“I think the critical point, really, is that we need to focus black economic empowerment more on the creation of new wealth rather than on these big deals that have been characteristic of this process in the past, of people going to banks, borrowing a lot of money, buying this and when the shares don't perform very well, the shares go back to the banks, because there's other people who own this anyway. I think we need to re-focus it so that it really does impact on growth, new investment, new employment and a general, better spread of wealth in South Africa.” PeopleThinkingNeedsWellsDoeHas BeensBigsPastProcessBlackGrowthWealthDealsFocusShareEconomicCreationEmpowermentImpactInvestmentSouthSpreadCriticalEmploymentCharacteristicsBuyingLots Of MoneySouth AfricaBig DealBorrowingEconomic Empowerment Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Treasurys, as low as yields are, are higher than they are in most other developed countries. A foreign investor picks up a yield spread in Treasurys versus their own sovereigns, plus the fact that if the dollar is going to continue rallying - and I think it will because it's a safe haven - then they get a currency translation gain as well.” IfsThinkingWellsCountryFactsHavensHigherSafeLowsPicksGainsDollarsSpreadPlusYieldInvestorsCurrencyVersusTranslationsSafe HavenDeveloped CountryRallying Author:Gary Shilling
“We have seen how Zika has become a very serious problem in Brazil, in other parts of Latin America, in this hemisphere. During the summer it can arrive very quickly here in south Florida, in the whole state. In a very hot climate in summer, where mosquitos begin to spread very quickly, it's a very serious threat.” StatesWholeProblemAmericaSeriousSummerHotThreatSouthClimateSpreadLatinFloridaLatin AmericaBrazilHemisphereSouth Florida Author:Marco Rubio
“I find I enjoy myself most on those days when it's just me and a couple close friends away from it all. True human interaction in a day when we are all spread so thin.” HumansEnjoyCoupleSpreadInteractionClose Friends Author:Travis Rice
“The mission [of institution] won't change. It will continue to be what it is: to spread the practice of deep listening and introduce it to people, to do workshops and retreats and certification programs and so on.” PeoplePracticeListeningProgramInstitutionsSpreadMissionsIntroducingRetreatWorkshopsDeep Listening Author:Pauline Oliveros
“It's ironic that this amazing invention of the Internet has made information gathering easier available than ever, but that this platform also helps spread misinformation.” MadeHelpingInformationInternetEasierAvailableSpreadInventionIronicPlatformsGatheringMisinformation Author:will.i.am
“Placing a wedge of lime in the neck of a Corona bottle helps sell those beers. And where did that ritual come from? One story has it that two bartenders in California were curious how fast a ritual could spread. Astonishingly fast, they discovered.” TwoHelpingStoriesSellsSpreadCuriousBeerCaliforniaNecksBottlesRitualBartenderWedgesLimes Author:Martin Lindstrom
“I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.” ThinkingWorldSidesSunWindLogicSpreadOilLocalsFuelCoalFossilsFossil Fuel Author:Bill McKibben
“There's an early 2014 email from Hillary Clinton, not so long after she left the State Department, to her campaign manager John Podesta that states ISIL is funded by the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now this is the most significant email in the whole collection, and perhaps because Saudi and Qatari money is spread all over the Clinton Foundation.” LongStatesWholeGovernmentLeftFoundationClintonSpreadCampaignsSignificantManagersDepartmentCollectionsEmailArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisIsilQatar Author:Julian Assange
“Music is about listening, the more you play, the more the magic spreads.” PlayMagicListeningMusic IsSpread Author:Maynard James Keenan
“I believe that we're in an ideological struggle; I believe the only way to marginalize those who murder the innocent, to achieve our ideological objectives, is to spread democracy and freedom.” WayBelieveI BelieveStruggleDemocracyAchieveMurderSpreadObjectivesInnocentIdeological Author:George W. Bush
“I'll do anything to try to prevent John Bolton from getting any position, because I think his world view is naive. He believes we're going to spread democracy. We're going to topple governments everywhere and they're going to elect Thomas Jefferson. That's not the way it works in the Middle East.” ThinkingWorldWayTryingBelieveGovernmentViewsDemocracyMiddlePositionSpreadEastMiddle EastNaiveWorld View Author:Rand Paul
“As I said, this [repercussions] may take different forms : direct and indirect. Direct when people want to retaliate, or governments. Indirect when you're going to have instability and the spread of terrorism all over the region that will influence the west directly.” PeopleWantMaySaidDifferentGovernmentFormInfluenceDirectWestSpreadTerrorismRegionsInstabilityRepercussionsIndirectDirect And Indirect Author:Bashar al-Assad
“Actually, my first article, it wasn't about the anarchists; it was about the fall of Barcelona and the spread of fascism over Europe, which was frightening. But a couple of years later I became interested in the anarchist movement.” YearsFirstsFallMovementCoupleEuropeSpreadArticlesFascismFrighteningAnarchistBarcelona Author:Noam Chomsky
“I soon found I could not talk about that in a vacuum without understanding the historical, cultural, political context, and giving it some legacy and some roots, and so then it just started to have tentacles that just spread out in all these places, and already a vicious project became pretty overwhelming in scope, and so it was a lot of diligent, day-to-day fighting with the footage, trying to get it down to a place where it was manageable and emotional.” GivingTryingPoliticalFightingFoundUnderstandingEmotionalProjectsRootsHistoricalSpreadLegacyOverwhelmingDay To DayViciousScopeVacuumsDiligentManageableTentacles Author:Ava DuVernay
“A story a friend told me about being in New York and meeting this Latin-lover kind of guy. They went up to her hotel room, and the guy kind of pounced on her and told her to spread her legs, shouting, "Surrender the pink! Surrender the pink!" That's where it's from.” KindStoriesGuyRoomsNew YorkLoversMeetingsLegsSpreadSurrenderHotelLatinShoutingHotel Rooms Author:Carrie Fisher
“Years ago nudity was not done in the United States. But during that late 1950s era in Vegas it began at the Tropicana, and spread to the other venues. Now the showgirls are going away again and Cirque du Soleil, the magic acts and the animal acts reign in Las Vegas. But I don't think you'll completely lose the boobie shows.” ThinkingYearsStatesDoneShowsLosesAnimalUnitedUnited StatesMagicLateYears AgoSpreadErasGoing AwayReignVegasLas VegasNudityVenuesCirque Du Soleil Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Let's do 150 stops. Let's go to 75 universities, and let's spread this gospel of Internet entrepreneurship everywhere we go.” InternetUniversitySpreadEntrepreneurship Author:Alexis Ohanian
“[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.” PeopleFeelsOrderSituationStepsIssuesDirectorsSpreadCinema Author:Sergio Leone
“[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.” KnowsMadeStillsCasesFourFiguresTenSpreadAppealsForty Author:Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
“Maybe that will happen with other countries as well. And so, that's why one of the things that groups like mine that work for the elimination of nuclear weapons and work for their marginalization in the meantime, we say you have to diminish the political value that's attached to nuclear weapons in order to give them less (kind of) desirability in the eyes of governments that do not now have them, and thus to help stop their spread.” GivingWellsKindCountryHelpingGovernmentHappensEyePoliticalValuesOrderGroupsMinesWeaponsSpreadNuclearNuclear WeaponsOther CountriesDiminishEliminationMarginalizationDesirability Author:John Burroughs
“I spent a lot of time studying our Founders and people like Samuel Adams and the original Tea Party. What Adams and the Sons of Liberty did in Boston was spread the word about the abuses of the British. They had Committees of Correspondence that got the word out to the colonies. We need Committees of Correspondence now, and we are getting them.” PeopleNeedsPartyLibertyStudySonAbuseOriginalsSpreadBritishTeaFoundersCommitteesBostonTea PartyColonyCorrespondence Author:Nat Hentoff
“That is what is happening with the Tea Parties. I wrote a column called "The Second American Revolution" about the fact that people are acting for themselves as it happened with the Sons of Liberty which spread throughout the colonies. That was a very important awakening in this country.” PeopleImportantCountryFactsPartyActingLibertyHappenedSonRevolutionHappeningsSpreadAwakeningTeaColumnsTea PartyColonyAmerican Revolution Author:Nat Hentoff
“I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion.” WantTryingHavensNew YorkGreenPrisonSpreadInmatesWardens Author:Malcolm X
“If you look at my closet, there's all kinds of shoes, but at the same time I don't want to spread myself thin as far as designs and collabs.” IfsWantLooksKindDesignShoesSpreadAll KindsClosets Author:Fabolous
“We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.” LawPoliticalGunSpreadFloridaDonationStand Your Ground Author:Clara Jeffery
“What we always want to say [in X-men] is, "It's OK to be yourself, and actually it's a gift to be yourself. Whatever it is that you have, that may be your gift." I think that's what we always want to say, and spread it out, so have tolerance for other people who are different also.” PeopleThinkingMenWantMayDifferentSpreadToleranceBeing YourselfX Men Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“What I say is join me and be part of the army and find ways that maybe even I haven't thought of I haven't even thought of to help spread this message and inspire people to do what inspires them. That's what I need you to do.” PeopleWayNeedsHelpingHavensInspireMessagesArmySpreadNeed YouI Need You Author:Simon Sinek
“I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.” I CanCareAsksCasesSupportIssuesSpreadWho CaresSupport Me Author:Chelsea Manning
“What is demanded by God today is not a message to a particular people alone, a message is demanded for the whole of humanity who has suffered under the 6,000-year rule of Satan (or "Shaitan"); whose evil is not confined to himself but is spread to all the corners of the Earth.” PeopleYearsWholeTodayEarthHumanityEvilParticularMessagesCornersSpreadSatanConfined Author:Louis Farrakhan
“That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white brothers and sisters will not hear it from a person like me, necessarily.” WayPersonsImportantChallengesWhiteRolesBrotherInsightSpreadLike MeBrothers And Sisters Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War Two was quite different from World War One which was geographically limited to Europe. But in the case of the Gulf War, we are dealing with a war which is extremely local in space, but global in time, since it is the first 'live' war.” WorldFirstsTwoDifferentWarSpaceCasesEuropeUnionsSpreadLocalsWar Of The WorldsEtcJapanSovietWorld War ISoviet UnionGulf WarWorld War TwoWorld War One Author:Paul Virilio
“Let us put it this way, techno-scientific intelligence is presently insufficiently spread among society at large to enable us to interpret the sorts of techno-scientific advances that are taking shape today.” WayTodayShapesSpreadTechno Author:Paul Virilio
“On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.” EndsHandsLightFilmPeriodsSpreadTunnelsExhaustingLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The Tunnel Author:John Hurt
“Our nations are run by absolute worthless scum, our streets are taken over by sub-humans, the food we eat and the water we drink contains poison, our cultures are systematically replaced by "anti-culture", history is a big lie, et cetera et cetera. Of all the options I chose to start this blog, to spread dissent, to tell others - yes Burzum fans too - that there is an alternative to all of this.” HumansBigsRunningLyingCultureNationsWaterTakenFansStreetsDrinkAbsolutesSpreadAlternativesPoisonReplacedWorthlessBlogsDissentScum Author:Varg Vikernes
“I don't need to publish anything to make a living, so to speak, and I think it is much more important to spread information about our European religion than it is to make money from doing so.” ThinkingNeedsImportantSpeakInformationSpreadMaking MoneyPublish Author:Varg Vikernes
“The average American thinks billionaire investors are going to be right based on some talking head. They invest and they have no backup plan. Americans think these guys are giant risk-takers. The truth is they believe in taking as little risk as humanly possible, for the maximum amount of upside. They're looking for that spread of disproportionate risk-reward.” ThinkingBelieveLittlesGuyTalkingPlansRiskAmountTruth IsRewardsAverageSpreadGiantsInvestorsMaximumBillionaireBackupTalking HeadsBackup Plan Author:Tony Robbins
“When I started to get involved in the crime issue, people said, "it's a local issue." I said, "No, there are lots of ways the federal government can help." And the best way the federal government can help, and did in the Crime Bill, is to find programs that work around the country and help them spread.” PeopleWaySaidCountryHelpingGovernmentIssuesCrimeInvolvedProgramBillsSpreadLocalsBest WayFederal GovernmentGet Involved Author:Charles Schumer
“[Tomas] Jefferson believed that the United States was a chosen nation with a special responsibility to spread democracy around the world.” WorldStatesNationsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesDemocracySpecialSpreadChosenAround The WorldTomas Jefferson Author:Gordon S. Wood
“I think Nigerians got it wrong from independence as people became so conscious of the divisions because we wanted so much to satisfy the plurality of interests. I will say, we neglected the importance of real value, human value and the quality of potential in human beings and we contrived phrases like geographical spread, regional quota, etc and allowed mediocrity to reign. I think that is the problem that we are dealing with till today.” PeopleThinkingHumansRealProblemTodayWantedValuesInterestHuman BeingsQualityConsciousImportanceIndependenceSpreadPhrasesEtcDivisionMediocrityReignNeglectedHuman ValuesReal ValueQuota Author:Wole Soyinka
“Where I think Milo [Yiannopoulos] ran into trouble -when word spread that Milo had been invited to be the keynote speaker at Conservative Political Action Conference. I think CPAC, by inviting Milo, was an attempt to reach out to Millennials. I mean, they know. I know plenty of young people that think Milo is great, love Milo, admire Milo, think he's courageous doing what he does.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanDoeActionYoungPoliticalTroubleConservativeSpreadAdmirePlentyRanCourageousReach OutSpeakersInvitedConferencesGreat LoveInvitingMillennialsPolitical ActionConservative Political Author:Rush Limbaugh
“How long it will take until we get to a Golden Age where everybody's perfectly in tune with God's will, I don't know; but because of Prabhupada, Krishna consciousness has certainly spread more in the last sixteen years than it has since the sixteenth century, since the time of Lord Caitanya. The mantra has spread more quickly and the movement's gotten bigger and bigger.” KnowsYearsLongAgeLastsConsciousnessLordCenturyMovementBiggerSpreadGods WillGoldenTunesKrishnaMantrasSixteenGolden Age Author:George Harrison
“Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” LoveLifeInspirationalMomentsMotivationalEnergyMindfulnessPositivitySpreadBoundariesMemorablePresent MomentThat MomentFinding PeaceInternational PeacePeacekeepingKentPeace Of HeartDark Moments Author:Corita Kent
“With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.” IfsThinkingRealWould BeNumbersWeaponsKillingPopulationSpreadNuclearPreparationNuclear WeaponsSmallpox Author:Bill Gates
“Russia is leading a movement around the world to spread autocracy and authoritarianism.” WorldMovementSpreadRussiaAround The WorldAuthoritarianismAutocracy Author:Adam Schiff
“It should be appreciated that if the arrangement on Iran's nuclear program collapses after being so patiently negotiated, and successfully implemented since 2014 despite the intense opposition of Netanyahu's Israel and its American loyalists in Congress, it would be widely perceived around the world as a huge setback in the search for regional stability and the struggle to prevent any further spread of nuclear weapons.” IfsWorldShouldWould BeStruggleHugeWeaponsProgramCongressIsraelSpreadNuclearIntenseDespiteAround The WorldOppositionIranStabilityCollapseNuclear WeaponsArrangementsAppreciatedSetbackLoyalists Author:Richard A. Falk
“A comic, all they have to do is, if you do something funny in a comedy club and you put it up on you tube, it might get a million hits! All it needs to do is resonate with one person who sends it to their friends, who sends it to other people, and before you know it, it has spread virally and BOOM! All of a sudden that person has a name.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsPersonsMightNamesMillionsComedyClubsSpreadComicTubesComedy Clubs Author:Joe Rogan
“If you go out and have unprotected sex with lots of people, that behavior puts you at risk. Similarly, violent behavior can spread. One violent act can elicit a response. It can spread to people in a peer group so that they feel that they have to respond. It can pass generation to generation almost like a genetic disease.” PeopleIfsFeelsSexRiskGenerationsGroupsDiseaseBehaviorResponseSpreadViolentPeersPeer GroupViolent Acts Author:Steven James
“We stay strong. We stay positive, keep our heads up, love one another, spread love. The Devil can't win when you have God on your side.” WinningStrongSidesDevilSpreadStay StrongStay PositiveYour SideLove One AnotherCan't WinHeads Up Author:Mavis Staples
“I believe that we are given an order by Jesus. One of the last things he did was to spread the word of God and he being the basis for our salvation. Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am.” BelieveChristianLastsOrderJesusGivenI BelieveBasesSalvationSpreadSupposed To BeWord Of God Author:Jimmy Carter