Checks Quotes - Page 26

• We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

  John Osborne

  Death, Dying, Too Much

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• I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is good because of a check and a balance. What I believe happens all too often, regardless of which party is there's gridlock. And I think the better argument is give one party a chance, give them a chance with a House and a Senate and a president. Give them a few years to see what they can do. And if you don't like it, put another party in.

  Scott Walker

  Believe, Party, Thinking

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• I have no life! People always ask me, "What time do you check in and out?" But, the truth is, you never really check out. I have an office at my house, so when I go home I am always pulling inspiration and putting ideas together.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Inspiration, Home, Ideas

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• If I see a movie for the first time on DVD, I watch it all the way through, the lights are down, I don't pick up the phone. The third or fourth time you see a movie, sometimes you just have them on and you check in every once in a while with things that you liked. I think it's a different expectations from that environment.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Phones, Light

  "EXCLUSIVE: David Fincher Talks Zodiac: Director's Cut". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 7, 2008.

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• I've done movies in the past that have so many characters and I find it's very hard to follow all these stories. You end up not caring about any of the people and I thought that would be the case in this film, and you had these big speeches for each character, you know, it's like "God that's how you'll have to cut that down in order to paste it all", to edit the movie and my representatives could say "no, you really you ought to check it out.

  Jeff Bridges

  Character, Caring, Cutting

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Particularly, the actors, to have analyzed the script in great detail from the point of view of their specific character. So that they have a handle on exactly where the character is in the chronology of things. In that sense the actors become your best check on the logic of the piece, and the way in which it all fits together. They become essential collaborators. The main thing is you have to work with very smart actors.

  Christopher Nolan

  Smart, Character, Views

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think it's something that the citizenry needs to be vigilant about - participating in democracy, and that includes issues like what's going on and how much secrecy and transparency there should be. That's an on-going thing - in a democracy you want checks and balances and oversight, but you need a covert agency to protect the country. It's a very tricky balance and I think it changes as the world changes and I think we all need to be mindful of that.

  Matt Damon

  Country, Thinking, Issues

  "The Good Shepherd - Matt Damon interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I come from a state that has virtually no gun control. And yet, at political peril, I voted for an instant background check, which I want to see strengthened and expanded. I voted to ban certain types of assault weapons which are designed only to kill people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Gun, Assault Weapons, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The instrumental record is a bit subtler. It's the kind of stuff on sound check, when I first pick up my violin and start to play, the kind of melodies that just pour out of me. Some of them sound very classical. Some of them sound experimental, polyrhythmic loops that I make.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Sound, Records

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be kind and help other people move forward. Check your jealousy, which is always present, and the threat of the younger generation coming forward as they must do.

  Jeanine Tesori

  Moving, Helping Others, People

  "Composer Jeanine Tesori on Her Artistic Process and Rewarding Female Ambition". Interview with Victoria Myers, www.indiewire.com. March 27, 2015.

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• Basically, I want people to feel feelings. It's too easy to go through this world being told to keep our emotions in check, as if they inhibit us in some way or another.

  Hannah Fidell

  People, Feelings, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Unfortunately hip-hop is so competitive that in order for fringe groups to get in, you gotta be better than whoever's the best. So before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.

  Talib Kweli

  Rapper, Order, Ideas

  "Talib Kweli Stands His Ground". Interview with AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check. I fondled it for about five minutes and then sent it back. I told her I couldn't accept money from strangers.

  Alan Abel

  Animal, California, Santa Barbara

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Player, Judging, Balance

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• We are still a nation of laws. You just have to check with Barack Obama every day to see what they are.

  Ted Cruz

  Law, Barack, Stills

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• When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

  Doyle Brunson

  People, Cards, Credit

  "Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Tells His Story (Part 2)". Interview with Nolan Dalla, www.pokerschoolonline.com. May, 2003.

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  It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Should

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they will tyrannize over the few. It ought to be in the hands of both, and be separated...they will need a mutual check. This check is a monarch.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Hands, Needs

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress”, p.413

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• A good rule in organizational analysis is that no meeting of the minds is really reached until we talk of specific actions or decisions. We can talk of who is responsible for budgets, or inventory, or quality, but little is settled. It is only when we get down to the action words-measure, compute, prepare, check, endorse, recommend, approve-that we can make clear who is to do what.

  Joseph M. Juran

  Decision, Mind, Quality

  Joseph M. Juran (1964). “Managerial breakthrough: a new concept of the manager's job”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Children need love and discipline. They need mothers and fathers. A welfare check is not a husband. The state is not a father.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mother, Husband, Children

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1993). “See, I Told You So”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

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• I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.

  Charles Rangel

  Mother, Brother, Patriotic

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• It's actually a good thing if you do reference checks on somebody and half the people you call say they are a micromanager and the other half say they actually give me a lot of responsibility. That's a feature not a bug.

  Keith Rabois

  Responsibility, People, Giving

  "Lecture 14: How to Operate" by Keith Rabois, genius.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Nobody looks good bent over. Especially to pick up a check.

  Frank Zappa

  Looks, Bent, Picks

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• Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

  Dale Carnegie

  Mistake, Progress, Lessons

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Win Friends and Influence People”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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