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“No matter who the character is and how big their role, that each person in the story is a human being and deserves respect. Even if they're in the story for ten seconds, I didn't want you to just see them as this entity passing through that's serving all of the other people.”

People Ifs Want Humans Persons Matter Character Stories Bigs Human Beings Roles Ten Deserve Passing Passings Serving Seconds Entity Passing Through

Author:Clive Owen

“If you are unclear about what attitudes you adhere to, you will have a difficult time evaluation which ones are not serving your highest good.”

Ifs Difficult Attitude Highest Positive Attitude Serving Difficult Times Evaluation Unclear

Author:Deborah Day

“Our greatest individual challenge in life is self-discipline. The self-discipline of a healthy diet, daily exercise, controlling our thoughts, selflessly serving others, and living a life of integrity.”

Self Life Is Individual Challenges Leadership Discipline Exercise Integrity Healthy Diets Serving Self Discipline Our Thoughts Serving Others Life Challenges Healthy Diet Daily Exercise

Author:Bradford Winters

“I never thought of serving as a conflict of interest, that would have been a luxury! I just needed something to survive. Initial needs have to be met first, and then later things like patriotism come in.”

Needs Firsts Has Beens Interest Needed Mets Conflict Luxury Serving Veteran Initials Conflict Of Interest

Author:Donna M. Loring

“When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.”

People Thinking Self Silent Careful Taoism Serving Be Careful Self Serving Inscrutable Careful What You Say

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The thing that scares me most is the shift from serving the people to exercising power and with it, this attendant narcissism. Sarah Palin is a great example of someone that just stirs the pot for the sake of the attention.”

People Attention Example Exercise Sake Serving Pot Scare Narcissism Palin

Author:Rosanne Cash

“The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.”

People Pleasure Judging Constitution California Serving

Author:Michele Landis Dauber

“Donald Verrilli has argued 37 cases in five years on behalf of the [Barak] Obama administration. Many of them turned out to be truly landmark cases. He is the seventh-longest-serving solicitor general in American history.”

Years Cases Five Administration Five Years Serving American History Behalf Landmarks Barak Obama Solicitors

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.”

Years Firsts Artist Careers Decided Pursue Grades Serving Rhyme Juvenile Detention

Author:Yukmouth

“I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.”

People Thinking Self Serving Greedy Self Serving Lustful

Author:Park Dietz

“If you want to serve the country, you recognize it's rough and tumble. And it's nothing like serving your country in the military.”

Ifs Want Country Military Rough Serving

Author:Mitt Romney

“What's going on is that our most fundamental ideas about life are not serving us. They never have. But now, with our advances in communication and technology, the situation has become critical - for our mechanisms have outrun our mentality. And so we find ourselves trying to solve the dilemmas of tomorrow with the solutions of yesterday.”

Trying Ideas Situation Technology Communication Tomorrow Solutions Fundamentals Solve Critical Yesterday Serving Mechanism Mentality Dilemma Outrun

Author:Neale Donald Walsch

“I do not trust self serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations either. I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.”

People Self Millions Media Politician Corporations Candidates Serving Misinformation Self Serving Troll

Author:Neil Young

“The technology is available to us today to begin the transition to 100 percent renewable energy. What is keeping us from making that transition is nothing more than misinformation, a lack of knowledge by most people of what is available, and an unwillingness on the part of many of our politicians for either ideological slavishness or something more self-serving, like major campaign contributions from the oil and gas corporations or from utilities who enjoy the monopoly they have on our energy systems.”

“The only joy in this hard life is serving others.”

Hard Life Is Joy Serving Serving Others Hard Life

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.”

“As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].”

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Author:Bernie Sanders

“My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack [pistachios]. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!”

Hands Beautiful Taught Size Planes Bags Serving Nuts Trainers Iranian Snacks Pistachios

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“I was honored to serve as an elected official for twenty-four years of my life. But right now, I believe our democratic processes have been hacked. They are not serving the best interests of the American public.”

Years Believe Has Beens I Believe Process Interest Four Right Now Twenties Democratic Officials Serving Four Years Honored Elected Officials Hacked Democratic Process

Author:Al Gore

“A Separation Psychology produces a Separation Sociology, a way of socializing with each other that encourages the entire human society to act as separate entities serving their own separate interests.”

Way Humans Interest Psychology Produce Separation Serving Entity Sociology Human Society Socializing

Book:What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World

Source: What God Said: The 25 Core Messages of Conversations with God That Will Change Your Life and th e World

“As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.”

Emotional Letting Go Simplicity Serving Complication Toxins

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.”

People Government Given Position Periods Servant Serving Subordinates Civil Servants

Author:Mahathir Mohamad

“[Donald Trump] will be the one on offense. He will be the one serving volleys, and it may be some weird stuff about the Russians, but he will be controlling things a little more than he probably did over the last two weeks.”

May Littles Two Lasts Stuff Week Trump Serving Offense Two Weeks Weird Stuff Volley Controlling Things

Author:David Brooks

“When the dialogue is on point and I feel like the overall story and message is really serving something that's socially progressive, it really makes me want to be a part of it.”

Want Feels Stories Messages Dialogue Serving Progressive

Author:Kofi Siriboe

“Everyone, including Hillary Clinton, knows Hillary is an unsavory and unethical scoundrel, an obvious and accomplished liar and, if America had a real Justice Department that actually cared about serving up equal justice under the law, she would be facing a number of felony charges.”

Ifs Knows Real Would Be America Law Justice Numbers Equal Clinton Including Obvious Accomplished Department Serving Liars Scoundrels Unethical Felony Equal Justice

Author:Ted Nugent

“So if you serve a whole chicken to your family like grandma did, you may be serving them 10 times as much fat than the days of yesteryear. That's a whole lotta fat, and big trouble for the waistline.”

Ifs May Whole Bigs Trouble Fats Our Family Serving Chickens Grandma Yesteryear

Author:Kathy Freston

“If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.”

People Ifs Stills Self Sides Realizing Cases Court Serving Murderer Involving Self Serving Court Cases

Author:Rukmini Maria Callimachi

“However, I believe that large groups make markets, so serving the needs of large groups is a simple approach to success in business success. But that's no reflection on whether or not they're making wise moves or good calls. It's just about filling the need.”

Needs Believe Moving I Believe Simple Wise Groups Approach Reflection Serving Business Success Filling Large Groups

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.”

Way Should May Might Culture Can Do Destructive Serving Packs Dominant Saying No Dominant Culture

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.”

Ifs Knows Heart Serving Pulling

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“We saw more evidence that [Doanld Trump] is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be commander-in-chief. He trash-talked American generals, saying they had been, quote, "reduced to rubble," that's how he talks about distinguished men and women who have spent their lives serving our country, sacrificing for us. That's how he would act as commander-in-chief.”

Men Country Saws Sacrifice Trump Evidence Men And Women Our Country Chiefs Serving Trash Distinguished Commanders Commander In Chief Unqualified Rubble

Author:Hillary Clinton

“According to the National Priorities Project, military expenditures are 54% of the budget. The next biggest line item is 7%. And there are a whole bunch of 7 percents. So in short, we have a military budget surrounded by a lot of footnotes. This is not serving us well.”

Wells Whole Next Lines Military Projects Percent Priorities Bunch Budgets Serving Items Expenditures Footnotes Military Budget

Author:Jill Stein

“Here's what people should look at as they look at a public servant. Do they have a passion in their life that showed up before they were in public life? And have they held onto that passion throughout their life, regardless of whether they were in office or not, succeeding or failing. Hillary Clinton has that passion, from a time as a kid in a methodist youth group in the suburbs of Chicago, she has been focused on serving others with a special focus on empowering families and kids.”

“I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].”

Children Book Stories Wanted Film Girl Interesting Subjects Female Train Complexity Serving Very Interesting

Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.”

Self Philosophy Masters Serving Muse Self Serving

Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.”

Purpose Generations Serving Seriousness Our Generation

Author:Newt Gingrich

“Even though a definite article is supposed to bring something into focus, Donald Trump uses it in a very general way. It's seen by many observers as a kind of racial distancing. Often using that article seems unnecessary. [But] it is serving some function, which is to represent a group collectively rather than as individuals.”

Way Kind Use Seems Individual Focus Groups Trump Function Serving Articles Unnecessary Definite Observers

Author:Ben Zimmer

“What are the prospects for an Arab state serving a leading role comparable to the role that other states place in other regions? There is no obvious candidate. Saudi Arabia has the money but a relatively small population. Iraq was a great potential leader, as a sizable country with great oil resources and a highly educated population, but it went off in the wrong direction.”

Country States Leader Roles Resources Iraq Population Obvious Oil Educated Candidates Regions Serving Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Prospects Wrong Direction

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.”

Ifs Opportunity Havens Offers Aspiration Serving Another Opportunity

Author:Marco Rubio

“Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.”

Company Serving Small Business Commercial Banks

Author:Jamie Dimon

“We invested in the downturn and we never stopped serving our clients.”

Serving Clients Downturn

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I mean, let's take the average spouse. You know, you show up in an employer's, you know, office, and it's shown that you've changed jobs every two years. Well, to many employers that could be viewed as a red flag. But the truth is, is that you've made those moves because you're serving your country, and each time you've found a career, and you've been able to provide for your family, and you've continued to volunteer, and on and on and on.”

“It's got to feel, the pulse has to feel like this part of the world, the instrumentation has to be true to that, and so, between him, [composer] Mark Mancina and myself, we really chased that, while serving our story Moana].”

World Feels Stories Mark Being True Serving Composer Pulse Instrumentation

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Jobs Can Do Materials Serving Good Job

Author:Molly Shannon

“It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.”

Self Seems Suffering Reading Right Now Serving Self Serving

Author:Richard Rohr

“I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels that take a wry, humorous, ironic look at modern life.”

Looks Purpose Enjoy Novel Modern Humorous Valuable Novelists Serving Ironic Modern Life Satirical Wry

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue.”

“As always, many of our troops are far from home this [Christmas] time of year, and their families are serving and sacrificing right along with them. Their courage and dedication allow the rest of us to enjoy this season. That's why we've tried to serve them as well as they've served this country.”

Years Wells Country Home Enjoy Sacrifice Seasons Serving Dedication Troops Our Troops Christmas Time

Author:Michelle Obama

“The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low.”

Way Years Firsts Has Beens Together Lasts President Worst Honor Lows Eight Nine Serving Unemployment Greatest Gifts Recessions Nine Years First Lady

Author:Barack Obama

“The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and therefore, at best, seek to encourage it. Serving the status quo in political and socioeconomic realms is a different matter.”

Different Matter Past Political Natural Challenges Century Constant Tendencies Realms Serving Survived Status Quo Natural Science

Author:Noam Chomsky

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