Dividing Quotes

I wrote the album during a time of extreme polarization in America. There was a war happening and it was dividing families. I realized the party that I was working for had lost but that we still had to come forward together as a nation. You can`t be a sore loser. Hence the album title Have a Nice Day". What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I`ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. And I`ve never quite known what motivates politicians. Do they really believe in the cause that strongly or is it just the pursuit of power? I once flew on a plane with Bill Clinton and a reporter asked whose job was better, mine or the President`s? I said that mine was, because I get to keep the plane and the house."

The musical, Hair, was at the time very smart because it got to that basic element of this dividing line in society... which was hair.

Well, T Bone`s had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all - By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall (The Liberty Song)

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.

The inevitable result was the balance of power, the arms race, the dividing up of the world into rival alliances, and ultimately, war.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content.

If everyone in the group is a stakeholder, you`re dividing that money in shares a lot more different ways. If you have one artist and a bunch of hired dancers, vocalists, and musicians, they`re getting paid salary, and it becomes a profitable venture sooner, in most cases, with a solo artist.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.