Format Quotes

• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

  William Pollard

  People, Decision, Benefits

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• Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Mistake, Party

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• The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

  Steve Ballmer

  Ipods, Drm, Common

  "Love DRM or my family starves: why Steve Ballmer doesn't Get It" by John Lettice, www.theregister.co.uk. October 7, 2004.

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• How do we think beyond interruptive ad formats, and do things that are much more integrated, much more innovative, and actually empower the viewer and give them a better product experience?

  James Murdoch

  Thinking, Giving, Empowering

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• The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

  Graham Nelson

  Fiction, Fundamentals, Way

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• If I didn't have to worry about money, I would be doing the same thing I'm doing now. Additionally, I would maintain other creative outlets -- glassblowing and woodworking. I would operate a salon-format venue geared towards deviation; a destabilization of the audience/rock star dynamic.

  Jean Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Worry

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• If one party is trusting, it is very easy during sex for the other party to format someone, to put thoughts in their mind, to jam their consciousness or attention, to lower their energy or just take power from them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sex, Party, Mind

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• The reason a person is in a particular state of mind is primarily because of attraction and aversion. Attraction and aversion cause us to format a mental or intellectual program.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Intellectual, Mind

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• The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Littles, Tiny, Hinduism

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• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  Lydia Lunch

  Beautiful, Lunch, Female

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• I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

  Christopher Nolan

  Great Love, Likes, Source

  "No 'Dark Knight' 3D" by Devid Germain, www.salon.com. July 17, 2012.

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• Bizarrely funny... Rarely is a documentary as well attuned to its subject as Howard Brookner's BURROUGHS, which captures as much about the life, work and sensibility of its subject as its 86 minute format allows.

  Janet Maslin

  Documentaries, Minutes, Capture

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• I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. You never see yourself as others do but I've always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.

  George Jones

  Country, Heart, People

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• I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

  Ian MacKaye

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

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• The Singapore Media Festival brings together the most important Film and TV events in Singapore under one umbrella. With media convergence, I foresee that the SMF will encompass even more content formats in future, and will keep Singapore on the cutting-edge of media development. I am confident the SMF will be a signature media event for Singapore and the world for many years to come.

  Calvin Cheng

  Cutting, Years, Media

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• Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.

  George Carlin

  Book, Writing, Eight

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• Composition, the aim of which is expression, alters itself according to the surface to be covered. If I take a sheet of paper of given dimensions, I will jot down a drawing which will have a necessary relation to its format.

  Henri Matisse

  Drawing, Expression, Dimensions

  "Artists on Art - from the 14th - 20th centuries". Book edited by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves; Pantheon Books, London, p. 410, 'Notes d'un Peintre' (Notes of a Painter), 1972.

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• The quilt format is highly appropriate for repetition and serialization. Formal issues of balance and color, space and light in landscape are endlessly engaging. I try to use the medium to its maximum, pushing well beyond tradition.

  Elizabeth Barton

  Quilts, Color, Issues

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• American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

  Alia Shawkat

  Running, Years, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• Honestly, one-hour drama is the hardest format there is. I think it's harder than movies, and it's harder than half-hour comedy.

  Alexis Denisof

  Drama, Thinking, Half

  Source: collider.com

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• If you look at any successful skit comedy show, ever, there is that format of introducing you to the player in the beginning, and then going on to see those sketches.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Successful, Player, Looks

  "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me.

  Chris Noth

  Order, Years, Law

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

  Mark Mothersbaugh

  Father, Book, Kids

  "Mark Mothersbaugh Revisits His Literary Roots" by Danielle Wiener-Bronner, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 05, 2012.

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• Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.

  Saffron Burrows

  Hands, Years, Nuts

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• I have to tell you, TV is an incredibly difficult medium. The most challenging show to do is the hour long dramedy. It's a very tricky format.

  Candace Bushnell

  Long, Challenges, Tvs

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