“So for instance in rap music, you very often hear words that would seem very racist, or very misogynous or very homophobic but in some of those instances, the words are being taken back or redefined so that they lose their injurious quality.” SeemsLosesQualityTakenRapInstanceRacistRap MusicHomophobic Author:Judith Butler
“There is a creative pleasure, which, for instance, the artisan in the Middle Ages, or in a country like Mexico, still today has - namely the pleasure of creating something. You find quite a few skilled workers who still have that pleasure: maybe in a steel mill; maybe a worker who works with a complicated machine - he has a sense that he is creating something.” StillsCountryAgeTodayPleasureCreativeMiddleCreatingMachinesWorkersComplicatedInstanceMexicoSteelMiddle AgesMillsCreating SomethingArtisansSkilled Workers Author:Erich Fromm
“If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.” IfsIdeasAttentionMeetingsInstanceBoardsGood IdeasBoard Meetings Author:Bob Weir
“The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls out the modern interstate system. The highway system of the United States is built during this period.” StatesMomentsUnitedUnited StatesModernPeriodsBuiltInstanceAdministrationHighwaysInfrastructureInterstateHeydaySputnik Author:Judy Woodruff
“I'm not guaranteeing what we come up with will be better for the planet. There is ethanol, for instance, which actually nets out with more pollution at greater expense, and more harm to the environment than petroleum, but we'll come up with something.” EnvironmentGreaterPlanetsCome UpHarmInstanceExpensesPollutionPetroleumEthanol Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.” InstancePresidentialCandidates1960sPresidential Candidate Author:Michael Beschloss
“I remember early on, for instance, having to play wedding gigs, that I hated playing the music. Now I don't have to play music that I don't like. I only get to do what I enjoy, so that's pretty lucky.” PlayRememberEnjoyLuckyInstanceHatedGigs Author:Norah Jones
“You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.” IfsFeelsPlayWinningGoalTeamFootballNormalEnglandExcitedInstanceSoccerCheerSpainSpectacularBest Team Author:Magnus Carlsen
“[The Maldives] they've become deeply politically engaged - just for instance, the president taught his whole cabinet to scuba dive so they could hold an underwater cabinet meeting along their dying coral reef and pass a 350 resolution to send to the U.N.” WholePresidentDyingTaughtMeetingsInstanceEngagedResolutionCabinetsUnderwaterReefsScubaCoral ReefsMaldives Author:Bill McKibben
“For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and based upon his reading of the letter to the Hebrews in particular, is that Christ offers up his life and death as a penitential act on our behalf, rather than as a punishment in our stead.” IdeasReadingFoundChristCenturyParticularOffersLettersNotionPunishmentInstanceLife And DeathBehalfTheologianNineteenth CenturyScottishHebrewSubstitution Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“For instance, there are many mainstream Reformed theologians that deny the doctrine of "limited" atonement (the "L" in TULIP, the acrostic for the Five Points of Calvinism). These are not thinkers on the margins or troublemakers. They are leaders at the center of Reformed thinking like Bishop John Davenant.” ThinkingLeaderFiveDenyDoctrineInstanceThinkerMainstreamTheologianMarginsBishopsAtonementCalvinismTroublemaker Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“I try to simplify things for the children. For instance, [I arrange] for them to have almost no dialogue, or to somehow give them very precise indications, because usually they ask for that.” GivingTryingChildrenAsksDialogueInstancePreciseIndicationSimplify Author:Lucile Hadzihalilovic
“If I may add, for instance, [Martin Luther] King and these others will say that they are fighting for the Negro to have equal job opportunity. How can people, a group of people, such as our people, who own no factories, have equal job opportunities competing against the race that owns the factories?The only way the two can have equal job opportunities is if black people have factories as, as well as white people have factories.” PeopleIfsWayWellsMayTwoJobsFightingOpportunityBlackWhiteRaceGroupsKingsEqualAddInstanceBlack PeopleFactoriesCompetingLutherJob Opportunities Author:Malcolm X
“History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!” PeopleMenFactsLyingWhiteRecordsFailingStupidResearchDevilRewardsFinalsProofDestroyedInstanceWhite Man Author:Malcolm X
“The matter is - we are actors playing roles [in Planet Apes] and they happen to be in this instance apes but there's no difference. In the scenes that we're playing, if we were to block out the scenes as actors in costumes, it would be no different.” IfsDifferentMatterHappensWould BeActorsDifferencesRolesPlanetsSceneBlockInstanceCostumesApesPlaying Roles Author:Andy Serkis
“For instance, I assume those "carrots" we have on our keyboards were there originally to express "greater than" and "less than." Then they were adopted by coders, and now they show up all the time in the way email addresses are constructed. At least I think that's what happened.” ThinkingWayShowsGreaterHappenedAssumingInstanceAddressesEmailAdoptedKeyboardsCarrotsCoders Author:Michael Bierut
“It's hard to predict what will happen as reading on screen becomes more of a universal norm, and when the formats dictated by social media - Twitter's 140-character limit, for instance - start to influence what we're used to.” HardCharacterHappensUsedReadingSocialInfluenceMediaLimitsUniversalSocial MediaScreensInstanceNormFormat140 Character Author:Michael Bierut
“I'm telling as an actual source to the press,I'm telling you as a source that, to the best of my knowledge, and based on conversations that the RNC has had with the FBI, I know of no instance that [George Stephanopoulos] describing involving the RNC or the RNC's data.” KnowsSourceConversationPressesInstanceDataDescribingFbiInvolving Author:Reince Priebus
“It was just how my parents treated me. It was the world they decided to show me. I was really sheltered. My grandmother kept me locked in the house when I was staying, you know, with the family in Soweto. And every household, for instance, had to have a registry of everyone who lived in that house.” KnowsWorldShowsHouseParentDecidedTreatedInstanceStayingGrandmotherLockedHouseholdShow MeMy Grandmother Author:Trevor Noah
“I just had - we had instances - like, for instance, when I turned 13, she threw me a bar mitzvah. But nobody came.But nobody came because nobody knew what the hell that was. I only had black friends. No one knows what the hell you're doing.” KnowsBlackHellBarsInstanceBar MitzvahMitzvah Author:Trevor Noah
“[Grew up in Hawaii] that gave [Barack Obama] a kind of optimism, an ability to see things, you know, and frankly, an ability to trust, you know, in his fellow, you know, white countrymen in a way that I, for instance, you know, and the vast majority of black people I know never really could.” PeopleKnowsWayKindBlackAbilityWhiteGrewGrew UpOptimismFellowsMajorityInstanceBarackBlack PeopleHawaiiCountrymenAbility To See Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called Violent Politics. It's a record of what are basically guerrilla wars from the American Revolution right up through the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” WellsBookWarInterestingKnownRecordsEventsRevolutionIraqViolentInstanceHistorianAfghanistanWell KnownVery InterestingAmerican RevolutionGuerrillasInteresting Book Author:Noam Chomsky
“Our agreements on creating the conditions for preparing a peace treaty [with Japan] should be rooted in this trust. This may be achieved, for example, by large-scale economic activities that will also cover the Kuril Islands. It may be achieved by solving purely humanitarian issues, for instance, unhindered visa-free travel by former residents of the Southern Kuril Islands to where they used to live: visiting cemeteries, native places and so on.” ShouldMayUsedIssuesEconomicConditionsExampleActivityCreatingHumanitarianScalesInstanceFormerIslandsNativeJapanAgreementSouthernRootedPreparingVisitingTreatiesCemeteryResidentsVisaLarge ScalePeace TreatiesNative Place Author:Vladimir Putin
“Nobody is delineated, nobody is concentrated. There is a lot of extraneous stuff. Like for instance, the satellites that measure in the atmosphere, there is billions and billions and billions of bytes of data, only maybe 2% of which are actually useful. They don't know what the rest are for, they don't know what good they are.” KnowsStuffBillionsInstanceDataAtmosphereSatellites Author:Owsley Stanley
“When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people are aware of a discrepancy, I think. There are idiosyncrasies and foibles, but we're not sure if these are essential. Some people think they are the most essential things of all.” PeopleIfsThinkingMightWonderFailingEssentialsIdealsInstanceNot SureWho We AreIdiosyncrasiesDiscrepanciesFoibles Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British example, actually. And there will never be another Annette Funicello. I suppose it's the slight starchiness of the innocence that makes it unrepeatable.” GivingI CanAbleFilmImagineExampleSummerBritishInstanceInnocenceHoliday Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instances, we had a rider dressed in a green suit. The rider would guide the horse through the frame, and through CGI [we removed] the rider. But that's about it.” LittlesWarRunningHappenedHorseGreenGuidesInstanceSuitsRidersTrenchesCgiWar Horse Author:Janusz Kaminski
“All my life I've been seeing things through the culture. My father, for instance, was the press's bad boy. People really hated him. He was always a big flirt. He was always in trouble - going bankrupt, whatever.” PeopleBigsCultureFatherBoysSeeingTroublePressesInstanceHatedFlirtingBad Boy Author:Carrie Fisher
“What I really like is the marriage of both [writing and acting] - for instance, with Postcards. I don't actually act in it, but I worked on it with Mike [Nichols] as I went along, creating the character, so it was a bit like acting for me.” WritingCharacterBitsActingCreatingInstanceMikePostcards Author:Carrie Fisher
“I must say I can appreciate it when males are very male. Like Harrison [Ford], for instance. He's pretty butch. I guess I prefer butch to terribly fey.” I CanAppreciateMalesInstanceFey Author:Carrie Fisher
“[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there were two or three authors of Isaiah's book, or how many authors there were of Deuteronomy. This is not what I'm doing.” KnowsDoeTwoImportantBookMatterThreeCoursesApproachArgumentTasksPrioritiesInstance Author:Elie Wiesel
“We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]” KnowsBookWarNumbersLordOne DayLaughterInstance Author:Elie Wiesel
“When one goes to see Modern Times, for instance, one understands much more about socialism than listening to the man who was then head of the Socialist movement in Italy.” MenModernMovementHe ManListeningSocialismInstanceSocialistModern Times Author:Sergio Leone
“I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up there talking with the Chinese leadership and they said to me that they were a bit concerned that the Americans had a misunderstanding about their relationship with the Soviets. There was some suggestion that there was a rapprochement developing between China and the Soviets, but nothing could have been further from the truth.” Has BeensSaidStatesUsedBitsUnitedNumbersTalkingUnited StatesConcernedChinaInstanceOccasionsDevelopingChineseSuggestionsThey SaidMisunderstandingCould Have Been Author:Bob Hawke
“The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]... For instance, once she goes - if she's ever going to die, it seems to be questionable - if Charles [of Wales] were there, whether there'd be the same sort of cement is very questionable, I think.” IfsThinkingSeemsDiesPersonalityInstanceQueensWalesCementQuestionableQueen ElizabethElizabeth Ii Author:Bob Hawke
“For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.” NamesUnityInstanceDestroying Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“We already have plenty of fundamentalism and fundamental sects like for instance Rabbi Schneerson and Chabad Lubavitch. They feel more secure because they are in the warm, caring/sharing community. This is the difference between community (Gemeinschaft) and what Ferdinand Tönnies called Gesellschaft: a kind of setting in which you have no rights to do anything unless you pay for it, and no right to get anything unless you prove that you are 'credit worthy'. In a Gemeinschaft, however, you have a place at the table guaranteed whatever happens.” FeelsKindHappensCommunityDifferencesPayRightsProveTablesFundamentalsCaringWorthyCreditWarmSettingSettingsInstanceSecurePlentyFundamentalismSectsWhatever HappensRabbi Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Lev (Léon) Shestov, a Russian Jew who later became a French Jew and even converted to Catholicism, defined God not by His power to create the laws of universe, but His ability to break them at will - the capacity for miracles. God could cancel the past! For instance, God could decide retrospectively, that Socrates was never poisoned... Assimilation demanded a miracle: that you stop having been somebody else before... But only God can do it.” PastLawUniverseCan DoAbilityBreakCapacityMiracleJewInstanceDefinedCatholicismAssimilation Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."” MayChildrenSaidFoundStepsDivineCreaturesWeakMovedAffectionScriptureInstanceMoses Author:Saint Augustine
“I'm always doing something before I'm going to them. For instance, I was doing a show the night before this one. I never really think about it too much because it's always in the middle of a lot of things.” ThinkingShowsNightToo MuchMiddleInstance Author:Ed Sheeran
“When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.” PeopleKindChildrenStoriesAbuseInstance Author:Desmond Tutu
“The government does a lot of stuff that it shouldn't do - the Department of Education, for instance.” DoeGovernmentStuffInstanceDepartment Author:Milo Yiannopoulos
“Different nations have different ways of forming their national identity. In America, for instance, the model was one of homogeneity breaking from different backgrounds, and the whole effort was to blend them all together like a wonderful making of a milkshake!” WayDifferentWholeTogetherAmericaNationsEffortWonderfulIdentityModelsBackgroundsInstanceDifferent WaysDifferent BackgroundsNational IdentityHomogeneityMilkshakes Author:Kabir Bedi
“When I started, I was aware of using the black as a rhetorical device. It's understanding that black people come in a wide range of colors, but you find instances in a lot of black literature in which the blackness is used as a metaphor.” PeopleUsedLiteratureUnderstandingBlackColorMetaphorWideInstanceRangeDevicesBlack PeopleBlacknessRhetorical Author:Kerry James Marshall
“We live in a world of copies and we're fascinated when we encounter the originals (in a museum, for instance).” WorldOriginalsInstanceEncountersCopiesMuseumsFascinated Author:Susan Sontag
“Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.” IfsGivingMeanAgeAmericaNationsChristAnswersParticularTradeMeetingsNuclearSelfishInstanceTragicDoomedIrrelevantHistoricImaginativeSummitUnselfishSpellingBeing SelfishReciprocalEvangelistsHope In Christ Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Ultimately freedom is necessary for a society, because every despotic society - for instance, the Russian society - lives on the basis of a rather implausible dogma - the Marxist dogma of world redemption through Communism.” WorldBasesInstanceRedemptionCommunismDogmaMarxist Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHas BeensConcernInstanceDesertVillageJungleUnfamiliarPlightSmall Villages Author:Jimmy Carter
“We are more often than not asked, for instance, to regard Israel and Palestine as in a conflict of this kind, a framing that sets each of them on equal footing, and implicitly analogies the political situation to a fist fight, a soccer match, or a domestic quarrel. So if, then, the only two intelligible political positions are "pro-Palestinian" or "pro-Israeli," the presumption is that one's position is determined by a sentiment that wants one side to win over the other.” IfsWantKindTwoPoliticalFightingWinningSidesSituationPositionConflictEqualRegardIsraelDeterminedInstanceSoccerSentimentsPalestinianPalestineFistsQuarrelsIsraeliAnalogiesPresumptionFramingIf Then Author:Judith Butler
“We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.” WayNeedsStatesAbleGreaterSecurityMediaInstitutionsTrackInstance Author:Judith Butler