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“Stop thinking about global warming as a future threat and understand it instead as a present emergency, one that requires a far stronger policy response than we'd imagined.”

Thinking Policy Stronger Threat Response Global Warming Emergencies

Author:Bill McKibben

“I keep my eyes and heart bent toward Jesus, therefore no human response can distract me from the Kingdom agenda.”

Humans Heart Eye Jesus Response Kingdoms Agendas Bent

Author:Sho Baraka

“One of the things I think is very likely is that with the prospects of robust fiscal stimulus in response to voters mad as hell, the Fed is going to be in there with helicopter money. In other words, they're going to be buying whatever the Treasury issues. They're not going to, in effect, advocate strong fiscal stimulus and then not finance it. And that's helicopter money.”

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Author:Gary Shilling

“In my life, I often make so-called major decisions by very quick, immediate responses.”

Decision Majors Response

Author:Ai Weiwei

“When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.”

People Ifs Ideas Asks Responsibility Steps Limits Projects Built Asking Notes Response Following Employee Good Ideas Taking Responsibility Asking Questions

Author:Richard Branson

“Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.”

Thinking Feels Firsts Audience Wise Type First Time Impact Response Honestly

Author:Ab-Soul

“I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened. And we should know how to defend [against hackers attacks] ourselves without question.”

Thinking Knows Should Littles Know How Happened Response Premature Hackers

Author:Rand Paul

“[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.”

Today Response Fence Screening

Author:Denzel Washington

“The Republicans' response to Obama confused a lot of people. I really think there's been a measure of clarity at the end, with Trump's election, that was not present during the Obama presidency.”

People Thinking Ends Trump Republican Election Response Clarity Confused Presidency

Author:Jonathan Chait

“Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Where is the video of Kanye [West] telling me he was going to call me 'that b***h' in his song? It doesn't exist because it never happened. You don't get to control someone's emotional response to being called 'that b***h' in front of the entire world.”

World Song Happened Fronts Emotional West Response Video Call Me Emotional Response Control Someone

Author:Taylor Swift

“When I read scripts and when I read books, it's more of an emotional response and I was really drawn to these characters.”

Book Character Emotional Response Scripts Emotional Response

Author:Katie Holmes

“I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that they made it. They won't set it down because they are the authors of these [disproportionate responses] and they have a lot to be embarrassed about.”

People Thinking Made Sometimes Response Made It Embarrassed Lashes

Author:Margaret Cho

“I have very human responses to things, so I had to learn to just be still.”

Humans Stills Response

Author:Mallory Jansen

“Sadness isn't a natural response.”

Natural Sadness Response

Author:Byron Katie

“I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world.”

People World Want Compassion Europe Crisis Safety Response Extraordinary Seeking Humanitarian Greek Islands Admiration Refugee Migrants

Author:Barack Obama

“I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out.”

Ifs Might Happens Poor Response Ran Daddy

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“My response [to fear of being poor]was to study contracts, finance, economics, to plan, to have a goal, to work on that goal. To learn everything I could. I always poked at the things that scared me most.”

Goal Poor Study Plans Economics Response Scared Finance Contracts

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“Our lives are a response to a love that we already have received.”

Our Lives Response

Author:Desmond Tutu

“In the United States and some of the other countries involved it's sort of a "five eyes" global spying alliance. That's the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They've had a little bit of a more muscular public response. Now, they haven't been satisfying or really meaningful in any country yet. But they have been engaging.”

“The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to handle their leadership issues it's not something that we can control regardless of which side you stay on that issue. It is their church issue and their responsibility and their response. And I'm saying what I always said that we should just keep on praying for the New Birth church family.”

Should Said Sides Church Responsibility Issues Praying Birth Response Handle Boards Membership

Author:T. D. Jakes

“We have a media that goes along with the government by parroting phrases intended to provoke a certain emotional response - for example, "national security." Everyone says "national security" to the point that we now must use the term "national security." But it is not national security that they're concerned with; it is state security. And that's a key distinction.”

States Use Government Certain Term Security Media Example Emotional Keys Concerned Response Phrases Distinction Provoking National Security Emotional Response

Author:Edward Snowden

“I really think we were charting a course to having a more sane response to mass incarceration, to drug use, and to understanding that the war on drugs has resulted only in the empowerment of vast criminal enterprises and the destruction of democracies around the world. And all that is coming to a miserable, horrific halt.”

“You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality.”

People War Young Poverty Program Police Angry Response Vietnam Police Brutality Brutality Insufficient

Author:Danny Glover

“The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These issues were reflected in many communities: the Asian American community, Hispanic community, Native American community.”

“Let`s not hesitate. This is where the press corps, the media should all stand together. And I hope that you have the same response that you had when it came time to defend Fox.”

Should Together Media Presses Response Foxes

Author:Joe Madison

“It will be a comprehensive response. The ID issue is one of them. It will make sure that Home Affairs has the capacity to reach people and to make sure that the people themselves know that they have got to get these documents and where to go to get them.”

People Knows Home Issues Capacity Response Affair Documents Comprehensive

Author:Thabo Mbeki

“Chico Hamilton told me, "The first take is important in jazz because that's where the real emotion is." That's your true response to what's happening, and everything else after that, your brain is involved because you have something to reference.”

Firsts Important Real Emotion Brain Involved Happenings Jazz Response Hamilton Real Emotion

Author:Jose James

“I almost feel like I'm still in a molding stage so the feedback and response not only inspires me but guides me in a certain direction as well.”

Feels Wells Stills Certain Stage Inspire Response Guides Feedback Guide Me Molding

Author:Kid Ink

“For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity comes from the imagination and a response to the environment, as you know. So they're both very similar in that way because it's about one's inner life interacting with the environment and what comes from that.”

Knows Way Art Imagination Creativity Study Psychology Environment Response Inner Life Interacting

Author:Kelly Carlin-McCall

“I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.”

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Author:Philip Glass

“Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.”

People Men Needs Writing Mean Play He Man Music Is Response Isolation Criteria

Author:Philip Glass

“The just response to this terrible event [9/11] should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.”

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Author:Edward Said

“We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.”

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Author:David Lammy

“I knew I had found my life's passion after writing my first column for The Washington Post. The response was like nothing we had seen in the business section. Everyday people were writing that finally someone was speaking to them in a way that was understandable. I think we were all shocked at how many readers wrote in to say that they too had a Big Mama who taught them about money.”

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Author:Michelle Singletary

“There are some dark days when I do receive some racist mail or emails. But overall the response to me has been very positive. Readers relate to me not just as an African-American, but as an American trying to make sense of her personal finance, just like them.”

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Author:Michelle Singletary

“[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.”

Thinking Men Kind Said Deals Fire Dog Grew Goes On Men And Women Response Criticize Nonviolence Toms Uncles Approved Polished Uncle Tom

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this.”

People Facts Individual Social Causes My Own Poverty Conditions Concerned Harder Response I Realized Isolation Eggs Throwing Depressing Very Depressing Social Isolation

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Emotions are our spontaneous response to life. We have these emotions, but if the emotion is a negative emotion, then I have a choice to say, "I am feeling sad tonight because this happened, but I am not going to let my sadness keep me from engaging my wife in conversation. "”

Ifs Feelings Choices Emotion Wife Happened Sadness Conversation Negative Response My Wife Tonight Spontaneous Engaging Feeling Sad Negative Emotions

Author:Gary Chapman

“I did get a letter which was pretty alarming once. Well, it was sent to the Fifty Shades production office. And it was pretty ... I'd say interesting. I don't really want to go into that. But otherwise the response has been good, thankfully.”

Want Wells Has Beens Interesting Office Letters Response Productions Fifty Shade Fifty Shades

Author:Bella Heathcote

“My decision was, and the decision of the different institutions, and the decision of the different officials in Syria - I'm on top of them - was to have dialogue, to fight terrorists, and to reform as a response at the very beginning, response to the allegations, let's say, at that time, that they needed reform in Syria, we responded.”

Different Fighting Decision Needed Institutions Response Terrorist Dialogue Reform Officials Syria Allegations

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“James Baldwin had an unrivaled understanding of politics and history and, above all, the human condition. His prose is laser sharp. His onslaught is massive and leaves no room for response. Every sentence is an immediate cocked grenade. You pick it up, then realize that it is too late. It just blows up in your face. And yet he still managed to stay human, tender, accessible.”

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Author:Raoul Peck

“I remember seeing Eddie Murphy RAW and seeing people laughing and having a good time and that was the same response I was getting so I thought I was on to something.”

People Remember Laughing Seeing Response Good Times Having A Good Time Murphy

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“The response you get when you're young like "oh you're just getting laughs because you're a little kid and you're cute". They weren't trying to encourage me at all or tell me to keep pursuing this.”

Trying Littles Kids Young Laughing Response Cute Little Kid

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?”

Ifs Looks Political Heaven Black White Powerful Our Lives Racism Response Treated Look Up What If Inferiors God Is There

Book:RFK: collected speeches

Source: RFK: collected speeches

“The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.”

World Want Feels Spiritual Form Found Nice Materials Higher Taste Response Peaceful Bliss Material World Chanting Spiritual Happiness

Author:George Harrison

“Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it.”

Needs Believe Christ Prayer Response Devotion Krishna Vibrate

Author:George Harrison

“We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.”

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Author:David Trimble

“When I was working with Stanley Kubrick [on "Eyes Wide Shut"], he would always say, "You never tell the audience what to feel. Let them choose to have their responses."”

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Author:Nicole Kidman

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