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.Thomas R. Marshall
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. Taylor -
I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy.
Jack Brickhouse -
My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
When A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
H. L. Mencken -
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.
Linda Ronstadt -
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
Wayne Thiebaud
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All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.
Alan Rickman -
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.
Chuck Klosterman -
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.
Phil Jackson -
I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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 ..
Joe Elliott Def Leppard -
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.
Robert Wyatt
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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.
Uzodinma Iweala -
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
Dean Williams -
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.
Debra Monroe -
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry.
Wyatt Earp -
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.
William Cecil Dampier -
I like to be fragile. I like that. I try to be close to that energy and sensibility.
Romain Duris
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
Samuel Johnson -
I always feel like there's something magic in recording studios. There's a reason good music continues to be made in them. It's just some mojo element.
Rick Rubin -
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama -
The difficulty in working with someone on a show like Idol or X Factor is they have an idea of what they think is cool in their heads, and it's important as a producer to maintain control of the session and not let it get side-tracked or chase too many rabbits. But it's also important to let the artist feel like their opinion matters, so that balance is difficult.
Ryan Tedder OneRepublic -
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.
Thomas R. Marshall