Strict Quotes - Page 11

• I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

  Charles Ferguson

  Needs, Favors, Regulation

  Interview with Ed Rampell, progressive.org. November 28, 2011.

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• And Grandmother Hall really imagines that she can raise Eleanor and her two brothers differently than these children were raised. And if she is very strict and everything is very regimented and ordered and disciplined, that they will become the perfect children who her own children did not become.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Brother, Children, Grandmother

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

  Judy Blundell

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• I love good food but I follow strict rules the days I perform.

  Jose Carreras

  Good Food, Strict Rules

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• I think how strict my mother's home could be with my mom and my stepfather, there was a fluidity and freedom in my dad's existence that I enjoyed when I was around him, though the responsibility was just different. He expected me to carry myself a certain way without all the rules and confines.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Anna Paquin is one 'tough cookie'". Interview With Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. May 30, 2011.

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• Generosity should begin lightly and deepen later, fro when it is first rich and then lessens, people forget the kindness. Authority should begin strictly and loosen up later, for if it is loose first and then strict, people will resent the severity.

  Zicheng Hong

  Kindness, People, Generosity

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• My parents were incredibly strict, almost military style.

  John Leguizamo

  Military, Parent, Style

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• In the British military system, there is a very strict chain of command. Americans just want to win, and the correct strategy may be to speak directly to the men.

  Scott Raab

  Military, Winning, Men

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Wanting people to listen, you can't just tap them on the shoulder anymore. You have to hit them with a sledgehammer, and then you'll notice you've got their strict attention.

  Kevin Spacey

  People, Doe, Attention

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• In fundamental theory socialism and democracy are almost if not quite one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals. Limits of wisdom and convenience to the public control there may be: limits of principle there are, upon strict analysis, none.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Destiny, Men, Rights

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1968). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• In dealing with good people one should be magnanimous; in dealing with bad people one should be strict. In dealing with average people one should combine magnanimity and strictness.

  Zicheng Hong

  Average, People, Taoism

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• I think that there's etiquette for every means of communication. People are very judgmental and have strict rules. I don't think you should end a relationship with a Post-it note. I know some people who get offended when an e-mail is sent as a "thank you" note instead of a hand-written card.

  Debra Messing

  Communication, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I always think its easier for me to write without thinking about the strict meter that's required for songs and song structures and things like that. It's much easier to just write on the page.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

  John Marshall

  Justice, Democracy, Adherence

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• I'm not so sure that I am a reductionist in the strict type-identity sense. The issues here are messy. But I certainly a reductionist in the more general sense which is opposed to eliminativism and dualism.

  David Papineau

  Issues, Identity, Type

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I think that there are non-physical laws all right: genuine (if not strict) laws written in the language of biology, economics, and so on. But I don't regard that as a contentious issue. Even reductionists about chemistry will think that there are special chemical laws whose formulation makes essential use of chemical terminology.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Law, Issues

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Let's say for instance people say, "He's a really totalitarian, strict guy, he's hard to work with or whatever." I don't think it's true, but people's perception of me leads that direction, like I'm a fundamentalist person. I end up having to spend extra time saying, "I'm not a fundamentalist." I have other stuff to do.

  Ian MacKaye

  Thinking, Extra Time, People

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I intend Deaths in Venice to contribute both to literary criticism and to philosophy. But it's not "strict philosophy" in the sense of arguing for specific theses. As I remark, there's a style of philosophy - present in writers from Plato to Rawls - that invites readers to consider a certain class of phenomena in a new way. In the book, I associate this, in particular, with my good friend, the eminent philosopher of science, Nancy Cartwright, who practices it extremely skilfully.

  Philip Kitcher

  Plato, Philosophy, Book

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I would like to undermine the stereotype of "strict philosophy." J.L. Austin remarked that, when philosophy is done well, it's all over by the bottom of the first page. I take him to have meant that the real work comes in setting up the problem with which you are dealing, and thus getting your reader to take particular things for granted.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophy, Real, Austin

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It felt wrong for me to stay totally connected to that very strict way of approaching the heritage - what it can be, what it cannot be. That was also the period where I really thought, "No, let's open it up."

  Raf Simons

  Heritage, Way, Periods

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

  Justin Vernon

  Thinking, Individual, Grew Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Because the union of a man and woman deserves an honored place in our society, I support the protection of marriage against activist judges. And I will continue to appoint federal judges who know the difference between personal opinion and the strict interpretation of the law.

  George W. Bush

  Gay, Men, Personal Opinions

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 2 September 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.

  Jens Lekman

  Country, New York, Australia

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was very rebellious, but my family was strict Christians - they would ask us, "What's the shortest verse in the Bible?" and I was the one who always said "John 11:35" straightaway. It stayed with me, the Bible has stayed with me.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Christian, Rebellious, My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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