Groups famous quotes

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Country #Groups #Missionary

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Black And White #Groups #Lawyer

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
-- Aaron Paul

#Thank You #Hollywood #Groups

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
-- Aaron Tveit

#College #People #Groups

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
-- Abbie Hoffman

#Hippie #Political #Groups

There's this group online that I frequent. It's a group of prop crazies just like me called the Replica Props Forum, and it's people who trade, make and travel in information about movie props.
-- Adam Savage

#People #Groups #Information

I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn't do it long term.
-- Adelaide Clemens

#Long #Groups #Actors

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
-- Aga Khan IV

#Religious #Space #Groups

fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Play #Groups #Fairness

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt.
-- Ahmed Ben Bella

#Country #Egypt #Groups

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
-- Ahmet Ertegun

#Groups #Drifters #All Time

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
-- Aimee Bender

#Tears #Groups #Away From Each Other

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Groups #Camps

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
-- Al Gore

#Groups #Shrinking #Global Warming

Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
-- Al Madrigal

#People #Sick #Groups

National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
-- Al Sharpton

#Country #Cities #Groups

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.
-- Alan Arkin

#Couple #Guitar #Groups

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
-- Alan Cranston

#Organization #People #Groups

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Political #Groups #Social

Film has to be reflecting the world that we live in, and that's all you want to be a part of. Actors inhabit the same planet as everyone else. It's a weird thing that happens when you're an actor because people hold you up because you somehow embody in parts groups of people or people's hopes or something.
-- Alan Rickman

#People #Groups #Actors

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
-- Albert Brooks

#Interesting #Groups #World

Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
-- Albert Einstein

#Men #Causes #Groups

We're given the springboard of the text, a plane ticket, told to report to Alabama, and there's a group of people all ready to make a film and it's a marvelous life.
-- Albert Finney

#People #Tickets #Groups

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.
-- Alex Haley

#Thinking #People #Groups

The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.
-- Alex Pentland

#Intelligent #People #Groups

The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
-- Alexander Grothendieck

#Years #Groups #Ciphers

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Time #Groups #Three

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
-- Alexandra Robbins

#Groups #Meaningless #Mentality

From now on, in any place, if any nation or any group confronts the Zionist regime, we will endorse and we will help. We have no fear expressing this... The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor that must be removed, and God willing it will be.
-- Ali Khamenei

#Groups #Helping #No Fear

A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
-- Allan Sherman

#Government #Color #Groups

I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.
-- Amber Benson

#Character #Thinking #Groups

The select group of people who do make realistic cinema, who do make cinema perhaps a little more acceptable to the Western audience, is a very small percentage.
-- Amitabh Bachchan

#People #Groups #Cinema

An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave. Anarchism is voluntary cooperation with the right of secession. The individual or the family or the small group as a unit instead of the State.
-- Ammon Hennacy

#Groups #Needs #Cooperation

I don't represent a group, a trend or a political party, but rather everyone.
-- Amr Moussa

#Party #Political #Groups

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.
-- Amy Dickinson

#Women #Two #Groups

My husband is the first man to consistently be involved in the Senate Spouses group.
-- Amy Klobuchar

#Husband #Men #Groups

I offer my expertise and experience for hire in order to help a group of people reach the summit.
-- Anatoli Boukreev

#Order #People #Groups

I like to do projects in which you can see statistical results. I am very happy for all these small children, who have been the biggest group of victims of iodine deficiency
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Children #Iodine #Groups

The thing I love about reporting is being able to blend in with any group, whether that's neo-Nazis or pedophiles.
-- Anderson Cooper

#Groups #Literature #Able

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
-- Andre Malraux

#Artist #Groups #Doe

The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
-- Andrea Bocelli

#Groups #Opera #Singers

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.
-- Andrei Sakharov

#Groups #Tasks #Nuclear

Correlation across replicated environments adds a whole new dimension of complexity of the environment, ... You would expect most application groups to have the same set of policies. In reality, you have differences in policies. That reflects back to that whole process of manual storing in the environment.
-- Andrew Bird

#Reality #Differences #Groups

Luckily for me I have a very supportive family and a loving group of friends.
-- Andrew Rannells

#Supportive #Groups #Supportive Family

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.
-- Andrew Shue

#Trying #Groups #Clique

In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong.
-- Andy Pick

#Strong #Years #Groups

There are only a few safe targets left, just a few groups of people you can say anything negative about without getting in trouble for it. I've made a list of safe targets and I probably ought to stick to those. Politicians, for instance. You can say anything you want about them, and it doesn't matter how unfair you are. People seem to like it.
-- Andy Rooney

#People #Say Anything #Groups

You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
-- Andy Stanley

#Numbers #People #Groups

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
-- Angela Merkel

#Groups #Asking #Enthusiasm

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
-- Angela Merkel

#Groups #Compromise #Interest

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.
-- Ann Richards

#New York #People #Groups

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
-- Anna Louise Strong

#Wings #Numbers #Groups

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.
-- Anna Maria Chavez

#Girl #Community #Groups

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.
-- Anna Quindlen

#Letting Go #Perfection #Groups

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
-- Anne Carson

#Groups #Kind #Tradition

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.
-- Anne Rice

#Lonely #Training #Groups

And as experienced as I am, it still summons an act of bravery from me, and I like that. I like the idea of setting an example - proving that it is acceptable to be alone in a public place where everyone else is in groups, and to just be sitting there eating, not having to be engrossed in anything else.
-- Anneli Rufus

#Ideas #Bravery #Groups

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.
-- Annie Lennox

#Girl #Hair #Groups

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.
-- Anthony Ward Clark

#Two #Cooking #Groups

Scalia said the court had pretty much signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, adding: Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, or any other group, promoting their agenda through normal democratic means.
-- Antonin Scalia

#Mean #Scary #Groups

A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.
-- Antonio Gramsci

#Exercise #Winning #Groups

The European organisation contemplated could not oppose any ethnic group, on other continents or in Europe itself, outside of the League of Nations, any more than it could oppose the League of Nations.
-- Aristide Briand

#Europe #League #Groups

The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.
-- Arthur Jensen

#Differences #Groups #Fever

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Society #Groups #Killers

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Society #Adults #Groups

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Self #Evil #Groups

I think we have got to start thinking about banding together in terms of interested groups.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr

#Thinking #Together #Groups

I didn't go to high school, but when I did go to school, I was actually in the group made up of cheerleaders; I just wasn't one of them. But I hung out with a bunch of different kids.
-- Ashley Benson

#School #Kids #Groups

He could have a thousand faults, but I do not blame anyone in particular and I despise brutality with which the Nazis acted against Israelites; but the fault is not only of Hitler, but a group of high-ranked dignitaries.
-- Augusto Pinochet

#Groups #Brutality #Faults

The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi

#Destiny #Play #Groups

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.
-- Ayelet Waldman

#Mom #Feminist #Groups

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.
-- Azim Premji

#Character #Community #Groups

I know my fan base is a smart group of people.
-- Aziz Ansari

#Smart #People #Groups

If you outlaw half a million people you make martyrs of them. For example, if you outlaw Robin Hood, it is all very well, but if you outlaw a whole group of people around Robin Hood, then Robin Hood and his merry men become legends.
-- Baldur von Schirach

#Men #People #Groups

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
-- Barbara Jordan

#Cities #America #Groups

Something in me was always watching life from the outside, permanently obsessed with the notion of belonging vs. not-belonging [to a group]. It did not make for a happy childhood, but it was excellent training for a writer.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Childhood #Training #Groups

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Needs #World #Groups

Growing food was the first activity that gave us enough prosperity to stay in one place, form complex social groups, tell our stories, and build our cities.
-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Cities #Groups #Stories

Take assertiveness training, get paid what you're worth, join a consciousness raising group.
-- Barbara Seaman

#Training #Groups #Consciousness

The fact that theyre a congressionally chartered group should no more incline people to give to that group than the fact that its National Pickle Month should make them eat more pickles.
-- Barney Frank

#People #Giving #Groups

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay [groups] are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.
-- Barney Frank

#Gay #Wings #Groups

When I wrote my eighth thriller, Inside Out, in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
-- Barry Eisler

#War #Government #Groups

The Bee Gees are a fly-by-night sort of group.
-- Barry Gibb

#Night #Groups #Bees

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
-- Bayard Rustin

#Peace #Community #Groups

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
-- Baz Luhrmann

#Groups #Outsiders #Members

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
-- Ben Elton

#Believe #Groups #Looks

Hall & Oates is one of the few musical groups as satisfying now as it was back then. There's something incredibly musically satisfying about their songs. Nothing has diminished my love for them.
-- Ben Gibbard

#Song #Musical #Groups

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.
-- Ben Vereen

#People #Theatre #Groups

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.
-- Bernard Arnault

#Opposites #Chinese #Groups

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
-- Bernard Crick

#Tyrants #Groups #Method

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.
-- Bernard M. Oliver

#Stars #Space #Groups

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
-- Beth Ditto

#Eye #Gay #Groups

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
-- Bette Midler

#Scare #Groups #Want

Only two groups of people intimidate me absolutely: salespeople and the French.
-- Bette Midler

#Two #People #Groups

We unfortunately live in a corporate world where group decision making is made to avoid failure rather than to achieve success.
-- Bill Cahan

#Decision #Groups #World

From its inception by Michael Bennett, 'Dreamgirls' has always been an epic story with an ensemble cast. I didn't change that. The screen version remains, really, a group story.
-- Bill Condon

#Epic #Stories #Groups

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
-- Bill Dixon

#Groups #Possibility #Realms

I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
-- Bill Ford

#Recovery #Together #Groups

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.
-- Bill Hybels

#People #Temptation #Groups

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.
-- Bill Mauldin

#Army #Giving #Groups