#statement

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling

Any Democratic statement of core beliefs about the importance of families must include all our families, gay and straight. Our party has a long tradition of leading the charge on important questions of justice. ↗

— Jeanne Shaheen

#any #beliefs #charge #core #democratic

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#artists #book #every #general #i

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#am #banker #calculating #feel #fortunately

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#before #blunt #christmas #country #figure

So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#another #any #apply #biological #child

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#going #great #idea #instead #just

One word from Chairman Mao is worth ten thousand from others. His every statement is truth. We must carry out those we that understand as well as those we don't. ↗

— Lin Biao

#chairman #chairman mao #every #his #mao

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today. ↗

— Aaron Copland

#alive #basic #because #being #compose