W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
Umberto Eco -
It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
The stratosphere is a hostile place.
Felix Baumgartner -
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
Saint Augustine -
I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
Daniel Curtis Lee -
I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.
Warren Spector
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Mr. President, prime ministers, let us have ambitions: ambitions to move beyond the violence and occupation, to the day when two states, Palestine and Israel, can live together side by side in peace and security.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.
Felicity Jones -
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
Ian Anderson -
I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.
Nancy Reagan -
I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Dan Quisenberry
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
Gavin Newsom -
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
Rafael Correa -
In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
Omar Bongo -
I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Nathan Kress -
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Abraham Maslow
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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
David Harewood -
The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
Barton Gellman -
A lawyer from Africa wants to marry Malia Obama in exchange for goats, sheep, and cows. In response, President Obama said, 'Don't be ridiculous. My daughter isn't marrying a lawyer.'
Conan O'Brien -
As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
Tananarive Due -
It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.
Daniel Radcliffe -
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming