Rating Quotes - Page 11

• I do suspect my star ratings average too high. But, of course, star ratings are ridiculous. I'm stuck with them.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Average, Ridiculous

  Interview With Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. October 4, 2011.

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• You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

  Rob Sheffield

  Caring, Thinking, Virginia

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• I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

  Dick Cheney

  War, Thinking, Two

  Dick Cheney during Vice-Presidential Debate at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Economy, Bigger

  "Turner: Murdoch is a 'warmonger'", www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2003.

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• I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

  Flip Wilson

  Years, Umpires, Numbers

  "Comedian Flip Wilson Dies at 64". Associated Press, quoting the 1971 year interview, www.bobbydarin.net. November 25, 1998.

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• Steve Jobs had something like a 90% approval rating from his employees. You hear stories about him being this short-tempered, aggressive person, which he was. But he was in the pursuit of making people around him better, so the product they created would be better.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Approval Rating, People

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• Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

  Matt Taibbi

  Agency, Together, Glue

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• We got ratings. It isn't that they won't quarrel with you, or say you're always right. But as long as you stay strong and the ratings are good and you're reasonable - I don't think we fought unreasonably. We basically won that right.

  Norman Lear

  Stay Strong, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.

  Drew Carey

  Thinking, Government, Information

  "Stand-Up Guy". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Steve Kurtz, reason.com. November 1, 1997.

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• Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

  Billie Jean King

  Home, Men, Tennis

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• With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

  Ron Fournier

  Leadership, Approval Rating, Lost

  "Why Gov. Christie Is Presidential Timber" by Ron Fournier, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

  Ron Fournier

  Summer, Forgotten, Polls

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• I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Simple, Numbers, People

  "Warning sounded on web's future" by Pallab Ghosh, news.bbc.co.uk. September 15, 2008.

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• We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

  Dave Matthews

  Giving, People, Culture

  "U.S. racism 'everywhere,' says Dave Matthews". Interview with Denise Quan, edition.cnn.com. September 21, 2009.

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• Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Wine, Judging, Giving

  "How to Decant Wine with a Blender" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.bloomberg.com. September 23, 2011.

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Thumbs

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

  Erle Stanley Gardner

  Mass, Dislike

  Erle Stanley Gardner (1968). “The case of the careless cupid”, Simon & Schuster of Canada, 1969

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• Who elected Larry King America's grief counselor? We, the viewing public, did, by driving up his ratings whenever somebody famous passes.

  James Wolcott

  Kings, Grief, America

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• The greatest development after age 21 was shown by Steinitz, who increased his rating by more than a full class interval. Steinitz was the deep student and fierce competitor to the end of his career.

  Arpad Elo

  Class, Careers, Age

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• The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Destiny, Sick, House

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• The critic is actually describing a conscious representation of their interaction with the wine, and therefore the score of rating is a property of that interaction and not the wine itself

  Jamie Goode

  Wine, Conscious, Score

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• I think that any show that doesn't have huge ratings, that's what you're always up against. Meanwhile, conversations are ongoing. Everything is running the way that things usually run, in these types of situations. I guess we'll find out, like everybody else. But, we don't fret about it because, really, it's out of our control. We can only step back and do our work, and therein lies the serenity. We're hoping for the best and just doing what we love.

  J.H. Wyman

  Running, Lying, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The fact is that the two years or so after 9/11 were a terrible time in America – a time of political exploitation and intimidation, culminating in the deliberate misleading of the nation into the invasion of Iraq. It’s probably worth pointing out that I’m not saying anything now that I wasn’t saying in real time back then, when Bush had a sky-high approval rating and any criticism was denounced as treason. And there’s nothing I’ve done in my life of which I’m more proud.

  Paul Krugman

  Real, Approval Rating, Years

  "More About the 9/11 Anniversary". krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I bet Richard Fuld doesn't have an ounce of contrition. It's just megalomania. When it's like that, you need rules to prevent catastrophe. When banks are borrowing the government's credit rating, you need rules to prevent stupid things.

  Charlie Munger

  Stupid, Government, Needs

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• My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to lose ratings and lose my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Decision

  "Kim Kardashian Really Did Open Up to Oprah About Everything!" by Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. June 17, 2012.

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