Reports Quotes - Page 38

• It's very difficult for governments to dominate the Internet because it's so difficult to control. People want to be free. People want to hear multiple voices. They want to make their own decisions. And people who see things will report things.

  Eric Schmidt

  Government, Voice, People

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• In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.

  Will Self

  Past, Order, Years

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• I love getting consumer reports. I think it's one of my favourite things, studying what people have to say about the product and then trying to make it better.

  Maria Sharapova

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• The only thing I'm addicted to is winning. This bootleg cult, arrogantly referred to as Alcoholics Anonymous, reports a 5 percent success rate. My success rate is 100 percent.

  Charlie Sheen

  Winning, Alcoholics Anonymous, Warlocks

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• The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.

  Charlie Sheen

  News, Bread, Paramedics

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• Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Kids, Ideas, Trying

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  If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  America, Choices, Would Be

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• Had Rumsfeld said at any time 'get me a report on what's going on', he could have had it. You're right, it depends on choices that we make, which parts of the world we want to be in immediate contact with.

  Peter Singer

  Choices, World, Want

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

  Steven Spielberg

  Creating, Minorities, Faster

  "Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ Delayed Indefinitely 70". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.

  Ben Stein

  Reading, Writing, Fighting

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• All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

  Dan Stevens

  School, Age, School Reports

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

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• The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.

  Linda Tripp

  Loyalty, Party, Firsts

  "Linda Tripp on 'Larry King Live'". www.cnn.com. February 9, 2001.

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• I saw a report yesterday. There’s so much oil, all over the world, they don’t know where to dump it. And Saudi Arabia says, "Oh, there’s too much oil." They -- they came back yesterday. Did you see the report? They want to reduce oil production. Do you think they’re our friends? They’re not our friends.

  Donald Trump

  Thinking, Oil, Yesterday

  "Donald Trump's Solution on Gas Prices: Take Iraqi Oil Fields". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnewsradioonline.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

  Bill Vaughan

  Funny, Money, Educational

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• The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.

  Jesse Ventura

  Decision, News, Facts

  "Jesse Ventura Slams The Media For Creating News Instead Of Reporting On It". Interview with Piers Morgan, crooksandliars.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Recently I danced in a video spoof of the song 'Gangnam Style,' and it was quickly banned across multiple Chinese online video platforms. But the story still traveled all over the world, carried in hundreds of international media reports.

  Ai Weiwei

  Song, Media, Style

  "Ai Weiwei: Despite flaws, America should be proud" by Ai Weiwei, www.cnn.com. November 6, 2012.

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• In the US, the 50s and 60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering televison journalist Edward R Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck, produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme Hunger in America.

  Naomi Wolf

  Good Night, Goodnight, Good Luck

  "Smugglers of truth" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2009.

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• I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

  Bob Woodward

  College, Names, Stories

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• I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me - to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That's normally how I perform. That's how I am.

  Steven Wright

  Teacher, School, Class

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• I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.

  Thom Yorke

  Taken, Giving, Parent

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• One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Media, House, Wikileaks

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• As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured. —New York, Sept. 26, 2007

  George W. Bush

  New York, Yesterday, Dumb

  "Bush Defends No Child Left Behind: “Childrens Do Learn”". Interview with Peter Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Look, you know i don't wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn't make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious/.

  Bob Dylan

  Ungrateful, Looks, Toronto

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• A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

  Jane Austen

  Two, Two Days

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.309

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