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“Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.”

Long Enough Purpose Reading Waiting My Own Fashion Clothes Statements Naked Modest Long Life Dentist Harper Dropouts Bazaars

Author:Molly Ivins

“The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.”

Ifs Persons Said Facts Certain Statements Speakers Quotations Attribution

Author:Gary Saul Morson

“It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”

Politics Society Politician Statements Unfair

Book:Plays Volume One

Source: Plays Volume One

“Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.”

Trying Hard Stories Religion Dog Missing Theology Statements Logical Poetic Propositions Theological Utterance Dogmatic

Author:W. H. Auden

“If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.”

People Ifs Want Mean Strong Opinion Clear Subjects Fine Consequence Statements Discussion Online Stance Polarity

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Oh, everybody wears a mask. We all put our best foot forward. We all try and make a statement, I'm not saying that's bad.”

Trying Feet Statements Mask

Author:Phil McGraw

“We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.”

Men Trying Stills Political Lying Politics Honor Politician Assuming Statements Code Indifference Cracks Contempt Expecting Inherent Accustomed Scandal High Places

Book:Women and honor: some notes on lying

Source: Women and honor: some notes on lying

“Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.”

Way Mean I Can Facts Morning Spring Window Sentences Lovely Statements Observation Perceive Abstract Concrete Propositions Azaleas

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.”

Years States America United United States Taken Citizens Fundamentals Statements Immigrants Vow Solemn Allegiance Oath Renunciation

Author:Jim Ryun

“It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.”

Firsts Whole Use Culture Literature Novel Independence Intention Accidents Statements Declaration Declaration Of Independence Whole Picture Americana

Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo

Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo

“A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.”

Giving Opinion Listening Critics Rate Statements Balanced Sweeping Second Rate

Book:Collected Pruse

Source: Collected Pruse

“Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.”

Men Wells Might Turns Hero Add Saint Statements Poison One Man Another Man

Book:Sometimes a Great Notion

Source: Sometimes a Great Notion

“Be aware of the words that go into your mind, both conscious and unconscious, because words and ideas can be great tools for your mind to use in coming to appropriate decisions. Remember that a statement spoken in spiritual consciousness can contain great spiritual power. Speaking powerful words of love changes things and outer circumstances as well as consciousness itself.”

“This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own relationship to reality; and this has a great deal to do with imprecision, uncertainty, transience, incompleteness, or whatever. But this doesn't explain the pictures. At best it explains what led to their being painted.”

Art I Can Reality My Own Deals Technique Statements Uncertainty Superficial Transience Incapacity Incompleteness

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I was a student, and as such you generally rely on prior models of how to make art, but these were not satisfying. Then I discovered in photos what had been missing in paintings; namely that they make a terrific variety of statements and have great substance. That is what I wanted to convey to paintings and apply to it.”

Art Wanted Missing Students Painting Models Technique Statements Variety Substance Rely Satisfying Terrific

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“Grey. It makes no statement whatever; it evokes neither feelings nor associations: it is really neither visible nor invisible. Its inconspicuousness gives it the capacity to mediate, to make visible, in a positively illusionistic way, like a photograph. It has the capacity that no other colour has, to make 'nothing' visible.”

Way Giving Art Feelings Painting Capacity Photograph Invisible Statements Colour Visible Association Grey Positively Evoke

Book:Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977

Source: Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977

“I wanted to say something different: the pictures are also a leave-taking, in several respects. Factually: these specific persons are dead; as a general statement, death is leave-taking. And then ideologically: a leave-taking from a specific doctrine of salvation and, beyond that, from the illusion that unacceptable circumstances of life can be changed by this conventional expedient of violent struggle.”

Persons Art Different Wanted Struggle Changed Painting Circumstances Illusion Salvation Violent Statements Doctrine Conventional

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.”

Kind Art War Shows Feelings My Own Subjects Painting Weapons Aspect Tiny Statements Combat Anti War Fascination Bombers

Author:Gerhard Richter

“Taking responsibility nurtures self-confidence, and self-confidence can help you to be a more interesting and attractive person. And best of all, the more you believe in yourself, the more power you possess to attract your good. . . . Those who speak constantly of their right to freedom must understand that an irresponsible act does not bring greater freedom but only greater bondage to the action. One law of life says, "If we are to enjoy freedom, we must accept responsibility." A great awareness is expressed in this statement.”

“I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.”

Said Book Reason Humor Funny Lost Humour Humorous Israel Statements No Reason

Book:Coat of Many Colors: Israel

Source: Coat of Many Colors: Israel

“The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure”

Ifs Men Said Seems Beautiful Views Particular All Things Opposites Ugly Statements

Book:Metaphysics

Source: Metaphysics

“I don't give you editorial control. I want to meet you. I want to interview everybody who's ever known you. I want to see your correspondence. I want to see your bank statements. But you will have no control over what I write. That's why I really believe in the unauthorized biography.”

Want Giving Writing Believe Known Statements Interviews Biographies Editorials Correspondence

Author:Kitty Kelley

“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.”

Long Fit Complexes Statements Topics Slides Powerpoint

Author:Edward Tufte

“The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.”

May Doe Force Voice My Own Rooms Depends Statements Like Me Observation Sympathy My Own Life Impart Horde Prominence

Book:U and I: A True Story

Source: U and I: A True Story

“Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims about your attitudes to or achievements in the carnal and financial arenas can be disputed only by your lover and your financial advisers, whereas by making statements about your taste you expose body and soul to terrible scrutiny. Taste is a merciless betrayer of social and cultural attitudes. Thus, while anybody will tell you as much (and perhaps more than) you want to know about their triumphs in bed and at the bank, it is taste that gets people's nerves tingling.”

Source: General Knowledge

“A watch can only tell us how much time it is, how much time has passed, or how much time must still pass before something will occur. These statements are related not to time itself but only to its measurement or calculation.”

Stills Time Watches Statements Related Measurement Calculations

Author:Medard Boss

“But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.”

Persons Reason Facts Failing Theory Involved Deny Statements No Reason Implicit

Book:Structure of Social Action

Source: Structure of Social Action

“The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.”

Causes Existence Trouble Fine Republican Members Majors Mouths Constant Statements Opening Hospitals Rhetoric Royal Reminders Boost Idiotic Royal Family Hollowness

Author:Alastair Campbell

“I think that if you make a strong statement of principle, even if the folks disagree with you, people will respect you for it.”

People Ifs Thinking Strong Principles Folks Statements Disagree

Author:Joe Klein

“Mandatory auditor rotation is designed to address a potential conflict of interest between a public company and its auditor. Because an auditor is hired and paid by the public company it audits, the auditor's desire to maintain a good relationship with its client could conflict with its duty to rigorously question the client's financial statements.”

Desire Interest Company Relationship Duty Conflict Paid Financial Statements Addresses Clients Good Relationship Rotation Conflict Of Interest Auditors Financial Statements

Author:Robert Pozen

“I'll say, what makes me happy about making movies is, every once in a while through movies we find a kind of honesty. There's an honesty in fiction that's as effective or even more powerful than the honesty of our lives. We can find something that's genuinely true, like a chemistry between people or a statement that speaks to an audience.”

People Kind Speak Powerful Fiction Audience Our Lives Honesty Statements Chemistry Make Me Happy

Author:Shane Black

“Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.”

Silence Statements Silence Is Gross Misinterpretation

Author:Craig Reucassel

“For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.”

Writing Design Discipline Right Now Tables Impact Environmental Statements Biology Biologist Environmental Impact Biomimicry

Author:Janine Benyus

“What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?”

States Shows Kids Jobs United Pay United States Written Blue Dollars Finals Statements Ads Bowls Deficit Collars Super Bowl Forums Blue Collar Blue Collar Workers

Author:Joan Blades

“Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.”

Said Including Statements

Book:The City of Falling Angels

Source: The City of Falling Angels

“When you do have songs where you're going to say something, some kind of statement about cultural or social stuff, that in general people love it. People love to be challenged in that way.”

People Way Kind Song Social Stuff Statements

Author:Catie Curtis

“The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.”

Past Revolution Ultimate Statements French Revolution

Author:John Corigliano

“I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.”

People Feels Important Wanted Felt Band Instruments Musical Albums Satisfaction Statements Variety Rely

Author:Danielle Dax

“When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.”

Looks Mother Guy Stuff Forget Poor Athlete Statements Juniors Best Athlete Poor Family

Author:Eric Dickerson

“I think 'Make love, not war' might be the most profound statement that's ever been made.”

Thinking Made War Might Profound Statements Making Love Make Love Not War

Author:Jorja Fox

“I like to stand out and make a statement.”

Statements Standing Out

Author:Cindy Gallop

“To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.”

Higher Institutions Size Missions Statements Diverse Ecosystems Tag Higher Education Price Tag Mission Statement

Author:Gordon Gee

“In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. ... From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.”

Thinking World Jobs Loses Views Opinion Conditions Point Of View Statements Iran Places In The World

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in conductors, which all previous electricians had only succeeded in loosely binding together qualitatively under some rather vague statements. Even as late as 20 years ago, "quantity" and "tension" were much used by men who did not fully appreciate Ohm's law.”

“The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book in even a limited department of science can be consulted with much profit. This change, of course, has its advantages for the initiated, in securing precision and concisement of statement; but it tends to narrow the field in which an investigator can labour, and it cannot fail to become, in the future, a serious impediment to wide inductive generalisations.”

“There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.”

Science Principles Ultimate Statements Conclusion Can Not Tested

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“It is the rule which says that the other rules of scientific procedure must be designed in such a way that they do not protect any statement in science against falsification.”

Way Science Protect Statements Procedures Scientific Method Falsification

Book:The Logic of Scientific Discovery

Source: The Logic of Scientific Discovery

“All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.”

Ifs Science Term Statements Statistics

Book:The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

Source: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.”

Source: Memories of My Life

“Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission.”

Source: Battle for Investment Survival

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