Commentary Quotes - Page 8

• The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Principles, Written

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• It is a wry commentary on the value-system in the United States that one speaks there of "teacher training" and "driver education."

  Peter Hilton

  Teacher, Training, United States

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• Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.

  Camille Paglia

  Art, School, Practice

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• It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Book, Writing, Ideas

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• The fact is that, once you are the person - and Ms.[Hillary] Clinton is the person who injected this type of commentary [bigot] into this race [2016] - once you inject that type of commentary into this race, you can't then sit back and start complaining about it or have some of your handmaidens in the media complain about it.

  Chris Christie

  Race, Media, Complaining

  "Gov. Chris Christie and DNC Chair Donna Brazile". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.

  Tabitha Soren

  Giving, Analysis, News

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• Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

  David Sloan Wilson

  Selfish, Groups, Beats

  David Sloan Wilson (2015). “Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others”, p.71, Yale University Press

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• I've recently enjoyed the Paul Thomas Anderson commentaries and the David Fincher commentaries.

  Jay Roach

  Enjoyed

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

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• My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

  Jay Roach

  Track, Guy, Criticism

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

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• While facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Facts, Obsolete, Stale

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Shine On, Light, Shining

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• Birdy never felt artistic inclination when armed with a marking implement. What came to her were words, always words, commentary and criticism and correction and simple vocabulary curios; she scratched a few of them on the smooth red wall.

  Antonya Nelson

  Wall, Simple, Vocabulary

  Antonya Nelson (1999). “Nobody's Girl: A Novel”, Scribner

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• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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• Do not study commentaries, lesson helps or other books about the Bible: study the Bible itself. Do not study about the Bible, study the Bible. The Bible is the Word of God, and only the Bible is the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Book, Lessons, Helping

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• A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Church, Doctrine, Should

  Thomas Brooks (1867). “The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed”, p.24

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• Learning as we go... Why didn't they tell us this before? We, the consumers, are supposed to be docile guinea pigs in a vast but uncontrolled experiment with powerful hormones (HRT). That's quite a commentary on "scientific medicine".

  Ralph W. Moss

  Powerful, Pigs, Medicine

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• No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Vedas, Has Beens, Written

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1174, Manonmani Publishers

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• Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, America, Violence

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• So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.

  CM Punk

  Wwe, Malaria

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• I'm interested in social commentary.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Social

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• Mike Myatt’s ‘Hacking Leadership’ is a must read… Mike combines insightful yet practical commentary with in the trenches leadership experience few can match. I would highly recommend this text to anyone looking to become a better leader.

  Vijay Govindarajan

  Leader, Insightful, Hacking

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• I would love to do both but I think I believe there's a thing as overexposure and I think people will get sick of me real quick. I kind of basically looked at it as my retirement plan now. That's definitely something I can do when I'm not wrestling anymore. And believe it or not - this sounds horrible - but it was really easy for me. I would really love to do both. I'd love to wrestle and do commentary, I think that would be awesome.

  CM Punk

  Retirement, Real, Believe

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• Todd, this is almost like your commentary! Dizzying!

  Josh Mathews

  Wwe, Like You

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