Deborah Kass quote: "Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price."

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns,...
DEBORAH KASS

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the 'natural' ...
DEBORAH KASS

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibi...
LEON KASS

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve s...
LEON KASS

In cloning, in contrast, reproduction is asexual - the cloned child is the product not of two but of...
LEON KASS

If one is seriously interested in preventing reproductive cloning, one must stop the process before ...
LEON KASS

I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
LEON KASS

Cloning represents a very clear, powerful, and immediate example in which we are in danger of turnin...
LEON KASS

Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
LEON KASS

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well...
LEON KASS

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.
LEON KASS

Cloning looks like a degrading of parenthood and a perversion of the right relation between parents ...
LEON KASS

In the case of abortion, one pits the life of the fetus against the interests of the pregnant woman.
LEON KASS

Nobody knew in advance that in vitro fertilization would be, by and large, safe.
LEON KASS

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.
LEON KASS

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about t...
LEON KASS

I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
LEON KASS

Many other countries have already banned human cloning, and there are efforts at the UN to make such...
LEON KASS

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.
LEON KASS

An enormous amount of direct advertising from pharmaceutical companies are offering a kind of instan...
LEON KASS

Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function, ... It alter...
DAVID KASS

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generati...
LEON KASS

However, the employer is not required to contribute any more of the cost of the HMO than it contribu...
RICHARD KASS

This stimulation is similar to the way the nervous system normally increases heart function when tri...
DAVID KASS

An employer must keep its promises. If you can prove that the employer promised you a 6 percent comm...
RICHARD KASS

I vividly recall Charlie Clough being fired in early 2000 coincident with the market top. He was wil...
DOUG KASS

It was huge for the mainstream part of our sport, getting a following. We didn't even know what we'd...
DANNY KASS

Our latest research provides firm evidence this drug does indeed have an important impact on the hea...
DAVID KASS

The momentum has begun toward our goal of a creating a first-class retail destination for Cranberry ...
DAVID KASS

[Viagra] got started as a heart drug in the early 1990s and the erectile dysfunction [treatment] was...
DAVID KASS

At the same time that [Pfizer] is enhancing erectile dysfunction, it's also blunting the stress that...
DAVID KASS

My job is to provide the president with the richest possible consideration, so that he knows what is...
LEON KASS

Sometimes, people just slaughter it, like Marcus.
DANNY KASS

He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.
KASS MORGAN

You see, I can't say it in English...
CARMEN KASS

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
CARMEN KASS

No matter how angry she was at him, she'd never deprive him of the change to see one of the ruins he...
KASS MORGAN

The inventory of unsold homes has been building in the past four or five months - which is not surpr...
DOUG KASS

It's really getting treated with skepticism. Investors have turned in their rose-colored glasses for...
DOUG KASS

The company faces the dual challenge of lower power system orders and a likely hiatus in jet product...
DOUG KASS

It looks like that initial response on Friday was misplaced. This lacks imagination, lacks creativit...
DOUG KASS

In the downturn I foresee, no market will be immune. But New York will weather the decline better th...
DOUG KASS

Debt is plentiful and cheap. There's egregious use of leverage. And you have the introduction of a n...
DOUG KASS

That's going to shake the Street.
DOUG KASS

It's an archaic process. It can be done with more rapidity, in a better pricing environment, skippin...
DOUG KASS

The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and child...
LEON KASS

After how well things went in Salt Lake, everybody really wanted to get [to the Olympics] badly. So ...
DANNY KASS

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on...
LEON KASS

Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundarie...
LEON KASS

It's not really like you have a thing like a supermodel anymore. It's more of a word than a ...
CARMEN KASS

I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.
LEON KASS

We couldn't sell out. We're building this for ourselves.
DANNY KASS

There are normal people (in the sport) and crazy people. It's like chasing the storm. That's what's ...
DANNY KASS

It's about rhythm, practice, flow.
DANNY KASS

We hope to have a deal completed by the end of May.
FRANK KASS

On balance, I've been trying to sell out my suburban properties. Strategically, for me and for Jack ...
FRANK KASS

These tenant announcements are just the beginning of the many great things still to come at the Nort...
FRANK KASS

We live not for ourselves… it’s what my father always said to justify the sacrifices he had to m...
KASS MORGAN

[But veteran lawmakers torn apart by PTSD don't have a choice about being Exhibit A in the case agai...
LEON KASS

I believe that if we really do pour our resources into these alternatives, ... we might find a moral...
LEON KASS

We are on the threshold and may have already crossed the threshold of a large crisis of long-term ca...
LEON KASS

to consider not just the technologies ... but also to see how those things which impinge on our huma...
LEON KASS

It is not the issue I want my own work solely remembered for.
LEON KASS

What standards will guide the genetic engineers?
LEON KASS

It's both a way for them to heal personally and sort of get their emotions out and deal with them, b...
KASS JAMES

The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds...
KASS JAMES

It's a different scene now than when we started, because the kids have each other as role models. Bu...
KASS JAMES

There are only so many people, here but they're so into it.
KASS JAMES

Was that Clarke really in there somewhere? The Clarke who could look so gravely serious one moment a...
KASS MORGAN

She would figure out how to get what she wanted, what she needed, even when her long lashes failed t...
KASS MORGAN

exhilaration fizzed through Clarke’s body. Before she realised what she was doing, she had thrown ...
KASS MORGAN

Octavia was the only person in the world who truly knew him. There was no one else he really cared a...
KASS MORGAN

I don't think Estonians ever really hated Russians. It was more, 'Leave us alone.' We ca...
CARMEN KASS

I have a figure, and there aren't many girls out there right now who have that.
CARMEN KASS

You know what I always dreamed of? That with the greenhouse effect, one day Estonia can be what L.A....
CARMEN KASS

I get paid to work; I don't pay to work.
CARMEN KASS

Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's a...
CARMEN KASS

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?&#...
CARMEN KASS

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of b...
CARMEN KASS

For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishi...
DEBORAH TANNEN

One of the amazing things about writing fiction is that you do get to be other people.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I always need huge amounts of time to do anything.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

For me, most writing consists of siphoning out useless pre-story matter, cutting and cutting and cut...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I wa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I had no thought of being a writer. I never wanted to do anything. I'm tremendously lazy.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I'm a very spoiled writer. I need to be indolent, to waste a lot of paper. I'm inefficient.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

We're all walking around trying to deal with a certain amount of shame, to repress it. And we re...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

It's much easier to read the stories that have a lot of dialogue; of course, they flow much more...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I'm a bit of an expert on anger, having suffered from it all through my youth, when I was both b...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I find it endlessly interesting, endlessly funny, the fact that we're rather arbitrarily divided...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I like the eclipses, the synaptic jumps of short stories. The reader has to participate very activel...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Writing does change you, and of course it feels good to do things, so you could say writing is de fa...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I would like to never ever think about any political issues.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is ...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all f...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Fiction is a report from the interior.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.
DEBORAH TANNEN

The word 'sister' evokes an ideal of connection and support, like the friendships that made ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I bur...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
DEBORAH MOGGACH

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that l...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relativ...
DEBORAH BULL

I did have a go with Botox, but I couldn't move my eyebrows. I also, at one point, had that fill...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only...
DEBORAH REBER

Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us ...
DEBORAH DAY

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
DEBORAH DAY

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us...
DEBORAH DAY

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
DEBORAH TANNEN

Women as mothers grapple with corresponding contradictions. The adoration they feel for their grown ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

For girls and women, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together - and the explosive that ca...
DEBORAH TANNEN

When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that im...
DEBORAH TANNEN

I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampir...
DEBORAH HARKNESS

I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words...
DEBORAH TANNEN

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the las...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an err...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to...
DEBORAH RANEY

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have e...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

It is hard to get in the habit of forcing yourself to find three things on a regular basis that you ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Religious people are happier.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to grati...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing o...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Nu...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Certainly the research shows that grateful people are more innovative thinkers.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

My job as a television anchor or television reporter is not to proselytize.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

There is no dramatic difference in happiness on the part of people who are wealthy.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go ...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

When my mother passed away I was 20.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious...
DEBORAH NORVILLE

So many self-help ideas are like meringue - you take a big bite, and there's nothing there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

Motherhood is wonderful, but it's also hard work. It's the logistics more than anything. You...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

A sister is someone who owns part of what you own: a house, perhaps, or a less tangible legacy, like...
DEBORAH TANNEN

The world belongs to no one. There are very few people who fit into the world. And part of the strug...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and mayb...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.
DEBORAH SAMPSON

Many mothers and daughters are as close as any two people can be, but closeness always carries with ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

In this world, conversations are negotiations for closeness in which people try to seek and give con...
DEBORAH TANNEN

For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an...
DEBORAH TANNEN

The club shows are really intense and powerful, but for a shorter time, and the audiences are in clo...
DEBORAH COX

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would d...
DEBORAH COX

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who kno...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for ce...
DEBORAH WILES

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.
DEBORAH RANEY

Letting go is the hardest part... but you have to look at it through their eyes and realize the pain...
DEBORAH REBER

Your choice is to be active or passive in your responses.
DEBORAH DAY

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.
DEBORAH DAY

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for th...
DEBORAH BARNES

The traditional writer is a sensitive only child, asthmatic, who sits on the window seat watching th...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working i...
DEBORAH MAILMAN

I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

Repentance is a sweet solace to conscience as well as the most complete atonement to the Supreme Jud...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the p...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

An assumption underlying almost all comments on interruptions is that they are aggressive, but the l...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Asian cultures... place great value on avoiding open expression of disagreement and conflict because...
DEBORAH TANNEN

November 11, 1802, I arrived at Judge Patterson's at Lisle. This respectable family treated me w...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apol...
DEBORAH TANNEN

If you understand gender differences in what I call 'conversational style', you may not be a...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Body language is a very powerful tool. We had body language before we had speech, and apparently, 80...
DEBORAH BULL

I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.
DEBORAH NORVILLE

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early...
DEBORAH TANNEN

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when...
DEBORAH COX

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independ...
DEBORAH TANNEN

It's almost uncanny to receive a prize named in honor of Bernard Malamud. I must have been in my...
DEBORAH EISENBERG

Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you
DEBORAH WILES

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us ...
DEBORAH HARKNESS

What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragi...
DEBORAH SAMPSON

I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist a...
DEBORAH ELLIS

This idea that we should be best friends with our partner of the opposite gender leads toward tremen...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Everything we say has metamessages indicating how our words are to be interpreted: Is this a serious...
DEBORAH TANNEN

When daughters react with annoyance or even anger at the smallest, seemingly innocent remarks, mothe...
DEBORAH TANNEN

Help me Lord be a Light and not a shadow in the darkness of my fears.
DEBORAH BRODIE

Not understanding something must not turn us away from God, his ways, or purposes; rather it must be...
DEBORAH BRODIE

What the edge of Truth cuts, the edge of Grace mends.
DEBORAH BRODIE

Count the cost of everything.
Rather than asking someone, "How much does this cost?" Ask yourse...
DEBORAH BRODIE

Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
DEBORAH BRODIE

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - ...
DEBORAH MOGGACH

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though t...
DEBORAH COX

Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

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Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.

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