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I think they're trying to distract the public's attention from the real issues.
BRIAN FROSH I think they're trying to distract the public's attention from the real issues.
BRIAN E. FROSH![]()
ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library.
J.K. ROWLING Fundraising can make normally sane people pretty crazy. They both have political goals for which the...
DAN SCHNUR![]()
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU![]()
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function...
JOHN RAWLS It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the...
KENDRICK MEEK Early is James Brown, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson rolled into one.
HARRY BRYCE![]()
It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you loo...
TINA FEY These all are attempts to protect the weak party against other political powers. They are afraid of ...
GEORGE ISHAQ![]()
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from...
INDIRA GANDHI![]()
There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, u...
DOROTHEA DIX James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just business...
ROY WILLIAMS![]()
I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and lead...
KOFI ANNAN We're starting to realize the need to pay attention to the emotional and relational issues that are ...
JASON CARROLL A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc...
IAN K. SMITH Life is like a car on the road. Pay too much attention to what is ahead of you, not what is behind y...
HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
BILL HALTER![]()
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
NAPOLEON HILL Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and ha...
DASHANNE STOKES![]()
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS It causes us issues because it's diverting our attention from real needs to what we classify as vand...
FRANCIS GILLIS![]()
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU![]()
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I h...
JEFF LINDSAY It's being called the '65 percent solution,' but we regard it as really 100 percent deception. It's ...
CHARLES HASSE![]()
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can te...
PERE LA COMBE![]()
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.
TONY CAMPOLO![]()
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...
ABERJHANI![]()
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in...
C. WRIGHT MILLS These (cross-border) deals are complicated because they have social issues, regulatory issues, polit...
HAMID BIGLARI I think it will help the government, because (the game) will distract the attention a little, ... De...
RONALDO People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
GEN WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND![]()
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappoint...
SUSIE ORBACH![]()
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opp...
ALEXEI NAVALNY The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's sta...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA It has information on all kinds of emotional and mental health issues that kids face today, and it d...
GREG KILLIAN Marketers increasingly looking for the efficiencies of online campaigns that are integrated with the...
DAVID SCHATSKY One can only assume what is causing concern is his protesting and his activism, which is a significa...
MARIKA DIAS [Political science senior lecturer James Todd, who teaches a course on the judicial process, said th...
JAMES TODD![]()
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an...
ROY ROMER![]()
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an...
ROY ROMER![]()
Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The chamber does not offer opinions or suggest what the 'right' answers might be to the issues, ... ...
DAN GRAF They are warming up and doing what they normally do in the hallway while the audience files into the...
BETSY HEAD![]()
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Allison and Greg embody all that Calhoun is about: deep-feeling, well-rounded, worldly people who ar...
DAVID GOLDBERG Most people think they are basically good human beings which means most people are not paying that m...
CARL WHITE Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they...
MIKE SIMPSON![]()
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.
NOVAK DJOKOVIC![]()
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
EPICTETUS![]()
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing.
EPICTETUS They include vitamins, which are organic compounds our bodies need to function normally, and mineral...
DR. DAVID L. KATZ There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in ...
MARC RACICOT![]()
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE![]()
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, ...
AGA KHAN IV As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract ...
JEB BRADLEY They are the two most consistent penalty kick takers we have. But normally if (a player) is involved...
GUY VIRGILIO They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention ...
HOMERO ARIDJIS Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with atte...
MICHAEL CIMINO![]()
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende...
JOHN DEWEY Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame ...
FARID AYAR We find ourselves at a focal point. We can direct attention to a quick fix and divert attention from...
GREG PANTER Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
CARLY FIORINA The worst thing you can do is let it paralyze you into inaction.
JIM ELLIS![]()
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic i...
ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS![]()
I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will ...
THERESA MAY![]()
You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important....
BERNIE SANDERS James and the Jackson family kept everything real close, real tight. They weren't very revealing abo...
YOUNG DEBARGE![]()
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Poli...
ROBERT J. SHILLER![]()
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real thr...
DEAN KOONTZ I think they've proved they can be balanced, but Hanni and Robinson have been the guys for them most...
LEO KLEMM You can get constituencies that have a lot more voting and political power than their commercial inf...
BARBARA DOOLEY![]()
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary f...
HUEY NEWTON There's a real need for a political effort here to bring this to the attention of government.
FRED SHAW They will need to find some way that does not violate the separation of powers, unless they are just...
DAN COATS![]()
The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired...
SHARON SALZBERG![]()
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them.
JEFFREY FRY![]()
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact t...
ALEX PAREENE Nothing in the board's letter will distract Hewlett-Packard stockholders from focusing on the real i...
WALTER HEWLETT![]()
The deep well of unconscious cerebration.
HENRY JAMES The company's plan is one they have controlled for 25 years. This is really a smokescreen to get eve...
RON CAREY There are many different environmental issues involved and there can be interactions between them.
JANOS BOGARDI![]()
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra...
CHRIS MARTIN![]()
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU We find it very helpful to analyze what the customer is actually doing, and what problems they have....
ANDREW ANAGNOST Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
BRODI ASHTON It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reali...
CHARLES ALBERT GOBAT![]()
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be sil...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You can expect camera crews and that it's going to be an historical election both in terms of the to...
CHARLIE WADDELL They are getting more and more involved, and when they become involved one of the things we are seei...
JUDI JEDLICKA [Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)![]()
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive cou...
FRANCIS BACON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
RICH LOWRY Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous ...
RICHARD PREECE
BRIAN FROSH I think they're trying to distract the public's attention from the real issues.
BRIAN E. FROSH
ALBUS/RON: How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues. Take him to a library. J.K. ROWLING Fundraising can make normally sane people pretty crazy. They both have political goals for which the...
DAN SCHNUR
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar... HENRY DAVID THOREAU
In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function... JOHN RAWLS It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the...
KENDRICK MEEK Early is James Brown, Little Richard and Smokey Robinson rolled into one.
HARRY BRYCE
It's not vanity, because if you look weird, it will distract from what your trying to do. If you loo... TINA FEY These all are attempts to protect the weak party against other political powers. They are afraid of ...
GEORGE ISHAQ
There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from... INDIRA GANDHI
There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, u... DOROTHEA DIX James and Dee didn't seem to be too carried away or too emotional out there. They were just business...
ROY WILLIAMS
I wish to do all I can to encourage the leaders to muster the spirit of compromise, courage and lead... KOFI ANNAN We're starting to realize the need to pay attention to the emotional and relational issues that are ...
JASON CARROLL A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues suc...
IAN K. SMITH Life is like a car on the road. Pay too much attention to what is ahead of you, not what is behind y...
HASIB SHAHRIAR AZIZI When campaigns use one-word labels, typically it's meant to distract and destroy.
BILL HALTER
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like. NAPOLEON HILL Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and ha...
DASHANNE STOKES
I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey. DANIEL DAY-LEWIS It causes us issues because it's diverting our attention from real needs to what we classify as vand...
FRANCIS GILLIS
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar... HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I h... JEFF LINDSAY It's being called the '65 percent solution,' but we regard it as really 100 percent deception. It's ...
CHARLES HASSE
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. Bu... ARTHUR C. CLARKE It is in vain for man to endeavor to instruct man in those things which the Holy Spirit alone can te...
PERE LA COMBE
A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues. TONY CAMPOLO
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to... ABERJHANI
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in... C. WRIGHT MILLS These (cross-border) deals are complicated because they have social issues, regulatory issues, polit...
HAMID BIGLARI I think it will help the government, because (the game) will distract the attention a little, ... De...
RONALDO People are interested in pro football because it provides them with an emotional oasis; they don'...
PETE ROZELLE Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
GEN WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND
I'd like to see much more understanding of emotional issues around hurt, abandonment, disappoint... SUSIE ORBACH
I've always seen my campaigns against corruption as political work of a purer form than what opp... ALEXEI NAVALNY The president's made his position clear. There is a principle involved here from the president's sta...
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it bri...
ELLEN OCHOA It has information on all kinds of emotional and mental health issues that kids face today, and it d...
GREG KILLIAN Marketers increasingly looking for the efficiencies of online campaigns that are integrated with the...
DAVID SCHATSKY One can only assume what is causing concern is his protesting and his activism, which is a significa...
MARIKA DIAS [Political science senior lecturer James Todd, who teaches a course on the judicial process, said th...
JAMES TODD
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an... ROY ROMER
I do think there is something to be said for those who have significant experience at state level an... ROY ROMER
Be so free that nothing more than your future can distract your attention. MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The chamber does not offer opinions or suggest what the 'right' answers might be to the issues, ... ...
DAN GRAF They are warming up and doing what they normally do in the hallway while the audience files into the...
BETSY HEAD
[Responding to the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce's question whether he traced his descent ... THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Allison and Greg embody all that Calhoun is about: deep-feeling, well-rounded, worldly people who ar...
DAVID GOLDBERG Most people think they are basically good human beings which means most people are not paying that m...
CARL WHITE Your political reputation affects how likely allies are to trust you, and what kind of deals they...
MIKE SIMPSON
I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you. NOVAK DJOKOVIC
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. EPICTETUS
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forebearing. EPICTETUS They include vitamins, which are organic compounds our bodies need to function normally, and mineral...
DR. DAVID L. KATZ There are as many jobs for younger Americans as there are for other Americans of every age group in ...
MARC RACICOT
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the re... EDMUND BURKE
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, ... AGA KHAN IV As millions of Americans look for work, the Obama campaign and Democrats are attempting to distract ...
JEB BRADLEY They are the two most consistent penalty kick takers we have. But normally if (a player) is involved...
GUY VIRGILIO They don't understand the goal of the campaign, ... It is directed at men, to capture the attention ...
HOMERO ARIDJIS Even the details of a rifle, which are nothing but mechanical, if they are made carefully, with atte...
MICHAEL CIMINO
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende... JOHN DEWEY Election campaigns are allowed for all registered coalitions and political parties within the frame ...
FARID AYAR We find ourselves at a focal point. We can direct attention to a quick fix and divert attention from...
GREG PANTER Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
CARLY FIORINA The worst thing you can do is let it paralyze you into inaction.
JIM ELLIS
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic i... ROBERT MAYNARD HUTCHINS
I am willing to consider powers which would ban known hooligans from rallies and marches and I will ... THERESA MAY
You have the trade issue, which is important. You have health care issues, which are very important.... BERNIE SANDERS James and the Jackson family kept everything real close, real tight. They weren't very revealing abo...
YOUNG DEBARGE
The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Poli... ROBERT J. SHILLER
Fire, ice, asteroids and pole shifts are bogeymen with which we distract ourselves from the real thr... DEAN KOONTZ I think they've proved they can be balanced, but Hanni and Robinson have been the guys for them most...
LEO KLEMM You can get constituencies that have a lot more voting and political power than their commercial inf...
BARBARA DOOLEY
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary f... HUEY NEWTON There's a real need for a political effort here to bring this to the attention of government.
FRED SHAW They will need to find some way that does not violate the separation of powers, unless they are just...
DAN COATS
The paradigm for our relationships is formed from our earliest experiences and is actually hardwired... SHARON SALZBERG
You often love someone not for what they are, but for what you are when you are with them. JEFFREY FRY
Political journalists, socially inept or no, are not nerds. Most of them can't do math, a fact t... ALEX PAREENE Nothing in the board's letter will distract Hewlett-Packard stockholders from focusing on the real i...
WALTER HEWLETT
The deep well of unconscious cerebration. HENRY JAMES The company's plan is one they have controlled for 25 years. This is really a smokescreen to get eve...
RON CAREY There are many different environmental issues involved and there can be interactions between them.
JANOS BOGARDI
I think that the fact that a relationship becomes public is a bit of a bummer. Because it can distra... CHRIS MARTIN
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar... HENRY DAVID THOREAU We find it very helpful to analyze what the customer is actually doing, and what problems they have....
ANDREW ANAGNOST Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
BRODI ASHTON It is true that I am not one of those who laugh at utopias. The utopia of today can become the reali...
CHARLES ALBERT GOBAT
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be sil... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You can expect camera crews and that it's going to be an historical election both in terms of the to...
CHARLIE WADDELL They are getting more and more involved, and when they become involved one of the things we are seei...
JUDI JEDLICKA [Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE Never endeavor to separate the poor from the rich,for they are one,they originated from the same sou...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as
men of course do seek to receive cou... FRANCIS BACON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
RICH LOWRY Land snails, which we normally think of as being rather slow moving, can actually disperse enormous ...
RICHARD PREECE
We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably a... 
We have unprecedented conditions to deal with and novel adjustments to make -- there can be no doubt... 
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already d... 
There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris... 
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definit... 
I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not... 
We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyon... 
It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in th... 
In a climate of tight budgets, reduced workforces and stiff competition, internal training can be a ... 
Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at ... 
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h... 
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other char... 
Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight. 
You must come out. Come out... to your parents... I know that it is hard and will hurt them, but thi... 
You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple,... 
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. 
Everything in moderation -- including moderation. 
I don't care how good you play, you can find somebody who can beat you, and I don't care how bad you... 
No one ever went broke by saying no too often. 
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings... 
The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward... 
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk ba... 
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definitio... 
You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself. 
Like carnivores to carnal pleasuresAs are we to desperate measures. 
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... 
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississipp... 
A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he m... 
All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown. 
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles w... 
Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back. 
I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the mov... 
In these days when science is clearly in the saddle and when our knowledge of disease is advancing a... 
You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support th... 