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Participating in Eurovision felt like coming home -- Conchita Wurst
Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture. -- David Porush
Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it. -- Michel Faber
Participating in a sisterhood with other women is hugely important in my life and a source of joy. -- Christy Turlington
The main drawback, of course, was cost. Participating effectively in World Summit on the Information Society was very expensive for both developing countries and (especially) civil society. -- David Souter
Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids. -- Clint Eastwood
I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it. -- Steve Albini
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. -- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. -- Noam Chomsky
I feel like I have to be responsible for what I'm participating in or putting out into the world. -- Paul Dano
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for. -- William Westmoreland
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy. -- Glenn Beck
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. -- Angela Carter
People feel they are not participating in the decision-making process. Decisions are exclusive to those at the very top. You have grown up with crony capitalism and it creates ever more resentment. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The amount of meetings I've been in - people would be shocked. But that's how you gain experience, how you can gain knowledge, being in meetings and participating. You learn and grow. -- Tiger Woods
But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them. -- Tim Gunn
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I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate. -- Michael Nutter
For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted. -- John C. Maxwell
One of the thrills of playing at the top tennis centres of the world is to see the Indian flag go up whenever I'm participating in these events. That's enough motivation for any Indian who has the opportunity to perform at these tournaments. -- Sania Mirza
To be an artist, you don't have to compose music or paint or be in the movies or write books. It's just a way of living. It has to do with paying attention, remembering, filtering what you see and answering back, participating in life. -- Viggo Mortensen
Since I'm in the entertainment business, I think I have to hold a mirror up to myself and say, 'Am I complicit in miseducating and misinforming our youth by participating in this business, or can I use this business to re-educate and uplift?' -- Hill Harper
Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard. -- David Petraeus
When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine. -- Noam Chomsky
Many original occupiers believe the political system has become so corrupt that even participating in it, engaging with it, corrupts the movement. I understand what they are saying. But often, change does come more quickly from the inside rather than the outside. My advice: try both. But don't try violence. -- Jennifer Granholm
I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself. -- James McNerney
There needs to be some regime that is overseeing access to broadband to make sure we have openess; otherwise, there is a risk it won't be open anymore. We spent quite a bit of time with Verizon policy people in addition to participating in a multilateral discussion with the Federal Communications Commission. -- Vint Cerf
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. -- Max Weber
I wish to clarify that I have absolutely not made a decision regarding my participation in the next Olympics. On a personal level, playing in the Olympics would be a huge honour. However, the Games in Rio are still four years away and I certainly won't be making any decisions with regards to participating any time soon. -- Rory McIlroy
Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education. -- Jim Brown
I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled. -- Roseanne Barr
Life is for participating, not for spectating. -- Kathrine Switzer
If you want to end terrorism stop participating in it. -- Noam Chomsky
I barely belong to this world, but still I'm participating. -- Jaggi Vasudev
In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred. -- Fred Rogers
So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it. -- Jeffrey Tate
Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating. -- Marilyn Monroe
Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. -- James H. Cone
Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another. -- Paul Auster
Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society. -- Carl Sagan
Life is not all about accomplishment; it's all about doing, participating, progressing, growing, learning. -- Mike Hernacki
Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics. -- Vagit Alekperov
Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government. -- Gerald F. Lieberman
I like visual arts, and what I love doing is participating in the making of it. -- Sonia Braga
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate. -- Mario Vargas Llosa
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so. -- Romain Rolland
If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education. -- Julius Genachowski
I like being a part of something. I like participating and being part of a group. -- Andie MacDowell
The only way we can put a permanent end to terrorism is to stop participating in it. -- Noam Chomsky
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions. -- William James
In a lifetime of observing and participating in political debate, I have seen a lot of meanness. -- Dennis Prager
This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy. -- Rajneesh
Since all signs indicate that we shouldn't participate in this election, participating in the election has no meaning. -- Mohammad Khatami
In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience. -- John Mahoney
America has to make America become a better place for all Americans, and that`s all of us participating. -- Al Sharpton
I'm sorry I didn't have this revelation earlier. I sleep better and more soundly because I'm not participating anymore. -- Carol Leifer
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.' -- Nate Silver
You, as a food buyer, have the distinct privilege of proactively participating in shaping the world your children will inherit. -- Joel Salatin
Boycotting the referendum is a possible option ... because we believe that participating in the voting might be a useless act. -- Saleh al-Mutlaq
I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action. -- Howard Rheingold
I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle. -- Donald Tusk
By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world. -- Ai Weiwei
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me. -- Jim Butcher
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it. -- Charlie Chaplin
When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity. -- Joseph Campbell
I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone. -- George W. Bush
The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it. -- Fred Reed
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. -- Walter Jon Williams
If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating. -- Paulo Coelho
As a practical matter, every immigrant needs to master English to be a full participating citizen and to have full economic opportunity. -- Richard Lugar
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites. -- Noam Chomsky
We're outsiders, and so when we walk through the city, we're there and not there at the same time, participating and observing simultaneously. -- Paul Auster
You need to work even if it is a menial or dirty job, because every job is participating in the process of creation. -- Sunday Adelaja
The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself. -- Walter Jon Williams
And when you are entering into poetry, whatever stage you're at, you are participating in something with a very long and noble tradition. -- Edward Hirsch
Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
The number of students participating in A.P. has more than doubled in 10 years, and today almost 15,000 U.S. schools offer A.P. courses. -- Gaston Caperton
By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. -- Shigeru Yoshida
EVOLUTIONARIES is going to help create a worldview that will influence our vision ofthe future ... and also our role in consciously participating in it. -- Deepak Chopra
The principal role of the President of the United States is the security of the country and participating in trying to stabilize the world. -- John Sununu
What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. -- Will Oldham
The sharing of food is the basis of social life, and to many people it is the only kind of social life worth participating in. -- Laurie Colwin
It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy. -- Edward Abbey
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report. -- Charles Bass
In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. -- Al Franken
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. -- Erin Morgenstern
People are either driven to action or complacency, mission or rust. You're either participating in the Game of Life or you're watching it from the grandstands. -- Bruce Jenner
Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections. -- Aleksandar Hemon
According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating in other forms of enriched activities. -- Susan Polgar
In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens. -- Michael Kenny
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society -- Gordon Brown
It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment. -- Sonja Lyubomirsky
A beautiful thing happens when we start paying attention to each other. It is by participating more in your relationship that you breathe life into it. -- Steve Maraboli
A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways. -- Joan Blades
Even if they're functioning out of ignorance, they are still participating and must be suppressed. In China, even one million people can be considered a small sum. -- Deng Xiaoping
While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known as 'volvas.' -- Neil MacGregor
To be creative is to worship. To be creative is to participate in the great process of creation - and participating in creativity is participating in God. -- Rajneesh
I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world...INSIDE OUT. -- JR
I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images. -- Michael Haneke
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas. -- Bill Gates
The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers. -- Robert Mapplethorpe
He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation. -- Robert Ellsberg
This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there. -- George Takei
You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation. -- Joseph Campbell
[Maxine Waters] was kind enough to join us here at our studios in Washington, D.C., in advance of women's march in Washington in which she will be participating. -- Maxine Waters
Johnny Rotten isn't punk. Maybe that's punk to somebody, but these people are participating and challenging the corporations that are telling us what punk is and what good music is. -- Kathleen Hanna
If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality. -- Stacy London
Right now, when you go and hit the light switch in your house, you're participating in a state-protected monopoly. You're being forced to accept dirty power from a single producer. -- Van Jones
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. -- Terry Pratchett
Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction, environmental improvement, customer satisfaction, quality improvement, and safety issues. -- Stephen Covey
This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. -- John Spratt
Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution. -- David Richo
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream. -- John Malkovich
People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change. -- David Bohm
Energy use, transportation options, food choices, water use, purchasing choices, participating in elections, volunteering for nonprofits . . . and within each of these categories, each of us can learn to live a more conscious life. -- Jayni Chase

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