Zero Quotes - Page 24

• I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

  Alex Kingston

  Size, Here And Now, Let Me

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• We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you.

  Barack Obama

  Dirty, Past, Technology

  Barack Obama's remarks at University of California-Irvine Commencement Ceremony at the Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 14, 2014.

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• I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.

  Katherine Moennig

  Girl, School, Boys

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• Election' made zero money at the box office, but it started my career.

  Chris Klein

  Careers, Office, Election

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• I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?

  Robert M. Gates

  Country, Mean, Reality

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• When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

  Leif Garrett

  Kids, Houston, Pluto

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• Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was something that I was thinking about a lot because there are many moments in 'Less Than Zero' where horrific things happen and Clay could do something about them, but his passivity stops him.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Passivity Is, Clay

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. June 29, 2010.

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• Zero problems with neighbors' is a value. But another equally important value is to establish peace.

  Ahmet Davutoglu

  Important Values, Problem, Neighbor

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• Why is it that half of the households in America pay zero income tax? We need some real tax reform.

  John Cornyn

  Real, America, Reform

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• The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

  Naoto Kan

  Energy, Nuclear, Realizing

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• As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the less we change. When we meditate we become perpetually young.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Meditation

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• Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.

  Steven Levitan

  Jukebox, Empty, Billions

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• If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

  Eleanor Clift

  Strong, War, Pro Life

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• Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

  Ralph Peters

  Islamic, Extravagant, Radius

  "When Rights Make Wrongs" by Ralph Peters, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 18, 2010.

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• We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

  Alan Shepard

  Shapes, Able, Gravity

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• If we accept that there is no such thing as 'zero risk' then we should not spin the meaning of words with assertions such as 'all accidents are preventable'.

  Rob Long

  Risk, Accepting, Should

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• Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?

  Carl Paladino

  Memories, War, Kids

  "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.

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• For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M.B.O., install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Knowledge, Fire, Best Effort

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• If a nonnegative quantity was so small that it is smaller than any given one, then it certainly could not be anything but zero. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be. These supposed mysteries have rendered the calculus of the infinitely small quite suspect to many people. Those doubts that remain we shall thoroughly remove in the following pages, where we shall explain this calculus.

  Leonhard Euler

  Math, People, Doubt

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• I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.

  Martha Stewart

  Goal, Challenges, Starting

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• Think binary. When matter meets antimatter, both vanish, into pure energy. But both existed; I mean, there was a condition we'll call "existence." Think of one and minus one. Together they add up to zero, nothing, nada, niente, right? Picture them together, then picture them separating-peeling apart. ... Now you have something, you have two somethings, where once you had nothing.

  John Updike

  Mean, Science, Thinking

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• Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists; particular events must take place in it, the probability of which (before the event) was infinitesimal. At the present time we have no legitimate grounds for either asserting or denying that life got off to but a single start on earth, and that, as a consequence, before it appeared its chances of occurring were next to nil. ... Destiny is written concurrently with the event, not prior to it.

  Jacques Monod

  Life, Science, Destiny

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• If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.

  Howard Gardner

  Judging, Very Good, Be Good

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• People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

  Louis C. K.

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

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• Last time I checked, lifting theory has a PR of zero.

  Steve Shaw

  Workout, Lasts, Theory

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