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What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.
When World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, there was no truly effective treatment for what was almost always a deadly disease.
Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.
I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
A music teacher. It was in the inner city at a school called Horace Mann. I think I was most effective when the kids pissed me off.
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.
Thanks to our friends at the dot-ME Registry, WordPress is able to offer one of the shortest and most effective URLs available today.
Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
Being fundamentally decent and honest and willing to put others before yourself - that's necessary for being an effective policymaker.
Laws matter. With effective implementation and enforcement, good laws can nudge forward positive changes in social and cultural mores.
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
A big goal of the liberal Democrats in Congress is to try to do away with any effective cooperation to enforce federal immigration laws.
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
The creative capacity of the private sector should be harnessed to develop new and more effective ways to deliver humanitarian solutions.
Obama's pop-cultural focus may seem demeaning to the office of the presidency. It may be mockable. But it is also tremendously effective.
I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.
When we take care of ourselves, we are more effective, we are more creative, and we are more successful in a broad definition of the word.
When I was teaching English and trying to get kids passionate about reading, the most effective weapon I had was 'The Martian Chronicles.'
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
The point I wanted to make was, as we have moved forward on the war on terrorism, FISA has been increasingly effective in terms of results.
We should look for ways to expedite generic drug approvals, particularly for products that have a long history of being safe and effective.
I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense.
We mislead ourselves when we pretend we can make someone into an effective manager by putting them through a few courses in business school.
Saddam Hussein was an odious dictator, but he was also a very effective opponent of Iran. He was also a very effective opponent of al-Qaida.
Not only is it possible to do lean startup in federal government, but it's the most effective way to drive change in the federal government.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Business is usually a team sport. There isn't one great person sitting there directing things. You can't run an effective business like that.
In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.
If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.
As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
Modern, effective leadership means moving beyond the 'grand illusion' to engage the mass population and to align business with societal goals.
Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.
My concept of hitting the ground running and being an effective legislator is to focus on my district and having really good constituent work.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
All of our schools should be good enough to attract a healthy racial mix, which, I believe, leads to the most effective learning for everybody.
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.
Year-end goals are terrific! Affirmations with goals are even better! And goals, affirmations, along with visualization is even more effective!
The Leave side can only win if we have an effective ground campaign comprising of activists from across the political spectrum working together.
The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
My mother was the strong wife, partner, and co-worker Martin Luther King, Jr. needed to be an effective leader, and he said so on many occasions.
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.
The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side's claims.
If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your own party.
It's the individual effort of everybody working together towards a collective goal that causes real, effective change in America and in the world.