Selected Quotes

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

Art, Light, History

Walter Bagehot (2010). “Physics and Politics: Or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of Natural Selection and Inheritance to Political Society”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

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The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.

Christian Louboutin

Passion, Memorable, Color

"Sole Mate" by Lauren Collins, www.newyorker.com. March 28, 2011.

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Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.

Gustav Mahler

Play, Numbers, Orchestra

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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.

John L. Phillips

Years, Long, Facts

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I'm honoured to have been selected to be the Labour candidate for Manchester Central.

Lucy Powell

Manchester, Has Beens, Candidates

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To represent your country at a home Olympics is something special and I'm over the moon to be selected for Team GB. I was pleased to get the qualifying time in Berlin earlier this year and my sole focus is getting in the right shape for London.

Paula Radcliffe

Country, Team, Home

"Paula Radcliffe hits out at 'frivolous' use of 2012 Olympics cash". www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2011.

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If I should get selected into the Hall of Fame, I'd be able to say 'thank you' to all the legends that are in the Hall of Fame. And also say thank you to my teammates, and also to all the fans. It's going to be like a dream come true.

Jerry Rice

Thank You, Dream, Fans

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But when I was selected, after my very first tour of squadron duty, to become one of the youngest candidates for the test pilot school, I began to realize, maybe you are a little bit better.

Alan Shepard

School, Firsts, Littles

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Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

John Sununu

Thank You, Running, Jobs

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Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species.

Lewis Thomas

Science, Animal, Survival

Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Bill Toomey

Sports, Squash, Creative

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Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

Evgeny Morozov

Running, Accountability, Google

"Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'". Interview with Ian Tucker, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

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She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

Sidney Sheldon

Blood, Naked, Red

Sidney Sheldon (2012). “If Tomorrow Comes”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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Our main inspiration [with Alix MacKenzie], I think, came from the Field Museum of Natural History, because they had pieces which were selected not for art content but for their relationship to the anthropological history of mankind.

Warren MacKenzie

Art, Inspiration, Thinking

Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.

Alec Baldwin

Party, Judging, Lines

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To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.

Dennis Banks

Running, Honor, Bags

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But once the person is selected, at that point that person is independent.

Stephen Breyer

Independent, Persons

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We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

Stephen Breyer

San Francisco, California, Judging

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You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.

Dick Cheney

People, President

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My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

David Copperfield

Relief, Comic, Tricks

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In my everyday life, I just wear jeans, t-shirts and trainers - if I can go barefoot, that's even better. But for the events I have a stylist, and in two hours we have selected a whole outfit.

Penelope Cruz

Jeans, Two, Everyday

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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.

Theodore Dalrymple

Mistake, Past, Choices

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When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks'.

Brian Eno

Government, Talking, Dubious

"Lessons in how to lie about Iraq" by Brian Eno, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2003.

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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.

Harold Ford, Jr.

Running, Country, Thinking

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Tolerance is the value that was selected to put on here, and tolerance is as American as apple pie.

Jay Inslee

Apples, Pie, Tolerance

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