Individual Quotes
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We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
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Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use humour. It is a survival skill.
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The arts reflect profoundly the most democratic credo, the belief in an individual vision or voice . . . The arts' belief in potential gives each of us -- both audience and creator -- pride in our society's ability to nurture individuals.
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In the past, when I saw bike messengers, I would just see them as individuals. Then, I realized that they're all tied together.
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I think everybody wants to be their own person and be an individual.
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The Divine incarnates only in the individual -He or It overshadows the group. The supreme responsibility always lies with the individual. At the exact moment, in the most definite manner Destiny acts and speaks though the individual.
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There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.
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Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
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I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.
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I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.
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To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.
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It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.
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I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
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The development of faith in the Lord is an individual matter. Repentance is also an individual matter. Only as an individual can one be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. Each of us is born individually; likewise, each of us is "born again" individually. Salvation is an individual matter.
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What I try to encourage individuals to do is don't sweat the small stuff, sweat the big stuff.
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If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.
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We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
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You need to be your own individual.
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Historically, measures initially directed at foreign nationals have subsequently been extended to citizens. What happens is foreign nationals are the easiest targets and most vulnerable targets, so they're the initial targets. But government officials, once you give them a certain kind of power over individuals, they get used to it and almost inevitably seek out ways to extend it. You will see that virtually every form of repressive government measure that has been employed in the United States against citizens started out as an antialien measure and was then extended to citizens.
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We are so concerned to flatter the majority that we lose sight of how very often it is necessary, in order to preserve freedom for the minority, let alone for the individual, to face that majority down.
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Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.
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It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
