Score Quotes - Page 10

• We all want merit to mean something, and we all may be tempted to reduce that meaning to something measurable and concrete like an SAT score. The reality, though, is that who deserves entry into an institution depends on what the institution exists to do.

  Eric Liu

  Mean, Reality, May

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• My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

  Harvey Mackay

  Simple, Networking, Golden

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• American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

  David Mamet

  Soccer, Football, Moving

  "Ultimate fighting: the final frontier" by David Mamet, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2007.

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• I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

  Phil McGraw

  People, Grew, Athletics

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

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• Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

  Phil McGraw

  Sports, Boards, Life Is

  Phil McGraw (2013). “The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

  Moby

  Eight, Play, Scrabble

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• Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

  Bill Murray

  Life, Obligation, Wells

  "Bill Murray talks FDR, cheese and the meaning of life". Interview with Tom Huddleston, www.timeout.com. January 29, 2013.

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• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  Jack Nicholson

  Summer, School, Kids

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• Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

  Gary Numan

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

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• Late payments also hurt your FICO score. And never, ever take out a cash advance on your credit card.

  Suze Orman

  Hurt, Cards, Credit

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• Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

  Suze Orman

  Hurt, People, Balance

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• I have always advocated doing everything possible to pay off credit card balances; it's good financial management and the ticket to a strong FICO credit score.

  Suze Orman

  Strong, Balance, Cards

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• I love, love, love that you want to use your debit card. But to keep your credit score solid, you still need to keep a few credit cards and use them at least once every few months.

  Suze Orman

  Needs, Cards, Use

  "Suze Orman: Are you making these financial mistakes". Article by Suze Orman, www.cnn.com. May 27, 2010.

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• A penalty is a cowardly way to score.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Soccer, Winning

  Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil ShawThe Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• When I repress my emotion my stomach keeps score.

  Enoch Powell

  Emotion, Stomach

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• My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone.

  Mickey Rivers

  Running, Goal, Injury

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• I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Basketball, Desire

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• Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Race, Achievement

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• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  Wayne Rooney

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Goal

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• I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

  Mike Shinoda

  Running, Brother, Silly

  "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Rocks on to New Challenge: 'The Raid: Redemption' Film Score (Q&A)" by Todd Gilchrist, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 21, 2012.

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• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Gambling, Six, Dice

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• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  Simon Sinek

  Curves, People, Population

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• I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Writing, Want, Casts

  "Maestro of Broadway". Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Motivation, School, Yale

  "Videotaped remarks shed light on Sotomayor" by Charlie Savage, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2009.

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• I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Baby, Yale, Perfect

  "Sotomayor Praises Affirmative Action". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 12, 2009.

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