Quality Quotes
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The opportunity to continue to play such a significant role on behalf of Petrobras in the Campos Basin and Espirito Santos regions is extremely gratifying. It is heartening to see that the quality of our service and engineering expertise has contributed to the positive working relationship we share with Petrobras.
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I'm aware more than I was before I had books published that any review is a bit arbitrary - it's not really, say, 'The New York Times' that's authoritatively weighing in on the quality of a book, though it seems this way to the public.
Curtis Sittenfeld
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This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these last three centuries the country has been torn by internal dissension and religious wars and has been subjected to a variety of foreign influences, to the influence, for example, of Christianity-for Christianity is not a natural religion for the Germans, but a religion that has been imported and which strikes no responsive chord in their hearts and is foreign to the inherent genius of the race. (13th February 1945)
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Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.
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One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.
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Bad language coarsens the whole quality of our life. It normalises harsh, often indecent language, which despoils our communication.
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Since my first encounter with Kafka's writing, I've been interested in a quality that, while he was alive, stood in the way of his achieving a large reputation: his allegory.
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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
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By giving every American access to quality, affordable health care, they will create a more competitive, a stronger and more secure America!
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Howard Marks is very intelligent and well read, eloquent, witty, charming. I think it was those qualities that got him through. I was interested to explore that because generally, we perceive criminals as dark, twisted, angry characters. Howard isn't any of those. He was punished for his crime, released from prison, and has lived to tell the tale.
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The quality of the article should be its greatest achievement.
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My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience.
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We need to draw up a regime where government can be an enabler for manufacturing to compete at good quality and prices.
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My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.
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The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
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I think it's very difficult to make any single, generalized statements about the press, of course the press is such varied character and quality and to the different media and so on, so a generalization is very difficult.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.
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It's not just getting a goal that matters, but the quality of life you experience along the way.
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While I've spent a lot of quality time with my children, perhaps it's not been enough.
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The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.
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I feel very lucky. The older I get, the more I see how random everything is, the luckier I feel to have been born into this context; the more responsible I feel to be the best that I can be as a person and as a professional. That was a quality... of the men on my father's side of the family.
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I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting.
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Everybody cares about not only quality and functionality, but they also want the power of choice, whether it's a small vehicle or a large vehicle.
