The great white advantage has been living inside history, adapting to its constant demands, nurturing the values and the habits of life that allow one to keep pace. This is the cultural capital that whites too often take for granted and rarely think of insisting on in the former victims of exclusion.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.
Now, being a model and an actor, I’m trying to learn more as my profession demands it.
Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history – not only because it isn’t true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically – that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.
The liberation of workers from excessive work was one of the pioneering demands of the labour movement.
There’s always more demands than there’s time to meet them, so it’s constantly a matter of trying to balance them.
In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.
But I think you have to accept – as I have accepted – that the demands of TV are different than the demand of book writing.
I’m excited to fight in Abu Dhabi and to compete against Roy Nelson because he’s a dangerous opponent and demands a lot of respect and hard training to beat. He’s a knockout artist and really well-rounded, so you need to be well trained to fight someone like him.
I come at it from a different angle of attack with each novel, searching for the technological texture the story demands. There isn’t a recipe; it’s more of an instinct.
Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.
We must address the real threats of climate change in communities of color and across the Global South, the forced expulsion of Black people in Europe and the Americas, and the socioeconomic demands of young people throughout the world.
I do get invitations all of the time to play actual fantasy football, by the way, but I get the feeling that I’d like it too much. I have enough demands on my time. My fans would kill me.
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and threatens us. When these demands are met, the first and greatest benefit will come to Iraqi men, women and children.
United is no longer just a football club; it is an institution. I feel the demands are beyond one human being.
It’s great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don’t get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
‘The State Within’ demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn’t just wash over you – it asks for commitment. And that’s a really good thing.
The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.
There are a lot of different demands on the campaign trail, but what matters most is that you connect with voters and take the time to really hear their concerns.
The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh’s demands were a model of modesty.
I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
People who face too many demands – two careers, two children – often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.
I sign up whatever live shows I get simply because every gig is a chance to reach out directly to the audience. When it comes to gigs, I try mixing personal picks with what the audience demands.
The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest. It was an era when students were making demands and many black students were closer to the teachings of Malcolm X, or what they thought were his teachings.
Some people say that given the government’s firm stance against genuine universal suffrage, our demands are impossible to achieve. But I believe activism is about making the impossible possible.
Why more reality-based TV? You’d think that after the first ‘Survivor’ it would have gone away, but it hasn’t. The public demands it because they get all caught up in the personal stories and want to see more and more. Every new ‘Survivor’ is going to show you more.
The occasional nomination of a Todd Akin or Christine O’Donnell or Sharron Angle is a problem for the GOP. But it’s really just a symptom of a much more serious malady: an environment on the right that demands and rewards an ideal of ‘purity’ that has little appeal outside of the conservative movement.
Americanism demands loyalty to the teacher and respect for his lesson.
Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It’s not like running a business or a police force. It demands compromise.
I don’t have a reputation of being a super-witch who demands pink rugs in the dressing room.
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.
I can imagine no sweeter way to end one’s life than in the quiet of the country, out of the mad race for money, place and power – far from the demands of business – out of the dusty highway where fools struggle and strive for the hollow praise of other fools.
Ideology… is indispensable in any society if men are to be formed, transformed and equipped to respond to the demands of their conditions of existence.
Short naps are good. Given modern workplace demands, this is not possible for many people – but if you have the option, try napping for ten to twenty minutes in the afternoon, preferably lying down in a darkened room.
I’m amazed how unable I am to deal with the demands that are made on me as an actor. Not the one I enjoy, which is standing in front of a camera or onstage pretending to be someone else but everything else that comes with it.
Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
A long-running TV series is a beast in that it demands you stick to one character over a long haul.
Our Constitution in many situations rightly demands a warrant or order before we take investigative steps. And the FISC provides that vital, independent oversight.
The writing I do makes great demands on translators.
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
Ever since taking office, the Obama administration has sought to accommodate Islamist demands that freedom of expression be curbed, lest it offend Muslims and stoke violence. For example, in 2009, the administration co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution along those lines.
And it’s absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating – and the levels of the communication that I’ve seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don’t we have that here?
Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.
Running fills a need so we make fewer demands on others. Running reveals the roots of negative thinking, so the weeds can be pulled. Running reconnects the soul to the source, inspiring hope and creativity.
Composing demands a degree of isolation.
Civilized discourse demands critical thinking, self-reflexiveness, sober-headed analysis.
Mars is key to humanity’s future in space. It is the closest planet that has all the resources needed to support life and technological civilization. Its complexity uniquely demands the skills of human explorers, who will pave the way for human settlers.
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
