Format Quotes

• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

  William Pollard

  People, Decision, Benefits

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• Christians should never have a political party. It is a huge mistake to become married to an ideology, because the greatest enemy of the gospel is ideology. Ideology is a man-made format of how the world ought to work, and Christians instead believed in the revealing truth Scripture.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Mistake, Party

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• The most common format of music on an iPod is 'stolen.'

  Steve Ballmer

  Ipods, Drm, Common

  "Love DRM or my family starves: why Steve Ballmer doesn't Get It" by John Lettice, www.theregister.co.uk. October 7, 2004.

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• I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.

  Jewel

  Radio, I've Changed, Feels

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• Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

  Dean Kamen

  Fun, Kids, Technology

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• Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Ice, Romance, Age

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• I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Two, Littles, Mediums

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• Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

  Dylan Moran

  Book, Thinking, Black

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

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Character, Ebay

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• Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

  Kid Rock

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• 'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Stars, Drama, Adventure

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• When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, Artist, Tape

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• I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that.

  David Hasselhoff

  Play, People, Tears

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• We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

  Julian Assange

  Talking, Organization, Political

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Videogame

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• As a writer, it's fun to create. And once you get into a long-running show with very established characters and a very established tone and format, after a while it's a really great job, but that's what it is - a job.

  Alan Ball

  Running, Jobs, Fun

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• Probably the reason it's a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you're getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you're going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there's a kind of bundle.

  David Byrne

  Song, Effort, Together

  "David Byrne and Thom Yorke on the Real Value of Music". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. December 18, 2007.

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• I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.

  Adam Carolla

  Podcasting, Form, Mess

  Interview with Ariel Adams, www.askmen.com. November 3, 2010.

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• All great reality shows have a very, very similar format. That's why it was so easy to parody.

  Cat Deeley

  Reality, Easy, Parody

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• Paper is a uniquely beautiful format, more so than the web, I think: you need to invest in the aesthetics.

  Dave Eggers

  Beautiful, Thinking, Needs

  "A local rag in brand new drag... at $16 a copy". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2009.

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• In the 1960s, people were trying to get away from the pop song format. Tracks were getting longer, or much, much shorter.

  Brian Eno

  Song, People, Track

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• I said that the only way I could have a band that would work in the format of my show is if the band were crap. So if I have a band they'd have to really suck.

  Craig Ferguson

  Band, Way, Said

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• Over the last half century the television interview has given us some of TV's most heart-stopping and memorable moments. On the surface it is a simple format - two people sitting across from one another having a conversation. But underneath it is often a power struggle - a battle for the psychological advantage.

  David Frost

  Struggle, Memorable, Heart

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

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• The only thing I miss from the sitcom format is that immediate gratification of when you're, if we're talking about comedy, of the live audience.

  Ray Romano

  Talking, Missing, Comedy

  "Ray Romano: Standup, Sitcoms And Real-Life Humor". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 5, 2011.

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