Overt Quotes
57 quotes by 55 authors
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main…
— J. J. Abrams
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Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only by overt actions, and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
— Daniel Ellsberg
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It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings] when principles break…
— Thomas Jefferson
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We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even…
— Stephen Batchelor
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I would just be constantly writing all these zingers - like, 'Burn. That would really get her.' And I know people are going to obsess…
— Taylor Swift
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It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and…
— Alfred Kinsey
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However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize…
— Ed Markey
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Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in…
— Rachel Zoe
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The organizers first job is to create the issues or problems, and organizations must be based on many issues. The organizer must first rub raw…
— Saul Alinsky
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There are subtle ways and overt ways of alienating a child from a parent, but either way it's evil
— Dennis Prager
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It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even…
— Godfrey Reggio
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Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the…
— Yvon Chouinard
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One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the…
— Nicholas Negroponte
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Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spirituality through an overt expression of inner convictions.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know,…
— Arundhati Roy
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It is inconceivable that a secret arm of the government has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.
— James Jesus Angleton
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To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion…
— Willard Gaylin
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The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process…
— B.F. Skinner
Who Wrote These Overt Quotes
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