Selective Quotes - Page 6

• I'm not a big shopper. I'm very very picky about what it is that I buy, I prefer to buy vintage and then I prefer to be very selective.

  Jaime King

  Vintage, Bigs, Picky

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• To simply say that black people made allegations that substantiated an unfair and selective prosecution where you had more than half of the counts thrown out, where you had 27 counts where it took the jury less than four hours to find them not guilty - that speaks to fact that here we have three civil-rights activists, acquitted. What we have here is a prosecution that was baseless, a prosecution that chilled African Americans right to vote.

  Cornell William Brooks

  Rights, People, African American

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• For me, this is one of the advantages of not using digital, I never know when I have a good photograph! I practice doubt as a way to push myself into alternative compositions by selective focus, different speeds of exposure, and unusual perspectives.

  Michael Kenna

  Practice, Perspective, Focus

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an individual. The "me" in the book is a specialized version of me, the person who Clark manipulated and fooled. I could cover the same years of my life from an entirely different perspective in another book, by concentrating on my experience as a husband, say. But I was selective. I focused on my duping.

  Walter Kirn

  Husband, Book, Blood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.

  Charli XCX

  People

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

  Michael Hastings

  Choices, Argument, Humanitarian

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You need some reason why Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn in the 18th century all flocked to Vienna. What was it about Vienna? They must have known on some level that that is where they would flourish. It's what biologists call "selective migration."

  Eric Weiner

  Vienna, Needs, Levels

  "How your neighborhood coffee shop is brewing geniuses". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. January 21, 2016.

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• I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

  Anna Quindlen

  College, America, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Perception, Attention, Interpretation

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing”, p.23, Random House

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• Hillary Clinton really transformed herself into a national security expert. She decided to join the Senate Armed Services Committee, and she became a real military wonk. She was famous for going to every subcommittee hearing and methodically questioning every lieutenant colonel from the Pentagon about defense procurement or selective service benefits. So that's where she really began to carve out and hone this reputation as a hawk that I think has followed her through the secretary of state years and then into the presidential campaign.

  Michael Tomasky

  Real, Military, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can see that there is scarcely an observable fact unworthy of mention in your notes, and yet you could easily spend more time scribbling than watching, and that would defeat the purpose. So be selective, don't be compulsive, and enjoy your note-taking.

  Robert Pyle

  Purpose, Facts, Defeat

  Robert Michael Pyle, Roger Tory Peterson Institute (1992). “Handbook for Butterfly Watchers”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Art, Mean, Men

  Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 487), 1996.

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• He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Commitment, Different

  "Why Men Are the Way They Are". Book by Warren Farrell, 1986.

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• The information that was contained in a cathedral was based upon a common culture - a common Christian culture - and the elements were chosen for a common symbolic meaning. Someone who knew everything that was represented in a cathedral had a sort of encyclopedia - you can indeed call it that - but it was a selective encyclopedia, like encyclopedias back when they were books and the people writing them were supposed to be specialists in their field. I think today the problem is that people don't know how to choose between different kinds of information.

  Eugene Green

  Christian, Book, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Differences, Twenties, Mammals

  Jonathan Haidt (2006). “The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom”, p.233, Basic Books

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• The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.

  Gordon Willis

  Eye, Light, Doe

  "All women look beautiful to me now". Interview with Chris McCoy, logger.believermag.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Rather than engage in the sort of selective retention that so many investors tend to do and pretend mistakes never happened, I prefer to own them. This allows me to learn from them and, with any luck, avoid making the same errors again.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Mistake, Errors, Luck

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• I've always been selective about materials I choose anyways. The incoming calls haven't been projects that I necessarily want to do. Now I can always be called "Emmy winner Regina King."

  Regina King

  Kings, Want, Winner

  "Regina King’s Primetime". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 13, 2015.

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• Memoir isn't the summary of a life; it's a window into a life, very much like a photograph in its selective composition. It may look like a casual and even random calling up of bygone events. It's not; it's a deliberate construction.

  William Zinsser

  Events, Looks, Calling

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• What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Men, Years

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.344, Vintage

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• I have really good managers and agents who are very selective in what they send me.

  Michael Pena

  Good Man, Agents, Managers

  Source: collider.com

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• Genes which allow females to be less inhibited leave fewer copies of themselves than genes which persuade them to remain highly selective. Among males, the best strategy is exactly the opposite one. The maximum advantage goes to those males with the fewest inhibitions. "Love 'em and leave 'em" is not so much a nasty peice of male chauvinist piggery as an accurate reflection of biological reality.

  Lyall Watson

  Reflection, Reality, Opposites

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• My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.

  Burton Silverman

  Illustration, Color, Training

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• The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Ignorance, Thinking, Engineering

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• Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

  David Simon

  Healing, Reality, Old Habits

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