Rating Quotes - Page 6

• What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game.

  John Avlon

  Country, Reality, Self

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• It's unrated, which means it's too confusing to possibly put a rating on.

  John Cena

  Mean, Wwe, Confusing

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• Hey, if I had my choice for social engineering, I'd declare an automatic R-rating for any movie that depicts television commercials. There's a truly dangerous influence on our children.

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, Television Commercials, Engineering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The world is filled with terrible things that can influence children, and movies have depicted them since time immemorial. Should every terrible thing warrant an R-rating?

  Marshall Herskovitz

  Children, World, Influence

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

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• Defaulting on the nation's debt would be cataclysmic. The U.S. Treasury's Aaa rating is the one constant in the world's financial system. When times are bad anywhere on the planet, global investors flock to Treasury bonds because they know they will get their money back.

  Mark Zandi

  Would Be, Debt, World

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• You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings.

  Norman Lear

  Directors, Producers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

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• Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; and shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets one's heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he or she is automatically involved in fear of losing status.

  Laozi

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  "Tao Teh King". Translated by Archie J. Bahm, 1996.

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• One of my producers said this business is like a hamster on that little wheel thing that goes around and around. You may have a great day and get great ratings, but then you've got another show to do - whatever moment of success or happiness you have you've got to keep grinding it out for the next day.

  Sean Hannity

  Happiness, Next Day, Have A Great Day

  "Behind Sean Hannity's Desk". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. October 31, 2011.

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• You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

  Yvette Nicole Brown

  Hard Work, People, Want

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

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• It's a cliche, but Americans are puritanical. In their movies, they are scared of sex, but they overindulge in violence. I could have cut a G-rated version of 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' that would have pleased the American ratings board, but it would have been five minutes long.

  Alfonso Cuaron

  Sex, Cutting, Long

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• Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.

  Frank Abagnale

  Years, Important, Credit

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• Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.

  Julie Chen

  Jobs, Winning, Race

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• When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Finding Yourself, Different, Television

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

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• I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

  P. Chidambaram

  Agency, Views, People

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• The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.

  Gavyn Davies

  Son, Past, Blue

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• Michigan is also the only industrial state that has a AAA credit rating.

  John Engler

  Michigan, Credit, States

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• To serve as prime minister while being too mindful of the approval rating is like serving as a prime minister on a roller coaster. What is important, I believe, is that I really act on promises that I make and leave results. Leave a track record and show that to the Japanese public, who will, at the end of the day, I hope, appreciate it.

  Shinzo Abe

  Believe, Approval Rating, Track

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• The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence.

  Mohamed El-Erian

  Loss, Consumers, Unthinkable

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• Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

  Brit Hume

  Dollars, Down And, Way

  "PBS NewHour" with Terence Smith, www.pbs.org. January 31, 2002.

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• The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

  Felicity Huffman

  Gone, Pressure, Fats

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• I'm the treasurer of the state of Ohio, where, when the United States credit rating was downgraded for the first time in American history, and 14 government funds around the country were downgraded, we earned the highest rating we could earn on our $4 billion investment fund.

  Josh Mandel

  Country, Government, Ohio

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• Because Hightower's problem, among other things, is that advertisers would be a lot less interested in his show than in Limbaugh's, even if they have similar ratings, because of what Hightower is saying.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Would Be, Problem, Shows

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• So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Mother, Country, Successful

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• I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.

  Oren Peli

  Office, Waiting, Attention

  "‘Paranormal Activity’ Director Oren Peli Talks About Creating the New ABC Show ‘The River’" by Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. February 10, 2012.

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• I love beating the men. When I beat 'em in the ratings, when I beat 'em in the salary, I always say, 'One more for the girls.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Girl, Love Is, Men

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