"Let’s just agree any group of 3 or more handsome British men should be referred to as a 'cumberbatch.'"
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"I am compelled to fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups rather than to make men happy."
"My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go."
"The active investors will have their returns diminished by a far greater percentage than will their inactive brethren. That means that the passive group - the "know-nothings" - must win."
"In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people."
"I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music."
"Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could."
"France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets."
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
"I've always loved groups like U2 and Coldplay."
"I've never been in a focus-group meeting. I wonder how many anchors can say that."
"I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three."
"Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?"
"Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group."
"A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation."
"The group will not prosper if the leader grabs the lion's share of the credit for the good work that has been done."
"The well-run group is not a battlefield of egos."
"Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group."
"Watching Michael Jackson was like taking a history lesson and a lesson on the future at the same time. If that weren’t enough, Michael then went and single-handedly revolutionized music videos. It’s amazing that today, some twenty-five years later, everyone who makes a pop music video still feels obligated to include a 'group dance' sequence like the one Michael pioneered in 'Beat It'. That’s how influential and ahead of the times he was."
"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis."