from? Where are we going? Is there possibility of a group discount?”

Groups Possibility Discounts

Author:Woody Allen

“Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.”

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Author:Oprah Winfrey

“When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.”

People Wonder Groups Large Groups Autopsy

Author:George Carlin

“President Bush spoke with the Amish. He didn't want to, but it was the only group he could find that wasn't upset about the high price of gas.”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Misgovernment...will often be reflected in oppressive or aggressive policies towards groups within the state or towards the state's neighbours.”

States Groups Policy Aggressive Neighbour Often Is

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets.”

Secret Growing Up Growing Groups My Family

Author:Dennis Miller

“Zsa Zsa Gabor, the only woman ever to apply for group alimony. Never got a dinner!”

Groups Dinner Alimony

Author:Red Buttons

“Nobody sees people as people. It's all how they relate to my little group.”

People Littles Groups Relate

Author:Bill Maher

“A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.”

Bigs Government Existence Watches Groups Brother Citizens Everyday Regimes Fascists Cuban Castro

Author:Bill Maher

“American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.”

Facts Seems Political Left Answers Groups Identity Organization Tendencies League American Society Bowling Identity Politics

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Group sex, are you kidding, I had group sex - my wife screwed in front of the jury.”

Sex Wife Groups Fronts My Wife Jury

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal education opportunities? We believe that it does.”

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Book:The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

Source: The Public Papers of Chief Justice Earl Warren

“If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.”

Ifs Persons Ends Trouble Groups Subjects Plant Extraordinary Finishing Exhibitions

Author:Edward Steichen

“We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.”

Interesting Party Groups Regard

Author:Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

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