Variety Quotes - Page 4

• I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, People, Different

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think a lot of what you do depends on the other people in the cast. It doesn't only depend on you the actor, but it depends on a variety of things, what the other actors are like.

  Robert Loggia

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with AVC, film.avclub.com. September 8, 2011.

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• After 25 years of buying and supervising a great variety of businesses, Charlie [Munger] and I have not learned how to solve difficult business problems. What we have learned is to avoid them. To the extent we have been successful, it is because we have concentrated on identifying one-foot hurdles that we could step over rather than because we acquired any ability to clear seven-footers.

  Warren Buffett

  Successful, Feet, Years

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1989.

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• The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Fashion, Psychics, Choices

  Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.143, Penguin

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• I think what my hope is is that the only downside of having a steady job on television is, I think for all actors, there's a piece, there's some adrenaline, and part of the love of the job is not knowing what's coming next, and the variety.

  Lauren Graham

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  "Lauren Graham Interview - EVAN ALMIGHTY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 19, 2007.

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• The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

  Bill Hybels

  Jesus, Prayer, Attention

  "Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

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• It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

  C. S. Lewis

  Diversity, Heaven, Grace

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

  John Ralston Saul

  Insecure, Class, Cities

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Architectural features of true democratic ground-freedom would rise naturally from topography, which means that buildings would all take on the nature and character of the ground on which in endless variety they would stand and be component part.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Character, Mean, Topography

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• Democracy cannot survive where there is such uniformity that everyone wears exactly the same intellectual uniform or point of view. Democracy implies diversity of outlook, a variety of points of view on politics, economics, and world affairs. Hence the educational ideal is not uniformity but unity, for unity allows diversity of points of view regarding the good means to a good end.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Educational, Mean, Views

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• Not long time ago there was a striking example of the extent to which English has diverged: a television company put out a programme filmed in the English city of Newcastle, where the local variety of English is famously divergent and difficult, and the televised version was accompanied by English subtitles!

  Larry Trask

  Cities, Long, Divergent

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• I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Sarcastic, Giving, Want

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.1, Penguin Books India

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• Perhaps of all our untamed quadrupeds, the fox has obtained the widest and most familiar reputation.... His recent tracks still give variety to a winter's walk. I tread in the steps of the fox that has gone before me by some hours, or which perhaps I have started, with such a tip-toe of expectation as if I were on the trail of the Spirit itself which resides in the wood, and expected soon to catch it in its lair.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Expectations, Track

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, People, Add

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• Object to merit and distinction, and you're setting your face against quality, independence, originality, genius against all the richness and variety of life. When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Ambition, Successful, Independence

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• We believe in a free Europe, not a standardised Europe. Diminish that variety within the member states, and you impoverish the whole Community. We insist that the institutions of the European Community are managed so that they increase the liberty of the individual throughout the continent. These institutions must not be permitted to dwindle into bureaucracy. Whenever they fail to enlarge freedom the institutions should be criticised and the balance restored.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Europe, Community

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Divorced, not loving their abandoned children as much as they loathe their former wives, directing a combination of need and hostility toward the women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as [one character] puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments.

  Richard Schickel

  Children, Character, Wife

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• Rental formal wear of the sky-blue, brocade and shiny varieties is favored by upwardly mobile young gangsters drafted as groomsmen for weddings.

  George V. Higgins

  Blue, Sky, Formal

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• I think variety is the spice of sticking with an exercise routine, whether it's getting a dance tape one day, or getting a tape with those stretchy things to work with resistance on a different day.

  Christie Brinkley

  Exercise, Thinking, One Day

  "Celebrity Workout Exclusive: How Christie Brinkley Stays So Gorgeous". Shape Magazine Interview, www.shape.com.

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• I think women's bodies are a battleground and photography is partly to blame. Our society is so photographic now, it becomes more difficult to see all of those different varieties of shape.

  Keira Knightley

  Photography, Thinking, Our Society

  "Keira Knightley Protests Photoshop: ‘I Think Women’s Bodies Are A Battleground’" by Lauren Zupkus, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Girl, Strong, Real

  Source: collider.com

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• I love variety. I love theater. I also love radio. I love language. But, the older you get, you need to earn money. You need to heighten your profile.

  Indira Varma

  Needs, Radio, Language

  Source: collider.com

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• When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate that in the studio environment. I think it is an interesting alternative position, just to stretch people's imagination, myself included, as to who is actually singing the song. It's not to create alter-egos or characters - it always feels like me, even when the voice is extremely manipulated.

  Planningtorock

  Song, Character, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Class, Progression, Certain

  Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Bad Times and On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type”, p.93, Library of Alexandria

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• The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad.

  Naveen Patnaik

  Thinking, Zippers, Giving

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