Accurate Quotes - Page 19

• The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

  George W. Bush

  Judging, Decision, Done

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Despair, Portraits

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• The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Real, Successful, Issues

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I don't believe in the theory that the United States is reducing its presence in the Middle East. Quite the contrary, in the Gulf, we see an increase in American military presence, as well as an increase in American investments. The argument is more accurate when one says America is focusing more attention to the Far East. But I don't believe it comes at the expense of the Middle East.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Military, Believe, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The way real memories work, from what we understand, is really complex. And it's an interconnection of different things and redundancy in the brain. So the idea of a memory existing as a little snow globe - the way we represent it in the film - is actually not scientifically accurate at all.

  Pete Docter

  Memories, Real, Ideas

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• A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it's positive, it is considered subjective. And 'objective' means it is accurate, and 'subjective' means it is conceited self-delusion.

  Barbara Sher

  Mean, Conceited, Self

  Barbara Sher (1979). “Wishcraft: How to Get what You Really Want”

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• night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

  Ethel Smyth

  Strong, Sleep, Golf

  Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green

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• I don't want any description of me to be accurate; I want it to be flattering. I don't think people who have to sing for their supper ever like to be described truthfully - not in print anyway. We need to sell tickets, so we need good reviews.

  Orson Welles

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Orson Welles, Mark W. Estrin (2002). “Orson Welles: Interviews”, p.127, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones.

  Nate Silver

  Masquerade, Forecasts, Precise

  Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

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• Andy Samberg is the only person I've ever seen do an impression of me, and I didn't think it was that accurate. I'd like to see somebody else impersonate me, especially if they can do a good job.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Good Job

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace.

  George Orwell

  War, Nineteen, Becoming

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.431, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If the authors and custodians of history turn out to have an attractive image, it is only reasonable to look beyond and ask whether the image they construct is accurate.

  Noam Chomsky

  Custodians, Looks, Attractive

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The US stole Texas from Mexico by violence, then invaded Mexico on ludicrous pretexts and conquered half of it, what is now the Southwest and Far West. That's why cities have Spanish names: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz, etc. All of this is suppressed in standard American history. But the victims remember. The conquerors typically have one history, the victims a different one - and often a more accurate one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Texas, Cities, Names

  Source: thefifthcolumnnews.com

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• I believe the Bible tells a story we recognize as true. I don't just mean it tells an accurate story - though it's telling that the Bible stands tall even after more than 2,000 years of secular criticism.

  Max Lucado

  Believe, Mean, Years

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• If we look at the Gulf War, the same is also true. Indeed, my work on the logistics of perception and the Gulf War was so accurate that I was even asked to discuss it with high-ranking French military officers. They asked me: 'how is it that you wrote that book in 1984 and now it's happening for real?' My answer was: 'the problem is not mine but yours: you have not been doing your job properly!'

  Paul Virilio

  Jobs, Military, Real

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I did not want to be the accompanist to an operatic star. But I was at a very high level for a 16-year-old, and I maintained that. So really good, but more impressive than classically trained. So I had to take a crash course in classical technique because I really wanted to get away with playing this character [in Florence Foster Jenkins] without people saying, "That's not really accurate."

  Simon Helberg

  Stars, Character, Years

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• If I had the money I'd pay people to have them read accurate books or posts about our own religion. It is very important not only for their self-image, but also for the future of Europe - as a biological term.

  Varg Vikernes

  Book, Self, Europe

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I think there were two messages in last year's election. One is pretty obvious. People were mad as hell at the president [Barack Obama] - and wanted to send a message. We all got that. Our new members were also hearing, and I was hearing as well, that people didn't like the fact that the Congress was dysfunctional. Now they may have been confused about where the dysfunctionality was cause the president kept pointing to the House. Factually, that's not accurate. The dysfunction was in the Senate.

  Mitch McConnell

  Confused, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.rollcall.com

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• My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Apples

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Too often, the perspectives on housing come from journalists, politicians and property experts, with a focus on the extreme ends of the market. Through the FOURWALLS Film Project, we want to get an accurate picture of the London housing situation through the eyes of the people that live there, and promote discussion around it.

  David Lammy

  Eye, Perspective, People

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• I think [John's Adams] descriptions of the personalities of [Benjamin] Franklin and [Tomas] Jefferson and others were pretty accurate. It is only when he felt he was wronged by them that he lets loose his anger and resentment.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, Personality, Resentment

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• I don't see Jian [Ghomeshi] as an enemy. What [Marie Henein] was saying about how I hate him - I'm like, that's not accurate.

  Lucy DeCoutere

  Hate, Enemy, Marie

  Source: int-www.macleans.ca

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• It happened: the first 9/11, it happened on September 11, 1973, in Chile. We did it. Was that interfering or hacking a party? This record is all over the world, constantly overthrowing governments, invading, forcing people to follow what we call democracy, as in the cases I mentioned. As I say, if every charge is accurate, it's a joke, and I'm sure half the world is collapsing in laughter about this, because people outside the United States know it. You don't have to tell people in Chile about the first 9/11.

  Noam Chomsky

  Laughter, Party, Government

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's my opinion that, if Barack did want to solve the gang problem, number one would be to work with people from the inside out, people who can actually give him an accurate analysis of the problem in L.A., because they're in it or at one point were a part of it, and now they're workin' to change it, and redirect the energy and the focus of it. And then consciously take steps to solve the problem. But I don't feel like zero tolerance, strict laws, locking everybody up is a viable means to stop that problem.

  Nipsey Hussle

  Zero, Mean, Law

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• If the Story is not accurate to reality, it's not any kind of truth at all. So it can never be 'my truth' or 'your truth,' even though we may believe it. It can only be our delusion or our mistake or our error, but it can never be our 'truth.'

  Greg Koukl

  Mistake, Believe, Reality

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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