Quality Quotes - Page 27

• When you do 'Before Sunset,' you know while it's a limited audience, there was a very small group of people that love 'Before Sunrise.' You feel a certain pressure to make sure that you uphold a level of quality that has been a bar. You set a bar and you have to at least match it.

  Ethan Hawke

  Sunset, People, Sunrise

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• One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

  William Hazlitt

  Shining, Excellence, Defects

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1486, Delphi Classics

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• When The Muppet Show ended, we all sat around and said, what kind of television show would we like to do. We felt the need these days are for some quality children's programming.

  Jim Henson

  Children, Needs, Television

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• Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

  Carolina Herrera

  Strong, Intuition, Feminine

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• I'm interested in the dream and subconscious mind, the peculiar dream-like quality of our lives, sometime nightmare quality of our lives.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Dream, Mind, Peculiar

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• One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

  Victor Hugo

  Distance, Range, Defects

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

  Marc Jacobs

  Needs, Louis Vuitton

  "Marc Jacobs to leave Louis Vuitton". Interview With Murray Healy, www.dazeddigital.com. October 2, 2013.

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• When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Men, Entering, Chance

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• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

  Samuel Johnson

  Funny, Life, Being Yourself

  1750-2 In The Rambler.

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• We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Powerful, Intuition

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• If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

  John Kasich

  Generations, World, Environment

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• As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

  Sue Kelly

  Mother, Teacher, Importance

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• Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

  Alveda King

  Government, Agendas, Honest

  "Here's Hoping Herman Cain Will Stay In the Race" by Alveda King, www.foxnews.com. December 02, 2011.

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• Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Self, Discipline, Soldier

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• There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

  Greg Kinnear

  Struggle, People, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.

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• It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Dumb, Luck

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• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Struggle, Simple, Two

  "Celebrating Family and Medical Leave Act With Family Values" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 4, 2013.

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• To make flexibility work, it is not only necessary to change our attitude about who is a good worker and who is not, but we have to train managers at all levels to recognize the difference between the number of hours worked and the quality of work produced.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Attitude, Differences, Numbers

  "The Business Case for Workplace Flexibility: How Employers and Employees Can 'Have it All'" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Girl, Strong, Independent

  Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 31, 2008.

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• I would say probably my most alpha quality is my competitive nature. I'm very competitive, and it tends to bring out very much the man in me.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Men, Alphas

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• We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

  Nick Lampson

  Opportunity, Airports, Important

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• I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to be a master of two art forms. Seriously, you have to be able to draw like a Leonardo da Vinci or a Michelangelo. But also you have to know movement and timing and control that through 24 frames a second.

  John Lasseter

  Art, Two, Hands

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• My best quality is that I talk to everyone. My worst quality is that I talk to everyone.

  Joe Lhota

  Worst

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