Quality Quotes - Page 14

• A woman's sex appeal is an inner matter. It stems from her mental make-up, basically. It's an attitude, not just a question of her physical features - that arrogant quality in a woman's femininity. Otherwise, all beautiful women would have sex appeal, which is not so.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Beautiful, Sex, Attitude

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.

  Rush D. Holt, Jr.

  Thinking, Differences, People

  "One of the Most Famous Scientists in the World Just Explained Why Trump Is an Existential Threat". Interview With Emily Atkin, www.motherjones.com. February 28, 2017.

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• [Margaret] Thatcher could fake her class background, but she couldn't fake the quality of her mind.

  Hilary Mantel

  Class, Fake, Mind

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Happiness is not the endless pursuit of pleasant experiences - that sounds more like a recipe for exhaustion - but a way of being that results from cultivating a benevolent mind, emotional balance, inner freedom, inner peace, and wisdom. Each of these qualities is a skill that can be enhanced through training the mind.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Emotional, Skills, Inner Peace

  "Happiness as a Skill" by Matthieu Ricard, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2017.

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• A poor child who receives high-quality early childhood development is 40 percent less likely to need special education, twice as likely to attend college and dramatically more likely to survive childhood.

  Shakira

  Children, College, Childhood

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The systemic incompatibility between free-market capitalism and the quality of democratic life and respect for human rights has to be modified to take account of such contextual variables as wartime, security threats, and the societal balance between entrepreneurial and working classes.

  Richard A. Falk

  Class, Rights, Balance

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• What came first I would say was the producing. I was a huge fan of Pharrell Williams and around that era, when I was in high school, the producers started getting recognition for all the dope beats: Dr. Dre, Timbaland, and all these dope producers.I also started rapping. I wanted to be Eminem, and that's why I still have those qualities in my music, and that's why I'm able to be so versatile - sing, rap whatever. But really my number one thing is singing.

  Kevin McCall

  Rap, School, Dope

  Source: thesource.com

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• We've seen the bankruptcy of many newspapers. We've seen a further erosion of the line between news and entertainment. But I do believe that there is reason to hope that over time we will see the higher-quality journalism rise to the surface.

  Al Gore

  Believe, Erosion, Entertainment

  "In The Age Of Fake News And Alternative Facts, Al Gore Remains Optimistic". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. March 14, 2017.

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• I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

  Al Gore

  Optimistic, Self, Speech

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think back to some of the pots we made when we first started our pottery, and they were pretty awful pots. We thought at the time they were good; they were the best we could make, but our thinking was so elemental that the pots had that quality also, and so they don't have a richness about them which I look for in my work today. Whether I achieve it all the time, that's another question, because I don't think a person can produce at top level 100 percent of the time.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Looks, Pottery

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• One of the most important qualities in a pope is his judgment of people - can he get around him the people who can put into practice his vision of what the Church must be doing now to fulfill its mandate from the Lord.

  George Weigel

  Practice, People, Vision

  Source: eppc.org

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• That's just me wanting that supernatural tool to tell a story and also not wanting to be restricted by reality, with how we're telling a tale, because we are a heightened reality on Hannibal. There is a larger-than-life quality to the storytelling when it gets into particulars. I like the idea of being able to dismiss reality, depending on if we can sell it as part of the story.

  Bryan Fuller

  Reality, Ideas, Tools

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wanna show you I can out-rap your favorite rappers. I wanna show you I can out-produce your favorite producers. So I'm constantly getting better and I understand that there's always room for growth, especially in quality, sonic quality.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Growth, Get Better

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• "Baby, you know?" my mother once said to me. "I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that." She said, "You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together." Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, "Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie." You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17.

  Maya Angelou

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• The Premier League is the No1 league in the world in many areas. The events, the shocks, the production, the viewing figures, the worldwide audience are by far the best. Do I think at this moment in time it's got the highest quality levels in Europe in terms of Champions League football and domination of that area? In quality terms it needs to rise again to get to that point where it's by far the best in all areas.

  Gary Neville

  Football, Thinking, Champions League

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• My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Elements, Film, Sometimes

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I like to work with actors that have varied experiences. But I don't choose them because of their experience, I choose them because of qualities I think would make an interesting character and to me there is no one way to direct actors, there is only one way to collaborate with one person.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• The hunting season is sacred. It's been sacred in my life since birth. I've never missed a hunting season in 64 years. It's my calling, it's what I am, it's how I was designed, it's what inspires, fascinates, satisfies, and drives my quality of life. And I know that it brings me such joy, and it does such a critical and essential performance for nature and for the environment, that I am dedicated and have been for over 40 years to promoting and celebrating that. I never defend it. I always promote and celebrate it.

  Ted Nugent

  Hunting, Years, Joy

  "The Light from the TV Shows: A Chat with Ted Nugent (“Spirit of the Wild”)". Interview with Will Harris, blog.bullz-eye.com. July 4, 2013.

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• One of the important qualities that I think is often overlooked is just energy. It's vitality, and sort of a life force that some people have and others don't. Probably that is connected to a love of whatever it is that they're doing. Another quality that I think is central is confidence. Again, some people are more blessed with that than others.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Blessed, Thinking, People

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• That's all I can do, is continue to plant the seeds; some will be trees, some will be plants, some will be bushes, some will bear fruits, some are for the season. My constant flow is to keep putting out quality and letting it get into the right hands.

  Salaam Remi

  Hands, Tree, Bears

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• One of the rather unedifying truths about grief is it does block out more or less everything. It has a solipsistic quality to it.

  Decca Aitkenhead

  Block, Grief, Doe

  "Decca Aitkenhead on Empathy and Memory". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2016.

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• I think every one of us dreams, and we know what the quality of a dream is. In many ways, the reason dreams are so - mine are a little bit nightmarish, is that it's when you're really naked and can really face the things you don't face in reality, your darkest anxieties.

  Shirin Neshat

  Dream, Thinking, Reality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even from when Lionel Messi was very young I could see that he was a great player. A lot of people spoke about him, and then when I saw him myself for the first time I could see the amazing quality that he had. I didn't teach him anything - he had enough quality himself.

  Ronaldinho

  Player, People, Messi

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of good government, of the economy particularly. And this has hit education badly. The news you get from the universities in Nigeria is often appalling. I don't think a lot of it gets out. There is the obsession with cults and all kinds of dreadful things going on and all this is taking its toll and it is not surprising that quality of students and graduates who come out is not good. It will not be surprising if this shows in the quality of work they do.

  Chinua Achebe

  Thinking, Government, Talking

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