Target Quotes - Page 14

• Art isn't something you do or are. It's where you aim, the target you shoot at.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Art, Aim, Art Is

  Elizabeth Ashley, Ross Firestone (1979). “Actress: Postcards from the Road”, Fawcett Books

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• In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Technology, Light, Years

  "Bloomberg Calls for National Energy Reforms" by Ray Rivera, query.nytimes.com. May 12, 2007.

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• we need to turn the question around to look at the harasser, not the target. We need to be sure that we can go out and look anyone who is a victim of harassment in the eye and say, 'You do not have to remain silent anymore.

  Anita Hill

  Eye, Needs, Looks

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• Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

  Jill Lepore

  Senior, Moving, Age

  "Baby Talk" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 29, 2009.

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• [To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes.

  Barbara Lee

  Courage, War, Mistake

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• I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.

  Nan Hayworth

  Family Love, And Love, Rifles

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• In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

  Wang Jianlin

  Light, Yellow, Goal

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• Could anyone in his right mind speak seriously of any limited nuclear war? It should be quite clear that the aggressor's actions will instantly and inevitably trigger a devastating counterstroke by the other side. None but completely irresponsible people could maintain that a nuclear war may be made to follow rules adopted beforehand, with nuclear missiles exploding in a "gentlemanly manner" over strictly designated targets and sparing the population.

  Dmitriy Ustinov

  War, People, Mind

  "Russian Roulette : The Superpower Game" by Arthur M. Cox, (p. 10), 1982.

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• I wonder, now, about interrogation chambers: why do they think bright light brings the truth out of people? They should try the seduction of shadows, where you cannot watch your words hit their target.

  Anna Funder

  Thinking, Light, People

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• My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.

  Otto Skorzeny

  Pain, War, Enemy

  "Skorzeny" by Charles Whiting, (p. 17), 1972.

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• I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.

  Lindsey Graham

  Military, War, Thinking

  "Sen. Lindsey Graham talks Hagel, Brennan nominations; Sen. Rand Paul on the Obama agenda, Republican policy". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2013.

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• Its always fantastic to be on the podium, and, of course, the top step is always our target.

  Romain Grosjean

  Steps, Fantastic, Courses

  "Brazilian GP: Romain Grosjean, Lotus - Q&A". Interview, www.crash.net. November 21, 2013.

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• There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

  Yvette Clarke

  Yield, Community, Doubt

  "Stop-and-Frisk Targets Minorities — Creates Culture of Fear in New York" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 14, 2012.

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• A principle familiar to propagandists is that the doctrine to be instilled in the target audience should not be articulated: that would only expose them to reflection, inquiry, and, very likely, ridicule. The proper procedure is to drill them home by constantly presupposing them, so that they become the very condition for discourse.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, Reflection, Target Audience

  Noam Chomsky, Edward S. Herman (2004). “Letters from Lexington: Reflections on Propaganda”, p.41, Pluto Press

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• The most important element of breaking into a house is a flashlight, a flashlight will keep ya' on target. You don't wanna be stummblin' around, and it will make it a lot crista-crystal-cleaner and crystal like surranwrap you... I'll never tell you a lie 'cause we're gonna get you through this successfully and you wanna have all the stuff were givin' ya now.

  Brandon DiCamillo

  Lying, House, Important

  "Landspeed: CKY". Comedy, 1999.

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• We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

  Tzachi Hanegbi

  Battle, Defense, Members

  Public radio, March 23, 2004.

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• They [the New World Order] want to reduce the population [to 500 million] and their target date is May 5th of 2000. [.....] The demons who call themselves spirit guides have told them. "You know, you have to reduce the population by May 5th." Because May 5th is Karl Marx's birthday, you know, enter the Age of Aquarius. [.....] I suspect they may use Y2K as an excuse to create some little problems here, we shall have to wait and see.

  Kent Hovind

  Order, Aquarius, Waiting

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• Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system... Lacking a central nervous system much less a brain the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

  Daniel Suarez

  Simple, Perfect, Enemy

  Daniel Suarez (2010). “Daemon”, p.270, Hachette UK

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• America is always a good target for a populist. In many countries, particularly authoritarian systems, if you want to get an extra bonus, you bash the Americans.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, America, Bonus

  "The Army Is on the Edge". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. August 2, 2013.

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• With each passing year the difficulty of meeting any fixed quantitative target increases progressively. Moreover, plausible estimates of when the Protocol would go into effect leave such a small window of time before the first commitment period that achievement of the Kyoto targets will eventually pass out of reach.

  Henry Sylvester Jacoby

  Commitment, Years, Kyoto Protocol

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• The curve and the fast one are important; the change of pace and the other trick deliveries are great but they're not worth a plugged nickel unless you have control to go along with them. And by control I don't mean the ability to put the ball over the plate somewhere between the shoulders and knees. I mean the ability to hit a three-inch target nine times out of ten, the sort of control that lets you put the ball in the exact spot you want it, and to play a corner to the split fraction of an inch.

  Babe Ruth

  Mean, Yankees, Curves

  George Herman Ruth, Babe Ruth (1992). “Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball”, p.11, U of Nebraska Press

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• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  Rahman Baba

  Flower, Arrows, May

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• My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Philosophy, Teaching

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• ...like a predator about to devour the target.

  Alan Parry

  Football, Predator, Commentators

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• If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.

  Charles Haynes

  Christian, Religious, Holiday

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