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Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

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• I know that there are going to be people that don't like my music, but I think in the industry itself it is always that, 'Oh. you're from the 'X Factor.' There have been certain radio stations that will not play your song because you are from the 'X Factor,' yet they'll play another song from an artist from another TV show.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Music
  • Song

• Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Work
  • America
  • Team

• If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Great
  • Black

• I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Believe
  • You
  • Kind

• What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Freedom
  • Attention
  • Holocaust

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Sad
  • About
  • Turning

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Music
  • Film
  • Something

• Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Passion
  • Youth

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Home
  • Change
  • Year

• Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Women
  • Common
  • Citizenship

• No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Good
  • Actor
  • Say

• The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • War
  • Man
  • Creative

• I think that a lot of the most talented and driven people, they're not super deterred by failure. So if you put out a really big challenge, I think they get reality excited by that - they say, 'Hey, why not, let's go give it a shot, and if we fall short on that, at least we took a shot at doing something really important and meaningful.'

  

  Ben Silbermann
  • People
  • Important
  • Why

• I worry because I care. Gods help me, I know I shouldn't, but I do. So I will always tell you to be careful, because I will always care what happens.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Worry
  • Happens
  • Gods

• I love working with women.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Women
  • Love
  • Working

• And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Wind
  • Sound
  • Lasts

• Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel.

  

  Jamais Cascio
  • Future
  • Wind