Patricia Ireland Quotes

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

Patricia Ireland

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• With network, shows are pulled half the time after three episodes whether they're good or they're not good. It's a numbers game. With cable, they can take a lot more liberties.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • High
  • Security
  • Numbers

• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Now
  • Talking
  • Numbers

• I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Baseball
  • Fame
  • Numbers

• The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Awareness
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Doing
  • Down
  • Numbers

• I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.

  

  Garth Stein
  • Hate
  • Numbers
  • Chapter

• Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Learned
  • Birthdays
  • Boyhood

• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • History
  • Victim
  • Both

• It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.

  

  J. F. C. Fuller
  • Men
  • War
  • True

• I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Business
  • Know
  • Numbers

• Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Marriage
  • Divorce
  • View

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of parallel stimulants: NBA playoff statistics on ESPN.com, a flight home on Expedia, a new flirtation on Facebook.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Home
  • College
  • Statistics

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Important
  • Most
  • Victim

• If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Different
  • Feel

• If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • People
  • War
  • Together

• The minute there's a map, there is no art. Paint by numbers is not art. Paint by numbers is a mechanical activity.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art
  • Numbers
  • Paint

• There's so much there to cultivate an opportunity to change the mindset of how players think, in terms of not lending their power over to just anyone. I've been a victim of that, and it's difficult to rebound from.

  

  Eddie George
  • Power
  • Opportunity
  • Players

• It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Process
  • Sound
  • Numbers

• There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Passion

• The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Numbers
  • Victim
  • Statistics