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“Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.”

Author:Clarice Lispector

“I'm a big root beer guy.”

Bigs Guy Roots Beer Root Beer

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I want to show how strong I am from my roots.”

Want Shows Strong Roots Strong Roots

Author:Edward James Olmos

“Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.”

People Knows Trying Too Much Listening Grew Grew Up Roots Punk Emphasis

Author:Will Oldham

“Washington's answer to a self-inflicted financial crisis reminded Americans why they so deeply distrust the political class. The 'fiscal cliff' process was secretive and sloppy, and the nation's so-called leadership lacked the political courage to address our root problems: joblessness and debt.”

“My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I know this? Because I have studied it from all sides for many years; because I have examined all objections which have ever been made against the infinite numbers; and above all because I have followed its roots, so to speak, to the first infallible cause of all created things.”

Knows Years Firsts Made Speak Causes Sides Numbers Rocks Theory Return Roots Logic Infinite Certainty Uncertainty Firm Reasoning Arrows Objections Infallible Ontology Archer

Author:Georg Cantor

“Neither the true nor the false roots are always real; sometimes they are imaginary; that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.”

Real Sometimes Imagine Roots Logic Certainty Uncertainty Reasoning Quantity Imaginary Definite Equations Corresponding Ontology

Author:Rene Descartes

“[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.”

World Science Spirit Found Wonder Divine Negative Ideals Roots Unity Analysis Imaginary Sublime Translations Outlets Ideal World Portents Amphibians

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something representing a threat to the core values, allegiances and beliefs of others could cause such universal, deep and lasting hatred. This Judaism has done.”

Done Values Belief Causes Aspect Roots Hatred Universal Threat Jew Core Perceive Lasting Irrational Judaism Allegiance Representing Inexplicable Core Values Root Cause

Author:Dennis Prager

“My cultural roots are something illusive.”

Author:Ang Lee

“I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.”

People Important Industry Proud Roots Music Industry

Author:Coco Lee

“I'm certainly proud to be Cuban American, and it's a fantastic opportunity for anybody - regardless of their ethnicity or nationality. It does carry a measure or pride to know where you're from and to know what your roots are.”

Knows Doe Opportunity Pride Proud Roots Fantastic Nationality Cuban Ethnicity

Author:Danny Pino

“When I paint a picture of a house, that goes back to my roots.”

House Roots Paint

Author:Edward Ruscha

“I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly chasing one job after another, and you look back and you've had all these very extraordinary experiences with extraordinary people, but there's not a line of continuity to it.”

People Trying Looks Jobs House Lines Roots Extraordinary Chasing Ordinary People Continuity

Author:Eddie Redmayne

“I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.”

Thinking Stories Feelings Would Be Interesting Behinds Roots Performances Curiosity Documents Live Performance Interesting Stories Musicality

Author:Michael Rapaport

“I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level and have run campaigns or have been deeply involved in grass roots political campaigns and who have actual hands-on experience.”

Thinking Has Beens Said States Hands Running Political Levels Involved Roots Campaigns Significant Grass Political Campaign Hands On Experience Significant Experiences

Author:Roy Romer

“The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.”

World Mind Littles Long Hard Whole Night Realizing Morning Objects Return Solitude Roots Sight Fruit Hearing Going Away Worldly Meditating Aloof Brahman Worldliness

Author:Ramakrishna

“A walk in the woods can reveal many things, and it is a good time to practice transcendentalism. Look at a tree and realize it's not just a tree, its roots may go into the ground but it may also go into other worlds, other eternities.”

World Looks May Humanity Realizing Walks Practice Tree Buddhism Roots Eternity Woods Good Times Other Worlds Transcendentalism Walk In The Woods

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.”

People Thinking Men Important Whole Lasts Names Groups Special Roots My Family Thinking Man

Author:Mark Sanchez

“I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.”

Want Trying Firsts Different Behinds Roots Being True Different Things Bachata

Author:Romeo Santos

“The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation.”

Creation Possibility Roots Doing Good

Author:Pope Francis

“Football needs its roots, it needs its connection with the supporters. But those in charge seem to think they can do without them.”

Thinking Needs Seems Can Do Football Roots Connections Supporter

Author:Graham Taylor

“I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.”

Ifs Thinking Cities Opinion Team Football Roots Great Football

Author:Paul Tagliabue

“My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.”

People Want Kind Soul Feelings Song Rocks Music Is Roots Chickens Soup Good Feeling Chicken Soup

Author:Kate Voegele

“I think my wife saw a picture of the rock group Journey, and they're kind of aging, and the one guy had dyed blonde hair with black roots, and... my idea was to get a little earring, I wanted to have a dangling earring.”

Thinking Kind Littles Ideas Wanted Guy Black Saws Wife Groups Journey Rocks Hair Roots Aging My Wife Blonde Earrings Blonde Hair

Author:Fred Willard

“I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.”

Ifs Way Would Be Streets Roots Coronation

Author:Jack Wild

“When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.”

Littles Pain Remember Girl Comedy Football Red Roots Brown Absurdity Cartoon Motto Charlie Peanuts Red Hair

Author:Lev Yilmaz

“The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.”

Buddhism Roots Mystical Spine Chakra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.”

Grows Growth Roots

Book:Venus in Arms

Source: Venus in Arms

“Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.”

Littles Said Hands School Girl Bits Pleasure Please Little Bit Areas Standing Roots Catholic Lust Ties Delicious Erotic Vines Canals Catholic School Elation Kink School Girl

Book:Catholic School Girls Rule

Source: Catholic School Girls Rule

“I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.”

Fighting Nice Rights Tradition Roots Civil Rights Twins Sensibility Vikings Minnesota Minnesotans

Author:Al Franken

“I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.”

Men Want Looks Home Guy Training Roots Lifts Gym Lifting Benches Back Home Hometown Pittsburgh Squat

Author:Joe Manganiello

“Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.”

Knows Asks Know How Our Lives Roots Quests

Author:Richard Saul Wurman

“Being a singer is not just for popularity, it is more like cheering people's hearts and never forget my root.”

People Heart Forget Roots Singers Never Forget Cheer Popularity

Author:Kim Kyu-jong

“When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.”

Author:Wanda Sykes

“Absurd, irreducible; nothing — not even a profound and secret delirium of nature — could explain it. Obviously I did not know everything, I had not seen the seeds sprout, or the tree grow. But faced with this great wrinkled paw, neither ignorance nor knowledge was important: the world of explanations and reasons is not the world of existence. A circle is not absurd, it is clearly explained by the rotation of a straight segment around one of its extremities. But neither does a circle exist. This root, on the other hand, existed in such a way that I could not explain it.”

Knows World Way Doe Important Reason Hands Grows Secret Existence Tree Ignorance Roots Profound Seeds Circles Absurd Explanation Paws Delirium Sprouts Extremity Nausea Rotation

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Because I had my family, I felt like I could be a bird and fly and experience and do. Because I had roots somewhere, I knew that they would love me no matter what, and I could always go back home and they were going to love me.”

Matter Home Felt Bird Roots My Family No Matter What Back Home

Author:Gisele Bundchen

“I'm a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots.”

Persons Spiritual Proud Roots

Author:Jon Huntsman, Jr.

“In an old song the Mother sings: 'My sleeping is my dreaming, my dreaming is my thinking, my thinking is my wisdom.' She is the bed we are born in, in which we sleep and dream, where we are healed, love and die. In her wisdom we remember day's broken images and carry them down into dreams where their motions roll into shadows and root, growing into stories.”

Thinking Stories Dream Remember Mother Song Dies Born Sleep Growing Broken Bed Shadow Roots Healed Old Song Sleep And Dream Broken Images

Author:Meinrad Craighead

“What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.”

Giving Facts Force Moral Birth Behavior Roots Unbelief Bad Behavior Moral Failure

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“Rap actually took root in the Negro community, and then in the Hispanic community, long before it impacted on the larger American community as a whole.”

Long Whole Community Roots Rap Hispanic

Author:Archie Shepp

“It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.”

Men Running Difficult Tasks Roots Plant Errors Favors Paradox

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.”

Doe Used Spirit Grows Water Clear Roots Streams Layers Grandpa

Author:James Lee

“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.”

Ifs Feels I Can Enough Political Social Emotional Commitment Roots Indian Canada Expatriates

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.”

Thinking Should Evil Opportunity Strong Forget Worry Amount Waste Negative Program Roots Impact Critical Speed Enormous Efficiency Programmers Maintenance Premature Optimization Debugging

Author:Donald Knuth

“Men's need to dominate women may be based in their own sense of marginality or emptiness; we do not know its root, and men are making no effort to discover it.”

Knows Men Needs May Effort Roots Emptiness Masculinity

Author:Marilyn French

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

School Education Learning College Sweet Roots Fruit Educational Bitter Graduates Graduation Congratulations Great Education College Education Education And Teachers Ancient Greek Schools And Education Diploma Teacher And Student Inspirational Education Art Education Best Education High School Graduation Students And Education Inspirational Graduation Funny Commencement Value Of Education Inspirational High School Graduation Graduation Day Education For All Inspiring Education Related To Education First Day Of School School Graduation Convocation Graduation Commencement Inspirational Student Senior Graduation Academic Education Good High School Graduation Graduation Card University Education Memorable Graduation Ancient Greek Philosophers Graduating Seniors Inspirational School High School Graduation Congratulations High School Senior Inspirational Graduation Wishes Sweet Fruit

Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.”

Feels Girl Opportunity Proud Late Roots Too Late Mexican Never Too Late Opportunities To Learn

Author:Selena

“If we're all led to believe that poverty is just a matter of laziness or stupidity or whatever other justifications we can come up with, then we're not likely to be in a real position to do much about it when it comes to attacking the root cause of the problem. Instead of demanding a more equitable system for the distribution of social and economic goods, we blame the victim. This is insidious, because ideology is something we carry around with us in our heads; it forms the basis of our day-to-day understanding of the world.”

Source: Making a Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights

“[The] Hopi earth does contain my roots and I am, indeed, from that land. Because the roots are there, I will find them. But when I find them, [my father] said, I must rebuild myself as a Hopi. I am not merely a conduit, but a participant. I am not a victim, but a woman.”

Doe Said Earth Father Land Roots Victim Participants

Author:Wendy Rose