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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
Chris Smith
Silence
Fear
Political
Sense
Approval
Only
Void
Fail
Leaders
Particular
Wrongdoing
Vulnerability
Enables
Climate
Least
Demoralizing
Anti-Semitic
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I mean, it's pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.
Christopher Cross
You
Walk
Fire
Congress
Everybody
Approval
Pretty
Percent
Rating
Feel
Democrat
Sort
Want
Whether
Republican
Board
Mean
Us
Across
Helpless
Now
Right
Thirteen
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
Dan Burton
Justice
King
Lost
Same Thing
Congress
President
Approval
Percent
Guy
Rating
He
Like
Involved
Him
Does
Got
His
Dictatorial
Department
Same
Want
Happen
Justice Department
Acting
Your
Dad
Thing
Auditions are very strange - you're there to win, to seek approval. They never get easier, but I did realise that you're there voluntarily, after all.
Darren Boyd
You
Strange
Win
Approval
Easier
Seek
Never
Voluntarily
Auditions
Very
Get
Did
After
Realise
Speaking from experience, because I have three daughters, I think it's always important to give your daughter the confidence that she needs so that she won't look elsewhere for approval and feeling love and acceptance.
David Charvet
Love
Needs
Confidence
Acceptance
Experience
Three
Daughter
Feeling
Important
Think
Elsewhere
Approval
Give
Daughters
Look
She
Because
Always
Your
Speaking
President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.
David Letterman
War
Become
Hell
Thinking
President
President Bush
Approval
UN
He
Voters
Well
Does
Said
Wage
American
Either
Bush
Need
You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.
Dawn Steel
Life
You
People
Free
Other
Approval
Until
Wanting
Getting the approval of Ric Flair is the wrestling world's version of Johnny Carson calling you over to the desk after you just crushed a standup set on 'The Tonight Show.'
Dolph Ziggler
You
World
Crushed
Approval
Wrestling
Johnny
Johnny Carson
Over
Calling
Version
Flair
Getting
Just
After
Show
Standup
Tonight
Set
Tonight Show
Desk
I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.
Ellen DeGeneres
Approval
Release
Rip
Small
Longer
Until
Off
Patch
Where
Crave
Gonna
Then
Now
Right
It is in the province of home and society that woman has fashioned the customs. Here, women's approval and disapproval, wishes and wants, have been quite as formative and reformative as the action of the sea on the mainland.
Ellen Key
Home
Woman
Women
Action
Society
Approval
Disapproval
Wishes
Been
Province
Quite
Wants
Formative
Customs
Sea
Here
Actors are almost conditioned to get their director's approval. 'I just did my song and dance, boss. What did you think?' Actors are infantilized so much.
Eric Johnson
You
Director
Song
Dance
Think
Approval
Boss
Song And Dance
Almost
Conditioned
Get
Did
Just
Much
Actor
I am an approval junkie.
Faith Salie
Approval
Am
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.
Franz Grillparzer
Women
Men
Men And Women
Complete
Meets
Approval
Latter
Admire
Only
Fact
Main
Generally
Main Reason
Abstraction
Make
Judgments
Aesthetic
Different
Incapable
Reason
Why
There's something called CEQA in California - NEPA at the federal level. There's indigenous lands and autonomies relating to governance on those lands. There are all kinds of obstructions as it relates to just getting zoning approval and getting building permits.
Gavin Newsom
Building
Relates
Relating
Approval
Those
Kinds
Indigenous
Something
Federal
Federal Level
California
Permits
Governance
Getting
Just
Lands
Level
Zoning
I didn't grow up thinking to myself, 'Someday, if I play all my cards right, I can end up in a public institution with a lower approval rating than attorneys.'
George Brauchler
Myself
Thinking
Approval
Someday
Rating
Institution
Attorneys
End
Up
Than
Public
Lower
Grow
Grow Up
Play
Right
Cards
This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.
Glen Hansard
Life
Good
Great
Musicians
Feeling
Enough
Valid
Approval
Out
Somehow
Something
Weird
Weird Thing
Feeling Good
Makes
Got
Going
Being
Your
Therefore
Thing
I'm fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.
Glenn Gould
You
Creative
Yourself
People
Approval
Output
Disapproval
Around
Isolate
Happens
Fascinated
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Hans Selye
Approval
Dread
Condemnation
Much
Thirst
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
Henry Miller
Best
Defeat
Approval
Seek
Something
Beyond
Powers
Known
His
Friends
Trying
Useless
Moments
I can assure you that everything I say and do has the complete approval of the Fuehrer and that I would not say or do anything that does not have his approval.
Hjalmar Schacht
You
Assure
Complete
Everything
Approval
Say
Would
Does
His
Anything
Fuehrer
He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
Horace
Pleasant
Everyone
Approval
He
Gains
Useful
Who
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting South America, that little gentleman is the president of all the history of the United States, and in the history of the United States, he has the lowest level of approval in his own country.
Hugo Chavez
History
Political
Country
Gentleman
Own
President
Approval
States
Visiting
He
George
His
South
George W
South America
George W. Bush
North
North America
America
The History Of
Little
Bush
Lowest
United
United States
Level
One month, two months, I am ready to accept any accord on this point that has the approval of the inspectors.
Jacques Chirac
Approval
Month
Months
Point
Accept
Ready
Am
Accord
Any
Two
Most women experience issues of power and sexuality, but very few women talk about it. There's the threat of the loss of approval.
Janet Fitch
Women
Experience
Power
Few
Approval
Sexuality
Threat
About
Most
Talk
Issues
Loss
Very
Few Women
The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model.
Jasmine Guy
Family
Church
State
Approval
Heterosexual
Approve
Seldom
Model
Anything
Aspire
Nuclear
Need
We cannot watch another family lose everything - risking their lives and the lives of the first responders sent to rescue them - because the flood insurance program's seal of government approval fooled them into thinking they were safe. That's more than wrong: it's immoral.
Jeb Hensarling
Government
Family
Responders
First
Lose
Thinking
Everything
Approval
We Cannot
Immoral
More
Risking
Fooled
Wrong
Safe
Another
Because
Insurance
Were
Than
Cannot
Sent
Them
Rescue
Seal
Flood
Lives
Watch
Program
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