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“I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so you could still have a hard PG-13 and open up your audience. Anybody can read the graphic novel. If you're 14, you can go out and buy it, and I felt that if you're 14 you should be able to see this movie [The Loosers].”

Ifs Should Stills Hard Able Certain Felt Novel Audience Violence Amount Screens Graphic Cheated Graphic Novels Cheated On

Author:Sylvain White

“Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.”

People Thinking Made Sometimes Wanted Amount Made It

Author:Raekwon

“There are people [in Uganda] who hate Idi Amin, a small amount. And then there are the people who really admire him, like a hero. And then there's a large group who say, 'We know that all these murders and atrocities occurred, but he did all these great things.'”

People Knows Hate Groups Amount Hero Murder Great Things Admire Atrocities Small Amounts Uganda Large Groups

Author:Forest Whitaker

“If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.”

Ifs Littles Enough Might Certain Chance Responsibility Months Amount Luck Rely Guarantees Dedicated Cash Ambitious Cunning Guarantees That Hunches Each Month

Book:The private experience, Elliott Erwitt

Source: The private experience, Elliott Erwitt

“The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment.”

Kind Successful Environment Information Products Depends Amount Available Advertising Consumers Effectiveness

Author:Michael Schudson

“Normal people, who grow up with compassion, never amount to anything. They're the ones who end up gluing those little dots on the highway. Or, putting glue on the dots for the guy who glues dots on the highway. Screwed up people, who weren't coddled or raised with compassion, we get stuff done. Sure, we feel a little alone and abandoned, but, we're... very... happy. Why can't you love me, daddy?”

People Feels Littles Ends Done Guy Grows Stuff Compassion Growing Up Amount Normal Raised Abandoned Very Happy Daddy Highways Dots Glue Screwed Up

Author:Christopher Titus

“To be successful in life, there are many hurdles you have to get over. For me, the biggest hurdle to success has always been failure. But, growing up, my Dad was always positive... that I'd never amount to anything.”

Success Growing Up Successful Growing Amount Dad My Dad Being Successful Get Over Hurdle

Author:Christopher Titus

“What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts are overwhelmed by the amount of images, or they can't distinguish anymore between Rwanda or Bosnia or Somalia.”

People World Want Worry Amount Instinct Our Relationship Overwhelmed Rwanda Bosnia Somalia

Author:Susan Meiselas

“Curation is a form of pattern recognition - pieces of information or insight which over time amount to an implicit point of view.”

Form Views Pieces Information Amount Patterns Insight Point Of View Recognition Implicit

Author:Maria Popova

“I only work out because I have high anxiety, and if I don't I tend to... I say I'm like a border collie. If I don't have something to expend my energy, I chew the furniture. So it just helps me level out so I don't do copious amounts of drugs.”

Ifs Helping Energy Levels Amount Drug Anxiety Work Out Borders Help Me Furniture Collies High Anxiety

Author:Jake Abel

“When you have nothing but big friends, you never get into arguments - except one. And that is, who is the biggest? I'll let you know right now, there's only one way to settle this. We all get in a bus and we go to Disney and we get on a roller coaster - whoever gets the least amount of clicks on the safety bar is the big one.”

Knows Way Bigs Amount Right Now Argument Safety Bars One Way Settling Bus Clicks Roller Coaster Coasters Fluffy

Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“I was troubled by the presence of a shoe museum because it forced me to ask a very burning question: would my body be able to physically survive the amount of dope I would need to smoke in order to visit a shoeseum?”

Needs Body Able Order Asks Amount Shoes Burning Smoke Museums Dope

Author:Arj Barker

“here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.”

Television Materials Huge Amount Notes Presenting Workload Placating

Author:Louis C. K.

“Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.”

Real Beautiful Turns Rich Clear Information Amount Messages Intelligent Sexy Data Confused Quantity Turn-on Very Beautiful Concise Compression

Book:The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

Source: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size

“I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time.”

Want I Can Jobs Careers Football Amount My Time Being The Best

Author:J. J. Watt

“It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.”

Kind Littles Hard Realizing Amount One Day Wake Up Accomplish Accomplished Unexpected

Author:Colton Haynes

“How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.”

“It's very early in the market. I don't want to pretend I know exactly how this rolls out. But there's been an enormous amount of interest.”

Knows Want Interest Amount Enormous

Author:Joel Klein

“The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness.”

Thinking Stills I Can Certain Interest Amount Unconsciousness

Author:Sarah Moon

“I think all photographs lie. They capture such a small amount of a person's personality, if they capture anything.”

Ifs Thinking Persons Lying Personality Amount Photograph Capture Small Amounts

Author:Martin Schoeller

“Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.”

Amount Sorrow Shallowness

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“All of those art-based fields are similar in that they're all hard to make a living in and they all require an intense amount of training and discipline.”

Art Hard Fields Amount Discipline Training Intense

Author:Alicia Witt

“There's this notion that in order to draw attention and to be considered for roles I want to be considered for, you need a certain amount of notoriety.”

Want Needs Certain Order Attention Roles Amount Draws Notion Notoriety

Author:Bryan Cranston

“Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”

Mind Enough Desire Strong Results Fire Achieve Amount Weak Heat Strong Enough Superhuman Small Amounts Strong Desire Desire To Achieve Desire For Power Superhuman Powers

Author:Napoleon Hill

“The waterfall method amounts to a pledge by all parties not to learn anything while doing the actual work.”

Party Amount Method Pledge Waterfalls

Author:Clay Shirky

“The amount of money we receive will always be in direct ratio to the demand for what we do; our ability to do it; and the difficulty in replacing us.”

Ability Amount Demand Direct Difficulty Ratios

Author:Earl Nightingale

“I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.”

Age Young Amount Young Age

Author:Shaun White

“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.”

Ifs World Way Body Certain Results Brain Quality Compassion Meditation Amount Method Impact Train Perceive Each Day New Ways Our Thoughts Neuroscience Evaluate Cultivating Verify

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.”

Men Done Natural Study Talent Crime Amount Holmes Detection Villainy Natural Talent Study In Scarlet Scotland Yard

Book:A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

“Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.”

Book Next Audience Amount Equal Female Criticism Males Clubs Reviews Sections Publishers Great American American Writer Book Club Females And Males

Author:Jami Attenberg

“Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.”

Knows Courses Amount Discipline Intellectual Infinite Acquire Accurate Considering

Book:The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

Source: The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd

“I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I don't need to.”

Needs Millions Records Amount Sells Selling Embarrassing Marxist Borderline

Author:Steve Earle

“The conference also has a moral duty to examine the corruption of science that can be caused by massive amounts of money. The United States has disbursed tens of billions of dollars to climate scientists who would not have received those funds had their research shown climate change to be beneficial or even modest in its effects. Are these scientists being tempted by money? And are the very, very few climate scientists whose research is supported by industry somehow less virtuous?”

“The climate's sensitivity to greenhouse gases is considerably lower than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims - so much lower, in fact, that the warming we would expect from doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be quite modest and offer very little risk.”

Littles Facts Would Be Risk Amount Offers Claims Climate Climate Change Atmosphere Modest Carbon Sensitivity Greenhouses Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases

Author:Kenneth P. Green

“The truth is that climate alarmism has become the most expensive, and the most wasteful, project in the history of the world. It is junk economics built on junk science. It amounts to no more than hot air, yet it looks set to beggar our grandchildren.”

World Looks Air Amount Truth Is Projects Built Economics Hot Climate Expensive Grandchildren World History Junk Beggar Hot Air

Author:Roger Helmer

“Yes, actually I was pretty amazed by the amount of stuff my parents put up with while I was living in their house. They had experienced all that before with older brothers and sisters, so it was fairly strict. The fear-of-God thing was pretty set and I blindly followed it until I reached a certain age. Then I just began questioning my belief system.”

Age Certain House Belief Stuff Parent Brother Amount Questioning Amazed Strict Brothers And Sisters Belief Systems Older Brother

Author:Rozz Williams

“I was also thinking that I only had a certain amount of time to make music and to spend it in that city. And everybody else... you know the story 'Oh, New York it's such a great place, but it's so expensive to live here and there's so much to do.' You go there for inspiration and you end up getting a job to pay bills. I thought I must fight that at all costs.”

Thinking Knows Ends Stories Inspiration Jobs Certain Fighting Pay Cities New York Amount Cost Bills Expensive Here And There

Author:Roy Montgomery

“When I said that something was going to cost a certain amount of money, I actually knew what I was talking about. The biggest problem that we were having on the financing front was people with lots of money saying "you need more money to make this film [Moon]," and us saying "no this is the first feature film we want to do it at a budget where we sort of prove ourselves at the starting end of making feature films; we can do this for $5 million." That is where the convincing part between me and Stuart came, we had to convince people with money that we could do it for that budget.”

“In Egypt the neoliberal programs have meant statistical growth, like right before the Arab Spring, Egypt was a kind of poster child for the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund:] the marvelous economic management and great reform. The only problem was for most of the population it was a kind of like a blow in the solar plexus: wages going down, benefits being eliminated, subsidized food gone and meanwhile, high concentration of wealth and a huge amount of corruption.”

“Start with the least amount of money possible. Some people say they need a certain amount to start, and I say you need a half of that or a third of that. That gives you the biggest return. If you put all your eggs in one basket, it's harder to adapt when you need to. Unless it's very capital-intensive, you don't need much money.”

People Ifs Needs Giving Certain Half Return Amount Thirds Harder Eggs Baskets Eggs In One Basket

Author:Cameron Johnson

“The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.”

Knows Way Has Beens Body Religious Wonder Know How Amount Happenings Remarkable Phenomenal

Author:Amitabh Bachchan

“What inspired me most was the resilience of the Cambodian people. The country is still living with the trauma of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. People lost everything - family, friends. The rich culture of Cambodia was nearly extinguished. They are a nation of survivors. And while poverty and infant mortality affect a disproportionate amount of the people there, those I met were hopeful for the future and doing the best they can with what they had.”

“For instance, people who have to walk miles for water - and we just turn on the faucet and let it run. Or people right here in our country [USA] who are food insecure, and yet we as a nation throw out an inconceivable amount of food.”

People Country Running Turns Nations Water Walks Amount Miles Instance Our Country Usa Insecure Turn-on

Author:Joy Bryant

“Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.”

Trying Kids Lasts Three Amount Breaths Foundation Routine New Things Family Life Self Centered Daily Routines

Author:Camila Alves

“I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.”

Thinking Causes Impossible Amount Ridiculous Editors Headache

Author:Shane McCrae

“I have been asked to lend people money - I now only ever give whatever amount is comfortable without thinking it will come back, otherwise when you see that person wearing a new coat or going on holiday you think but yes, where is my money?”

People Thinking Giving Persons Has Beens Amount Comfortable Holiday Coats Going On Holiday

Author:Anne Robinson

“Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.”

People States Use Energy United Half United States Imagine Ready Amount Easier Benefits Europe Scales Fuel Fossils Fossil Fuel

Author:Bill McKibben

“When you're depressed, you know, it's like the world has ended. Even getting out of bed takes the most massive amount of effort. But when you're manic, oh, it's so addicting. You know, I have finished novels in two weeks in manic stages.”

Knows World Two Effort Novel Week Stage Amount Bed Finished Massive Two Weeks Manic

Author:Sherman Alexie

“I begin with understanding the intentions of the story. That helps me to zero in. Then I gather research for each individual character and analyze the time period with comparisons to the figure and the facial structure. It helps to be comfortable with computers because the massive amount of research is kept electronically and shared with my staff this way. Very little is printed out. I work with an illustrator to come up with the proper silhouettes and details of the clothing from the time period to time period. And on and on.”

“There's still nearly the same amount of slavery, if not more, in the world today, as there was at the height of the slave trade.”

Ifs World Stills Today Amount Slavery Trade Slave Height World Today Slave Trade

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

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