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Living from the Creator Orientation is actually more challenging. In the Victim Orientation, I didn't have to exercise conscious choice; I just reacted to my circumstances. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form. -- Ivan Reitman
The focus in the Creator Orientation is on a Vision or an Outcome. You orient your thoughts and actions toward creating what you most deeply want to see or experience in life. -- David Emerald Womeldorff
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. -- Karl Rahner
Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible. -- Alan Dundes
The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia. -- Kenzaburo Oe
It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties. -- Lance Bass
Depending on your political orientation, the Dixie Chicks are either the great defenders of free speech or American traitors. -- Shawn Amos
If you want my personal attitude, I would tell you that I don't care about a person's sexual orientation. -- Vladimir Putin
All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. -- James F. Amos
I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. -- Coretta Scott King
It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation. -- Camille Paglia
I believe in, and will to the best of my ability fight for, equal rights and freedom of opinion for everyone, regardless of colour, religion, nationality, orientation - you know the rest. -- Binyavanga Wainaina
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world. -- Gerard Way
I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to. -- Chaz Bono
The time has come to repeal 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.' It is the right thing to do. Every American should have the opportunity to serve their country, regardless of race, sex, creed, or sexual orientation. -- Dianne Feinstein
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. -- Edgar Mitchell
While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship. -- Cynthia Nixon
One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter. -- Vincent Nichols
I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. -- Diana Ross
Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. -- Erich Fromm
I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. -- Chaz Bono
Most of 'All Hail West Texas' was written during orientation at a new job I had. I had basically worked this job before, I knew this stuff, so I was writing lyrics in the margins of all the Xeroxed material. -- John Darnielle
Whether sexual orientation can change or not, hearts can change and turn any sexual orientation into an occasion for the glory of Christ. Those with same-sex attraction glorify Christ through sexual abstinence and through the enrichment of significant Christ-exalting relationships in other ways. -- John Piper
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans. -- Dianne Feinstein
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights as Americans, in which a hate crime perpetrated against someone based their sexual orientation can go unpunished, and in which discrimination is being written into our laws. -- John Conyers
I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care. -- Camille Paglia
Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans. -- Gary L. Francione
In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. -- Cynthia Nixon
Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. -- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Action orientation is the mark of the superior executive. -- Brian Tracy
I think naturally my orientation is from my father. -- Andrew Cuomo
I favor access to discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. -- Edward Kennedy
Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you. -- John de Ruiter
My morality and faith are choices. My sexual orientation however isn't. -- Anthony Venn-Brown
No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation. -- Portia Simpson-Miller
The term 'sexual orientation'...is basically a code word for homosexuality. -- Scott Lively
From day one, I have always been open about my sexual orientation. -- Tammy Baldwin
The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation. -- Seth Klarman
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity. -- Maurice Barres
Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love. -- Adam Lambert
You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it. -- Adam Lambert
The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation. -- Paul Kagame
The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it -- Ralph Metzner
Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak. -- Ernest Gellner
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist. -- Cornel West
The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character. -- Zach Wahls
We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation. -- Peter Krause
Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times. -- Vaclav Havel
All young people, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, need someone who's got their back. -- James Lecesne
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment. -- Tom Peters
The world of sports is still very macho and doesn't endorse same-sex couples and gay sexual orientation. -- James Paxton
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. -- Katharine Graham
We don't need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind. -- Sharon Salzberg
I am sorry we promoted sexual orientation change efforts and reparative theories about sexual orientation that stigmatized parents. -- Alan Chambers
Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. -- E. F. Schumacher
I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually. -- Tennessee Williams
Compared with lesbians, gays seem to be more unapologetic about their sexual orientation. The former must not have balls. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with. -- Peter McWilliams
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement? -- Alan Sokal
Faith is an orientation of the total person, giving purpose and goal to one's hopes and strivings, thoughts and actions. -- James W. Fowler
Having clients with a long-term orientation is crucial. Nothing else is as important to the success of an investment firm. -- Seth Klarman
The players who have reached out to me and told me about their sexual orientation, it just means a lot. -- Michael Sam
There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility. -- Raymond Smullyan
The Negro enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike behave in accordance with a neurotic orientation. -- Frantz Fanon
Turn the paper. A piece looks better if every mark is not made while the surface is in the same orientation. -- Jean Wilson
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. -- Camille Paglia
But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. -- Jane Campion
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it. -- Mary Parker Follett
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. -- Simone Weil
If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning. -- Alfie Kohn
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub. -- H. Richard Niebuhr
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential. -- Harvey Milk
Sexuality, and sexual orientation - regardless of orientation - is just natural. An act of sex is one of the most human things. -- Hozier
One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation. -- Len Elmore
[On gay ban in the military:] Heroism, I believe, is a trait that does not know race, color, creed, sex, or sexual orientation. -- Dianne Feinstein
I think everyone is bi, right? There's no such thing as sexual orientation, or race, or gender. Those are all obsolete man-made concepts. -- Eric Andre
Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom. -- Michael Badnarik
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion. -- Pema Chodron
Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. -- Robert Brady
As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything. -- Darren Criss
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. -- Malcolm Boyd
Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside. -- Erich Fromm
Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation. -- Malcolm Boyd
... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. -- Margot Fonteyn
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual orientation. -- Timothy Radcliffe
People seek a new orientation, a new philosophy, one which is centered on the priorities of life-physically and spiritually-and not on the priorities of death. -- Erich Fromm
Hate crimes based on sexual orientation are among the three top reported hate crimes after race and religion, ... Our laws should not ignore that reality. -- Janet Reno
The objective of education should be impressed on the children's minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation. -- Sai Baba
In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . . -- William J. Clinton
If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder. -- Scott Lively
I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt. -- Camille Paglia
There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens. -- Steven Pressfield
...inner spiritual transformation is just as dependent upon the effect of our economic life upon the world as transformations in the world are dependent upon spiritual re-orientation. -- Stephen Batchelor
An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans. -- Bernie Sanders
Nursing encompasses an art, a humanistic orientation, a feeling for the value of the individual, and an intuitive sense of ethics, and of the appropriateness of action taken. -- Myrtle Aydelotte
How can you go wrong with two people in love? Goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Love is love, and there will never be too much. -- Fiona Apple
In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted. -- Anderson Cooper
I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights. I do not go into people's bedrooms. I appoint people based on their capabilities, not their sexual orientation. -- Portia Simpson-Miller
I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. -- Rick Santorum
Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation. -- Rick Perry
There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love. -- Sandra Bullock
The battle rages eternal, though the race, religion, gender or sexual orientation of those discriminated against changes regularly. Maybe man's need for a scapegoat is genetically programmed into him. -- Josh Lanyon
I want a better world, I want love and harmony amongst people no matter what color you are, what race or what background you come from or sexual orientation. -- Common
I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation. -- Ai Weiwei
No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. Unfortunately, not all humans see it that way. -- Erin Gruwell
The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man. -- Paul Virilio
I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in. -- Barack Obama
A state that houses the NCAA headquarters. Quite frankly, if Indiana doesn't say that they're going to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, the NCAA needs to move out of Indiana. -- Dannel Malloy
Freedom has been privatized - it is how you dress, what your sexual orientation is, choosing your own life. That's fine. But that is not what Thomas Jefferson was talking about. -- Eric Foner
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have. -- Billie Jean King
I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security. -- Jim Kolbe
I do not believe that the people of Ontario judge their leaders on the basis of race, sexual orientation, colour or religion. I don't believe they hold that prejudice in their hearts. -- Kathleen Wynne
Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke. -- Marianne Williamson
It's my strong belief that when people love each other and are desirous of creating a committed relationship with each other that they should be allowed to marry, regardless of their sexual orientation. -- Wendy Davis
At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time. -- Ralph Allen
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I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored. -- Betty White

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