W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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'Twilight' fans are different. They're very civil with one another. It's a respect because they're all in this together and they all appreciate the same things.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out.
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London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
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Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'
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It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.
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The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
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In college, the guys aren't worrying about whether they'll be able to pursue their career dreams and still have kids.
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Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.
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Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
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When you come to 'Shark Tank,' the only person you should listen to is me, because you know you're getting the truth. I'll decide if it's worth it, and after I'm finished, the rest of the people can look into it.
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I aim my movies, as much as I can, at myself. I think that those movies have an interesting quality. They're very movieish. They are movie movies. Like I think Watchmen is a very self-aware movie. 300. Dawn of the Dead definitely. That's really where I've ended up.
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What is the variation trying to tell us about a process, about the people in the process?
