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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny. -- Zach Galifianakis
We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention. -- Dan Marino
This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life. -- Kathleen Turner
When families observe a later, deeper stage of cult involvement they may find it necessary to consider the involvement of a professional such as myself in an intervention effort. -- Rick Ross
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. -- Gro Harlem Brundtland
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. -- Benjamin Spock
If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences. -- Fareed Zakaria
A treatment method or an educational method that will work for one child may not work for another child. The one common denominator for all of the young children is that early intervention does work, and it seems to improve the prognosis. -- Temple Grandin
Intervention giving is emotional and the results are measurable. -- Andy Stanley
I'm super-obsessed with 'Intervention.' I wrote a song about it. -- Margaret Cho
Intervention continues to be a prominent dimension of the post-cold war world. -- Mike Jackson
Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. -- Nelson Mandela
In a cult intervention information is presented about the group that the member is most often not aware of. -- Rick Ross
I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it. -- Vanessa Bayer
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm very interested in "repetition and revision" (to use Suzan Lori-Parks's phrase) and in the culture's desire to loop or repeat. -- Laura Mullen
Everything intercepts us from ourselves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a big believer in early intervention. -- Temple Grandin
An exorcism is tantamount to a miracle - an extraordinary intervention of God. -- Gabriele Nanni
I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide. -- Bianca Jagger
It's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. -- Vladimir Putin
What I object to the current government intervention in so-called 'solving the crisis', they haven't solved anything. They've just postponed it. -- Marc Faber
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment. -- Tim Holden
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. -- Jurgen Habermas
Newborn screening is a public health intervention that involves a simple blood test used to identify many life-threatening genetic illnesses before any symptoms begin. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
Global overcapacity in steel production can no longer be ignored. Foreign governments' intervention in steel markets has had a devastating impact on the U.S. industry. -- Max Baucus
Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government. -- Harold Washington
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention -- Lee Harvey Oswald
Given that the biggest rise in childhood obesity rates are occurring in children ages 3 to 5 years, we must modify our efforts to place an emphasis on prevention versus intervention. -- Darell Hammond
This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. -- Bill Frist
Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society. -- Jenny McCarthy
I think no one knows what humanitarian intervention means. If I were a person who was non-American, I would think humanitarian intervention is just another name for United States imperialism. -- Stanley Hauerwas
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms -- Boris Yeltsin
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Do policy makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than make matters worse? Yes. -- Janet Yellen
The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact. -- Margaret Thatcher
It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. -- Gottfried Leibniz
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it. -- Stockwell Day
We need to accept the seemingly obvious fact that a toxic environment can make people sick and that no amount of medical intervention can protect us. The health care community must become a powerful political lobby for environmental policy and legislation. -- Andrew Weil
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century. -- Martin Jacques
No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. -- Vladimir Putin
The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians. -- Godfried Danneels
There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit. -- Pat Summerall
The FHA's success provides strong evidence that government can and should play a role in the nation's mortgage finance system. It also demonstrates that although government intervention in the economy during the Great Recession was messy, things would have been a lot messier without it. -- Mark Zandi
Iraq now says that it will, after all, destroy its missiles. President Bush said, 'Please, I used to pull the same trick. There'd be an intervention, I'd make a big show of pouring out the liquor and then there was a case under the floorboards.' -- Bill Maher
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. -- Russell Baker
Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself. -- Tanya Tucker
Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from one administration to the next. Never has there been the slightest deviation from the principle that a noncommunist regime must be imposed and defended, regardless of popular sentiment. -- Noam Chomsky
Governmental intervention and personal responsibility are not mutually exclusive issues, but they do frame a 'do it ourselves' vs. 'what are you doing for us' debate. For the black community, that's a debate that's been raging at least as far back as the W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington philosophical grudge matches. -- John Ridley
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth. -- Slavoj Zizek
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to. -- Si Robertson
Art is manipulation without intervention. -- Louise Bourgeois
Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. -- Erwin Chargaff
Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention. -- Stuart Green
Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation. -- Stockwell Day
Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation. -- Harville Hendrix
I am against intervention by a foreign power against us. -- Moshe Sharett
What appears to be an interruption is often an intervention. -- Rich Wilkerson Jr.
The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention. -- Thomas R. Insel
Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief. -- David Mura
With MOOCs, "the real question becomes, where is human intervention important? -- Shirley Ann Jackson
God turned the adversity into a blessing. What a divine intervention? -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Mexico will never accept U.S. military intervention. Mexicans always remember 1848. -- Jorge Ramos
Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention. -- Mal Fletcher
Go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention. -- Mark Batterson
If deep change depended solely on outside intervention it would never happen. -- Marshall Ganz
To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution. -- Paul Wolfowitz
He probably couldn't turn off his sexiness without medical intervention.' (Abbie) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
There is no way to stabilize the markets other than through government intervention. -- Henry Paulson
It drove home, personally, the value of early detection and education and intervention. -- Janet Napolitano
Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing. -- Haruki Murakami
The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind. -- Bessel van der Kolk
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Coaching done well may be the most effective intervention designed for human performance. -- Atul Gawande
Talk about divine intervention. I can't even tell you how blessed I feel. -- Khandi Alexander
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life. -- Paul Tournier
The whole basis for the US intervention in Colombia is outrageously racist and arrogant. -- Noam Chomsky
My level of intervention in the press, trying to control stories, is zero. Subzero. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
A prayer and positive affirmation are the keys for a divine intervention in any situation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws -- Teresa Stover
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. -- Philipp Melanchthon
Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening. -- Judith Butler
Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not, -- Janet Yellen
Nothing rectifies out-of-control market failures like a healthy dose of government intervention and mountains of bureaucracy. -- George Carlin
Nationalization of private debts undermines prudential lender behavior and is a government intervention in the market. -- Joseph Stiglitz
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive. -- Assata Shakur
On intervention under the UN framework, I think that sometimes that's legitimate, in fact even helpful. -- Noam Chomsky
Learning the difference between God's intervention, the devil's mischief, and PMS can lead to increased happiness. -- J.P. Galuska
If ever there was a time this country needed the intervention of God, it is now. -- Billy Graham
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts. -- Albert Einstein
Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay. -- Benjamin Graham
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The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase. -- Noam Chomsky
Every government intervention [in the marketplace] creates unintended consequences, which lead to calls for further government interventions... -- Ludwig von Mises
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. -- Kenny Cunningham
Historical hypocrites have themselves carried out the very human rights abuses that they suddenly decide warrant intervention elsewhere. -- Samantha Power
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. -- Patrick McHenry
The Lourie Center eases the burden of children and their families through early intervention and diagnoses and treatment. -- Beverly Sills
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. -- Martha Stewart
Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. -- Patrick McHenry
We are not afraid of economic sanctions or military intervention. What we are afraid of is Western universities. -- Ruhollah Khomeini
To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems. -- Rafael Sabatini
There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles. -- Robert Breault
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world. -- Philip Yancey
What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life? -- Jules Verne
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma. -- Terence McKenna
Smoking dope and smoking coke, you are rendered defenseless. The only way out of that hopeless state is intervention. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. -- Stephen Hawking
Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad. -- Remy de Gourmont
Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive. -- Rick Ross
Aside from an intervention, which I don't think is on anybody's mind, Iraq is going to have defend for itself. -- Doug Collins
The best motivating factor of all, however, is divine intervention, or what I like to call The Magic of Grace. -- Cheryl Richardson
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue. -- Susie Orbach
We know that government intervention in the free market, and Argentine history has shown this, absolutely ends in a boomerang. -- Daniel Morgan
What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S. -- John Warren Kindt
Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth. -- Ian Bremmer
I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide. -- Paul Virilio
My motto is "Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention." -- Mahatma Gandhi
In 1979, we thought it would be easier to take power. The intervention of the United States has changed the circumstances. -- Mario Lopez

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