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“The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.”

Thinking Morning Tree Fine Ego Roots Flourishing Sprouts

Author:Ramakrishna

“I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.”

Thinking Believe Made Stills Belief Position Politician Roots Don't Believe Made It Don't Trust Concessions

Author:Rick Astley

“It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. [...] The type of aggressiveness that is the outcome of timidity is not, I think, that which inspires great leaders; the great leaders, I should say, have an exceptional self-confidence which is not only on the surface, but penetrates deep into the subconscious.”

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“So when people tell you, oh, you can't have the Ten Commandments on public property, they're just wrong. It's historically false. It's not true. Now, you can decide to invent a new America in which you shouldn't say "one nation under God" as part of the pledge because, after all, you will offend three atheists. But that's not the America you inherited. That's a different country. And I think it's a weaker country and I think it's a country that has no roots in terms of where its rights come from.”

People Thinking Different Country America Three Nations Term Rights Ten Roots Property Atheist Commandments Pledge Ten Commandments Different Countries One Nation Under God

Author:Newt Gingrich

“I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.”

Thinking Spirit Holy Roots Ghost Holy Spirit Visuals Catholicism Ireland Goddess Holy Ghost Superstitious

Author:Conor McPherson

“These are roots of all evil, hatred and greed, for money, for the construction and for the sale of weapons. This should make us all think, who is behind it all?”

Thinking Should Evil Behinds Weapons Roots Hatred Greed Construction

Author:Pope Francis

“He's [Constable] a great painter as far as it goes, but I don't think he's remotely interesting. Not really. It's very pretty and it's very thorough, but it's not evocative, it's not dramatic, it doesn't do what Beethoven does - it doesn't shake you down to the roots of your soul, which Turner does. Constable is just very nice, basically. And moving on to personality, Constable was a very dull character.”

Thinking Doe Soul Character Moving Interesting Nice Personality Roots Painter Your Soul Dramatic Dull Shakes Very Nice Thorough Turner

Author:Mike Leigh

“I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that we understand our country's historical roots. If we can learn the lessons of the past, we will be able to avoid making mistakes in the future.”

Ifs Thinking Important Country Able Past Mistake Study Lessons Essentials Roots Historical Our Country Britain Making Mistakes Lessons Of The Past

Author:Tony Blair

“Millennials aspire to marry the blue skies thinking of the Boomers with the grass-roots mindset of GenX.”

Thinking Sky Roots Blue Mindset Grass Aspire Blue Sky Millennials Boomers

Author:Mal Fletcher

“It's no doubt that there's a connection (between the blues and hip-hop). Hip-hop is definitely a child of the blues. And I think you gotta know the roots to really grow. It's like knowing your parents, it's like knowing your culture, so you could be proud of that culture and take it to the world.”

Thinking Knows World Children Culture Grows Parent Knowing Doubt Proud Roots Connections Hip Hop Hips No Doubt Hops Be Proud

Author:Common

“The science fiction I write comes from a pretty deep pool of literature, not just from the reflection of other science fiction films, and I think that gives me somewhat deeper roots.”

Thinking Giving Writing Film Literature Fiction Reflection Roots Give Me Science Fiction Deeper Pool

Author:Jon Spaihts

“I always root for the bad guy and I don't think you have a great movie without a great villain.”

Thinking Guy Roots Villain Bad Guys

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.”

Thinking Men Mind Firsts Doe Courses Lost Danger Succeed Roots Busy Superiors

Author:Confucius

“I think I would like to discover a new root where people don't get bored with people singing boring lines but something exciting. That'd be interesting.”

People Thinking Lines Interesting Singing Roots Exciting Boring Bored

Author:A. R. Rahman

“I don't like freedom jazz - I think it's void of roots and void of foundation.”

Thinking Roots Foundation Jazz Void

Author:George Shearing

“I often refer to myself as a radical, reminding people that the word radical comes from the Latin word radix, meaning root. I think we need to get to the roots of problems as we try to solve them. I also like the word anti-capitalist.”

People Thinking Needs Trying Problem Roots Solve Radical Latin Capitalist Reminding

Author:Cynthia Kauffman

“I would say, my influences go back a little further than some folks. I think what your influences are can certainly help you. It's like a tree with really deep roots; the firmer they're planted in the ground, the better foundation you have to build upon.”

Thinking Littles Helping Tree Influence Roots Foundation Folks Really Deep Deep Roots

Author:Charlie Worsham

“It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding.”

Thinking Huge Roots Pops Admirer

Author:Kate Bush

“People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.”

People Thinking Feels Stories Roots Heavy Thinker

Author:Lizz Wright

“My own personal theory is that all popular music, in whatever form it is, to me, it all comes from Africa. Whether it's filtered through America or whatever - African-American. But I still think there's something in that roots music that's very, very African, and I think that's what unites people.”

People Thinking Stills America Form My Own Theory Roots African American Popular Music

Author:Paul Weller

“When Gypsy was older, after she became Gypsy Rose Lee, I think she was both proud and slightly ashamed of her Seattle roots. She worked very hard to rid her voice of any trace of a local accent, cultivating an affected way of speaking that sounded as if she pinned the ends of her words.”

Ifs Thinking Way Ends Hard Voice Proud Roots Rose Locals Ashamed Affected Accents Gypsy Seattle Cultivating

Author:Karen Abbott

“A single, one-dimensional way of thinking has created a monoculture of the mind. And the monoculture of the mind has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is the root of why we have pitted equity against ecology and sustainability against justice.”

Thinking Way Mind Self Justice Roots Sustainability Ecology Fulfilling Prophecy Equity Way Of Thinking Self Fulfilling Prophecy Monoculture

Author:Vandana Shiva

“You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.”

Ifs Thinking Character Guy Comedy Roots Factors

Author:Rhys Darby

“Just take it a day at a time. If you think, "I'm never drinking again in my life," you're setting yourself up for failure. But if you just think, "I'm not drinking today," then get through that day and just stay consistent. Consistency is basically the root to everything; it's the root to all success. Consistency is key.”

Ifs Thinking Today Keys Roots Drinking Setting Settings Consistent Consistency

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Roots Bills Clinton Likes

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“I believe in the American people. It's - I believe in trusting them, I believe in empowering them, and I think, at the end of the day, the only force strong enough to change the course we're on is the grass roots across the country.”

People Thinking Believe Ends Country Enough Courses Strong Force I Believe Roots I Believe In Grass Empowering The End Of The Day Strong Enough

Author:Ted Cruz

“Two-thirds of Americans think our kids will have a worse life than we did. That is a powerful indication we are on the wrong path. I think we can change that, but I'll tell you, that's what I'm going to fight to do, and the reason so many grass-roots activists poured so much into it is they believed in our country. They believed in liberty.”

Thinking Two Country Reason Kids Fighting Powerful Liberty Path Roots Thirds Our Country Grass Activist Indication Wrong Path

Author:Ted Cruz

“[Obama's] roots to basic American values and culture are at best limited. I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values.”

Thinking War America Values Culture President Imagine Roots American Values

Author:Mark Penn

“The lordship of man over man is the root cause of all corrupt rule. In the light of this principle, no laws are legitimate except God's law, and no government is legitimate except those who rule as God's deputies, implementing God's laws alone, which no-one has the power to change. So I say to you: if you really want to root out corruption now so widespread on God's earth, stand up and fight against corrupt rule; take power and use it on God's behalf. It is useless to think you change things by preaching alone.”

Ifs Thinking Men Want Use Light Government Earth Law Fighting Causes Principles Roots Corruption Useless Preaching Behalf Power To Change Root Cause Lordship Deputies Implementing

Author:Abul A'la Maududi

“It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Self Energy Habit Waste Roots Embrace Destructive Self Destructive

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.”

Thinking Able Roots Latin Posse

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Zwarte Piet, or 'Black Pete,' is a relic from slavery. It is something that should have long been eliminated, and it's very insulting to black Dutch people. It's shocking to me that it still exists, but I think it's about the lack of knowledge and education regarding the roots of the character in the slave trade.”

People Thinking Should Long Stills Character Black Roots Should Have Slavery Trade Slave Shocking Insulting Dutch Relics Education And Knowledge Slave Trade Lack Of Knowledge

Author:Roger Ross Williams

“With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that's sort of the root of age.”

Thinking Age Roots

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I don't think it had a name when we started. If punk has any roots, Dada is part of it. And we saw ourselves as part of a kind of Dada tradition.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Names Saws Tradition Roots Punk

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“The roots of anti-Semitism is a complex question - if I think about why I was open to these thoughts, it was because I had never met any Jews before and therefore I could believe all the stereotypes of these people.”

People Ifs Thinking Believe Mets Roots Complexes Jew Stereotype Anti Semitism

Author:Csanad Szegedi

“I get questions from Richard Sandomir at the New York Times or Michael Hiestand at USA Today about issues .., 'well, there's a blog site that says you root too hard for the Red Sox. Or people don't like you because you're rooting against their team ...'I don't want to say it's bad. There are certainly things you learn from the internet. You certainly learn from people's opinions. I think you're going to get some of the negative a lot more than the positive, but I think you can learn from it.”

People Thinking Want Wells Hard Today Opinion Issues Team New York Like You Internet Red Negative Roots Usa Site Blogs New York Times

Author:Joe Buck

“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Years Mean Children Persons Stills I Can Grows Growing Up Growing Like You Grew Personality Grew Up My Friends Roots Really Like You

Author:Ann Patchett

“I think the "dawning of a new era" sounds a bit pretentious, and to me it's simply a step closer to my roots, and thus yes - I do feel liberated by this. I know many dislike this move, and I suspect that it is not really the dawning of a new era, but rather a move to a style which sells less records”

Thinking Knows Feels Moving Bits Sound Steps Records Style Roots Sells Eras Suspects Dislike Liberated Pretentious New Era

Author:Varg Vikernes

“One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not sure the words have roots. They are emanations of his psyche, but has he thought it through? Is there an argument, is there a policy implication?”

Thinking Policy Trump Argument Roots Not Sure Implications

Author:David Brooks

“We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is.”

Thinking Knows Mean Facts Today Faces Culture Term Realizing Roots Average

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“People are hungry, and they're hurting and they're very, very worried about their children. Will their kids ever pay off their student debt? Will their kids ever get a decent-paying job? I think Democrats have got to be running a grass-roots campaign - mobilizing people and being prepared to take on the 1 percent with an agenda that speaks to the needs of ordinary workers.”

People Thinking Needs Children Running Kids Jobs Speak Hurt Pay Students Ordinary Percent Roots Prepared Democrat Workers Debt Campaigns Hungry Worried Grass Decent Agendas

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I'm anti-establishment. So all the labels, the reason that I keep joking and rejecting this idea that I'm liberal, well partly that's because I think of myself as a radical, and by that I mean, not even in the terms of Left-Right that you might imagine - but someone who wants to go to the root of problems.”

Thinking Want Wells Mean Ideas Reason Problem Might Left Term Imagine Roots Radical Labels Establishment Rejecting

Author:Bill Ayers

“Donald Trump has pulled something off that I have never seen pulled off. And it is, I think, at the root of the frustration that Republican consultants and the Republican establishment and anybody else in the Republican Party has that is anti-Trump, and that is: Donald Trump owns the media.”

Thinking Party Media Trump Republican Roots Frustration Establishment Republican Party Consultants

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I think what happened with 9/11 is that people sort of felt that it came from nowhere. Whereas I think now we understand the roots are very deep. I say it's like revolutionary Communism, something that is going to have to be knocked out over a very long period of time. This strain of extremism continues to be very strong, whether it's in Afghanistan, or Somalia or Yemen, or any of these places.”

People Thinking Long Strong Felt Happened Periods Roots Communism Revolutionary Afghanistan Very Strong Strain Extremism Very Deep Long Periods Of Time Somalia Yemen

Author:Tony Blair

“Sometimes along the way, when people are actively working, they will start to do a search for their roots and maybe get really interested in ancestry and become very good at what was just a hobby. But I think that we shouldn't wait quite that long to develop and look for those parallel interests of ours and not sometimes see them as frivolous and take them a little more seriously, and spend some time and energy and maybe even capital in pursuing them.”

People Thinking Way Looks Littles Long Sometimes Energy Waiting Interest Roots Very Good Hobbies Parallels Get Real Ancestry Frivolous Time And Energy

Author:Darold Treffert

“Reductionist ideology not only hinders biologists from thinking adequately about the phenomena we wish to understand: it has two important social consequences: it serves to relocate social problems to the individual rather than exploring the societal roots and determinants of a phenomenon; and second, it diverts attention and funding from the social to the molecular.”

Thinking Two Important Problem Individual Wish Social Attention Consequence Roots Ideology Phenomenon Exploring Funding Hinder Biologist Social Problems

Author:Steven Rose

“Tolerance has been a very important feature of Christianity from its very roots, despite all the other things that have gone on since. And that, I think, must be the global perspective. Tolerance implies more than saying, "Well, let the Muslims go on with what they are doing." It also means trying to learn something from them and adding that to your own tradition. That is the attitude I think needs to inform the global citizen of the future.”

Thinking Needs Trying Wells Mean Has Beens Important Attitude Christianity Gone Perspective Goes On Citizens Tradition Roots Tolerance Despite Features Global Citizen

Author:Ninian Smart

“I think Canada has stayed true to its news roots better than the United States has, in many ways. So I think Al Jazeera America is going to look a lot like the news that Canadians are used to: longer stories, more investigation, deeper analysis, less partisan.”

Thinking Way Looks States Stories America Used United United States News Roots Deeper Analysis Canada Als Investigation Partisans

Author:Ali Velshi

“Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.”

Thinking Way Want Humans Persons Our Lives Racism Roots Fundamentals Errors Selfishness Abortion Justify Stem Symptoms Poisonous Human Error

Author:Alveda King

“I think everyone roots for the underdog.”

Thinking Roots Underdog

Author:Johnny Knoxville

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