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  • I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today. -- Adolph Green
  • I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video. -- Rick Springfield
  • You need a vanguard organization in order to overcome the dangerous potential brought about by the uneven development of class militancy and class consciousness. -- Ernest Mandel
  • On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. -- Ernest Mandel
  • A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum. -- David F. Swensen
  • I love Vanguard. Sony was great too, but it was a different animal, it was so big. It's hard to get the big monster to move, unless you're right there on top of things. And you can't always be on top. -- Shawn Mullins
  • The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation. -- Clara Zetkin
  • Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram - the vanguard of our cream -- Ron Pickering
  • Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration, -- Paul Stamets
  • You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. -- Jim Carrey
  • We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook -- Steven Biko
  • Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism. -- Pope John Paul II
  • Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking. -- Ferran Adria
  • I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.' -- Andrew Wyatt
  • Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats vanguard gestures of the past minus the politics and historical context. -- Ben Lerner
  • no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses. -- Molly Ivins
  • Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people. -- Ashraf Dehghani
  • You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers. -- Carl F. H. Henry
  • Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us. -- Irena Klepfisz
  • Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
  • Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility, because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does he sustain it? Has he committed its resources to our care? His personal concern for his own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned. -- John Stott
  • The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town. -- Ishmael Reed
  • The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard. -- Chuck Schumer
  • Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration. -- Paul Stamets
  • We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed. -- H. Rap Brown
  • India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability. -- Samantha Power
  • Terrorists regard themselves as a vanguard. They're trying to mobilize others to their cause. I mean, every specialist on terrorism knows that. -- Noam Chomsky
  • Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard. -- Gary Hamel
  • Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. -- Ernest Mandel
  • Only the Communist Party, as the institution that brings together the revolutionary vanguard and will always guarantee the unity of Cubans, can be the worthy heir of the trust deposited by the people in their leader. -- Raul Castro
  • During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches' for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions. -- Martin Filler
  • Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom -- Pema Chodron
  • Attitude ... is the vanguard of your true self. -- John C. Maxwell
  • The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being. -- Martin Heidegger
  • ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally. -- Michele Flournoy
  • She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believe. The city would soon follow her lead. -- Tommy McMahon
  • We're in the vanguard of a nameless battle, a battle without arms or bloodshed or glory: we're in the vanguard of waiting. -- Marguerite Duras
  • Yet the proletariat has not only a vanguard, but also a rearguard, and besides the proletariat there are the peasantry and the bureaucracy. -- Leon Trotsky
  • When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most. -- Wendell Phillips
  • A party is the vanguard of a class, and its duty is to lead the masses and not merely to reflect the average political level of the masses. -- Vladimir Lenin
  • When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse. -- Hannah Arendt
  • I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a vanguard logic that pressures art to incorporate the quotient of risk. -- Rachel Kushner
  • The only conclusion I could arrive at with the death of the workers' movement as a revolutionary force - you know the imagery of the proletarian vanguard, or proletarian hegemony - has been the community. -- Murray Bookchin
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