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“Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is two people because it is a statement of the impasse of dualistic universe which he has created, they have created. I think that any dualistic universe ends in Nova. Mr. Bradley-Mr. Martin is a kind of God. A God of stupidity, cowardice, ugliness.”

People Thinking Kind Two Ends Universe Stupidity Statements Cowardice Ugliness Novas Impasse

Book:Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

Source: Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997

“I think it's the strength of her music, using art to make a statement. I think it really is. It was not a cheap gift. The gift was an expensive gift for Nina [Simone]. Diamonds are expensive. Her music was expensive. She paid for it, but I think it's her greatest gift.”

Thinking Art Paid Statements Expensive Diamond Greatest Gifts Nina

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“I hope my books make statements about our general condition.”

Book Conditions Statements

Author:William Golding

“There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.”

Thinking Wells Earth Millions Thousand Flying Statements Google Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words Google Earth

Author:Rebecca Moore

“When they called me with the Nobel call from Secretary General of the Swedish Academy it was twenty minutes to six and he said well that was well hope I'm not disturbing you but I am the Secretary General of the Swedish Academy. Of course you can imagine I was frozen in time when he said that but then he made a very famous statement, something to the effect that this is the last 20 minutes of peace of your life.”

Wells Made Said Lasts Courses Imagine Minutes Effects Six Twenties Statements Secretary Frozen Disturbing Academy Nobel Swedish Very Famous Frozen In Time

Author:Ahmed H. Zewail

“You can stand on a stage in New York City and make very strong statements, but now everyone has to be held accountable equally.”

Strong Cities Stage New York Statements New York City Very Strong

Author:Allen Crawford

“When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.”

People Play Courses Stupid Statements

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.”

Ifs Needs Trying Body Age Choices Reading Perspective Activity Conscious Yoga Glasses Your Body Statements Finding Yourself Hitting Reading Glasses

Author:Deepak Chopra

“I love Larry Bird, but I don't agree with him. I love him and respect everything about him. I learned a long time ago, and I've made this statement: Coaches don't lose their expertise and ability to make the calls.”

Long Made Loses Ability Long Time Bird Agree Coaches Statements Long Time Ago Expertise Larry I Love Him

Author:Pete Carroll

“A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.”

Needs Attention Seeking Statements Exclusive

Author:Emily Ratajkowski

“Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It enlarges and enlightens experience; it stimulates and enriches imagination; it creates responsibility for accuracy and vividness of statement and thought.”

Doe Together Social Process Imagination Responsibility Teaching Demand Statements Educate Enlightening Accuracy Social Life Permanence Teaching And Learning Living Together Vividness

Book:Democracy And Education

Source: Democracy And Education

“There has maybe been a poor - a misunderstanding or statements that have maybe hurt, unfortunately. The Mexicans have felt offended by what has been said [by Donald Trump]. But I am certain that his genuine interest is in building a relationship that will provide our mutual societies improved wellbeing.”

Has Beens Said Certain Felt Interest Hurt Poor Building Trump Genuine Statements Mutual Misunderstanding Offended Wellbeing

Author:Enrique Pena Nieto

“Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.”

Thinking Done America Given Race Leader Music Changed Politician Relation Hip Hop Credit Statements Hips Hops Race Relations

Author:Jay-Z

“There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."”

Should Statements Compulsion Quran

Author:Hamza Yusuf

“Comedian makes the statement that just isn't true.”

Statements Comedian

Author:Brad Williams

“Speaking of [Colin] Kaepernick, did you see what [Barack] Obama said about Kaepernick? I mean this was the biggest dodge I have ever seen. This may have been the most vacuous or empty statement on anything, because Obama clearly wanted to agree with Kaepernick but couldn't.”

May Mean Has Beens Said Wanted Empty Agree Statements Barack Dodge Vacuous Kaepernick

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“I know that an important message is not a novel. To say that we should all be kind to our neighbors is an important statement; it's not a novel.”

Knows Should Kind Important Novel Messages Neighbor Statements Be Kind

Author:Chinua Achebe

“What is the result of our investigation of the Moslem idea of God? Is the statement of the Koran true, "Your God and our God is the same"? In as far as Moslems are monotheists and in as far as Allah has many of the attributes of Jehovah we cannot put Him with the false gods. But neither can there be any doubt that Mohammed's conception of God is inadequate, incomplete, barren and grievously distorted. It is vastly inferior to the Christian idea of the Godhead and also inferior to the Old Testament idea of God.”

Ideas Christian Results Doubt Statements Conception Attributes Investigation Inferiors Testament Inadequate Incomplete Old Testament Barren Jehovah False Gods

Author:Samuel Marinus Zwemer

“Clear statement is argument.”

Clear Argument Statements

Author:William Greenough Thayer Shedd

“One would normally define a "religion" as a system of ideas that contain statements that cannot be logically or observationally demonstrated... Gödels theorem not only demonstrates that meathematics is a religion, but shows that mathematics is the only religion that proves itself to be one!”

Ideas Shows Prove Mathematics Statements Prove It Theorems

Author:John D. Barrow

“The truth of religion comes from its symbolic rendering of man's moral experience; it proceeds intuitively and imaginatively. Its falsehood comes from its attempt to substitute itself for science and to pretend that its poetic statements are information about reality.”

Men Reality Moral Information Statements Poetic Substitutes Falsehood Symbolic Rendering

Author:Eugene Genovese

“I found myself desiring and knowing less and less, until I could say in utter astonishment: "I know nothing, I want nothing." Earlier I was sure of so many things, now I am sure of nothing. But I feel I have lost nothing by not knowing, because all my knowledge was false. My not knowing was in itself knowledge of the fact that all my knowledge is ignorance, that "I do not know" is the only true statement the mind can make....I do not claim to know what you do not. In fact, I know much less than you do.”

Knows Want Feels Mind Facts Found Lost Knowing Ignorance Claims Statements Not Knowing Self Knowledge Astonishment

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.”

People World War President Bounds Scripts Determined Debate Statements Spots War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Toes Jimmy Carter President Jimmy Carter

Author:Mark Shields

“Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.”

Kind Two Statements Two Things Not Afraid Untamed

Author:Jillian Hervey

“I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, "I think, therefore I am" and changes it to "I effect, therefore I am."”

Thinking Humans Book Effects Late Impact Profound Statements Anatomy Destructiveness Fromm

Author:Frances Moore Lappé

“Popular religion since the time of Kant and Fichte has gone in a direction they tried to prevent and that has been disastrous for the humanity both of believers and of the rest of us. Look at the role of religion in Republican presidential primaries if you need any confirmation of this last statement.”

Ifs Needs Looks Has Beens Lasts Humanity Roles Gone Republican Believer Statements Primaries Presidential Confirmation

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think that I'm increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that's radically global or universal, you have to start in a place that's radically intimate and particular.”

Thinking Facts Order Particular Universal Statements Intimate

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“For example, in one of my last exhibitions I had a 50-foot massive painting with I think perhaps a hundred thousand hand-painted small flowers. This was the Christ painting [The Dead Christ in the Tomb, 2008] in my Down exhibition [2008]. Now, I simply can't spend eight hours a day painting small, identical flowers. And so I've got a team that allows me to have these grand, sweeping statements.”

Thinking Hands Lasts Christ Hours Team Feet Example Painting Flower Thousand Hundred Eight Statements Massive Identical Tombs Sweeping Exhibitions

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I typically go for a more classic aesthetic, though I like to contrast that with bold statement pieces throughout my house.”

House Pieces Statements Classic Aesthetic Contrast

Author:Karlie Kloss

“I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.”

Today Interest Policy Judgment Concern India Bases Regard Independent Remains Statements Enlightened Relevant Foreign Policy Sole National Interests

Author:Manmohan Singh

“Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.”

Ifs Writing Asks Forever Offers Debt Statements Collectors Lumps Payoff

Author:Michelle Singletary

“The family of Keith Scott viewed the police video and it`s worth repeating that afterward the family made a statement through their lawyers which reads in part, "It is impossible to discern from the videos what, if anything, Mr. Scott is holding in his hands. When he was shot and killed, Mr. Scott`s hands were by his side and he was slowly walking backwards."”

Ifs Made Hands Sides Impossible Walking Shots Police Lawyer Statements Video What If Backwards Keith Walking Backwards

Author:Chris Hayes

“The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.”

Giving Return Taxes Rate Financial Details Statements Disclosure Tax Returns

Author:Hillary Clinton

“There is something to be said about a pastor and a church that develop a missions statement and the people take ownership of it. They get their identity, purpose, and energy from the unique place their church is to be in that community.”

People Said Purpose Energy Community Church Identity Unique Missions Statements Ownership Pastor Mission Statement

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I do a lot of conferences, a lot of leadership training. For about six or seven years I've been making this statement - every time I make it, I can see people just kind of - it's just one of those light bulb moments.”

People Years Kind I Can Moments Light Six Training Seven Statements Just One Conferences Seven Years Leadership Training Bulbs Light Bulb

Author:John C. Maxwell

“When I made that statement that the person discovers the secret of their success by their daily agenda, all of a sudden it hit me that if I could teach people to make today count; if I could really teach them what they need to do today to have a good day, that tomorrow would really take care of itself.”

People Ifs Needs Persons Made Care Today Secret Teach Tomorrow Take Care Statements If I Could Agendas Good Day Have A Good Day

Author:John C. Maxwell

“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.”

Thinking World Want Needs Humans Ideas Faces Culture Community Wonder Conditions Function Unions Communicate Statements Uncertainty Human Condition Overreaching Imminent Death

Author:Justin Adams

“Cinema for me is an area of philosophy and artistic statement.”

Philosophy Areas Statements Artistic Cinema

Author:Ivan Tverdovsky

“Since I come from documentary background and my father is a documentary filmmaker, for me the core essence of cinema is it's social statement. It is somewhat similar to the work of a journalist, just on a different level. This is the kind of cinema I enjoy.”

Kind Different Father Social Enjoy Levels Essence Core Backgrounds Statements Journalist Cinema Filmmaker Documentaries Different Levels

Author:Ivan Tverdovsky

“Trait X is fitter than trait Y in a population of organisms if those organisms have other biological traits T and live in an environment that has properties E. The theory of natural selection is filled with statements of this form.”

Ifs Form Natural Environment Theory Filled Property Population Statements Traits Organisms Selection Natural Selection

Author:Elliott Sober

“The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.”

Thinking Doe Goal Failing Achieve Theory Evidence Argument Claims Statements Observation Former Latter Metaphysical Epistemology Thesis Scientific Theory

Author:Elliott Sober

“I mean, it would be very easy to make an inflammatory statement on what we ought to do on cyber. I don't think that that's productive. But to allow the Russian activity to go unresponded to is not acceptable.”

Thinking Mean Would Be Easy Ought Activity Statements Productive Acceptable Cyber

Author:John Kasich

“Exotic novelty. My statement to [people] is always, well, set this picture in your home town, is it still an interesting picture? Or is it just exotic? Would I care about this same picture minus its exoticism?”

People Wells Stills Home Care Interesting Towns Statements I Care Novelty Exotic Minus Home Town

Author:Sam Abell

“That statement [ Stephen Ambrose:'You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years.'] woke me up to the fact that the landscape that Lewis and Clark came across was greater than the Serengeti. And it's gone.”

Years Facts Jobs Lasts Gone Greater Happened Statements Hardest Landscape Hardest Job Lewis And Clark

Author:Sam Abell

“Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.”

Needs Lasts Profit Statements Corporations Quarters Translate Rating

Author:Norman Lear

“Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.”

Has Beens Results Party Fields Trump Republican Appearance Statements Hated Presidential Candidates Republican Party Nominations

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.”

Important Statements Trends

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“I think you have a certain level of confidence in what you do. "Arrogance" is the wrong word. I think when you go into it, you're aware that you're doing it for the right reasons - and you have your own moral and ethical code. And we weren't driven by money, but by a a desire to make music and make a statement.”

Thinking Reason Desire Certain Levels Moral Driven Statements Code Arrogance Ethical Wrong Words

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“Even if that statement was ambiguous, we kind of wanted to cause a stir. We thought that by having the name "Cabaret Voltaire", that with it came a certain responsibility. It wasn't meant to be purely entertainment; it was meant to be something a little bit more serious - and to provoke people - wrapped within an outer wrapping of entertainment.”

People Ifs Kind Littles Wanted Certain Names Causes Bits Responsibility Serious Little Bit Entertainment Statements Meant To Be Provoking Ambiguous Were Meant To Be Wrapping Cabaret

Author:Stephen Mallinder

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