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“We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.”

Issues Cracks

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“I have my flaws and my issues, past and present and who knows what will happen in the future. I want people to know Im vulnerable too and each one of us is.”

People Knows Want Happens Past Issues Vulnerable Flaws Past And Present

Author:Tim Gunn

“Sometimes someone that is the villain in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.”

Thinking Looks Sometimes Issues Deeper Behave Villain

Author:Brooke Elliott

“The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.”

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Author:Jim Brown

“First I found [Elvis] to be a gentleman and then a gentle man. I found he could be sensitive to small issues. For someone of his stature there is very little for him to notice, ya know? He's so insulated by the people who surround him and by his own popularity. And yet Elvis will still find little things. He'll take the time to be gentle with people.”

People Knows Men Firsts Littles Stills Found Issues Gentle Sensitive Gentleman Little Things Surround Popularity Stature

Author:Bill Bixby

“Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias.”

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Author:Bill Vaughan

“I regard reduction in Federal spending as one of the most important issues in this campaign. In my opinion it is the most direct and effective contribution that Government can make to business.”

Important Government Opinion Issues Direct Regard Spending Campaigns Contribution Reduction Important Issues Federal Spending

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.”

Needs Writing Littles Whole Individual Issues Media Messages Explain Yourself

Author:Mark Cuban

“Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.”

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Author:Alexander von Humboldt

“Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.”

Thinking World Problem Today Issues Population Global Warming Decline World Today

Author:Talulah Riley

“For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.”

Hard Eye Able Issues Overcoming Handle Transgender Public Eye

Author:Chaz Bono

“As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.”

Jobs Order Actors Issues Trouble Directors Producers Chains Minorities Casting Making A Living Food Chain Control Issues Trouble Making Pecking Order

Author:B. D. Wong

“What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”

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Author:Rem Koolhaas

“The gym can serve as an excellent place where kids and young men and women can really empty their issues right on the floor.”

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Author:Djimon Hounsou

“Toni Morrison is challenged regularly because she is a black author who writes about the real world. She speaks with so much knowledge about black issues she can't be accused of creating these (issues). People find these issues threatening.”

People World Writing Real Speak Black Issues Creating Real World Threatening Accused

Author:Judith Krug

“If police officers routinely issue tickets for the most serious traffic offenses, they'll be treating drivers of all races, sexes, and ages equally.”

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Author:Bill Dedman

“Money is a mystery. Not only is our behavior with respect to money sometimes puzzling and erratic, but our feelings about money are often contradictory, illogical, deep-rooted, and scarcely known even to our most secret selves. We are getting better at handling money, but what it means to us, how we use it to express ourselves, and how it can help us become all that we are meant to be remain murky issues.”

Mean Self Sometimes Helping Use Feelings Money Secret Known Issues Mystery Behavior Get Better Meant To Be Rooted Contradictory Illogical Puzzling Erratic

Author:Rosalie Maggio

“With issues like our country's teen-age pregnancy rate, fashion's importance ranks right up there with cleaning your ears. Except right before going on television to talk about teen-age pregnancy rates, when all I can think of is what I'm going to wear.”

Thinking I Can Country Age Issues Fashion Television Ears Importance Rate Our Country Pregnancy Cleaning

Author:Jane Pratt

“Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.”

Kind Persons Kids Issues Clear Privacy

Author:Carrie-Anne Moss

“When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.”

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Author:Michael McMillian

“Based on the timely and helpful responses to my support issues, I feel that I made the right decision to become a customer earlier this year. LuxSci is definitely a quality, customer-oriented business.”

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Author:Kevin Smith

“Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, Youve got such a pretty face; why dont you lose some weight? Over the years Ive realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.”

Years Children Body Faces Used Certain Loses Accepting Issues Type Weight Fats Used To Be I Have Learned Realised Pretty Face

Author:Vidya Balan

“There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.”

Issues Related Threatening Diabetes

Author:Stephen Wallem

“Money's never an issue. I can go and work for a small studio theatre somewhere if it's a play I really care about, or do TV or a big commercial West End show.”

Ifs I Can Ends Play Shows Bigs Care Issues Tvs West Studios Theatre West End

Author:Conleth Hill

“Ive been a radio and television news person since I was 19 years old. Im 57 years old now. But the advantage is that I have studied, investigated, and reported over those years on nearly every major story from wars and recessions to grass roots local issues.”

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Author:George Noory

“I didn't know I was even supposed to HAVE issues until I came to America”

Knows America Issues

Book:Americanah

Source: Americanah

“Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.”

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Author:Shailesh Rao

“All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.”

“The efficient use of energy is as much an issue for Saudi Arabia, with its huge natural resources, as it is for all countries. Increased efficiency makes sense environmentally, but also economically.”

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Author:Ali al-Naimi

“Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.”

“We waited for Congress to act. They couldn't act on the issue. So I just went ahead and signed an executive order which will unleash - [applause] - which says the federal agencies will not discriminate against faith-based programs. They ought to welcome the armies of compassion as opposed to turning them away.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.”

“We've got a cultural issue in America. We've got to change the whole way the issue is looked at. That's the mission. Some in the political process don't have enough patience for that, and I probably don't either.”

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Author:George W. Bush

“They said, "You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people." And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.”

People Knows Said Matter Humor Seems Political Voice Issues Hearing Right Thing They Said Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on policy and issues, he ought to say where.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humor Political President Issues Policy Ought Political Humor

Author:George W. Bush

“This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.”

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Author:Jerry Falwell

“Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.”

Matter Winning Issues Successful Communication No Matter What Strategy Simplicity Communicate Drs Nonviolent Communication Foreground Communicating With Others Successful Communication

Author:Tony Robbins

“On the issue of inflation, I think I could solve it no matter how much money it took.”

Thinking Matter Issues Investing Solve Inflation

Author:Pat Paulsen

“The issues which have created the difficult, multiplex conditions our umma finds itself in have been accumulating over a long time. The treatment is going to be multidimensional, prolonged and has to be cumulative.”

Long Has Beens Difficult Issues Conditions Long Time Treatment Cumulative

Author:Habib Ali al-Jifri

“Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.”

Bigs Government Community Levels Vision Issues Politician Blame Complaining Inaction Transport Blaming Others

Author:Anthony Albanese

“I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.”

War Body Issues Military Training Universal Slavery Preparation Opponents Segregation Parts Of The Body Conscription Military Training

Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

“We need to have profound compassion for the people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life, and sexual identity disorders. This is a very real issue. It's not funny, it's sad. Any of you who have members of your family that are in the lifestyle-we have a member of our family that is. This is not funny. It's a very sad life. It's part of Satan, I think, to say this is gay. It's anything but gay.”

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Author:Michele Bachmann

“I do think that part of literature's job is to comment on and participate in the social issues of the time.”

Thinking Jobs Literature Social Issues Comment Social Issues

Author:Linda Sue Park

“I wont use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I think, goes outside the pale, and I cannot support an activist on the abortion issue.”

Thinking Use Choices Individual Support Issues Tests Abortion Activist Pale

Author:Ken Buck

“Synthetic Worlds is a surprisingly profound book about the social, political, and economic issues arising from the emergence of vast multiplayer games on the Internet. What Castronova has realized is that these games, where players contribute considerable labor in exchange for things they value, are not merely like real economies, they are real economies, displaying inflation, fraud, Chinese sweatshops, and some surprising in-game innovations.”

“People can believe pretty much whatever they want to believe about moral and political issues, as long as some other people near them believe it, so you have to focus on indirect methods to change what people want to believe.”

People Want Believe Long Political Moral Issues Focus Method Indirect Political Issues

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Regarding social media, I really dont understand what appears to be the general populations lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey its them, not me, so whatever.”

Social Issues Media Internet Concern Population Social Media Hey Privacy

Author:Axl Rose

“Any issue, including political, economic and religious activities human beings pursue in this world, should be fully understood before we pass our judgement. Therefore, it is very important to know the causes. Whatever the issue, we should be able to see the complete picture. This will enable us to comprehend the whole story.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“But prosperity, and the happy issue of events, ought also to be attributed to his grace, in order that he may always receive the praise which he deserves, that of being a merciful Father, and an impartial Judge. About the close of the psalm, he inveighs against those ungodly men who will not acknowledge God's hand, amid such palpable demonstrations of his providence.”

Men May Hands Order Father Issues Grace Events Judging Ought Deserve Praise Prosperity Acknowledge Providence Demonstration Merciful Psalms

Book:Commentary on Psalms

Source: Commentary on Psalms

“Abortion is a states' rights issue. Education is a states' right issue. Medicinal marijuana is a states' rights issue. Gay marraige is a states' rights issue. Assisted suicide- like Terri Schiavo- is a states' rights issue. Come to think of it, almost every issue is a states' rights issue. Let's get the federal government out of our lives.”

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Author:Wayne Allyn Root

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