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• Anderson isn't qualified to make Frank Mir a sandwich

  Chael Sonnen

  Sandwiches, Frank

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• I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats, but I can recommend an extremely good service.

  Graham Chapman

  Cat

  "Fictional character: Vet". "Monty Python's Flying Circus", TV Series (1969–1974), "Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the 20th Century", www.imdb.com. 1969.

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• True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

  Ameen Rihani

  Home, Order, Giving

  Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.67, Syracuse University Press

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• Rock is for everybody; it should be so implicitly anti-elitist that the question of whether somebody's qualified to perform it should never even arise.

  Lester Bangs

  Rocks, Arise, Should

  Lester Bangs (1980). “Blondie”, Touchstone

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• When well-qualified, upper middle-class blacks or Latinos or Asians move to predominantly white neighborhoods, there's what's called the tipping point. That tipping point is generally 15 percent; at 15 percent you begin to see white flight.

  Richard Benjamin

  Moving, White, Class

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.

  Kristina Schroder

  Hunters, Needs, Quota

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• I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

  Willie Morris

  Writing, Thinking, Modern

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• I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Responsibility, Thinking, Government

  "Only Integrity is Going to Count". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1983.

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• While I believe there is certainly a phenomenon of timelessness in art, the people writing today can comment on today in an exclusive manner.

  Michael Hersch

  Art, Believe, Writing

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• God could not have chosen anyone less qualified, or more of a sinner, than myself. And so, for this wonderful work He intends to perform through us, He selected me- for God always chooses the weak and the absurd, and those who count for nothing.

  Francis of Assisi

  Wonderful, Weak, Absurd

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• I want, I think, to be omniscient. I think I would like to call myself "the girl who wanted to be God." Yet if I were not in this body where would I be-perhaps I am destined to be classified and qualified. But, oh, I cry out against it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Girl, Thinking, Body

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Mark Carwardine's role, essentially, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. My role, and one for which I was entirely qualified, was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise.

  Douglas Adams

  Talking, Ignorant, Zoologist

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• What's my credibility? Why are they looking to me for advice? Isn't there someone more qualified?

  Robin Williams

  Advice, Credibility

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• I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Things In Life, Iron

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• The most significant moment will be when we stop referring to the hiring of qualified women (and racial, ethnic and religious minorities) as significant. In other words, when qualified people are hired without regard to race, gender, ethnicity, religious or other differentiating characteristics, that will be the most significant, indeed momentous, event of all.

  Amy Trask

  Religious, Race, Ethnicity

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• Nobody is really qualified to be the president. Basically it's an acting job. You have to act like you're the president. And every four years the country holds a big casting call.

  Richard Jeni

  Country, Jobs, Years

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• Imagine my surprise when it turned out the main thing that I was qualified for was to get another degree and teach Political Science to other people, who would, in turn, teach it to other people! This wasn't higher education, this was Amway with a football team!

  Richard Jeni

  Football, Team, People

  "A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me". 2005.

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• I'm a baseball fan, but I'm not qualified to make baseball decisions, and I don't want to pretend to be.

  Mark Walter

  Baseball, Decision, Fans

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• It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

  Walpola Rahula

  Believe, Teaching, Knowing

  Walpola Rahula (2014). “What the Buddha Taught”, p.18, Oneworld Publications

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• Those who believe for a while make only a brief tour in the kingdom, though thereafter they often feel qualified to inform those who know even less about the Church; but the fact is they were really only tourists - not natives who really knew the kingdom's countryside.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Believe, Church, Tourists

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• You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

  Bill Viola

  Art, Feelings, Experts

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• What could not be denied was that in vast segments of the animal world natural selection of the most qualified individuals took place not by competition for females but by competition for space.

  Robert Ardrey

  Animal, Space, Competition

  ROBERT ARDREY (1961). “AFRICAN GENISIS”

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• Students who are put in a university who aren't qualified tend to have lower graduation rates, they have lower grades, they have lower bar passage rates. You can demonstrate that. You are putting them in position where they are not set up to succeed.

  Mary Kissel

  Bars, Succeed, Students

  "What role did Blumenthal play in Clinton's State Department?". "Journal Editorial Report" with Paul Gigot, www.foxnews.com. May 23, 2015.

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• Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Should Have, Stanford, Access

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think that Joe Biden is qualified in many respects. But I do point out that he's been wrong on many foreign policy and national security issues, which is supposed to be his strength.

  John McCain

  Thinking, Issues, Biden

  John McCain at The Third Presidential Candidates Debate at Hofstra University at Hempstead, New York, www.nytimes.com. October 15, 2008.

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