Claim Quotes
1458 Claim quotes by 1109 unique authors
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The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It is…
— Guy Debord
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Birth on U.S. territory has never been an absolute claim to citizenship.
— Phyllis Schlafly
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Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you…
— William Gurnall
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I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and…
— Amy Hempel
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In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes…
— Mark Steyn
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It is very important to go home if you want your work to be whole. You don't have to move in with your parents again…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Artists love other artists. Â Shadow artists are gravitating to their rightful tribe but cannot yet claim their birthright. Â Very often audacity, not talent,…
— Julia Cameron
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To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden.…
— Jean Renoir
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I even believe in helping an employer function more productively. For then, we will have a claim to higher wages, shorter hours, and greater participation…
— Sidney Hillman
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Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and…
— John Stott
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Even more dramatic, Alex Todorov at Princeton has shown us that judgments of political candidates' faces in just one second predict 70 percent of U.S.…
— Amy Cuddy
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I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I…
— Lynn Abbey
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Not only are there as many conflicting truths as there are people to claim them; there are equally multitudinous and conflicting truths within the individual.
— Virgilia Peterson
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We might think of dollars as being 'certificates of performance.' The better I serve my fellow man, and the higher the value he places on…
— Walter E. Williams
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He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so…
— Jeremy Bentham
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Businesses should no longer be allowed to depress wages by hiring illegal labor and then falsely claim that Americans don't want to do the jobs.
— Dana Rohrabacher
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I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
— Harold Ramis
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You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not.…
— Louise Hay
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We claim we believe in compassion, which is an abstract, and when it's personified we discredit the man
— Mort Sahl
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Don't believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
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Once the pain-body has taken you over, you want more pain. You become a victim or a perpetrator. You want to inflict pain, or you…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion is…
— W. Eugene Smith
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Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great
— Chris Van Allsburg
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We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in…
— Terence McKenna
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Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never…
— Deng Xiaoping
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