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Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power. -- Benazir Bhutto
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. -- Phil Jackson
Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas. -- David Wilkerson
The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years. -- Tom Coburn
Agendas tend to drain the life out of relationships. -- Julia Cameron
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it. -- Brian Mulroney
The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. -- John C. Maxwell
I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work -- Anish Kapoor
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. -- Dan Quayle
What pleases me most is that sustainable development is on almost everybody's agenda now. -- Maurice Strong
When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda. -- Elizabeth Joan Smith
Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness. -- Susan Faludi
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. -- Pope John Paul II
It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it. -- John Pilger
Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it -- Jim Clyburn
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union. -- Gerry Adams
We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. -- Rick Larsen
One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money. -- Birch Bayh
When you're in the minority, it doesn't matter what you're agenda is, you're not going to have the degree of freedom that you have as a member of the majority. -- Tom Daschle
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. -- Mitt Romney
But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companies' agenda. We see a substantial build-up of supply occurring over the coming years. -- Daniel Yergin
We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda? -- Judith Jamison
We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look. -- Ade Edmondson
Frederick Douglas's agenda was an agenda, not for black people to get out of slavery. It was for America to become a better democracy. And it's spilt over for women's rights; it's split over for worker's rights and so forth. -- Cornel West
I don't have political agendas. I have social agendas. -- will.i.am
In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders. -- Shakira
A boardroom is a collection of individuals, and individuals have varying motives, egos, agendas and qualifications. Sometimes the dynamics can go off track. -- Carly Fiorina
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. -- Gary Zukav
If you're trying to do multiple agendas, you'll confuse yourself as a storyteller. If you have one purpose, everything else will fall into place. -- Andrew Stanton
Presidents are not only the country's principal policy chief, shaping the nation's domestic and foreign agendas, but also the most visible example of our values. -- Robert Dallek
I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be. -- Vanilla Ice
The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks. -- Dick Wolf
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. -- Dougray Scott
Once the festival achieved a certain level of notoriety, then people began to come here with agendas that were not the same as ours. We can't do anything about that. We can't control that. -- Robert Redford
Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you. -- Adam DeVine
The Myth of Male Power dealt much more with the political issues, the legal issues, sexual harassment, date rape, women who kill, and those issues were very much more interfaced with the agendas of feminism. -- Warren Farrell
They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers. -- Neil Tennant
Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged. -- Gary Zukav
The problem with merely writing so that you can be understood is that the wrong people, in advancing their agendas, are only too ready to misunderstand you. Writing so that you cannot be misunderstood anticipates and preempts those who would willfully distort what you are trying to say. -- William A. Dembski
I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change. -- Patti Smith
By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters? -- Lloyd Dorfman
Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand. -- Eugene Jarecki
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas. -- Nick Cave
I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. -- Fergie
The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches. -- Joe Bastianich
Events that get covered in the U.S. one way are not very important elsewhere or are given a completely different slant, and one needs to have a kind of comparative way of thinking in order to arrive at a judgment that is not completely provincial, that doesn't end up ratifying one's own national perspective and hence, one's own national agendas. -- Judith Butler
Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round -- Joel Salatin
Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas. -- Marianne Williamson
The inbox is nothing but a convenient organizing system for other people's agendas. -- Brendon Burchard
A team doesn't win the championship if its players are working from different agendas. -- John C. Maxwell
As a human race, we have good people and bad people, and everyone has agendas. -- Bobby Morley
Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas. -- Alex Gaskarth
Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave. -- Nicholas Sparks
Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present. -- Thomas Sowell
The media do not set their own investigative agendas independently, but operate as part ... of the political establishment. -- Peter Dale Scott
Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished when manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults. -- Maggie Gallagher
I actually think agendas are more often found in State of the Union speeches than in inaugural speeches. -- Gwen Ifill
The problem with a lot of nations, is that they keep trying to move forward with backward agendas. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Terrorist organizations with specific political agendas may be encouraged and emboldened by Yasser Arafat's transformation from outlaw to statesman. -- John F. Kerry
I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. -- Sherman Alexie
American Psalms challenges Christian patriots to put aside personal agendas, prejudices and partisanship, and pray for our leaders as God commands. -- Mike Huckabee
We should restore a proper balance in environmental regulation and energy production that is based on common sense, not political agendas. -- Mac Thornberry
We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments. -- Michelle Bachelet
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them. -- Margaret Heffernan
It's time to put America at the front of all of our agendas and to find ways to work together on common ground. -- Karl Rove
Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden agendas will destroy trust. -- Judith M Bardwick
Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas. -- Patrick Cockburn
Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children. -- Harold S. Kushner
If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas. -- Brian Weiss
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. -- David Price
Holy scripture does not hold women back. It's the people that decide to interpret it in such a way for their own, sometimes political, agendas. -- Queen Rania of Jordan
Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with. -- Jessica Chastain
All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices. -- Mark Kingwell
Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events. -- Dick Morris
The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art -- Wynton Marsalis
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and being scientifically unsound. -- Christopher Landsea
A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition. -- Rick Scarborough
I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. -- David Letterman
I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing. -- Douglas Rushkoff
I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment. -- Arlene Dickinson
A sport has its own built-in integrity, doesn't need an artificial one. Athletics carries its own set of truths, and those truths are diminished and manipulated by people with agendas. -- Chris Crutcher
These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music. -- Kenneth Ehrlich
Organized religion is a very bad way of passing on spiritual values because it becomes so corrupted with political and repressive agendas which don't help anybody to develop their spirituality. -- Jeanette Winterson
Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities. It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you. -- Stephen Covey
Development is among the most important long-term multilateral agendas existing today. As we all know, lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. -- Pal Schmitt
I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world. -- Basmah bint Saud
Dont throw yourself out on anotherâ??s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that theyâ??ve got their own agendas. -- Alex Gaskarth

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