Quality Quotes - Page 30

• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Herbert Read

  Military, Artist, Civilization

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

  Keanu Reeves

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Actor Keanu Reeves". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. August 22, 2012.

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• Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

  Kelly Reilly

  Who I Am, Bags, Down And

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

  Christina Ricci

  Unique, People, Might

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• Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

  Samuel Richardson

  Enemy, Meals, Study

  "Clarissa Or The History of a Young Lady". Book by Samuel Richardson, Volume 4 (p. 443), 1863.

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• Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.

  Eric Ries

  People, Superficial, Good Things

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• Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

  Julia Roberts

  Funny, Birthday, Fall

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• It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Self Discipline, Management

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• We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

  Paul Ryan

  Cost, Care, Erode

  Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech, www.nationalreview.com. February 9, 2012.

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• The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

  Marquis de Sade

  Change, Beautiful, Nature

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• We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Aquariums, Essentials

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It's not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don't know how to work with them.

  Sharon Salzberg

  People, Suffering, Looks

  "The Buddha’s Five Protections - Part 1" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2010.

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• I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

  Gus Van Sant

  Thinking, Sentimental, Film

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.

  Susan Sarandon

  Strength, Strong, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Three, Literature, Able

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• Each and every day health centers provide high-quality primary and preventive care to our constituents.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Care, Constituents, Primaries

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• All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.

  Egon Schiele

  Beautiful, Joy, Vitality

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• I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example.

  Eric Schmidt

  Google, Example, Use

  "We're Trying To Answer the Question". Slate Interview, www.slate.com. December 9, 2011.

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• We know that Google Earth and Google Maps have had a tremendous impact on Google traffic, users, brand, adoption, and advertisers. We also know Google News, for example, which we don't monetize, has had a tremendous impact on searches and on query quality. We know those people search more. Because we've measured it.

  Eric Schmidt

  Impact, People, Adoption

  "Text of wired's interview with Google CEO Eric Schmidt". Interview with Wired, www.wired.com. April 9, 2007.

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• The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

  Will Self

  Past, Land, Anxiety

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• We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

  Donna Shalala

  Taken, School, Skills

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

  William Shatner

  Stories, Human Condition, Humans

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• By measuring the proportion of children living with the same parents from birth and whether their parents report a good quality relationship we are driving home the message that social programmes should promote family stability and avert breakdown.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Children, Home, Parent

  "Iain Duncan Smith outlines yardsticks for success of social justice policy" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

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• If Britain is to have a stable, affordable pension system, people need to work longer, but we will reward their hard work with a decent state pension that will enable them to enjoy quality of life in their retirement.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Retirement, Hard Work, People

  "Politics live blog" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2010.

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