Crucial Quotes - Page 26

• For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

  Helen Zille

  Night, Government, Election

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• Hard work and talent are crucial to success, and intangible qualities like heart and clutch are generally real - but luck is just as important. Nobody gets to the top by accident, but nobody’s on top without some pretty phenomenal accidents of fate.

  Andrew Sharp

  Real, Heart, Hard Work

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• Remember to practice a little every day -- that's crucial.

  Carol Kaye

  Practice, Littles, Remember

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• Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

  Christine Lavin

  Football, Song, Writing

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• Don't throw away your friendship with your teenager over behavior that has no great moral significance. There will be plenty of real issues that require you to stand like a rock. Save your big guns for those crucial confrontations.

  James Dobson

  Children, Teenager, Real

  James C. Dobson (1997). “Solid Answers: America's Foremost Family Counselor Responds to Tough Questions Facing Today's Families”, Tyndale House Pub

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• The child-teacher relationship is crucial.

  Kinky Friedman

  Teacher, Children

  "Kinky Friedman Talks with Bill O'Reilly About Why He Wants to be Governor of Texas". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2005.

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• The best idea ever thought of in the history of humanity is useless unless someone communicates it. It will die in the test tube. And in our case, what we're communicating here to people is not necessarily something they want to hear. And so, our demeanor - how we deliver this message - takes on crucial, crucial importance.

  Phil Plait

  Ideas, People, Humanity

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• It's crucial to choose your work place - some places lend themselves to you and others don't.

  Elia Suleiman

  Work Place

  "The Other Face of Silence". Interview with Nathalie Handal, www.guernicamag.com. May 1, 2011.

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• ... skepticism about past returns is crucial. The truth is, much as you may wish you could know which funds will be hot, you can't - and neither can the legions of advisers and publications that claim they can. That's why building a portfolio around index funds isn't really settling for average. It's just refusing to believe in magic.

  Bethany McLean

  Believe, Past, Average

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• Ours is the one ever-present voice in our lives. Therefore, it is crucial that our self-talk instill confidence within us and is supportive, not submerging, and that our attitudes toward ourselves help keep our spirits afloat through acceptance and trust. We are our own most important and influential buoy.

  Sue Thoele

  Confidence, Attitude, Acceptance

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Real, Racism, Mind

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• It's really crucial to achieve that balance with a film like this, cause it is unique and witty and then there's the tendency to force that. It becomes contrived and I know the feeling like, give me a fork that I can stab in my eye in those kinds of movies.

  Ellen Page

  Witty, Eye, Unique

  "Juno's Ellen Page and Michael Cera". Roundtable Interview, movieweb.com. June 12, 2007.

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• I have actual strong ideas. You just have to wait for the right timing. Timing is pretty crucial here. I can't dedicate a lot of energy and efforts trying to, say, create a show that I want to produce while I'm currently on another show.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Strong, Ideas, Effort

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I have a lot of friends who were stand-ups, and they just stopped after a while, because they didn't like that battle, or they just couldn't do it. And then they would get on a sitcom and get visible and get back into it, because the audience was just way easier on them. But they lost those crucial years of learning to turn any audience into your audience.

  Patton Oswalt

  Years, Battle, Way

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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• Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

  George Bernard Shaw

  School, Agency, Principles

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• Lawyers serve a purpose, and we couldn't operate as society without them. They can make things more complicated and difficult, but there are certain times where the need for them is crucial to an argument or an event or an issue.

  Gabriel Macht

  Issues, Events, Needs

  "Gabriel Macht Talks SUITS Season 4 Finale". Press conference, collider.com. March 4, 2015.

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• What's crucial about being an executive producer is that you stay in the loop, information-wise. They have to share all their major decisions with you.

  Emma Donoghue

  Wise, Decision, Information

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

  Emma Donoghue

  Book, Thinking, Fearless

  "Room" Author/Screenwriter Emma Donoghue on Her "Deeply Feminist" Film and Industry Sexism". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 16, 2015.

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• I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal's future.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Counting, Private Sector

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Boldness is a crucial element of genius.

  Horace Freeland Judson

  Genius, Elements, Boldness

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• If the president is the head of the American body politic, Congress is its gastrointestinal tract. Its vast and convoluted inner workings may be mysterious and unpleasant, but in the end they excrete a great deal of material whose successful passage is crucial to our nation's survival. This is Congress's duty.

  Jon Stewart

  Successful, Survival, President

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• It is crucial that civil liberties in this country be preserved, otherwise the terrorists will win the battle against American values without firing another shot.

  Russ Feingold

  Country, Winning, Liberty

  "Bush Discussing War With Congress". www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2001.

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• Once we admit that the public sector takes an immense amount of risk along the entire innovation chain, it becomes crucial to find ways to share both risks and rewards.

  Mariana Mazzucato

  Innovation, Risk, Way

  "What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success". Interview with Lynn Parramore, www.ineteconomics.org. October 23, 2015.

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• Home is a blueprint of memory...Finding home is crucial to the act of writing. Begin here. With what you know. With the tales you've told dozens of times...with the map you've already made in your heart. That's where the real home is: inside. If we carry that home with us all the time, we'll be able to take more risks. We can leave on wild excursions, knowing we'll return home.

  Georgia Heard

  Memories, Real, Home

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• It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved

  Tibor R. Machan

  Moral, Human Life, Humans

  Tibor R. Machan (2003). “The Passion for Liberty”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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