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• It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade.

  Russell Baker

  Writing, Self Confidence, Arrogance

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• There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

  Bertrand Russell

  Simple, Thinking, Long

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.37, Routledge

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• I will watch a movie that is quote unquote dark and not get the qualification of what is dark and what is not.

  Will Ferrell

  Dark, Watches

  "Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly On Set Interview - STEP BROTHERS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 29, 2008.

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• I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

  Simon Cowell

  School, Three, Levels

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• We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Judging

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• Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

  Alastair Campbell

  Happiness, Thinking, Down And

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• It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.

  Harold Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

  Randy Barnett

  Justice, Doubt, President

  "BUSH DEFENDS MIERS FROM HIS OWN / THE SUPREME COURT IN TRANSITION / President's supporters rush to attack nominee as a crony lacking record and intellectual depth" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 5, 2005.

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• We need a movement that says in a highly competitive global economy all of our kids who have the ability, the qualifications and the desire, will be able to get a college education regardless of income because we will make public colleges and universities tuition free.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, College, Desire

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• I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.

  Guido Palau

  Art, School, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, People, Office

  N.Y. Herald Tribune, 8 Jan. 1932

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• A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

  Winston Churchill

  Hopeful, Prophet, Disposition

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

  Matthias B. Tallmadge

  Character, Office, Voting

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• Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

  Charles Hodge

  Sea, Giving, Church

  Charles Hodge (1855). “What is Presbyterianism?: An Address Delivered Before the Presbyterian Historical Society at Their Anniversary Meeting in Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, May 1, 1855”, p.38

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• I consider being a performer work. I come from a theater family; I've been an actor all my life. I started acting when I was a kid, and I've earned a living as an artist all my life. It's my job in the sense that it's everything I am, the only thing I know how to do. I literally do not have qualifications to do anything else on this planet. Seriously, it's scary. [But] I don't consider it a job [because] it's my religion - it's my faith, it's my family, it's everything to me.

  Torquil Campbell

  Jobs, Kids, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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