“For instance, when "Gender trouble " is translated into Japanese, it produces a problem of vocabulary and a way of thinking about a quality for instance that is somewhat controversial in academic circles and also outside of the academy. In other places, "Gender trouble" is old.” ThinkingWayProblemQualityTroubleProduceGenderCirclesInstanceAcademicVocabularyWay Of ThinkingAcademyControversial Author:Judith Butler
“In our enthusiasm to dominate nature and to produce more material good - goods - we have transformed means into ends.” MeanEndsProduceMaterialsEnthusiasmGoodsTransformed Author:Erich Fromm
“We've wanted to produce more in the 19th century and the 20th century in order to give man the possibility for more dignified human life; but actually what has happened is that production and consumption have become means - have ceased to be means and have become ends, and we are production crazy and consumption crazy.” MenGivingHumansMeanEndsWantedOrderHappenedCrazyCenturyPossibilityProduceProductionsHuman LifeConsumption20th Century19th Century Author:Erich Fromm
“I think, to be specific, we got off the track when we concentrated more and more on production of things. Thereby, we created a split between intellect and emotion, because, in order to produce a modern technique, you have to use intellect, and we have created men who are very brilliant, who are very clever, but our emotional life has become impoverished.” ThinkingMenUseOrderEmotionModernProduceEmotionalTrackProductionsIntellectBrilliantTechniqueCleverSplitsVery CleverEmotional Life Author:Erich Fromm
“That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes they buy a treasury note, sometimes they set up sovereign wealth funds. They can do all kinds of things. They can buy our companies here. As long as we consume more than we produce, and we trade away little pieces of the country daily, they're going to own something. Now, they can't run from American assets. I mean every day the rest of the world is going to have about two billion more of American assets than we have, as long as they sell us these goods.” PeopleIfsWorldKindMeanLittlesLongTwoCountrySometimesWould BeRunningCan DoWealthCompanyPiecesNiceProduceTradeBillsSellsNotesBillionsStuckAll KindsFundGoodsAssetsBeing NiceSovereignTreasuryMattressesTreasury Bill Author:Warren Buffett
“The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.” WorldWellsStuffProduceLikesDamn Author:Warren Buffett
“The Task Force didn't produce any earth-shattering findings but it suggests that this matter is on the president's radar screen.” MatterEarthForcePresidentProduceFindingsTasksScreensRadarShatteringTask Forces Author:Julianne Malveaux
“The only thing contrived is the production - you can over-produce to the point you kill a good idea, you can under-produce so that the song's amazing but you'll have folks at a radio station saying they won't play it, so there's this balance, and it has to be true.” IdeasPlaySongProduceBalanceFolksRadioProductionsBeing TrueStationsGood IdeasRadio Stations Author:Ryan Tedder
“The base skill is listening: how I'm listening to the material, how I'm listening to the space. With electronic sound, it's a similar situation of how to produce it and place it so that it works in a space. The first consideration is adopting the space and having work that resonates in the space.” FirstsSoundSpaceSituationProduceMaterialsListeningSkillsConsiderationAdopting Author:Pauline Oliveros
“It was huge mistake to avoid working with the rest of the world because (a) we're the largest source of the problem: 4% of us who are in the U.S. produce 25% of the world's carbon dioxide.” WorldProblemMistakeProduceHugeSourceCarbonCarbon Dioxide Author:Bill McKibben
“Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.” FeelsSelfMomentsProduceConsciousMeaningfulSelf Conscious Author:Felicity Jones
“For those actors and directors who produce films which are always about the old kingdom or about heroes, you know about the fantasies related to the classics, but there is no real discussion about today's life and no discussion of the real conditions - which is really sickening. They've become part of a conspiracy, collaborators of the crime, which is lying to the general public and trying to hide the kind of criminal acts happening in many cases.” KnowsTryingKindRealTodayFilmLyingActorsCasesFantasyConditionsCrimeProduceHeroDirectorsHappeningsCriminalsKingdomsDiscussionRelatedConspiracyCollaboratorsGeneral Public Author:Ai Weiwei
“There's a hidden history. You see, Malcolm X and [Alex ] Haley collaborated to produce a magnificent narrative about the life of Malcolm X, but the two men had very different motives in coming together.” MenTwoDifferentTogetherProduceNarrativeMotiveMagnificentAlexComing TogetherHaley Author:Manning Marable
“US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people.” PeopleHas BeensTwoGovernmentCoursesPolicyProduceEasierTerrorismStrikesPeacefulTargetVillageContinuingBostonMarathonAttackingBombingTwo DaysDronesGovernment PolicyYemenBoston Marathon Author:Noam Chomsky
“"St. Lucia We Love" is actually a song produced by Stratosphere music (also St. Lucian). The CEO of Stratosphere music approached me and wanted me to produce a music video for this song which was already a hit in my country. I felt privileged to have been chosen to do such a video. So every time I went out to shoot a scene from the video, I would get a still shot from the scene to tease the public. The photo of the amazona versicolor is is an actual scene from the video which was released on St. Lucia's Independence day (22nd February, 2013).” Has BeensStillsCountryWantedSongFeltLove IsProduceSceneShotsIndependenceVideoChosenPrivilegedCeoTeaseIndependence DayFebruary Author:St. Lucia
“In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."” IfsKnowsFirstsWellsSaidWantedProduceDirectLet MeOriginalsFenceAugustScreenplaysWilson Author:Denzel Washington
“Fuzzy logic will produce a computer that will even seem to have a personality. It will seem to have a character. It will be able to talk to you. It will be able to translate from one language to another instantaneously. You will be able to give it instructions. You will be able to tell it stories. If it doesn't understand something, it will ask you.” IfsGivingCharacterStoriesSeemsAbleAsksLanguageProducePersonalityComputerLogicInstructionTranslateFuzzy Author:Owsley Stanley
“The young people today are really so creative and talented - I mean, the ones who are really are and they get together and produce and create. They're an entirely different breed from what I was when I was their age.” PeopleMeanDifferentAgeTodayTogetherYoungCreativeProduceGet Together Author:Debbie Reynolds
“I've always put my own money into my own shows because today, if you want to stay in the business, you have to produce your own product because there is not enough production and enough people that create today so if you wanna work you produce it or you stay home.” PeopleIfsWantEnoughShowsHomeTodayMy OwnProduceProductsProductions Author:Debbie Reynolds
“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.” PeopleIfsMenYearsCountryThreeCoursesBlackTeachingCenturyProducePercentThirdsCaughtFiftyGradesFortyBlack PeopleThree Years19th CenturySignaturesThird GradePenmanship Author:Robert Hass
“I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.” PeopleWantWritingDifferentProduceDifferent Peoples Author:George Michael
“When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingMindI CanPlayMomentsMightStrongSoundProduceTomorrowOffersYeahInterpretationVery StrongDuets Author:George Michael
“There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed.” PeopleCountryRealizingWhiteChangedProduceFreedom And Equality Author:Malcolm X
“It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.” WayHumansTwoCountryPoliticalJusticeMillionsEconomicProduceCapableDignityTwentiesLaysEggsChickensDucksIncapableHuman DignityEconomic SystemsEquality And JusticeTwenty TwoAfros Author:Malcolm X
“To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another.” KnowsWayActionPoliticalProducePoliticianOne WayPolitical Action Author:Malcolm X
“If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.” IfsThinkingSaidChristianOrderEvilLeftChristMoralProduceEthicsTablesGood And EvilFulfillingConformistChristian Ethics Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“Make sure that everything you produce and create is organic to you.” Produce Author:Wilmer Valderrama
“Donald Trump is going to be an unconventional president. I really think we have a great opportunity in front of us to fix problems, produce results, and improve people's lives.” PeopleThinkingProblemOpportunityPresidentResultsFrontsProduceTrumpGreat OpportunityUnconventional Author:Paul Ryan
“A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence.” DoeSelfKidsParentProduceSelf Confidence Author:Simon Sinek
“Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".” SaidFatherJesusProduceFruitBranchesGardener Author:Max Lucado
“If an organization produces a document, it should be made public as soon as possible.” IfsShouldMadeProduceOrganizationDocuments Author:Chelsea Manning
“Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.” PeopleMomentsUsedRealizingNumbersMoralProduceComputerMassScientistHarmRevelationsBombsPhysicistSurveillanceNsaAtomic Bomb Author:Edward Snowden
“We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.” NeedsProblemPoliticalUnderstandingClassGreaterGroupsProduceSolutionsSolveRefugeeNew Class Author:Judith Butler
“I would say that the most complex style of singing comes from India. Real, classical Indian music produces probably the best technical and natural singers in the world, just because the patterns and the inflection are so complex in how the style moves and what it requires vocally. I think the best classical singers come from India.” ThinkingWorldRealMovingNaturalStyleProduceSingingIndiaComplexesPatternsSingersIndianIndian Music Author:Miguel
“Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.” GroupsProduceParticularMaterialsUnderstood Author:Tim Parks
“It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.” MenKindDifferentRunningAbleGivenInterestProduceInstitutionsRateFinancialSmoothEarningScenariosInterest RateFinancial Institutions Author:Warren Buffett
“If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsImportantEnoughHelpingCausesReligiousGroupsProduceCommunicationHappeningsTragedyInternationalSensitiveInterfaithTibetanTibet Author:Elie Wiesel
“Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.” PeopleNeedsFeelsYearsMindMadeUniverseFiguresProduceTrumpExerciseEgoGoldFeel GoodFedsMonarchsWarpPower And ControlOrwellian Author:David Brooks
“I was really interested in this ability for others to create virtual memories for us. In "The Cartographers" I explore this through Adam Woods, and the company he works for, which produces virtual memories that people can beam into their consciousness. While the technology is sci-fi, the story is also a metaphor for the way love relationships create memories in our minds.” PeopleWayMindStoriesMemoriesAbilityConsciousnessCompanyTechnologyProduceMetaphorWoodsSci FiAdamBeamLove Relationship Author:Alexander Weinstein
“We're teaching a generation of students who've been schooled to produce quick, right answers on demand. They are not comfortable with ambiguity. The implications of that in the long term are discomforting.” LongTermAnswersGenerationsTeachingStudentsProduceDemandComfortableLong TermAmbiguityImplicationsSchooledRight Answers Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“I was sixteen, I became a working guitar player gigging in LA, mostly in top 40 bands, then touring. I learned to take songs apart, down to their bones. Songwriters would hire me to produce their demos, which lead me to become a songwriter. The relationship and power music has to TV and film attracted me to composing [and] I learned to write for instruments other than guitar.” WritingFilmSongPlayerProduceTvsBandInstrumentsGuitarBonesSongwritersTouringSixteenComposingGuitar PlayerLeading MeDemos Author:Danny Jacob
“I believe that if we do have a commonality of beliefs we should clarify them, we should strengthen their coherence and we should also develop common projects that produce a lived community of relationships.” IfsShouldBelieveBeliefI BelieveCommunityCommonProduceProjectsCoherenceCommonality Author:Murray Bookchin
“Trying to make your own sound is hard. When I was producing for other artists, I could just produce and write songs as a normal songwriter, and almost make them generic. The artists themselves, whoever is singing that song, can put their own twist on it. When it came to my own material, I had to really dig deep, because I was just writing generic stuff. It sounded like everybody else, like Justin Timberlake, like Usher. I never wanted to sound like someone, that's when you know it's not going to work.” KnowsWritingTryingHardWantedArtistSongStuffSoundMy OwnProduceMaterialsNormalSingingSongwritersGoing To WorkTwistsJustinDig DeepGeneric Author:Karl Wolf
“There are a few instances that arise in the unique context of domestic equal-protection challenges to governmental actions that are facially neutral but produce substantial discriminatory impacts on groups of people, based on such suspect classifications as race, nationality, ethnic origin, etc. This doctrine has never been used in foreign affairs.” PeopleActionUsedChallengesRaceGroupsProduceEqualUniqueImpactAffairProtectionAriseDoctrineInstanceEtcSuspectsNationalityClassificationForeign AffairsEqual Protection Author:David B. Rivkin
“Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.” CountryStatesLevelsUnitedNumbersUnited StatesStudentsProduceMastersAreasEightGraduatesEngineeringAsianBachelorsPhdsAsian Countries Author:Mark Kennedy
“The people that can't win elections, outside of Barack Obama, the people on the Democrat side who cannot win elections, who do not have the votes to stop Donald Trump at all in a constitutional sense, have to now behave outside the Constitution in order to stop the duly elected president of the United States about whom they can produce no evidence that his election was fraudulent.” PeopleStatesOrderWinningSidesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesProduceTrumpEvidenceVoteConstitutionElectionDemocratBarackBehaveCan't Win Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There were 33,000 missing Hillary [Clinton] emails. Nobody could find them. She claimed she deleted them. She handed over 30,000 to the State Department. They had them. They analyzed them. There are 30,000 she deleted. But people claimed that they had them. Like Kim Dotcom and there were others, that claimed they knew where they were, but nobody could produce them.” PeopleStatesMissingProduceClintonDepartmentEmailKim Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald Trump] said, "Maybe the Russians could find those [Hillary Clinton's] emails - and if the Russians find 'em, please give them to the media." Well, I don't know how you get there from here, but the media then reported that Trump was encouraging the Russians to hack the Hillary campaign and produce the evidence to the media.” IfsKnowsGivingWellsSaidKnow HowMediaProduceTrumpPleaseEvidenceClintonCampaignsEmsEmailHacks Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.” IfsFeelingsHandsWould BeSinClearProduceBehaviorUniqueTemptationDistinctionSaviorTemptedInclinationTransgression Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“China produces 600 movies in a year, of which 3 or 4 go abroad, while of the several hundred they make, we only bring in 50. It's 50 now, but that could be expanded later on.” YearsProduceHundredChina Author:Jackie Chan