Thomas R. Marshall Quotes
I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
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My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
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When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
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Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.
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An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
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Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
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There's going to be games like that, games that are going to be up there (offensively), especially with the accuracy on three-pointers that they did tonight.
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I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
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Goodbye Pete Willis, hello Phil Collen. We decided to try to do something that no other rock band had tried before - blueprint "Sgt. Pepper". A period in time when we allowed our Pop sensibility to come to the fore ... and guess what? Our first major success...huge in the U.S. ... but nowhere else ..
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Because I'm associated with an avant-garde sensibility, people think I'm looking down on popular culture, but I don't want to be part of a new elitism.
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D.C. is in my blood, my diction, my sensibility and style. I am, though, in love with a city that cannot fully love me back.
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Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
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Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
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Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
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It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.
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I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.
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All the old bogeys of 'dignified subject-matter,' of 'balanced compositions,' of 'correct drawing' were laid to rest. The artist was responsible to no one but his own sensibilities for what he painted and how he painted it.
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There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.
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You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself.
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If somebody honks a horn in Cleveland, they're saying 'Hi.' It's so rare to be honked at in anger. When we have merging traffic, we just interweave. There's real courtesy.
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I know, I know, I know. So I flipped out!
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I make no pretense to accuracy. I shall be quite content if the sensibilities of no one are wounded by anything I may reduce to type.
