William Falconer Quotes

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Details

• We have to stop the propaganda, the shameful propaganda used by Kremlin to rehabilitate these old types.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Stop
  • Old
  • Propaganda

• I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

  

  Pat Buckley
  • God
  • Nature
  • Environment

• You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • You
  • Everything
  • Impact

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Future
  • Confidence

• I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • History
  • Technology
  • Film

• Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Good
  • Me

• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Hand

• Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today - and longed for them tomorrow.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Time
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• If Obama's enormous symbolic power draws primarily from being the country's first black president, it also draws from his membership in hip-hop's foundational generation.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
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  • Black

• If it doesn't have that element to it, it doesn't really attract me.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Element
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• It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Pretty
  • Enough
  • Crosses

• I think sexiness in most people - and this is going to sound superficial - is definitely something you don't plan.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Plan
  • Sexiness

• I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Development
  • Bigger
  • Fatness

• Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Fear
  • Person
  • Vocabulary

• There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Inspiration
  • California
  • Group

• There is a lot of wisdom in selling off some subscribers because it just eases that regulatory question. This hastens the time when there is real competition in local phone.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Question
  • Wisdom
  • Selling

• If 20,000 people start to sing, you tend to go along with it.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • People
  • Start
  • Sing

• When it comes to physicians there is a common thread that is a major barrier to solving our concerns. We are divided. The result is a divide and conquer scenario, in which we negotiate as adversaries, first with government and then with one another about our relative worth, while the conqueror observes and continues to rule.

  

  Brian Day
  • Government
  • Physicians
  • Concerns

• If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.

  

  Andrew Gelman
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• The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

  

  William Falconer
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