Tested Quotes - Page 8

• Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!

  Daniel Libeskind

  Risk, Innovative

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• The play I was doing [on a Broadway ], I was playing an obnoxious, outspoken kid, so [the director James Lapine ] saw me do the play, and he was like, "That's what I'm looking for." I tested for the part [in Life With Mikey]. Back then, I used to do screen tests. I mean, they still do every once in awhile, but it was a big deal.

  David Krumholtz

  Mean, Kids, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm sick of the pussies on the right, if I can use that word, they're pathetic. The poll-tested, Republican strategist driven candidate whose job is to try and not get into a battle with the mainstream media and be liked by Katie Couric is a threat to America. It's a clear and present danger to a country that's in steep peril.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Country, Jobs, Media

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Party, Media, Tea

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• I don't believe in hell and heaven anymore. Or angels. I think Islam is a superstition like every other superstition. But now because it's a superstition, unlike Christianity, that hasn't been tested and hasn't gone through a process of enlightenment, I think it's a dangerous superstition.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Believe, Angel, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Loyalty, Real, Answers

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• [The Fuhrer] is one of those lonely men of the ages on whom history is not tested, but who themselves are the makers of history.

  Benito Mussolini

  Lonely, Men, Age

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• The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in drug testing a long time ago. All through the sixties I tested everything.

  Bill Lee

  Weed, Humor, Marijuana

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• Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

  Paul Kane

  Technique, Twists, Would Be

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• I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

  Jerry West

  Winning, Thinking, Made

  Source: espn.go.com

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• Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's a question that I certainly have myself. What would I be able to do in certain situations? He came out, obviously, looking like a true hero, but he didn't go in looking like that. He was not your typical image of somebody that you would think would be the tough guy who was able to endure. His lighthearted attitude, this sort of dorkiness, and naivete; it ended up being the finest tool for his survival.

  Christian Bale

  Attitude, Hero, Men

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• It's a great relief to feel that you're working with someone rather than for someone. You don't feel that you're being tested, as it were.

  John Hurt

  Relief, Feels

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  E. O. Wilson

  Common Sense, Intuition, Earth

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• Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Military, Adequacy, Establishment

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• Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Use, Various

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• What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Art, Writing, Cinema

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I'm afraid, as true as love is, it is tested by circumstance and sometimes you don't make the best choices. As much as the fans claim [that] all they want is just want people sitting around and having a nice time together, trust me, you would not be watching the show if there wasn't conflict, if there wasn't drama, if there wasn't jeopardy. And it's not just physical jeopardy, it's romantic jeopardy as well.

  Joseph Dougherty

  Nice, Drama, Love Is

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• A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or theory which cannot be, at least in principle, falsified by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm of science.

  Francisco J. Ayala

  Principles, Doe, Theory

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• No fossil is buried with its birth certificate. That, and the scarcity of fossils, means that it is effectively impossible to link fossils into chains of cause and effect in any valid way... To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime story-amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.

  Henry Gee

  Mean, Scarcity, Stories

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• It was a long road [trying to get pregnant a secong time]. I would go to the doctor in Beverly Hills every day at five in the morning to get tested to see if I was ovulating. I was trying everything: I did acupuncture and got a nutritionist to eat healthier, thinking that was an issue.

  Kim Kardashian

  Morning, Thinking, Doctors

  "#Unfiltered". Interview with Amanda de Cadenet, magazinec.com.

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• There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.

  George Deukmejian

  Animal, Pesticides, Causes

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• The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Adequacy, Research, Standards

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.

  Conan O'Brien

  Exhilarating Feeling, Feelings, World

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• You are not exposed to one chemical at a time, but a complex mixture of chemicals that changes day by day, hour by hour, depending on where you are and the environment you are in... In the United States alone it is estimated that over 72,000 different chemicals are used regularly. Two thousand five hundred new chemicals are introduced annually-and of these, only 15 are partially tested for their safety. Not one of the chemicals in use today has been adequately tested for these intergenerational effects that are initiated in the womb.

  Theo Colborn

  Two, Safety, Environmental

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• Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

  Martin Seligman

  Kindness, Exercise, Increase

  Martin Seligman (2011). “Flourish”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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