Models Quotes - Page 31

• The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
  It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
  These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
  Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Opposites, Hip Hop

  Song: Natural Beauty, Album: The Martyr, 2011

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• By bridging the literacy barrier through the use of 3D interactive models we overcome the inherent limitations of text. At the same time, language differences become much less important as text is replaced by interactive, 3D images.

  Fay Chung

  Differences, Important, Overcoming

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• We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

  Pericles

  Reality

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• It's just a reality of the business model. People are outsourcing a lot more, and China has established a pretty good infrastructure.

  Mario Morales

  Reality, People, Infrastructure

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• The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Reality, Principles, Events

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• A picture is a model of reality.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.3, Clube de Autores

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

  Margaret Mead

  Heart, Men, Artist

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

  Tim Cook

  Self, Design, Kind

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• I hate when models say 'Oh, plastic surgery is just a wrong thing. What are you talking about? You won the genetic lottery. You look like this specimen that's making people everywhere feel insecure and you're going to ridicule someone for getting plastic surgery?

  Tyra Banks

  Hate, Insecure, Talking

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• The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Way, Helping

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• To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Jobs, Use

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• Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

  Jane Campion

  Romantic, Independence, Today

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• When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.

  John Podhoretz

  Team, Price Tag, Kind

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• At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Ballet, Style

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• I have an appearance on a new TV show called 'Bar Karma' on Current TV. I had the most fun ever making this episode. I play someone with a multiple personality, and I think my fans will be surprised and get a real giggle out of it. It's a new model for TV in that it is interactive with the community.

  Genie Francis

  Karma, Fun, Real

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• From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

  Steven Levenkron

  Strong, Discovery, Agreement

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• When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.

  Jim Costa

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

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• It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.

  Eric Schmidt

  Mistake, Growth, Size

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• As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

  Bernie Sanders

  Class, Age, Mail

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Giving

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• Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

  Neil Peart

  Role Models, Choices, Age

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• The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Dog, People, Political

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

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• The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

  Italo Calvino

  Mistake, Cutting, Ideas

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• I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

  Andrew Motion

  Moving, Want, Sympathetic

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