Excellent Quotes - Page 37

• I purchased excellent and beautiful horses, visited all such neighbors as I found in congenial spirits, and was as happy as happy could be.

  John James Audubon

  Beautiful, Horse, Spirit

  John James Audubon, Christoph Irmscher (1999). “Writings and drawings”

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• If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters still respond to fear. Obama's campaign has been based on the implicit argument that voters no longer respond to fear. If Clinton wins both states, that probably proves Obama wrong on that point.

  Cynthia Tucker

  Winning, Campaigns, Voters

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• The American middle class, it seems to me, is looking to politicians now to satisfy a pretty basic - and urgent - level of need. Yet people in the upper middle class - with their excellent health benefits, schools, salaries, retirement plans, nannies and private afterschool programs - have journeyed so far from that level of need that, it often seems to me, they literally cannot hear what resonates with the middle class. That creates a problematic blind spot for those who write, edit or produce what comes to be known about our politicians and their policies.

  Judith Warner

  Retirement, Writing, School

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• This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Teacher, Mind, Doe

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom, Philip Schaff (1899). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: St. Chrysostom: Homilies on the Acts of the apostles and the Epistle to the Romans”

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• No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film." We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made. But there are financial and technical aspects which go along with it, that should be addressed and acknowledged, including those minorities who are doing excellent work as well.

  Melvin Van Peebles

  Excellent Work, People, Lenses

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.

  Henry Rosovsky

  School, Imagination, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab prizes, once again, are part of the context of life in the Arab world - anarchy, confusion, and corruption.

  Hassan Blasim

  Imagination, Confusion, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that we need, we try to make it ourselves out of whatever is available, whether that's rock or wood or ore or DNA.

  Annalee Newitz

  Rocks, Dna, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel to that there's been a revolution in boutique audio companies making excellent gear.

  John Vanderslice

  Art, Gears, Audio

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't like being preachy. I think using fun and humor is an excellent way to make people think.

  Princess Superstar

  Fun, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always have SK-II face masks in the fridge - they are excellent especially if you've been on a plane and your skin is puffy. I also love Rodin face oil with jasmine - it's delicious and gives you a real glow. I always use Chanel eye cream. I go to have my eyebrows waxed and lashes tinted, and then I always curl my eyelashes.

  Cat Deeley

  Real, Eye, Oil

  "Cat Deeley: Water babe! The presenter shares her beauty secrets on the set of an amazing underwater photoshoot". Interview with Toni Jones, www.dailymail.co.uk. December 27, 2012.

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• "Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.

  Kenneth Turan

  Stars, Shopping, Feet

  "'Joy' Sinks Into A Morass As Its Protagonist Faces Irritating Obstacles". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 25, 2015.

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• As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Directors, Actors, Brilliant

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• In ordinary life, the phenomenology of embodied emotions is an excellent example for dynamic changes between transparency and opacity: You can "directly perceive" that your wife is cheating you, or you can become aware of the possibility that maybe it is you who has a problem, that your "immediate" emotional representation of social reality might actually be a misrepresentation.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Cheating, Reality, Emotional

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.

  Paul Lansky

  Jobs, Twenties, Academic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We got a lot of excellent people and businesses from Bear and WaMu. But Bear definitely was more painful. WaMu got us into Florida, California, and other states, which was a huge benefit - to expand and grow and add middle-market, private banking, investment banking, and other products, too.

  Jamie Dimon

  Florida, California, People

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• I think that you're very aware that you're shooting a 3D film for a movie that's beloved to the fan community, and that it's going to be on people's radar, and that you have to be excellent. I think it evolved over time how epic it has become. The first time we went to Comic-Con after we finished shooting I went, "oh my goodness, oh my goodness!"

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Thinking, Epic, People

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• If you want to go put on a bathrobe and go walk down the street, excellent. I think it's more about trying to get an individual style than trying to get a uniform look.

  Ian Astbury

  Thinking, Style, Trying

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• With two years till the nomination, both [Joe] Biden and [Hillary] Clinton are positioning themselves to be the Democratic nominee. And are they stressing their experience, their ideas, their excellent hair? No. They've been talking about their poverty.

  Peter Sagal

  Stress, Hair, Talking

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• When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Writing, Thinking, Focus And Concentration

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• Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

  Cherise Sinclair

  Weapons, Logic, Employed

  Cherise Sinclair (2013). “If Only”, p.363, VanScoy Publishing Group

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• Our laws and institutions are excellent, but the population is not yet ready. They must develop their views and need to be provided with the right information. We now also have private broadcasters and many are very critical of me, hostile even, yet they operate freely.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Law, Views, Information

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think he would have had any trouble answering Justice Sonia Sotomayor's excellent challenge in a case involving GPS surveillance. She said we need an alternative to this whole way of thinking about the privacy now which says that when you give data to a third party, you have no expectations of privacy. And [Louis] Brandeis would have said nonsense, of course you have expectations of privacy because it's intellectual privacy that has to be protected. That's my attempt to channel him on some of those privacy questions.

  Jeffrey Rosen

  Party, Thinking, Data

  "What Would Brandeis Do?". "Amicus" with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 16, 2016.

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• It was a very excellent day over there at HBO/Cinemax when they bought 'Powers' . I felt like I graduated television college, because they make amazing television. The person who said yes to Veep said yes to us, which made me feel very good about myself for five seconds. Which my self-loathing doesn't usually allow me to feel. Even I could not say that that wasn't a fun day.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Fun, College, Hbo

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown to the Attica Historical Society, who enthusiastically responded to it and read it at one of their annual meetings resulting in an article in the local newspaper about this excellent paper being presented. As I now look back at it, I think of that as being really my first book and did indicate that I did have interest in research.

  Paul Smith

  Book, Thinking, Being Real

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