Performances Quotes - Page 23

• Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

  DMX

  Giving, Percent

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• Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

  Ray Dalio

  Running, Baseball, Home

  "Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Hedge Fund Has A Brand New iPad App" by Julia La Roche, www.businessinsider.com. June 14, 2012.

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• I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  School, Kids, Class

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• So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

  Isadora Duncan

  Marriage, Firsts, Matrimony

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• The performances that I love are ones like Gena Rowlands in 'A Woman Under the Influence,' where women are allowed to be messy and imperfect. It's that kind of woman that has always inspired me to seek roles that are a little out of the box. I just haven't always had the opportunity to do them.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Opportunity, Roles, Littles

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• I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.

  James Dyson

  Dog, Children, Smell

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• You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Effort, Gears, Should

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• I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Actors, Individual, Great Success

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• The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

  Arthur Erickson

  Spiritual, Impact, Space

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• I really am a theater person. That means you put something out there, and you let it go. Tomorrow night is a new performance.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Mean, Night, Let It Go

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

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• I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

  Renee Fleming

  Third Person, Thirds, Persons

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• Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

  Robert Fripp

  Everyday, Musician, Timing

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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Queens

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• If CEO compensation was performance-driven, which I believe it was in IBM's case, nobody would ever argue. If the shareholders didn't make billions and billions of dollars, I wouldn't make millions of dollars. My salary was the same for 10 years. It was all performance-based.

  Lou Gerstner

  Believe, Years, Salary

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• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Impact, Profound, Achievement

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• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

  Learning, Judging, Criticism

  Edward Gibbon (1969). “Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard”

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• To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.

  Jim Gibbons

  Government, Dollars, Bonus

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• If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Years, Different

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• I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cities

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• I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.

  Ashley Greene

  Country, Touch Someone, Pieces

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• When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

  Dave Grohl

  Different, Tape, Way

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• Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

  Taylor Hackford

  Devil, Looks, Incredibles

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

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• I just try to touch people's hearts in a way through skating, so they're not just witnessing a performance, they're feeling a performance and they're a part of it.

  Scott Hamilton

  Sports, Heart, People

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• We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

  Ben Harper

  Crops, Shows, Cream Of The Crop

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