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		The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Henry Ward Beecher
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cheryl Ladd
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ibrahim Babangida
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's competition in every field, and that's healthy. It makes you work harder and be your best. Competition, not in terms of money or number of projects, but in the quality of your work, is very healthy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Katrina Kaif
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Religion triggers a lot of emotions in me, most of which stem from being raised Jewish in a very Baptist community in the South. I didn't believe any of it from an early age - the clubby quality of whatever religion or church you belonged to, Judaism included. It just struck me as foolish.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Cross
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary D.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karen Finerman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harmony Korine
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I became passionate about nature filmmaking when I graduated from UCLA, and one of the things I always wanted to do was shoot really high quality film, so I got into time-lapse photography - so that means when you shoot a flower, you're shooting, like, one frame every twenty minutes, so that's basically two seconds of a film per day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louie Schwartzberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Jen came first, and then they wanted to cast somebody that would... Kevin liked the idea of having a kind of The Ghost of That Character kind of haunt the movie in a way throughout, by having Raquel look so much like her. And also, it was sort of serendipity. I mean, she was also the best actress. I mean, as you can see Raquel has a pretty appealing, engaging kind of precocious, sparkly quality that's... it was just luck really that she happened to the film.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Affleck
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Iain Duncan Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul Wellstone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Rudy Giuliani did some phenomenal things in the city if you think of the transformation of the city and the quality of life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Lhota
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aldo Leopold
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brian J. White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ralph Waldo Emerson