Substantive Quotes

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Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition,… — Amartya Sen
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood. — Michael Medved
When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office,… — Granville Sharp
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites… — Carl Sagan
I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a… — William Baldwin
This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly… — Stephen Breyer
By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them — Kevin Rudd
The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance. — Carl Sagan
We need to work together, on a bipartisan basis, to create new jobs, increase job training, enact real and substantive middle class tax relief, and… — Ruben Hinojosa
It is time... to end the long-standing and unproductive methodological debate over 'originalism' versus 'dynamism' or 'evolution' and focus instead on how, as a substantive… — Diane Wood
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it… — K. Eric Drexler
You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex… — E L Doctorow
I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education. — Roy Romer
The fact is that in a way, journalists become a kind of default in the system when you don't have substantive two-party back-and-forth inside of… — Ron Suskind
Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties. — John Turner
Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability. — Justin Amash
I grew up around books. When I first held the book and it was a substantive, tangible thing, and I thought of all the work… — Paul Allen
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a… — Ethan Hawke
After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or… — Leslie Jamison
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always… — Charles Bass

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