Accurate Quotes - Page 27

• The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate.

  Anne Nicol Gaylor

  God We Trust, Unconstitutional

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• Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Practice, Giving

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• How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

  Albert Bandura

  Children, Information, Matter

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm

  Albert Bandura

  Successful, Irreparable Harm, People

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• I get nervous when I do print interviews because I know that whatever I say is going to be shown through the lens of whomever I'm talking to. So I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

  Emma Stone

  Thinking, Talking, Personality

  Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 19, 2012.

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• It's not possible to present an accurate picture of our culture without all the voices of the people in the culture. So at the emerging level, you can't have a good survey art show without women and artists of color.

  Frida Kahlo

  Art, Color, Voice

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• ... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.

  Brenda Ueland

  Oil, Pie, Boxing

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Wall, Long, Investing

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• With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate.

  Barack Obama

  Important, Way, Like You

  President Obama's news conference on the Affordable Care Act, www.washingtonpost.com. November 14, 2013.

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• My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Hands

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• Borat shows American stereotypes of Eastern Europe but it's an accurate depiction of what a certain type of American is. They think they can buy and sell these girls and then they get bought and sold.

  Eli Roth

  Girl, Thinking, Europe

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

  Richard Ayoade

  Actors, Instinct, Very Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I realized with Funny or Die is that I could take it into my own hands. On a much smaller scale, I think these videos are an accurate representation of who I am. As weird as they may be, I'm at least proud of them, and it showed that I do have a slightly different voice. I can't tell you how often people bring up these videos in interviews, and I'm so happy to talk about them because we created them from the ground up.

  Dave Franco

  Thinking, Who I Am, Hands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'

  David McCullough

  Past, Wind, Two

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I'm not the only taxpayer who has no idea what he's sending to the IRS. This year, only 28 percent of all Americans will prepare their own tax returns, according to a voice in my head that invents accurate-sounding statistics.

  Dave Barry

  Years, Ideas, Voice

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• The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes are often used to disguise the third.

  P. J. Plauger

  Stupid, Two, Digital

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• God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate.

  John Kasich

  Looks

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• The way I portrayed the people is accurate. Because they're human beings and we have a kind of wonderful capacity to be absurd and ridiculous.

  Jon Ronson

  People, Way, Ridiculous

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• I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Believe, Commitment, Truthful

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• Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

  Paul Emsley

  Photography, Today, Easier

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• With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Observation, Situation, Qualifications

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.23

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• The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth.

  Patrick Dixon

  Data, Marketing, Information

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.95, Profile Books

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• Women are not in control of their bodies; nature is. Ancient mythology, with its sinister archetypes of vampire and Gorgon, is more accurate than feminism about the power and terror of female sexuality.

  Camille Paglia

  Vampire, Feminism, Female

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.30, Vintage

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• In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.

  Aristotle

  People, Appreciate, Addresses

  Aristotle (1857). “Treatise on Rhetoric: Literally Translated from the Greek”, p.8

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