Approach Quotes - Page 2

• The way I approach the character isn't about being gay or straight. It's just about who you love. Gender has very little to do with it.

  Mia Kirshner

  Character, Gay, Littles

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• I always approach comedy roles pretending they aren't funny.

  Brendan Fraser

  Roles, Comedy, Pretending

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

  Kim Campbell

  Government, Years, Effort

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• Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Art, Reality, Perfection

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.255

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• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  Gale Norton

  Air, Years, Pollution Control

  Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

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• I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing.

  Luc Ferrari

  Character, Thinking, Way

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• You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches.

  Ken Burns

  Years, Six, Blind

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• I think that various styles and methods and approaches are an invention of people who don't understand the process of acting and who try very hard to label things.

  Ben Kingsley

  Thinking, People, Style

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• There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

  Marvin Minsky

  Three, Cases, Reasoning

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• My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

  John Frusciante

  Synthesizers, Changed, Whole

  Interview with Evan C Chase, www.scenepointblank.com. October 16, 2010.

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• Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

  John Yoo

  Use, Permit, Conventions

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• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  Samuel de Champlain

  Men, People, Savages

  Samuel de Champlain (1907). “Voyages of Samuel de Champlain 1604-1618: With a Map and Two Plans”

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• Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Confused, Men, Temples

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• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

  Selfish, Writing, Mean

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• We approach closer and closer to socialism.

  B. Carroll Reece

  Eugenics, Socialism

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• We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach.

  Margaret Spellings

  Education, Might, Sophisticated

  "Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings". "PBS NewsHour" with Ray Suarez, www.pbs.org. April 7, 2005.

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• When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

  Michael Winterbottom

  Hate, People, Film

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• How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

  Vernor Vinge

  Views, World, Spread

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Clever, Humility, Skulls

  "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.

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• For me, every day is a new thing. I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did. And I get the sweats. I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. If I knew where I was going I wouldn't do it.

  Frank Gehry

  Motivational, Work, Sweat

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Stars, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

  Indra Nooyi

  Inspirational, Business, Thinking

  "How Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi Learned To Be A CEO". Interview with Gary Burnison, www.fastcompany.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Sometimes it happens that a man's circle of horizon becomes smaller and smaller, and as the radius approaches zero it concentrates on one point. And then that becomes his point of view.

  David Hilbert

  Sad, Zero, Men

  "Hilbert - Courant". Book by Constance Reid, p. 104, 1984.

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• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

  David Suzuki

  Responsibility, Reality, Social

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