Helpful Quotes - Page 13

• It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

  Arthur Baer

  Men, Rope, Drowning

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• This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses.

  Bill Bruford

  Style, Weakness, Sometimes

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• I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

  Yancy Butler

  Past, Thinking, Crime

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• The hearing aids are very helpful for speech reading. Without the hearing aids, my voice becomes very loud, and I cannot control the quality of my voice.

  Marlee Matlin

  Reading, Voice, Quality

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• Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

  Rick Ross

  School, Responsibility, Effort

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• Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.

  Bill Mumy

  Running, Giving, Wife

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• Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

  Charley Pride

  Advice, Fans, Praise

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Robert Pozen

  Views, Hurtful, Looks

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• The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Pain, Insightful, Stories

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• Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Dad, Moving, School

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• Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Ideas, Details

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• During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

  George Andrew Olah

  Literature, London, Able

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• Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Strong, Race, White

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better relate, understand, and communicate with our families and loved ones. Dr. Phil recommended reading my new book.

  Louie Anderson

  Believe, Book, Reading

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• If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

  Dario Argento

  Struggle, Littles, Film

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• I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Government, Media

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• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  Walter Martin

  Character, White, Lord

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• I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.

  Geoff Davis

  Iraq, Situation, Well Being

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• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  Ida B. Wells

  Home, School, Simple

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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  Hans Kung

  Men, Evil, Different

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• It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

  Warren Christopher

  Moving, Troops, Force

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• Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.

  Charles M. Vest

  Made, Taxes, Revenue

  "An Interview with MIT President Charles M. Vest". news.mit.edu. December 10, 1997.

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• I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It's just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Sports, Keys, Years

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• Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

  Peter L. Berger

  Religious, People, Way

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• This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Art, Book, Roles

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