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Quotes About Supporting

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.
~ Stieg Larsson
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
~ Thabo Mbeki
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.
~ Robert Scheer
I've spent a lot of time encouraging, corralling, protecting, and sparring with creative people.
~ Kevin Reilly
Spending only what the country can afford, rewarding savings, encouraging independence, supporting marriage: people know that these things are common sense.
~ William Hague
laissez-faire system works if every country agrees to it. Many governments, especially in Asia, were deeply involved in supporting their chip industries.
~ Chris Miller
10 minutes, dozens of "doses" of therapeutic repetition are possible. This reality suggests that progress will be quicker if parents, teachers, and therapists all work together to form a consistent therapeutic web supporting positive change.
~ Cathy A. Malchiodi
Putin has made a habit of supporting far-right candidates who undermine his foes in Europe; perhaps he never could have imagined such a character taking root on American soil. Trump's reasons for aligning with Putin have been more innocent, if no less dangerous.
~ Franklin Foer
One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.
~ Thabo Mbeki
It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story.
~ Nick Hornby
Ken didn't die for your benefit, you know. It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the flm of your life story. Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?
~ Nick Hornby
It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the film of your life story. Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?
~ Nick Hornby
What are hands made for but this? For holding. for holding on.
~ James Patterson
Unfortunately, considering that we Latinos are really big for movie companies when they have blockbuster releases or new cable shows, when it comes to the dynamic of supporting our own product, it leaves much to be desired.
~ Jimmy Smits
Supporting and publicising the campaigns of smaller unions pressures bosses to accept workers' demands.
~ Dawn Foster
Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a small fraction of their income from higher fees for this purpose.
~ Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who is fond of the phrase, has gone so far as to claim that free-trade treaties are so good that supporting them doesn't require knowledge of their actual contents. "I wrote a column supporting the CAFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Initiative," he told Tim Russert in 2006. "I didn't even know what was in it. I just knew two words: free trade."11
~ Thomas Frank
the strength of government does not consist of anything within itself, but in the attachment of a nation, and the interest which a people feel in supporting it.
~ Thomas Paine
Though in a plan of which justice and humanity are the foundation principles, interest ought not to be admitted into the calculation, yet it is always of advantage to the establishment of any plan to show that it is beneficial as a matter of interest. The success of any proposed plan submitted to public consideration must finally depend on the numbers interested in supporting it, united with the justice of its principles.
~ Thomas Paine
Maximus envisages a naturally lasting cosmos as the supporting ground for all supernatural divinization.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
~ Harry Seidler
My approach to the work is the same, whether I had the lead or a supporting role. I consider myself a character actor in the true sense of the word. Unless I'm doing my autobiography, I'm playing a character.
~ Ving Rhames
I've had a great luxury in my career in that I became a very successful songwriter, which made it unnecessary for me to have to just consistently crank out albums and run off on tour for the sake of supporting myself.
~ Eric Carmen
We have a piano in this house that exists solely for the purpose of supporting her photograph.
~ Chris Lynch