Firm Quotes - Page 7

• My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Parent, Done, Homework

  "Being A Teenager In The White House, From Chelsea Clinton", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 17, 2014.

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• The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty when confronted with the results of historical research. We find, then, that there is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or another.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Ideas, Historical

  Paul Feyerabend (1975). “Against method: outline of an anarchistic theory of knowledge”, Verso

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• I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

  Michael Symon

  Gob, Stuff, Buying

  "Top Chefs Share Their Mothers’ Best Lessons" by Allison Adato, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 11, 2012.

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• I'm not against working out. It's just not effective for weight loss. I like strength training to tone and firm the body so you look tight. But working out just makes you hungrier.

  Jorge Cruise

  Loss, Work Out, Training

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• A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

  David Duke

  Jobs, Hard Work, Fighting

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• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  Robert Pozen

  Law, Giving, Perspective

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• I am a firm believer in marriage. In the future I will be married.

  Elisabetta Canalis

  Married, Believer, Being Married

  "George Clooney, Elisabetta Canalis Call it Quits" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 22, 2011.

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• I looked at myself in the mirror. I looked awful, but I always look awful in the mirror. I keep myself going with the firm belief that my real face is much better looking.

  George Alec Effinger

  Real, Mirrors, Looks

  George Alec Effinger (2017). “The Budayeen Cycle: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun, and The Exile Kiss”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• ...Directors of a large food-manufacturing firm (:)...At one extreme (: one) said it was not his job to protect people from themselves; he was not forcing people to eat his products, and if they chose to do so at the risk of harming themselves, it was of their own free choice.

  John Yudkin

  Jobs, Dark, People

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• We all need a firm sense of identity.

  Christopher Eccleston

  Identity, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail what I believe is both unfair and illegal foreign competition.

  Norm Dicks

  Believe, Government, Competition

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• I'm a firm believer and I think my religion is inside.

  Billy Eckstine

  Thinking, Believer

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• I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

  Kay Granger

  Selling, My Own

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• I'm a firm believer in putting your money where your mouth is.

  Teri Hatcher

  Mouths, Believer

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• On one side, the forces of destruction, the forces of the desert, have risen, and on the other hand stand firm the forces of civilization, but we will not be stopped.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Hands, Civilization, Sides

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• When you leave a good job to go off on your own and don't expect to make money for a while, you name the firm whatever your wife says you should.

  David Einhorn

  Jobs, Names, Wife

  David Einhorn (2010). “Fooling Some of the People All of the Time, A Long Short (and Now Complete) Story, Updated with New Epilogue”, p.27, John Wiley & Sons

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• We all have to pick our battles. You've got to draw a line in the sand and stand firm. And it's this squishiness that's really the enemy, like, "Well, I don't know, it's kind of OK but I kind of feel guilty, and I kind of want a bran muffin, I don't know, and I'm wearing a vest; it's crocheted." Shut up. Just pick your battle and just stand there, and whatever you are going to do, own it.

  Chicken John

  Enemy, Battle, Muffins

  "San Francisco Rejects American Apparel: Has the Fight Against Chain Stores Gone Too Far?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. February 11, 2009.

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• Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results.

  Jay Inslee

  Sexy, Believe, Journey

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• Passengers don't like changing planes. That means waiting time, stress, running around. There's a joke that the hub principle is supposed to have been invented by cargo firms. The baggage doesn't care where and how it's pushed around.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Running, Stress, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Technology, Example, Company

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• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  Ian McLagan

  Moon, Pals, Bumps

  "Ian McLagan's Song For A Muse". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. June 20, 2014.

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• I'm a firm believer and always have been that there aren't all that many things that you should not express to children in an age-appropriate manner, and as a parent, that is your job - to be discerning as to whether or not your child can handle the information, provided you have the ability to express yourself in that age-appropriate way.

  LeVar Burton

  Jobs, Children, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Character, Blessing

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• In an ignorant country, everything will try to drag you down! Stay firm, aim at the stars, keep going up and drag up the people who are trying to drag you down!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Stars, People

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• This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Long Ago, Ideas, Sorrow

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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