“In terms of how Iranians see the U.S. government, that's a difficult question. But in terms of how Iranians see Americans, there is a very good mutual belief that they have so much in common with American people and they feel totally related to them. In terms of government, definitely there are some hardcore hardliners who hate the U.S. government, but at the same time, there are some more moderate.” PeopleFeelsGovernmentHateBeliefDifficultTermCommonVery GoodRelatedMutualModeratesHardcoreDifficult Questions Author:Jason Rezaian
“I don't tend to use technology all that much. Of course, I can't avoid it - it's called the telephone nowadays. And I do a certain amount of email, work-related primarily, on it. But I don't do a lot of looking for things online.” I CanUseCertainCoursesTechnologyAmountRelatedOnlineTelephonesEmailWork Related Author:Melissa Leo
“Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.” IfsWholeHumanityCoursesClimateClimate ChangeTerroristRelatedSectionsTerrorist Attacks Author:David Attenborough
“If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.” IfsPersonsEnergyFindingsStressRelated Author:Gabrielle Bernstein
“I would hesitate to say the characters [ in Bink & Gollie] are too related to either to us [me and Alison McGhee], but they certainly draw on our physical traits and personality traits and then exaggerate them to the nth degree.” CharacterPersonalityDegreesDrawsRelatedTraitsPersonality Traits Author:Kate DiCamillo
“Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.” WorldPlayProcessPleasureDefinedRelatedExperimentation Author:Ian Bogost
“Every mosque that is tied to jihad-related activity should be shut.” ShouldActivityRelatedTiedMosquesJihad Author:Pamela Geller
“I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she would crawl under the bed when a stranger came to the house. But in 1989, she found out that her county in south Texas was ranked worst in the country for toxic waste. She wondered if the effluent, dumped into the waters where she and her family had shrimped for generations, might be responsible for the dwindling fish populations. And she suspected that her son's autism might be related to the pollution.” IfsKnowsChildrenCountryMightFoundHouseWaterGenerationsWorstSonBedWasteResponsibleSouthPopulationFishesStrangerRelatedTexasToxicPollutionAutismCountyBumpsBeing ResponsibleGeeseWilsonDumpedToxic Waste Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Our decisions need not be seen as resting on procedures that are merely instrumental in making judgments that are reliably truth-tracking. The procedures might be more directly related than that to truths about what is right or good, or about what we ought to do, or to principles that tell us what is true about these matters. And I have no metaphysical theory about the truth-conditions of such truths, except to say that as objective truths, they must be independent of the attitudes, decisions or actions that they are supposed to justify or for which they are to offer reasons.” NeedsMatterReasonMightActionDecisionAttitudePrinciplesConditionsTheoryOughtOffersJudgmentIndependentObjectivesRelatedJustifyMetaphysicalProceduresTrackingObjective Truth Author:Allen W. Wood
“Kant does not regard freedom as an item of faith because it is too basic to our agency to be related to any end.” DoeEndsRegardRelatedAgencyItems Author:Allen W. Wood
“While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.” LostLossCompanyCasesFireEconomicMediaConflictMajorsAdversityCourtIncludingCreditDebtCardsRelatedEditorsPublishingStaffSurvivedCredit CardSuperpowerHardenedWikileaksDetentionUnlawfulBlockadesCourt Cases Author:Julian Assange
“I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.” FansGrewGrew UpRelatedHockeyNhl Author:Wayne Gretzky
“Every day, there are 770 million Cokes consumed, which means that there are 770 million purchasing decisions made each day regarding the product. To support those decisions, the company must constantly reinvest in its marketing links to its customers. As a result, a high level of creativity must go into everything the company does, from cause-related campaigns - Coca-Cola and its sponsorship of the Olympic Village in Atlanta, for example - to new catch phrases, commercials, marketing slogans, advertising campaigns and promotional tie-ins.” MeanDoeMadeCausesDecisionLevelsResultsCompanyCreativityMillionsSupportExampleProductsMarketingCustomersCampaignsAdvertisingTiesPhrasesRelatedEach DayVillageLinksConsumedSlogansCokeHigh LevelAtlantaPurchasingDecisions MadeCoca ColaSponsorship Author:John Kao
“When I post a review to book-blog.com it probably takes me - apart from writing the review, of course - 20 or 30 minutes to finish all my related tasks.But that's irregular, depending on how quickly I'm reading.” WritingBookCoursesReadingMinutesTasksPostsRelatedReviewsTake MeBlogs Author:Debra Hamel
“My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to.” FatherRelatedFleasFlea Markets Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I definitely related a lot to Perry [from That's Ordinary World movie]. I liked how he put family first. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he's just a rock-and-roller at heart. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could've been the path I went on, or not.” WorldFirstsHeartKindFunParentPathImagineRocksOrdinaryRelatedExhaustionBeing A ParentOrdinary WorldFamily First Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“I think that's the big difference between this one [Ordinary World] and a lot of the other rock 'n' roll movies. They're playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock 'n' roll bad together. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. I'm a pretty klutzy parent.” ThinkingWorldCharacterBigsTogetherParentDifferencesRocksOrdinaryRelatedRock N RollTapeOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“The importance of the term "genocide" for many Indigenous Peoples is that it is more than a term or an accusation; it is a word created in the wake of the Shoah in Europe to describe what happens when a people are targeted by a government for extermination, as were the Jews of Europe, and which is the term used in the most important international law related to concerned Indigenous Peoples, as the only international human rights law that pertains specifically to collectivities of people rather than individuals.” PeopleHumansImportantGovernmentHappensLawUsedIndividualTermRightsEuropeConcernedImportanceInternationalHuman RightsJewRelatedGenocideIndigenousAccusationInternational LawIndigenous PeopleExterminationCollectivity Author:Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“[Warren's Beatty] first film being with this very important director [Elia Kazan], I think we related on that in a big way. And I just was genuinely curious about his experiences in film, and about the people he knew.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsImportantBigsFilmDirectorsCuriousRelatedBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“The FBI director's probably spent a great deal of pressure to go either way - you know, to have said something, to not have said something. And, you know, he made the decision this was the right way to go. You know, I'm not going to second guess him without knowing all the information related to the investigation.” KnowsWayMadeSaidDecisionDealsKnowingInformationDirectorsPressureRelatedInvestigationRight WayFbi Author:Alberto Gonzales
“There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.” WritingMindKindLanguageEaseRelatedForeign Language Author:Robert Greene
“I'm okay for things like theater and stuff but for film, I just didn't think in the right way and I didn't like the business. So I was unhappy. So I was in something that was moderately related to my, what I call my calling or my life's path, which is writing, but it wasn't like the right fit.” ThinkingWayWritingFilmStuffPathFitCallingOkayTheaterUnhappyRelatedRight Way Author:Robert Greene
“[The U.S. Treasury] can borrow basically unlimited amounts. They can stay there for years and years. These assets will be worth more money over time. So when Merrill Lynch sells a bunch of mortgage-related assets at 22 cents on the dollar like they did a month or so ago, the buyer goes - is going to make money, and he's going to make a lot more money if it happens to be an institution like the U.S. government which has very, very cheap borrowing costs.” IfsYearsGovernmentHappensMonthsAmountCostInstitutionsSellsDollarsBunchMaking MoneyRelatedAssetsCentsMore MoneyUnlimitedMortgageBorrowingTreasuryBuyers Author:Warren Buffett
“Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.” StoriesCancerLifestyleRelatedGenes Author:Deepak Chopra
“We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.” PeopleHeartSelfDoneHealingFiveSawsMeditationDiseaseIncreaseCancerRelatedGenesCentsCentreRetreatAgeingDiabetesSelf HealingHeart DiseaseEnzymes Author:Deepak Chopra
“The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.” IfsKindSpeakVoiceRelatedConfessionChoirClusters Author:Oliver D. Crisp
“The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story or another, or at least sketch out my characters, and research various issues related to my characters' dilemmas.” CharacterStoriesFoundIssuesResearchLaborVariousDevotionJournalismRelatedCollectionsDilemmaFree TimeLabor Of Love Author:Andrew Lam
“[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.” LongHas BeensArtAttitudeActivityRelatedMy AttitudeShanghai Author:Ai Weiwei
“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
“Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.” PeopleThinkingArtCharacterYoungArtistCoursesUnderstandingMy OwnConsciousnessArt IsChineseRelatedYoung Artists Author:Ai Weiwei
“I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.” ThinkingFeelsKindStatesCultureRelatedAssociationDisgusting Author:Ai Weiwei
“In fact, somebody keeps putting on my Wikipedia page that I'm either Don Pardo's son or grandson. I had an audition recently where the woman said, "I understand that you're Don Pardo's grandson," and I said, "No, I am not." And you should have seen the look of disappointment on her face. It may have cost me the job. It was that devastating to her that I wasn't related to Don Pardo.” ShouldLooksMaySaidFactsJobsFacesSonCostPagesShould HaveDisappointmentRelatedAuditionsWikipediaGrandson Author:Jimmy Pardo
“The decision to do it [play Maigret] was related to the fact that the character is a very ordinary man, and generally speaking I haven't played very many ordinary men.” MenPlayCharacterFactsDecisionHavensOrdinaryRelatedOrdinary Man Author:Rowan Atkinson
“We have agreements with many countries including Iran, including Russia, including other countries that are about different things including armament. It's cooperation like any cooperation between any two countries, which is normal. It's not related to the crisis.” TwoDifferentCountryNormalCrisisIncludingRussiaRelatedDifferent ThingsAgreementIranCooperationOther CountriesArmamentTwo CountriesIncluding Others Author:Bashar al-Assad
“We know what hair smells like when a hot comb hits it. That's a cultural thing. We know what that smells like on Sunday mornings, usually church-related or something. In my house, it was getting ready for church and your sister was getting her hair fried.” KnowsHouseChurchMorningReadyHairHotSmellRelatedSundayCombsSunday Morning Author:Denzel Washington
“There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe's age or of how living organisms are related to each other.” WayAgeUniverseBelieverRelatedSincereOrganismsLiteralGenesisInconsistentLiving Organisms Author:Richard Dawkins
“Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.” ShouldMatterWholeInterestDecisionIssuesSolutionsDecidedRelationBottomPracticalsRangeRelatedJapanAgendasFederation Author:Vladimir Putin
“There is progress in the sense that the Prime Minister [Shinzō Abe] has proposed, outlined, as it were, directions for movement toward a peace treaty and the resolution of issues related to territorial problems. Now, what did he propose? He proposed promoting an environment of trust and cooperation. I believe it is even hard to imagine that it can be any different, that we can agree to sign the documents that we are talking about without trusting each other or without cooperation. That is simply impossible even to imagine.” BelieveDifferentHardProblemI BelieveTalkingIssuesEnvironmentImagineProgressImpossibleMovementAgreeMinistersRelatedResolutionPrimeCooperationImagine ThatDocumentsPrime MinisterPromotingProposeTreatiesTerritorialAbeWithout TrustPeace TreatiesTrusting Each Other Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are also other areas. For example, culture. This is extremely important. We keep revisiting sport, judo, because I practice it, but other than that, there is also culture. Every year events that are in some way or other related to Russia take place in Japan.” WayYearsImportantCultureSportsPracticeEventsExampleAreasRussiaRelatedJapanJudo Author:Vladimir Putin
“Are we not concerned, for example, by the growing danger related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and missile technology? All of this poses a clear threat to the world, to the region. However, we have obvious points of convergence that are related to our interests.” WorldInterestTechnologyClearGrowingDangerExampleWeaponsMassConcernedDestructionThreatObviousRelatedRegionsMissilesWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionProliferationConvergence Author:Vladimir Putin
“We conducted talks on border issues with our friends in the People's Republic of China for 40 years. There were also issues related to specific territories.” PeopleYearsIssuesChinaBordersRelatedRepublicTerritory Author:Vladimir Putin
“There are also fundamental issues related to what the current leader, President [Barack] Obama, said. I am referring to his idea about American exceptionalism. I am skeptical about this idea.” SaidIdeasPresidentLeaderIssuesFundamentalsCurrentsBarackRelatedSkepticalPresident Barack ObamaReferringExceptionalismAmerican Exceptionalism Author:Vladimir Putin
“We spoke about economic sanctions only recently in Lima, within the framework of APEC. Almost all the leaders represented at APEC (the Asia Pacific region), Pacific countries, spoke about the same thing, namely, that we are going through a very acute crisis in world trade, international trade, related, among other things, to restrictions on the markets of certain countries.” WorldCountryCertainLeaderEconomicCrisisTradeInternationalRelatedRegionsSpokesAsiaFrameworkRestrictionSanctionsPacificWorld TradeInternational TradeEconomic Sanctions Author:Vladimir Putin
“Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.” PoliticalProcessRussiaVulnerableVulnerabilityRelatedDividedPartisans Author:Barack Obama
“My own interest is far more in the Hebrew Bible. My religion is more personally related to the Hebrew Bible than it is to the New Testament.” InterestMy OwnRelatedTestamentNew TestamentHebrewHebrew Bible Author:Frank Moore Cross
“What is failure for some is success for others. It depends on where they stand in the struggles over "democratic governance" and related rights - civil, social and economic, and broadly cultural, to adopt the framework of the Universal Declaration that is formally endorsed but constantly undermined.” SocialStruggleRightsEconomicDependsUniversalDemocraticRelatedDeclarationGovernanceFramework Author:Noam Chomsky
“Control charts are one of the statistical tools for solving quality related problems.” ProblemQualityToolsRelated Author:Masaaki Imai
“I don't think it's going to be related to social or economic policies; it's going to be the fact that [Barack Obama] said let's go forward, not backward, in regard to the violations of law that occurred under the Bush administration.” ThinkingSaidFactsLawSocialEconomicPolicyRegardAdministrationBarackRelatedViolationEconomic Policy Author:Edward Snowden
“Some innate capacity - some part of the human genetic endowment - enters into language acquisition. That much is uncontroversial among those who believe that humans are part of the natural world. If it were not true, would be a miracle that my granddaughter reflexively identified some elements of the blooming buzzing confusion as language-related and went on to acquire capacities of the kind that you and I are now exercising, while her pet kitten (chimp, songbird, bee...), presented with exactly the same data, could not take the first step, let alone the later ones.” IfsWorldFirstsBelieveHumansKindWould BeLanguageNaturalStepsExerciseElementsCapacityMiracleConfusionDataRelatedAcquirePetFirst StepsBeesInnateNatural WorldAcquisitionKittenEndowmentBloomingGranddaughterLanguage AcquisitionSongbirds Author:Noam Chomsky
“The pleasurable part of public mourning can also lead to a sense of self-sanctification that justifies in advance any war effort, whether or not the target and destruction are in any way related to the initial event.” WayWarSelfEffortEventsDestructionRelatedMourningJustifyTargetInitialsSense Of SelfSanctification Author:Judith Butler