Reports Quotes - Page 37

• In spite of reports about playing with various teams, I'm enjoying retirement with my family and have no plans to play football.

  Brett Favre

  Football, Retirement, Team

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• I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the fence are like, 'Well, what about this economy? What about these incidents?' There are still no answers except time, but time is the answer for everything.

  Lupe Fiasco

  People, Cards, Answers

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• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  Carly Fiorina

  Thinking, Agency, Internet

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• I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

  Greg Kinnear

  Earth, Faces, Wanted

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• The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Humorous, Doctors

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• I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Character, People

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Laura Linney

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for.

  Stephen F. Lynch

  Mexican, Democracy, Mexico

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• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  Harold MacMillan

  Numbers, Comfort, Facts

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• I fully expect to be able to complete one more campaign goal - and that is to proudly report that signs have been erected as you enter our great state that say 'Welcome to Wild, Wonderful West Virginia: Open for Business!'

  Joe Manchin

  Virginia, Goal, Campaigns

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• The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

  Susana Martinez

  Race, Ethnicity, Should Have

  "Susana Martínez Tells Police to Check Immigration Status in New Mexico". The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. February 01, 2011.

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• Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.

  Groucho Marx

  Running, Children, Years

  Duck Soup (motion picture) (1933). Screenplay by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

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• The media tends to report rumors, speculations, and projections as facts... How does the media do this? By quoting some 'expert'... you can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.

  Peter McWilliams

  Media, Rumor, Facts

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• Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

  Jon Meacham

  Inspiration, Independent, Assessment

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• It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

  John Mellencamp

  Responsibility, Media, News

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• I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

  Thomas Menino

  Years, Best Year, Proud

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• When an attacker fails with one person, they often go to another person. The key is to report the attack to other departments. Workers should know to act like they are going along with what the hacker wants and take copious notes so the company will know what the hacker is trying to find.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Keys, Trying, Want

  "Q & A / Kevin Mitnick / Ex-hacker shares secrets of deception / Mitnick says 'social engineers' play big role in cyber attacks". Interview With Verne Kopytoff, www.sfgate.com. October 28, 2002.

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• As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.

  Nursultan Nazarbayev

  Lying, Community, Experts

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• But if you - if what - the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

  Barack Obama

  Health, People, Cost

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• When I heard about the Microsoft Kinect, though, I felt an urgency rising in me. A game you played without touching any machinery? A chance to wave your hands around, Minority-Report style, and move things around on a screen? This sounded like almost too much fun, with gadget-y pizzazz that sounded astonishing.

  Susan Orlean

  Fun, Moving, Hands

  "Connected" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I've come to recognize what I call my 'inside interests.' Telling stories. And helping people tell their stories is a sort of interpersonal gardening. My work at NBC News was to report the news, but in hindsight, I often tried to look for some insight to share that might spark a moment of recognition in a viewer.

  Jane Pauley

  Nbc, People, Gardening

  "Jane Pauley tackles reinvention". The SecondAct Interview, blogs.reuters.com. August 16, 2011.

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• Written reports stifle creativity.

  Ross Perot

  Creativity, Economy, Written

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• To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.

  Petrarch

  Men, Evil, Utterance

  Epistola ad Posteros [Letter to Posterity] in "Petrarch : The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters" by James Harvey Robinson and Henry Winchester Rolfe, (p. 59), 1898.

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• First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Firsts, Building

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• Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

  Bob Schieffer

  Thinking, Decision, Boss

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