Performance Quotes
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This phenomenal performance is a result of Microsoft's long-term commitment to investment in research and development and focus on developing compelling, innovative products that can emerge as leaders.
Bob Herbold
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The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was like watching a boxing match. Her performance was so in your face and electrifying that it really put you right there in the moment. There you were living your nice little life in the suburbs and suddenly there was this train wreck, and it was Janis.
Chrissie Hynde
Pretenders
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I always wanted to give people the more exciting version of what I think a comedian should be - because I didn't grow up with comics, I grew up with rock 'n' roll. And when I saw a lot of comics, no matter how good they might have been material-wise, I would get a little bored with them after 10 minutes, only because I feel comedians don't really know performance.
Andrew Dice Clay
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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
Tony Abbott
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During any performance, I love to connect with the crowd and hope fans leave my show feeling happy.
Dinah Jane
Fifth Harmony
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I'd been used to this idea of destructive performance art instead of a slick, good-sounding show. So, I became frustrated as I felt I'd been doing the shows wrong. That sucked.
EMA
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Physical attraction was about aesthetics, not sexual performance, not mental stimulation. Without a mental connection, a remarkable sexual performance yielded no lifelong guarantees. It was only lust. And lust was not love.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
Bob Lewis
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael Jackson
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But I tell you I was very proud of them, because they took it with such great class. Both of them. They said, 'We are not judges, we've done our best.' And it was a fabulous performance, and I am told that in Canada they had a strong reaction, and even in the United States.
Jean Chretien
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When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.
Abraham Lincoln
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When you're doing the same scene over and over, all day long, you need to keep your levels up for your own performance and for the other actors.
Iwan Rheon
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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica Bellucci
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You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'
Epictetus
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The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.
Phil Jackson
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I'd do anything to get a performance, short of malice.
Sean Penn
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It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.
Eva Moskowitz
