Straightforward Quotes - Page 5

• How a designer gets from thought to thing is, at least in broad strokes, straightforward: (1) A designer conceives a purpose. (2) To accomplish that purpose, the designer forms a plan. (3) To execute the plan, the designer specifies building materials and assembly instructions. (4) Finally, the designer or some surrogate applies the assembly instructions to the building materials. What emerges is a designed object, and the designer is successful to the degree that the object fulfills the designer's purpose.

  William A. Dembski

  Successful, Purpose, Degrees

  William A. Dembski (2006). “No Free Lunch: Why Specified Complexity Cannot Be Purchased Without Intelligence”, p.11, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I hope I have a few years left in my 'last days,' but whether I do or do not, I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgment bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language I could summon, that the Book of Mormon is true, that it came forth the way Joseph said it came forth and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Book, Years, Faithful

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• Had the Bible been in clear straightforward language, had the ambiguities and contradictions been edited out, and had the language been constantly modernised to accord with contemporary taste it would almost certainly have been, or become, a work of lesser influence.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Atheism, Taste, Language

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• Obama was willing to compromise and Republicans were not. That's not a biased statement. One of my problems with the limitations of journalism is that straightforward descriptions of reality are seen as being biased.

  Jonathan Alter

  Reality, Journalism, Compromise

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• Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

  Jonathan Jackson

  Character, Interesting, Ifs

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called 'Constitutional law,' much of which has no basis in that document....The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of 'a living constitution,' 'evolving standards' and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Simple, Law

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• Nobody beats a bunch of journalists for inflating their rather mundane straightforward chores with a lot more melodrama and self-importance than the job should be asked to contain.

  Larry King

  Jobs, Self, Journalism

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• Well it's fairly straightforward: there isn't one [a god]. And there's no evidence for one, no reason to believe that there is one, and so I don't believe that there is one. And I think that it is rather foolish that people do think that there is one.

  Peter Atkins

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• The Pakistanis are straightforward and sometimes extremely stupid. The Indians are more devious, sometimes so smart that we fall for their line.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Smart, Stupid, Fall

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• A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.

  Bradley Denton

  Mother, Believe, Fate

  "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Book by Bradley Denton, 1991.

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• I'm not interested in doing a simple, straightforward action movie, unless they want to pay me lots of money.

  Julian Jarrold

  Simple, Want, Pay

  Source: collider.com

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• Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.

  Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

  Christian, Rome, Community

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• Connection between life and radioactive nuclei is straightforward. No life without tectonic activity, without volcanic activity. And we know very well that geothermal energy is mostly produced by decay of uranium, thorium, and potassium.

  Garik Israelian

  Energy, Connections, Decay

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• [O]ne could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.

  C. Wright Mills

  Pages, Social, Results

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.31, Oxford University Press

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• To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dream, Attention, Firsts

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• Portraiture keeps me humble. It's simple and straightforward. There is nothing more interesting I can make up than the figure sitting right in front of me.

  Jemima Kirke

  Humble, Simple, Interesting

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

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• Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

  Jasper Fforde

  Light, Poetry, Mind

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• I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

  Amy Winehouse

  I Like You, Player, Games

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• My parents were both very intellectually honest, straightforward, and for them, faith meant that you were fully engaged.

  Rob Bell

  Parent, Honest, Engaged

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• The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

  Joel Achenbach

  Integrity, Enron Scandal, Greed

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• There is no straightforward negotiation with a four year old.

  John Irving

  Years, Four, Negotiation

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• When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Secret, Desire

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• I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

  Lemar

  Thinking, Pay

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• It ought to be quite as natural and straightforward a matter for a labourer to take his pension from his parish, because he has deserved well of his parish, as for a man in higher rank to take his pension from his country, because he has deserved well of his country.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Men, Matter

  'Unto this Last' (1862) preface, 6 (4)

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• I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

  Britney Spears

  Mom, Speak, Changed

  "Britney Spears is Back". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 16, 2011.

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