Quotes and Sayings About Groups
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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 -
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 -
Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
-- Aaron Paul -
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 -
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
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 -
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 -
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 -
fair play is less characteristic of groups than of individuals.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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 -
The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters
-- Ahmet Ertegun -
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 -
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.
-- Akshay Kumar -
The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.
-- Al Gore -
Im so sick of people treating Latinos like some homogenous group that all feel the same way about everything.
-- Al Madrigal -
National Action Network, the group I founded, has affiliates or chapters in over 40 cities around the country.
-- Al Sharpton -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Nothing causes more consternation in a group of hypocrits than one honest man.
-- Albert Einstein -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.
-- Alexandra Robbins -
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 -
A committee is a group of individuals who all put in a perfectly good color, and it comes out gray.
-- Allan Sherman
