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“Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'”

May Government Economy Concepts Efficiency Units Elusive Input Output

Author:Nathan Myhrvold

“When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.”

Want Actors Fun My Own Havens Directors Concepts Agree Come Up

Author:Jack Nicholson

“The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.”

Giving Guy Opportunity Careers Concepts Senior Astounded Continued Success

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.”

Use Father Wise Heard Waste Understood Concepts

Author:Ted Nugent

“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”

Needs Children Young Death Comedy Dying Concepts Your Children Parenthood Threatening Fathers Day Young Children Die Young Funny Parenting Funny Parent Children Dying

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.”

Writing Philosophy Political Views Feminism Concepts Ideals Logic Atheist Point Of View Contradiction Brotherhood Secularism Political Philosophy

Author:Michel Onfray

“Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.”

People Used Concepts Funny Life Obsolescence Planned Obsolescence

Author:Robert Orben

“The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

World Lying Truth Is Concepts Objectives Thrive Deceit Objectivity Fading Objective Truth

Book:All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.”

Thinking World Needs States Bigs Games Difficult Interest Concepts Around The World Dirty Captured

Author:George Papandreou

“Every new concept first comes to the mind in a judgment.”

Mind Firsts Judgment Concepts

Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce

“Crucial to understanding federalism in modern day America is the concept of mobility, or 'the ability to vote with your feet.' If you don't support the death penalty and citizens packing a pistol - don't come to Texas. If you don't like medicinal marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California.”

“I disagree with the concept that somehow or another we're going to pack up 10, to 12, to 15 million people and ship them back to the country of origin. That's not going to happen.”

People Country Happens Millions Concepts Ships Disagree Packs

Author:Rick Perry

“I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it's a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff.”

People Thinking Seems Stuff Clear Comedy Concepts Driven Funny Stuff

Author:Todd Phillips

“I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.”

Writing Trying Littles Two Facts Use Fall Fantasy Concepts Sticks Practicals Bloody Midnight Broomsticks

Author:Terry Pratchett

“My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.”

People States Hell Travel Concepts Aim Rage Bells Avoiding Amsterdam Pedestrians Cyclists

Author:Terry Pratchett

“I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.”

Should Believe Whole Politics Careers Concepts Don't Believe Public Service

Author:Dan Quayle

“'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.”

Knows Writing Reason Reality Remember Film Perception Concepts Female Empowerment Deeper Aliens Significance Versus Female Empowerment Eco

Author:Jason Reitman

“It's just that... working on Green Lantern, I saw how difficult it is to make that concept palatable, and how confused it all can be when you don't really know exactly where you're going with it or you don't really know how to access that world properly - that world comic book fans have been accessing for decades and falling in love with.”

Knows World Has Beens Book Fall Difficult Know How Saws Fans Concepts Green Falling In Love Decades Access Comic Confused Comic Book Lanterns Green Lantern

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.”

World War Funny Stupid Concepts War Of The Worlds Eleven Hillarious Numerals Roman Numerals

Author:Joan Rivers

“'Star Trek' is a 'Wagon Train' concept - built around characters who travel to worlds 'similar' to our own, and meet the action-adventure-drama which become our stories. Their transportation is the cruiser 'S.S. Yorktown,' performing a well-defined and long-range Exploration-Science-Security mission which helps create our format.”

World Wells Long Character Helping Stories Action Stars Security Adventure Drama Concepts Built Train Missions Defined Range Performing Exploration Transportation Format Wagons Yorktown

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.”

Thinking Stories Song Grew Grew Up Picks Concepts Albums Eras Singles

Author:Nile Rodgers

“The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.”

Science Energy Social Power Concepts Fundamentals Physics Social Science

Book:Power: A New Social Analysis

Source: Power: A New Social Analysis

“Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.”

Awareness Concepts Universal Conceiving

Book:Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13

Source: Logical and Philosophical Papers, 1909-13

“I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.”

I Can Shows Musician Concepts Jazz Jazz Musician

Author:Carlos Santana

“It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.”

Support Mystery Concepts

Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?”

Trying Philosophy Literature Positive Concepts Negative Worthwhile Introducing

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“America's greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought.”

World Action America Democracy Speech Concepts Contribution Freedom Of Speech Freedom Of Thought

Book:Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989

Source: Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989

“Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rule of law and gives birth to a culture of might, a culture of weapons, violence and intolerance.”

Giving Might Law Culture Born Violence Military Birth Weapons Gun Concepts Intolerance Dictatorship Rule Of Law

Author:Benazir Bhutto

“I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.”

Concepts Togetherness

Author:William Shatner

“Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.”

People Self Enough Successful Rich Concepts Responsible Self Respect Good Enough Awards Respect Yourself I Respect You

Author:Gail Sheehy

“None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.”

Eternal Concepts Abstract Fulfilled Utopia Eternal Peace

Book:Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

“I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.”

Thinking Whole Sex Concepts Symbols Odd Flattering Sex Symbol

Author:Ed Sheeran

“Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Wells Real Enough Body Water Cutting Drink Safe Elements Concepts Extremes Core Shelter Calories Basic Needs

Author:Peter Singer

“I think the concept of seeking fame and fortune in women's football in the States is a bit idyllic.”

Thinking States Bits Football Fame Concepts Fortune Seeking Idyllic

Author:Hope Solo

“We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.”

Use Reality Seems Forget Concepts Constructs Coins Midway

Author:Abdolkarim Soroush

“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.”

“There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.”

Trying Action Motivation Effects Balance Concepts Built Testing Affirmative Action Affirmative Classmates Test Scores Academic Achievement

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.”

Way Stories Film Technology Audience Members Concepts Concerned Remains Noise Bells Popular Film

Author:Steven Spielberg

“I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.”

Thinking Way Film Decision Directors Concepts Producers Right Way

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.”

Men Universe Literature Grows Work Walks Concepts Accomplishment Wrath Stairs Grapes Scientism

Author:John Steinbeck

“I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.”

Years Has Beens Stars Numbers Technology Concepts Raised Experiments Institute Massachusetts

Author:Patrick Stewart

“We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.”

Science Used Order Stars Teacher Heard Students Concepts Classroom Episodes

Author:Patrick Stewart

“Nevertheless, the concept of sustainable development is now known - even amongst those who haven't accepted it - and it's recognized, debated and followed by an increasing number of businesses.”

Numbers Known Havens Development Concepts Accepted Nevertheless Sustainable Development

Author:Maurice Strong

“Energy and environmental regulation, transportation, and broadband policy all benefit when legislators have a basic grounding in the technical concepts behind business models, products, and innovation.”

Energy Behinds Policy Products Benefits Models Concepts Innovation Environmental Regulation Transportation Legislators Business Models Grounding Broadband

Author:John Sununu

“Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for a few days and you'll be thin for life.”

Might Turns Approach Concepts Corporations Diets Crash

Author:James Surowiecki

“Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.”

Way Courses Objects Concepts Illness Mental Illness Theoretical Bipolar Mentally Ill

Author:Thomas Szasz

“No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.”

Shows Purpose Names Nature Conditions Needed Concepts Evidence Illness Obvious Mental Illness Obscure

Book:Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

Source: Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary

“Surfing is such an amazing concept. You're taking on Nature with a little stick and saying, 'I'm gonna ride you!' And a lot of times Nature says, 'No you're not!' and crashes you to the bottom.”

Littles Concepts Sticks Bottom Crash Surfing Surfer

Author:Jolene Blalock

“We're addicted to this concept of civilization - we can't imagine living outside of it because we've had it for 10,000 years, all of what we call history. But according to archaeologists, humanity has been on this planet for millions of years in indigenous form.”

Years Has Beens Form Humanity Millions Imagine Planets Civilization Concepts Indigenous Archaeologists

Author:Serj Tankian

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