Groups Quotes

• One sad consequence of this is that people don't feel permitted to try understand Internet infrastructure, so I'm really grateful to groups like Free Press and other nonprofits who are trying to make the issue urgent and comprehensible. And Andre Blum's book Tubes is great on this topic.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Trying
  • Book

• There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • World
  • Mediocrity
  • Baths

• Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Freedom
  • Present
  • Common

• At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Groups
  • Winner
  • Finals

• Portugal have a national team called Cristiano Ronaldo and a group of players who run after him.

  

  Carlos Queiroz
  • Team
  • Running
  • Player

• Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.

  

  Erving Goffman
  • Persons
  • Meaningful
  • Patient

• Yeah; I'm a much better blues player than anybody knows, but being in the kind of group I'm in, we were always trying to make popular records

  

  Stephen Stills Buffalo Springfield
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Player

• We libertarians are not the spokesmen for any ethnic or economic class; we are the spokesmen for all classes, for all of the public; we strive to see all of these groups united, hand-in-hand, in opposition to the plundering and privileged minority that constitutes the rulers of the State.

  

  Murray Rothbard
  • Economic
  • Opposition
  • Minorities

• As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.

  

  Greg Ginn Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Unique
  • Fans

• I think the thing that makes 'NCIS' so special is the team and the group. And there's our fearless leader, Mark Harmon. We all really enjoy working together, so it would be a shame if we weren't all there having fun together.

  

  Michael Weatherly
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Fearless

• I simply noted that one of the groups, especially exporters, would prefer to have a weaker rouble.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Groups

• STAND has been one of the most active groups on campus.

  

  Eric Bloom Blue Öyster Cult
  • Stand
  • Groups
  • Active

• I think certain friendships have seasons, when you're closer with people when you're not, and so you can always have a relationship to someone or a group of friends that you don't necessarily have to work so hard to facilitate or to like maintain.

  

  Clayton Snyder
  • People
  • Hard
  • Certain

• I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

  

  John Tukey
  • Persons
  • Advantage
  • Computer

• I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Culture
  • Humans

• When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

  

  Wes Montgomery
  • Music
  • Jazz
  • Thousand

• The key to the 99 is the one. Or, put another way, the key to the group is the one individual. Think about the one, talk to the one, regard the one, serve the one. If you are sincere and constant, you will discover that gradually your influence with the many will be magnified.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Influence
  • Individual
  • Motivational

• Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

  

  Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Spring
  • Theory
  • Interests

• Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, or killed by men. She then asked a group of men why they felt threatened by women. They said they were afraid women would laugh at them.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Men
  • Women
  • Said

• We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Groups
  • Victims
  • Aggressors

• From day one, we always admired male R&B groups. They would go onstage with no shirt on and baggy jeans, and girls would scream.

  

  Rozonda Thomas TLC
  • Admire
  • MAle
  • R&B

• When I was a kid, I was afraid of large group of conforming people.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • People
  • Kids
  • Conform

• The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Relation
  • Impulse
  • Ongoing

• I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Wife
  • George Mitchell
  • Paul Sarbanes

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