Arbitrary Quotes - Page 7

• I don't believe that Freedom of Information laws, which have arbitrary time periods or broad blanket exemptions, meet the level of transparency that society needs today.

  Chelsea Manning

  Believe, Law, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

  Roxane Gay

  Worthy, Knows, Worthiness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

  Billy Eichner

  Fun, Awards, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Building on the public's unwillingness to act on principle in support of market solutions to apparent problems, whether real or imagined, these interest groups secure arbitrary restrictions on voluntary exchanges and, in the process, secure rents for their members while reducing both the liberties and economic well being of other members of the economic nexus, both domestically and internationally.

  James M. Buchanan

  Philosophy, Real, Political

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• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW Government's proposed anti-terrorism bill was necessarily unconstitutional - that was sloppy journalism - I said that executive detention may raise constitutional problems if it is seen to be arbitrary as being an invasion of the judicial function.

  George Brandis

  Government, May, Invasion

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

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• If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

  H. H. Asquith

  Strong, Fighting, Men

  Statement to House of Commons: Declaration of War with Germany, August 4, 1914.

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• It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very similar, the smartass attitude, the environmental battles. Kids love books that are irreverent and challenge authority, when authority is arbitrary, greedy or foolish. They also love it when you make fun of grownups, and I've spent my whole life as a writer doing that.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Fun, Attitude, Book

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 07, 2016.

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• There's an arbitrary idea that the horizontal edge in a frame has to be the point of reference.

  Garry Winogrand

  Ideas, Horizontal, Edges

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise.

  T. J. Rodgers

  Running, Hurt, Organization

  "Cypress CEO Responds to Nun's Urging a 'Politically Correct' Board Make-up" by T. J. Rodgers, www.cypress.com. May 24, 2012.

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• I also think the more experienced you get as an actor, you start to hear the conversations about why people get cast and not cast, sometimes it's so arbitrary. They decided the moment you walked in the door. And there's nothing you could have done to sway them, even if you'd the greatest performance of all time.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Thinking, Doors, People

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There are people who are anxious about immigration for reasons that are perfectly sensible. They think it's uncontrolled. They think it's, therefore, arbitrary in its consequences, and there are some communities affected much more deeply than others.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, People, Community

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• We made the song a big part of the story [Sausage Party ] itself, in that it's kind of their prayer that they say every morning, because we found that just to have an arbitrary song felt too unrealistic within the reality of our talking food movie.

  Seth Rogen

  Song, Morning, Prayer

  Source: munchies.vice.com

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• The starting point and the ending point are nothing but two arbitrary choices. You make them as in soccer games, where they chose that it's 90 minutes, not less and not more. But the choices are the responsibility of the filmmaker. You have to choose to join the story at an arbitrary point, and you leave it at an arbitrary point.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Soccer, Responsibility, Games

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also think some of the greatest classics of theater have elements of SF, but in theater, as in publishing, sometimes people make arbitrary distinctions.

  Edward Einhorn

  Thinking, People, Elements

  Source: www.tor.com

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• There were two main points I wanted to get across in Valentine, the first being that yes, Valentine's Day is an arbitrary day, but why would you not take that excuse to celebrate love? The second point. . .since it is just an arbitrary day. . .why not treat every day like Valentine's Day?

  Kina Grannis

  Valentine, Two, Firsts

  "Rising Star: Kina Grannis". Interview, www.seventeen.com. July 14, 2010.

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• I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Demand, Facts, Pivotal Moments

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• It is a very bad idea for governments to create arbitrary and unfair outcomes, or outcomes resulting from the passions and whims of the government rather than from the law, just because they have the power to do so.

  Paul Singer

  Passion, Government, Law

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• You must put the essence of what you want to say into a painting. The rest is arbitrary. Chosen with discernment, but chosen, and choice involves elimination.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Essence, Choices, Want

  Louise Bourgeois (1998). “Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923-1997”

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• Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Taken, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• When our thoughts look real, we live in a world of suffering. When they look subjective, we live in a world of choice. When they look arbitrary, we live in a world of possibility. And when we see them as illusory, we wake up inside a world of dreams.

  Michael Neill

  Dream, Real, Choices

  Michael Neill (2013). “The Inside-out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever”, p.40, Hay House, Inc

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• Such as are betrayed by their easy nature to be ordinary security for their friends leave so little to themselves, as their liberty remains ever after arbitrary at the will of others; experience having recorded many, whom their fathers had left elbowroom enough, that by suretyship have expired in a dungeon.

  Frances Osborne

  Father, Liberty, Ordinary

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• If you think success is about so many more things and is so much more arbitrary, then you can be much more open to the idea that you can be Ben Fountain and publish your great book at forty-nine.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

  Edward Jenks

  Law, Kind, Contracts

  Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”

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• I learned in the last few years that it's really unhappy and really unsustainable to try and base your well being on something as arbitrary as record sale and critical acclaim and the interests of the public. All of those things are so fickle. So my approach now to music is I want to make records that I love, and I hope that other people love them, then that's OK.

  Moby

  Years, People, Unhappy

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