W. Edwards Deming Quotes
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Quotes to Explore
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Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.
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As far as an actor-director connection, I think those can develop, and when they do, they're really great, and you just cultivate it like you would any relationship or friendship. If you find that something special, it helps down the line when you want to do more projects with each other.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I watched a lot of soap operas like 'General Hospital' and 'Days Of Our Lives.' When it came to movies, my parents were quite strict. They would watch 'Flash Dance' but wouldn't let us see the whole film because Jennifer Beals' character was a stripper. It was so funny when I finally saw the whole film. I thought she was a ballerina!
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I'm a 'Lost' guy, I love 'Lost.'
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I started out doing something little. I went to Africa to spend five weeks putting roofs on a building. I seen the small child that stepped on a land mine. Three months later, I'm back helping pull the land mines out. Little things just kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
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All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.
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We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
