Example Quotes - Page 9

• The space industry is developing and delivering benefits that tie into our immediate needs and priorities here on Earth-for example, medical and materials research, and satellite communications.

  Marc Garneau

  Communication, Space, Ties

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• If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote novels I would feel like a charlatan and a fraud.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Thinking, Wasting My Time, Fraud

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• People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.

  Simon Armitage

  Book, Smell, People

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• The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Dream, Country, Giving

  "Spotlight: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, cinematographer and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Programme". The UN News Centre Interview, www.un.org. February 7, 2011.

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• TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

  Alan Bradley

  Teaching, Thinking, Together

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• I've seen a lot of people - for example, Lindsay Lohan - who got into the wrong crowd. I always have my eye on what I want. And I don't want anything to distract me from that.

  Ashley Benson

  Eye, People, Crowds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Stability can be a good thing, but it can also lead to apathy. I don't want to set that example for my children. I want them to believe in their dreams and to go after them. You do that by example.

  Michael Easton

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• It is hard to imagine that, having downgraded the US, S & P will not follow suit on at least one of the other members of the dwindling club of sovereign AAAs. If this were to materialise and involve a country like France, for example, it could complicate the already fragile efforts by Europe to rescue countries in its periphery.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Country, Europe, Effort

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• I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

  Robert Englund

  Technology, Horror Genre, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  Sandra Fluke

  Taken, Blood, Asking

  "CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Succeed, Axioms

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain's Speeches”, p.226, Xist Publishing

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• Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite. For example, there are circumstances when it is advisable to introduce, elaborate and defend ad hoc hypotheses, or hypotheses which contradict well-established and generally accepted experimental results, or hypotheses whose content is smaller than the content of the existing and empirically adequate alternative, or self-inconsistent hypotheses, and so on.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Opposites, Self

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.

  John Stuart Mill

  Political, Age, Knees

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

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• Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own Christlike yearning to reach out with love, as He does.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Self Esteem, Feelings, Doe

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• I don't have examples in my life of people who are all good or bad; I have deeply loved many people who are both, and I relate to those kinds of people on a far greater level.

  Edie Falco

  People, Levels, Kind

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• Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Light, Evening

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• Jumping genes are fundamental because they're agents of change. Everybody knows that organisms evolve. What makes them evolve is that their genes are dynamic and in motion. A familiar example is the stripe-y corn - called Indian corn - that you buy in the fall.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Fall, Jumping, Stripes

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• One of the really remarkably beneficial aspects of genetic engineering is that much of the previous methodology for controlling pests and so forth is through chemicals that affect a very broad spectrum of insects, for example, or fungicides that control fungi.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Engineering, Pests, Chemicals

  "Debating The Potential Danger Of Transgenic Weeds". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. February 25, 2011.

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• There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

  Danny Huston

  Art, Problem, Subjective

  "Danny Huston Does The Boogie Woogie". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. April 21, 2010.

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• Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Shooting, Maximizing, Wheels

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• In a crime story, the details become tremendously important - where the staircase was in relation to the bed, for example.

  Bill James

  Important, Details, Stories

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• I was crazy about Elle Macpherson. She modeled, acted and did everything. She was a huge example for me.

  Constance Jablonski

  Crazy, Huge

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• Since I've been hired to contribute to the storyline of 'Doom 4' I can say what was always true anyway. I'm working. You see, for a writer, lots of stuff that doesn't look like working is actually working. Looking out of the window, for example. Balancing a pencil on the edge of the desk in order to find its exact fulcrum. Playing 'Doom.

  Graham Joyce

  Order, Looks, Stuff

  "Prize-winning author Graham Joyce to write script for Doom 4" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2009.

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• According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Cosmic, Naturalist, Materials

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• My father influenced by his very life, his very example and the environment that I was brought up in. But, he did not encourage or discourage any of us. He let us make up our own minds.

  Juliet Mills

  Father, Mind, Environment

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