Strict Quotes - Page 19

• I dont work weekends. Weekends are for my kids. And I have dinner at home every night when Im not physically directing a movie - I get home by six. I put the kids to bed and tell them stories and take them to school the next morning. I work basically from 9.30 to 5.30 and Im strict about that.

  Steven Spielberg

  Morning, Home, School

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• Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my professional and private lives.

  Anna Kournikova

  Sports, Bed, Needs

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• Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Variation

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• Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Character, Giving, Punctuality

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4

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• I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

  William E. Gladstone

  Needs, Advantage, Grammar

  Letter to Mrs. Gladstone on January 14, 1860. "Gladstone as Financier and Economist" by Francis Wrigley Hirst, p. 242, 1931.

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• My religious upbringing was comically strict — even the Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner was banned. In our house, no one was allowed to refer to deviled eggs. We had to call them angelic eggs. We were never allowed to swear. I'd get into trouble just for saying 'Hell no'. If you dropped a hammer on your toe in our house you had to say something like 'Jiminy Christmas'. The only music we were allowed to listen to was gospel. No wonder I rebelled.

  Katy Perry

  Religious, Eggs, House

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• Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

  John von Neumann

  Numbers, Sin, Arithmetic

  "Various techniques used in connection with random digits" by John von Neumann in "Monte Carlo Method" edited by A.S. Householder, G.E. Forsythe and H.H. Germond, 1951.

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• What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose

  Philip Pullman

  Writing, Training, Form

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• Whatever one's religion in his private life may be, for the officeholder, nothing takes precedence over his oath to uphold the Constitution and all its parts - including the First Amendment and the strict separation of church and state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Atheism, Church

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• Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Inspiration, Reality

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• One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.

  Emil Zatopek

  Sports, Running, Winning

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• Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.

  Charlie Trotter

  Fighting, Interesting, Excellence

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• Human beings are infinitely fallible, completely unreliable. Science is not. Science is absolute. Under strict principles, if you do A and B, then C will occur. This rarely happens if you inject the inefficiences of humanity into the process.

  David Baldacci

  Humanity, Principles, Process

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• A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Definitions, Logical, Certain

  "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.

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• If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life.

  Mia Maestro

  Enjoy Life, Miserable, Ifs

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• Whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company, in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

  Joseph Alleine

  Christian, Self, Evil

  "An Alarm to the Unconverted". Book by Joseph Alleine, 1671.

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• In many places, above all in the Anglo-Saxon countries, logistics is today considered the only possible form of strict philosophy, because its result and procedures yield an assured profit for the construction of the technological universe. In America and elsewhere, logistics as the only proper philosophy of the future is thus beginning today to seize power over the intellectual world.

  Martin Heidegger

  Country, Philosophy, Yield

  "What Is Called Thinking?". Book by Martin Heidegger, 1952.

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• The self is not so much linked to its ancestors, it is not so much the product, and merely the product, of all that, but rather, in the strictest sense of the word, the same thing as all that: the strict, direct continuation of it, just as the self aged fifty is the continuation of the self aged forty.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Self, Fifty, Ancestor

  "My View of the World" by Erwin Schrodinger, (p. 28), 1961.

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• A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics for its largest cities places that have been under the strict political control of so-called "progressives", sometimes for many generations what remains, the real America, is the most peaceful, productive, prosperous, and truly progressive civilization in all of human history.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Civilization, Cities

  "In Praise of Social Benefactors". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. August 18, 2013.

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• Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of sense and human reason. If it is to be measured by a strict standard of holiness, by religious normativity alone, then there can never be a moral capitalism.

  Stephen Young

  Religious, Mean, Empowering

  Stephen Young (2003). “Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good”, p.9, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

  Christopher Hampton

  Happiness, Religious, Seduction

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• Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.

  Immortal Technique

  Art, Guidelines, Trade

  Source: readersupportednews.org

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• When you have strict censorship of the internet, young students cannot receive a full education. Their view of the world is imbalanced. There can be no true discussion of the issues.

  Ai Weiwei

  Issues, Views, World

  "David Cameron, as you visit China please listen to us" by Ai Weiwei, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2010.

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• I am obsessive always, even as a child. On one side is this strict orthodox religion, on the other is communism, and I am this little girl pulled between the two. It makes me who I am. It turns me into the kind of person that Freud would have a field day with, for sure.

  Marina Abramovic

  Girl, Children, Who I Am

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• Astonishingly, at some point, a sputtering torch was thrust into her hands. Alma did not see who gave it to her. She had never before been entrusted with fire. The torch spit sparks and sent chunks of flaming tar spinning into the air behind her as she bolted across the cosmos-the only body in the heavens who was not held to a strict elliptical path. Nobody stopped her. She was a comet. She did not know that she was not flying.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Air, Hands, Fire

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.80, A&C Black

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