Groups Quotes

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.

What we do in our group is the opposite of the bad effects of globalization. We produce in Italy and in France and we sell to China, when usually it's the opposite.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

[U]nless oppressed groups stick together, and on alliances of self interest rather than do-goodism; nothing can be accomplished in the long run to dismantle the apparatus of oppression.

I didn't know I wanted to do films until I started to do them. Very few films are made in Mexico and film-making belonged to a very specific group, a clique.

I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

When Jesus started His ministry, the very first thing He did was form a small group.

If you cannot find a group whose consciousness matches your own, be the source of one. Others of like consciousness will be drawn to you.

Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.

The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.

If you want to have a society where people are respected and respect laws, you can't have somebody at the top who demeans every group that he talks about.

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

When trouble comes no mother should have to plead guilty alone. The pediatricians, psychologists, therapists, goat herders, fathers, and peer groups should all be called to the bench as well. . . .

I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.

While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

Barbara did the selecting, and that's probably the most brilliant thing, was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences.

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

The formation of the News America Publishing Group will lead to greater editorial excitement, new business opportunities and greater efficiencies and coordination.

One of the best programmers I ever hired had only a High School degree; he's produced a lot of great software, has his own news group, and made enough in stock options to buy his own nightclub.

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

Acquire worldly wisdom and adjust your behavior accordingly. If your new behavior gives you a little temporary unpopularity with your peer group then to hell with them.

no one in a group of three is the same person he (she, it) is in a group of two. No more than he is the same in a group of two as he is alone.

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.

A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors

An elite group of less than a billion people now take more than 80 per cent of the world's wealth.

The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.

It is astonishing how foolish humans can be in groups, especially when they follow their leader without question.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

I guess cows aren't into the four food groups, especially when they are two of them.

Preferring members of any one group for no reason other than race or ethnic origin is discrimination for its own sake. This the Constitution forbids.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs.

With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers.

The current situation in Iraq is ultimately a crisis of governance, which has allowed extremist groups to take advantage of disillusioned segments of the Iraqi population.