Rating Quotes - Page 3

• Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

  Mark Zandi

  Would Be, Debt, World

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• The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, World, Influence

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

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• Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, Television Commercials, Engineering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

  John Cena

  Mean, Wwe, Confusing

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• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

  John Avlon

  Country, Reality, Self

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• Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.

  George Osborne

  Cutting, Political, Pace

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• Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

  Julie Chen

  Jobs, Winning, Race

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• L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, Office, Important

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• When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Finding Yourself, Different, Television

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

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• Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor.

  Newt Gingrich

  Running, Office, President

  Newt Gingrich at GOP Primary debate at Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, New Hampshire, www.washingtonpost.com. January 8, 2012.

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• I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Girl, Love Is, Men

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• I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

  Oren Peli

  Office, Waiting, Attention

  "‘Paranormal Activity’ Director Oren Peli Talks About Creating the New ABC Show ‘The River’" by Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

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• So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Mother, Country, Successful

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• Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Would Be, Problem, Shows

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• I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Government, Ohio

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• Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

  Brit Hume

  Dollars, Down And, Way

  "PBS NewHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Loss, Consumers, Unthinkable

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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• Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

  John Engler

  Michigan, Credit, States

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

  P. Chidambaram

  Agency, Views, People

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• Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

  Jonathan Swift

  Kind, Pedantry

  Jonathan Swift (1857). “The works of Dean Swift: comprising A tale of a tub, The battle of the books, with thoughts and essays on various subjects, together with The Dean's advice to a young lady on her marriage”, p.268

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• The president's [Donald Trump] approval rating is much higher than the media's approval rating and Congress' approval rating, for that matter.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Approval Rating, Media, President

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.

  Van Jones

  Reality, Tvs, Villain

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, Eight

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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