“In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, "white Harlem" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me.” StillsTwoStrongWhiteStreetsNew YorkDrugMadnessJazzWestMythNeighborhoodPotVery StrongMarijuanaCasualSmackHarlem Author:George Carlin
“The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists demanding that their voices be heard. People say these are red states. No they're not!” PeopleStatesStrongBlackVoiceRightsHeardMovementRedTraditionSouthActivismCivil RightsActivistVery StrongCivil Rights Movement Author:John Darnielle
“I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.” MenPlayUseLife IsCultureLanguageStrongAbilityMachinesMethodHip HopCurrentsDetailsWork OutRhythmHipsHopsRapperVery StrongCliffsWashingSlangWashing MachinesDetails Of LifeLaundromats Author:Jim Jarmusch
“Wherever people defend the rights of the individual, I stand with them above all, over and beyond any wishes relating to how an economy should be managed or how people should govern themselves. This is a very strong commitment on my part.” PeopleShouldIndividualStrongWishEconomyRightsCommitmentVery Strong Author:Murray Bookchin
“Here's what I do believe very strongly: that once capitalism comes into existence, once it creates this mythology of a stingy nature, then that myth has to be exorcised. In other words, we have to get out of people's heads the idea that without a market economy, without egotism, competition, rivalry and self-interest, without all the technological advances that [Karl] Marx imputed to capitalism, we have to eliminate the feeling that we would sink into some kind of barbarism.” PeopleBelieveKindIdeasSelfFeelingsInterestExistenceEconomyCapitalismCompetitionMythMythologyVery StrongTechnologicalSelf InterestEgotismRivalryBarbarismMarket EconomyStingy Author:Murray Bookchin
“I believe fully in making fun of children. I believe very strongly that you should never make fun of an embryo or your ovaries. I am a big believer on breaking those rules. It's a case-by-case basis. But the thing is, there's so many ways to make a joke about something that is sort of maybe verboten or something.” WayShouldBelieveChildrenBigsFunI BelieveCasesJokesBasesBelieverVery StrongEmbryosOvaries Author:Kathy Griffin
“I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.” BelieveLyingSticksTelling The TruthVery StrongMisinformation Author:Christiane Amanpour
“The energy of compassion is very strong. We suffer. That is real. But we have learned not to get angry and not to allow ourselves to be carried by anger. We realize right away that that is fear. That is corruption.” RealSufferingEnergyStrongRealizingCompassionAngryCorruptionVery Strong Author:Nhat Hanh
“Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward.” MightEvilStrongForceTalkingAcceptingDown AndInjusticeCowardVery StrongWhere You Stand Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a very strong belief in what I like, or a very strong opinion in genre films that I like to watch.” FilmBeliefStrongOpinionWatchesGenreVery StrongStrong Opinions Author:Chad Stahelski
“The most important part of [Russian] support is the aerial support, which is very essential, they have very strong firepower, and at the same time they are the main supply of our army for more than sixty years, so our army depends on the Russian support in different military domains.” YearsImportantDifferentStrongSupportMilitaryDependsEssentialsArmyVery StrongSixtyDomain Author:Bashar al-Assad
“I grew up with a very strong sense of what is just and what is not or, to put it this way, I grew up with a keen sense of a division, the reality of a division of perception in people's lives between those who govern and those who govern.” PeopleWayRealityStrongGrewPerceptionGrew UpDivisionVery Strong Author:Wole Soyinka
“If I'm president, America will be very strong.” IfsAmericaStrongPresidentVery Strong Author:Mitt Romney
“I'm not very strong mentally, I'm straight forward.” StrongVery StrongStrong Man Author:Shahid Afridi
“I'd like to get to a point where I am not considered natural by myself. When I say that I mean that I don't want to fit within the guidelines of what other people feel it is to be natural. If people feel that natural bodybuilders usually are the ones who lack legs or have poor body parts or don't train very hard or aren't very strong or aren't very intense, if that's your perception of what a natural bodybuilder is, then that's not what I want to be.” PeopleIfsWantFeelsMeanHardBodyStrongNaturalPoorFitPerceptionTrainLegsIntenseVery StrongGuidelinesBodybuilder Author:Kai Greene
“There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.” MenWantFactsStrongRevolutionWeaponsMen And WomenIslamicDividesVery StrongSecularEgyptSlogansUnified Author:Nawal El Saadawi
“We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in.” GivingFirstsIdeasMotherStrongBornBabyMonthsThirdsExcitingInvestingMilkVery StrongProtectiveImmuneVaccinesImmune SystemAntibodies Author:Bill Gates
“R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.” IfsWorldWayHas BeensBigsEnergyStrongSpaceCasesEconomyClearProductsBenefitsHarderCleanObviousMedicalHopefulMore TimeVery StrongConstraintsBipartisan Author:Bill Gates
“I asked each if [Yao Xingtong and Zhang Lanxin] was afraid of heights. Each said no, and although they had never had the action movie experience they were willing to be trained. Then I asked if they could swim, and each said yes, but she (gestures toward YX) is better. She said, I can also dive, in fact I once won a diving championship in an international competition. Then she said, "But big brother, I'm not very strong," and I said that's all right.” IfsSaidI CanFactsBigsActionStrongWillingBrotherCompetitionInternationalHeightSwimVery StrongGesturesChampionshipAction MovieDiving Author:Jackie Chan
“I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering.” ThinkingStrongFunSexyKneesEmpoweringBootsVery StrongSuper Sexy Author:Miranda Kerr
“This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia.” WarStrongSpaceWallProgramSpeciesChinaRussiaFactorsDriversMotivatedAggressiveVery StrongSpace ProgramGreat WallGreat Wall Of China Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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.” PeopleThinkingLongStrongFeltHappenedPeriodsRootsCommunismRevolutionaryAfghanistanVery StrongStrainExtremismVery DeepLong Periods Of TimeSomaliaYemen Author:Tony Blair
“Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out.” WritingDoeStrongResultsLustImpulseVery Strong Author:C. S. Lewis
“The ethnocultural connotations of the burkini ban are very strong. It's as absurd as mandating that women have to go topless on the beach. If I were a woman, I definitely would not want to wear a burkini or a headscarf. But it's not about what I want.” IfsWantStrongAbsurdBeachVery StrongBansConnotation Author:Mohsin Hamid
“Everything that makes a society run is broken in Iraq. The only real structure is the people's own sense of themselves as Iraqis, which was very strong. They're a proud people, and they trace their historic roots way, way back.” PeopleWayRealRunningStrongBrokenProudRootsStructureIraqVery StrongHistoric Author:Bruce Cockburn
“I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word feminist or having any political conversation.” PoliticalStrongConversationIndependentRaisedFeministVery StrongIndependent Women Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Social media could be very strong in terms of bringing people together but it also takes up so much of people's time that I wonder if we've lost the ability to daydream.” PeopleIfsTogetherLostStrongSocialTermAbilityWonderMediaSocial MediaVery StrongDaydreaming Author:Patti Smith
“The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this wing. He's clearly obsessed with Iraq. He has to be because the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain oppose a military action. I've never known a situation like it.” PeopleActionStrongPartySituationKnownMilitaryPolicyMajorityWingsIraqBritishObsessedBritainLabourOverwhelmingVery StrongComponentsBlairLabour PartyMilitary ActionObsequiousness Author:John Pilger
“What used to help us to cope with transience was stuff like, extended families all living in one place, or very strong religious beliefs, or a tribe that would outlive you. That stuff is getting weaker.” HelpingUsedBeliefStrongStuffReligiousVery StrongTribesReligious BeliefTransienceExtended Family Author:Mohsin Hamid
“I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.” FeelsLongDoeSidesDisciplineProfessorsVery StrongAcademicTemptedInvitations Author:Sylvia Plath
“If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence Party] or an even further-right party.” IfsStrongPartyIndependenceVery StrongEmergingCivicsUnrestUkip Author:Irvine Welsh
“With "We Are The World," I can't even eat when I watch that on television. If I'm eatin' some food, I have to put it down. I feel very strongly about that.” IfsWorldFeelsI CanWatchesTelevisionVery Strong Author:Miles Davis
“The Democratic Party likes to remind people that the Russian force around that was very strong, remarkably strong.” PeopleStrongForcePartyDemocraticLikesVery StrongDemocratic Party Author:Rachel Maddow
“I feel very strongly that if you got rid of all of the autistic genetics you're not going to have any scientists. There'd be no computer people. You'd lose a lot of artists and musicians. There'd be a horrible price to pay.” PeopleIfsFeelsArtistLosesPayComputerMusicianScientistHorribleVery StrongGeneticsAutistic Author:Temple Grandin
“I feel very strongly, we've got to give animals a good life. I've worked really hard improving slaughter plants and animal handling and transport. And people have said to me, why don't you work on improving conditions on pig farms? And basically, to be effective on making real change out there on the ground, you can only work on so many things. You know, you get too distributed, you're not effective.” PeopleKnowsGivingFeelsSaidRealHardAnimalConditionsPlantFarmsGood LifeVery StrongPigsImprovingSlaughterTransportPlants And AnimalsReal Change Author:Temple Grandin
“I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.” NeedsGivingFeelsGood LifeVery StrongSlaughterBeefCattlePainlessReally Good Life Author:Temple Grandin
“All over the world today people have a very strong desire to find a sense of identity, and at the same time that's coupled with the rise of absolutely absurd wars that relate to ethnic identity. Perhaps there is something deeply ingrained in people that relates to a sense of belonging, and without that, identity doesn't seem as real as it should.” PeopleWorldShouldWarRealSeemsTodayDesireStrongIdentityAbsurdRelateBelongingVery StrongWorld TodayStrong DesireEthnic Identity Author:Jaron Lanier
“Sufis have always been those that have tried to purify the ethics of Islam and society. And they don't have their hands cut off from the external action at all. For example, the bazaar in which the Sufis were very strong always dominated economic life in Islamic world. They could give a much more sane and Islamic form of activity when the economic life of Islam moved out of the bazaar to new parts of Islamic cities with modernized Muslims, who took it in another light and it became very, very anti Islamic, and much against many of the most profound practices of Islamic societies.” WorldGivingHandsLightActionFormStrongCitiesPracticeCuttingEconomicExampleActivityEthicsMovedProfoundIslamIslamicVery StrongSaneSufiBazaarsIslamic Society Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“There was a school in Chicago called the School of Design. This was started by [Laszló] Moholy-Nagy, and it was a wonderful school, but we [with Alix MacKenzie] didn't go to that school. We did have friends who went to that school and we would visit there often, and I'm sure it pushed me in my painting direction very strongly just by association.” SchoolWonderfulDesignPaintingChicagoAssociationVery Strong Author:Warren MacKenzie
“The idea of protest organizing, as summarized by community organizer Saul Alinsky, is that if we put enough pressure on the government, it will do things to help people. We don't realize that that kind of organizing worked only when the government was very strong, when the West ruled the world, relatively speaking. But with globalization and the weakening of the nation-state, that kind of organizing doesn't work.” PeopleIfsWorldKindIdeasStatesEnoughHelpingGovernmentStrongNationsRealizingCommunityPressureWestProtestVery StrongGlobalizationWeakeningOrganizer Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Friendship is very important to me. With some friends, we've known each other since we were kids and it's a very strong relationship. They always tell me what they think even when I am wrong. It's great to share with them the best moments. I also have many friends in the team, and I like to share my passion with them.” ThinkingImportantMomentsKidsPassionStrongKnownTeamShareVery StrongMy PassionMany FriendsBest MomentsStrong Relationship Author:Valentino Rossi
“Some people will always ground themselves very strongly in a piece of soil, a grandmother's property, a tiny plot of land, and that's great. But in the Age of Movement, there's no question that the number of people who don't - or can't - is growing exponentially.” PeopleAgeNumbersPiecesGrowingLandMovementPropertyTinySoilGrandmotherPlotVery Strong Author:Pico Iyer
“I generally go into a movie with a very strong vision, with how I want to make the film, how I want to shoot the film, how I want to edit the movie, what I want the sound to sound like. So I have a very concrete idea even if I don't storyboard it, I know exactly what I want to do once I get into the sequence. Now having said that, I try not to let that slave me to the process. So if I do storyboard a sequence I don't necessarily stick to it if I discover more exciting things on set.” IfsKnowsWantTryingSaidIdeasFilmStrongProcessSoundVisionExcitingSticksSlaveVery StrongConcreteSequenceEditsExciting Things Author:James Wan
“WikiLeaks has been a very strong proponent of the Freedom of Information Act. This is probably, actually, if you think about it, probably against our interests as - as a publisher. But we believe that people have the right to know true information about what their government is doing.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsBelieveHas BeensGovernmentStrongInterestInformationVery StrongPublishersWikileaks Author:Julian Assange
“I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition of the Catholic Church. My Catholicism plays a very strong role. But I thought President John F.Kennedy answered rather well when he said that ultimately my conduct as a public official does not come ex cathedra from Rome; it comes from my conscience.” SchoolStrongPresidentChurchMoralBoysConscienceTraditionCatholicCatholicismVery StrongCatholic School Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I have been very outspoken in my opposition to cuts in what I would call the means-tested entitlement programs: Medicaid, food stamps, and all of that. I feel very, very strongly that those cuts as proposed are unjust, but I am not prepared to label Ronald Reagan a "sinner."It seems to me that when you invoke the adjective "moral" you must be careful to distinguish what it is you mean by that.” MeanMoralCuttingProgramCarefulSinnerBe CarefulVery StrongEntitlement Author:Bruce Babbitt
“The integration in Germany was made easier by the fact that I am probably of the third generation. So I have undergone a process of assimilation, of Jews into German society.I lived as a child in Germany, the feeling of being surrounded by people of whom the majority had very strong anti-Semitic sentiments. But there was one very odd thing in the whole milieu in which I lived: no one accepted the stigmatization. It is quite difficult. No one, my father for instance, would ever take it seriously. He would regard anti-Semites as people of no education.” PeopleChildrenFeelingsFatherStrongDifficultJewAcceptedOddSentimentsVery StrongIntegrationAssimilation Author:Norbert Elias
“I feel everything very strongly, and that is why I am an actress. I have made such clear connections between some of my chronic boo-boos in my body and emotion. It is kind of fascinating. I really feel like as a society, we need tap into that and embrace that more and more instead of wondering why we are sick.” KindEmotionWonderSickEmbraceVery Strong Author:Caroline Dhavernas
“The reality is that we’re in very politicized times. The complete antithesis of Obama is Trump. We are in very polarized times. People are taking a very strong view after a period of time, I think, where people fell asleep on politics to a certain extent.” PeopleThinkingRealityStrongVery StrongAntithesis Author:Amma Asante
“I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette Jagged Little Pill album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.” StrongHonorIndependenceRelyVery Strong Author:Felicity Jones