Transparency Quotes - Page 11

• In Africa, you only have an independent media in only eight African countries, so there is very little transparency. The best gift that rich countries can give Africa is Radio Free Africa and Radio Free Africa will do for Africa what Radio Free Europe did for Europe.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Independent, Giving

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• I was working within a figurative representational framework, and there was a sense of reading the painting as a transparency, or truth, or autobiography, which I think is partially the burden of artists of color - or women, or anybody who is representing a so-called minority position. Are you actually telling a true story, or your own story? You don't just get to tell a story. The readings of the work didn't necessarily conform to my own understanding of mythology, where violence and eroticism and the body and all of these different forms coexist all the time.

  Chitra Ganesh

  Reading, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.

  Rosy Cole

  Writing, Blow, Mind

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• The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he cares about every pixel, all the fonts, all the transparencies and effects. And that shows instantly. People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

  Aaron Patzer

  Real, People, Design

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• Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant.

  Stephen Colbert

  Would Be, Citizens United, Said

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

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• I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. I’d say that in 10 years the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Political, Advantage, Huge

  "Obamacare Architect". Jonathan Gruber's speech on Obamacare at the University of Pennsylvania, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Accounting does not make corporate earnings or balance sheets more volatile. Accounting just increases the transparency of volatility in earnings.

  Diane Garnick

  Balance, Doe, Earning

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• The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.

  Jack Dorsey

  Phones, People, Way

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• To be powerful in South America, you have to be transparent and you have to have a very clean reputation. Transparency for me today is a magic word in South America. Power comes from transparency and a track record of execution.

  Eike Batista

  Powerful, America, Track

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• We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years

  Gwen Ifill

  Real, Years, Accountability

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

  Janet Yellen

  Maturity, Shadow, Banking

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• Science has authority not because of white coats or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out your evidence, and reference the studies that support your case.

  Ben Goldacre

  White, Support, Coats

  Ben Goldacre (2014). “I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that.

  Kathryn Scott

  Thinking, Holiness, Worship

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• To stabilize the nations public-employee pension systems and to prevent federal taxpayers from being billed for failed pension funds, I have introduced the Public Employee Pension Transparency Act in Congress.

  Devin Nunes

  Congress, Taxpayers, Employee

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• Like many musicians, I can hear the weight in the sound. Sound is matter. We speak of the colour of an instrument, of transparency... We can demand more sombre or lighter colours, deeper playing and singing, heavier or lighter sound. And manipulating those means is like creating a painting.

  Laurence Equilbey

  Mean, Creating, Singing

  "There Will Be Joy". Interview with Lydia Perović, logger.believermag.com. August 1, 2013.

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• It may be that these loan arrangements conform to the letter of the law, but they do not conform to the spirit of the law and to the principle of transparency on which it is based.

  Bill Vaughan

  Law, Letters, May

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• Slovakias joining the OECD in 1999 is totally dependent on meeting economic reforms required such as transparency and legislation that permits fair and open conduct of trade and business.

  John Mica

  Reform, Joining, Economic

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• Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.

  John Updike

  Night, Together, Shade

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit Redux”, p.102, Random House

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• I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.

  Mike Quigley

  Government, Accountability, Bills

  "Paulson’s Actions Raise Serious Ethical Questions" by Mike Quigley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2011.

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• The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.

  William Gibson

  Down And, Glasnost, Constructs

  Source: craphound.com

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• The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information, is decentralizing authority and power at a breakneck pace. Those who understand this can break away. Those who attempt to hold back may well be trampled.

  James M Strock

  Making Changes, Break, Authority

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• What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a masquerade. What good stories deal with is the horror and incomprehensibility of time, the dark encroachment of old catastrophes...

  Joy Williams

  Dark, People, Ordinary

  "Joy Williams, The Art of Fiction No. 223". Interview with Paul Winner, www.theparisreview.org. 2014.

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