Crucial Quotes - Page 3

• The crucial ingredient in the success of any brand is its claim to authenticity.

  Al Ries

  Ingredients, Authenticity, Claims

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• I love playing in America. I feel having been there a few times that I "get" America a lot more than I used to. It used to be so strange to me. It takes years to learn how to separate the actual, major, important differences from the superficial differences that aren't essential or crucial.

  Dylan Moran

  Years, Differences, America

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

  Simeon Rice

  Team, Loss, Player

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• Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first
  lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the
  crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash
  equilibrium.

  Scott Aaronson

  Firsts, Humbling Experiences, Equilibrium

  "Malthusianisms". www.scottaaronson.com. August 15, 2009.

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• The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

  Michelle Malkin

  Benefits, Care, Unions

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• At every other workplace in the nation - even Mal-Mart! - workers are being laid off. But no one at any of the bloated government bureaucracies ever need fear receiving a pink slip. All 64,750 employees at the department of Health and Human Services are apparently absolutely crucial to the smooth functioning of the department.

  Ann Coulter

  Government, Receiving, Needs

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• "Airgela" is "Alegria" backwards and "Alegria" means "Joy" or "Happiness." This is a fundamental word in this film. It's very important. Symbolically "Alegria" is crucial word in the creation of this project. Although it wasn't present from the beginning, as we were working on the music it became symbolic.

  Alex Abreu

  Mean, Joy, Important

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's easy to identify many investment managers with great recent records. But past results, though important, do not suffice when prospective performance is being judged. How the record has been achieved is crucial.

  Warren Buffett

  Past, Important, Records

  Warren Buffett's 2010 annual letter to the shareholders of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, February 26, 2011.

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• In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Life, Family

  "Nelson Mandela's personal letters reveal guilt, anguish and marital spats". www.news.com.au. December 6, 2013.

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• The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything ... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Media

  WBAI Radio Interview, January 1992.

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• In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Technology, Government

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• I think that's pretty crucial for it to succeed and be something more than just something you put your kid in front of and turn on the DVD. We wouldn't have got involved if it were just for little kids. We wanted to write something that works on both levels.

  John Francis Daley

  Writing, Kids, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• It is crucial to have a strategy in place before problems hit, precisely because no one can accurately predict the future direction of the stock market or economy. Value investing, the strategy of buying stocks at an appreciable discount from the value of the underlying businesses, is one strategy that provides a road map to successfully navigate not only through good times but also through turmoil.

  Seth Klarman

  Investing, Maps, Buying

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• Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.

  Joshua Bell

  Player, Musician, Oboes

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• The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?

  Walter E. Williams

  Intention, Policy, Effects

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• Racial profiling punishes innocent individuals for the past actions of those who look and sound like them. It misdirects crucial resources and undercuts the trust needed between law enforcement and the communities they serve. It has no place in our national discourse, and no place in our nation's police departments.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Past, Law, Community

  "No Country for 'Black Teens'" by Benjamin Jealous, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2013.

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• What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality.

  Maxine Greene

  Opportunity, Ethnicity, America

  Maxine Greene (1995). “Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change”, Jossey-Bass

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• Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

  Bell Hooks

  Struggle, People, Mind

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• The key to making the inspections work is the Iraqi government making the crucial decision that because of the international pressure Iraq has to disarm itself.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Keys, Government, Iraq

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• What is crucial to your survival as a race is not the redistribution of power and wealth within the prison but rather the destruction of the prison itself.

  Daniel Quinn

  Race, Survival, Prison

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• Careful, intelligent listening is a crucial step on the road to organizational success.

  Subir Chowdhury

  Leadership, Intelligent, Listening

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• Discipline — both mental and physical — is crucial.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Discipline

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• As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

  Robert Wise

  Work, Important, Needs

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• We are told dogmatically that Evolution is an established fact; but we are never told who has established it, and by what means. We are told, often enough, that the doctrine is founded upon evidence, and that indeed this evidence is henceforward above all verification, as well as being immune from any subsequent contradiction by experience; but we are left entirely in the dark on the crucial question wherein, precisely, this evidence consists.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Mean, Dark, Doctrine

  Dr. Wolfgang Smith (2015). “Teilhardism And The New Religion: A Thorough Analysis of the Teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin”, p.13, TAN Books

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• The challenge of preventing any further proliferation of nuclear weapons is just such a trial in the quest for world peace, one that cannot be achieved if we are defeated by a sense of helplessness. The crucial element is to ensure that any struggle against evil is rooted firmly in a consciousness of the unity of the human family, something only gained through the mastery of our own inner contradictions.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Struggle, Evil, Challenges

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