Quotes with official

  • Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
  • Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

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  • Roland Barthes All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Billy Joel Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Billy Joel Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin Before deciding what to do about national space policy, Obama set up an outside review panel of space experts, headed up by my friend Norm Augustine, former head of Lockheed Martin and a former government official.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bob Keeshan Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.
    As quoted in Commentary: Pre-school Rankings by Susan Hoff KERA Public Newsroom (6 September 2007)
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • James S. Brady Disaster these days is not official until it is recorded on the evening news.
    James S. Brady
    US Presidential Press Secretary (1940 - 2014)
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  • Bill Nye History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people past and present; people who ate and possibly drank; people who were born, flourished and died; not grave tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Vera Brittain I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Arthur Capper I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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  • Ann Coulter If a university official's letter accusing a speaker of having a proclivity to commit speech crimes before she's given the speech - which then leads to Facebook postings demanding that Ann Coulter be hurt, a massive riot and a police-ordered cancellation of the speech - is not hate speech, then there is no such thing as hate speech.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bill Haslam If we are recognizing the Bible as a sacred text, then we are violating the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Tennessee by designating it as the official state book.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Carol Loomis In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal sales of stock index futures by so-called portfolio insurers - whose investment strategies depended entirely on these derivatives - greatly exacerbated the 500-point market decline.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve System. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You're right, we did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bob Balaban Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
    Bob Balaban
    American actor, author and producer (1945 - )
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  • Barbara Park My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • George Bernard Shaw No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alfred E. Smith No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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