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- Nov 07, 2020
Us Quotes
What connects us, from global trade to family memory.
These quotes look at 'us' on very different scales, from once-hostile nations now trading with the world to a shared human truth that everyone carries some private struggle. For quotes about closeness between people, see Connection quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cars we drive say a lot about us.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
In terms of closing Rikers, we have to close Rikers, but we have to ensure that we're not just taking - that we're not continuing to incarcerate the same level of people. It doesn't do us much good if we close Rikers and then take that same amount of people and just distribute them to be incarcerated elsewhere.
- Questioning
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.
- Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
- Teamwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the perpetual tragedy of all families: each of us believe our congenital pathologies and singular pains end with us.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will ensure the interests of both the East and the West in Belarus. Don't try to rip us apart; don't try to make us collide with Russia or with the West.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
We will not have Americans telling us what to do... We cannot be brought to our knees.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans want to democratise us. OK, but why not go and democratise Saudi Arabia. Are we anything like Saudi Arabia? No, we are far from that. So why aren't they democratising Saudi Arabia? Because they are bastards, but they are their bastards.
- Hospital
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the U.S., hospitals are rewarded for keeping hospital beds full. That's the market at work. The question is: should we work for the market, or should the market work for us?
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020