Jean-Francois Lyotard Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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If a decision-making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry.
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
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The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
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The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.
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It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
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Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
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The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.
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I'm a Libra. That means that I can make a decision, but only after much thought.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
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I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
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One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing.
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Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.
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It'll be fun, obviously. But I'm really competing against the Indianapolis defense. It'll be exciting and something you always remember because it's the first time we'll ever compete against each other.
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I talk by playing, not by words.
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The ruling class is and will continue to be the class of decision makers.
