Disservice Quotes - Page 5

• I think that the candidates who are doing it [not debating] are doing a great disservice to the party. It`s a sign of an unhealthy institution.

  Chris Matthews

  Party, Thinking, Institutions

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The Berkshire-style investors tend to be less diversified than other people. The academics have done a terrible disservice to intelligent investors by glorifying the idea of diversification. Because I just think the whole concept is literally almost insane. It emphasizes feeling good about not having your investment results depart very much from average investment results. But why would you get on the bandwagon like that if somebody didn't make you with a whip and a gun?

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Gun, Intelligent

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• I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done.

  Paul Haggis

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

  Alan Moore

  Ideas, Fabulous, Breathtaking

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• Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

  Alan Moore

  Black, Magic, Mind

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• If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.

  Moby

  Architecture, Enough, Generic

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• Even your most talented employees have room for growth in some area, and you're doing your employee a disservice if the sum of your review is: 'You're great!' No matter how talented the employee, think of ways he could grow towards the position he might want to hold two, five, or 10 years down the line.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Thinking, Years, Two

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• Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice.

  Alton Brown

  Soccer, Kids, Play

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• One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.

  Jesse H. Jones

  Men, Debt, Owing

  The New York Times Magazine, p. 4, July 2, 1939.

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• There are a lot of people out there who lie about their age and I think it does us all a disservice. It can't all be over when you hit 30. That would be rubbish.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Lying, Thinking, People

  "Question time: Sophie Ellis-Bextor". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2009.

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• The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. As Feminists for Life-what we're trying to do is support women, and so what we want to do is-reach women on campus-college campuses so that, when they get pregnant, they can find housing. They can find money they need to stay in school.

  Patricia Heaton

  School, College, Pro Life

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• If you want more people to come to the theatre, don't put the prices at £50. You have to make theatre inclusive, and at the moment the prices are exclusive. Putting TV stars in plays just to get people in is wrong. You have to have the right people in the right parts. Stunt casting and being gimmicky does the theatre a great disservice. You have to lure people by getting them excited about a theatrical experience.

  Catherine Tate

  Stars, Play, People

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• It’s such a fun job, and it can be silly and light and about making people laugh. I think I was doing it a disservice by thinking it’s not something ultimately important. I always was saying, ‘I’m not saving lives; I’m not a brain surgeon.’ And that’s true—I’m not saving anyone from any life-threatening illnesses. But I get to tell stories, and that’s a pretty important task.

  Emma Stone

  Jobs, Fun, Silly

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• We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

  Marjorie Garber

  Real, Doe, Culture

  Marjorie Garber (2011). “The Use and Abuse of Literature”, p.30, Vintage

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• I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticize their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Regret, Patriotic

  Woodrow Wilson (1983). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.

  Bonnie Baker

  Song, Believe, Writing

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• We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami

  Mary Landrieu

  Children, Believe, Would Be

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• And yet, those who speak loudly and call anyone who disagrees with them a wimp often do a disservice to the cause they are promoting.

  Marvin Olasky

  Wimps, Causes, Speak

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• We do a disservice to society if we ignore the evidence which shows that stable families tend to be associated with better outcomes for children.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Outcomes, Evidence

  "Marriage ruined by Hello! idea of weddings - Iain Duncan Smith" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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