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“I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.”

Ifs Men Should Looks Shows Beautiful Hate Term Figures Arms Gay Shapes I Hate Legs Beautiful Things Candy Gay Men Her Beauty

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.”

Law Term Moral Principles Return Morality Moral Principles Counterproductive Diminishing Returns

Book:Knowledge And Decisions

Source: Knowledge And Decisions

“One of my problems, so to speak, is that, in America, we tend to think in relatively short-term. In the Middle East and Asia and other parts of the world, they think in terms of centuries or 500 years or 1,000 years.”

Thinking World Years Problem America Speak Term Middle Century East Middle East Asia Short Term

Author:Jay Rockefeller

“It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work — and, as an educator, in his life as well — this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source: The Sociological Imagination

“Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.”

People Ifs Long Happens Term Long Term

Author:Pierre Omidyar

“Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.”

Long Term Economy Workers Long Term Unemployment

Author:Janet Yellen

“What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.”

Way Long Culture Term Best Way Brands Long Term

Book:Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

Source: Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”

Ideas Enough Term Decision Economic Honest Circumstances Brotherhood Frank Laziness Integration Evaluate Sentimentality Cover Ups Economic Integration

Author:Benjamin Mkapa

“We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.”

People Humans Earth Three Next Term Rights Possibility Planets Decades Corporations

Author:Vandana Shiva

“Near-term deficits are temporary and manageable if - and only if - we keep spending in check, the tax burden low and the economy growing.”

Ifs Term Economy Growing Taxes Lows Burden Spending Checks Temporary Deficit Manageable Ifs And Tax Burden

Author:Jim Nussle

“Well, I really want to encourage a kind of fantasy, a kind of magic. I love the term magic realism, whoever invented it – I do actually like it because it says certain things. It's about expanding how you see the world. I think we live in an age where we're just hammered, hammered to think this is what the world is. Television's saying, everything's saying 'That's the world.' And it's not the world. The world is a million possible things.”

Thinking World Want Wells Kind Age Certain Term Millions Fantasy Magic Television Realism Expanding Hammered Magic Realism

Author:Terry Gilliam

“In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term grown, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our high nature instead of our lower. Any of these will elicit Resistance.”

Way Long Term Integrity Favors Resistance Long Term Rejects Another Way Gratification Immediate Gratification

Author:Steven Pressfield

“A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.”

Long Bigs Life Is Term Secret Benefits Entertainment Long Term Entertaining

Author:Orrin Woodward

“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.”

“Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.”

Term Can Do Memories Brain Exercise Mood Best Things

Author:John Ratey

“I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.”

Ifs Giving Trying Made Ends Waiting Term Chance Mistake Late Give Me Too Late Behaviour Made A Mistake I Made A Mistake

Author:Francois Hollande

“In pragmatic terms, our challenge is less to save the earth from ourselves and more to save ourselves from an earth that, if pushed too far, has ample power to rock, burn, and shake us off completely.”

Ifs Earth Term Challenges Rocks Shakes Pragmatic

Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.”

People World Years Littles Kids Bits Difficult Term Stage Succeed Little Bit Lows Rate Starting Like Me

Author:Daley Thompson

“In these early games you're focused on your performance. Just coming out and playing hard. There's not a lot you can do in terms of preparing and in terms of scouting.”

Hard Games Term Can Do Performances Focused Coming Out Preparing Scouting

Author:Dom Starsia

“My earnest hope is that what we started in terms of building partnerships with communities across America will continue, that we will continue our efforts to reduce crime and violence.”

America Term Community Effort Violence Crime Building Partnership Earnest

Author:Janet Reno

“The president really shouldn't be involved in terms of dictating what course the investigation should take.”

Should Courses President Term Involved Investigation Dictating

Author:Janet Reno

“The person I have admired the most in comedy terms would be Eric Morecambe, who is my total hero.”

Persons Would Be Term Comedy Hero Eric

Author:Dawn French

“If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now?”

Ifs Should Stills Important Growth Term Focus Missing Asking Decades Important Questions

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.”

Thinking Trying Reality Film Form Term One Thing Achieve Creation Designer

Author:Ken Adam

“I don't like the term 'voice-over.”

Voice Term Voice Over

Author:Lucille Bliss

“I have short-term memory loss. I know that some of the memories of the Super Bowl championships are fading.”

Knows Term Memories Loss Bowls Championship Short Term Super Bowl Fading Memory Loss Short Term Memory

Author:Pat Bowlen

“I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.”

Term Ensemble Bland

Author:Lorenzo di Bonaventura

“We adopted a focused strategy of core businesses in Citicorp that play to our unique historic strengths as a global bank that will provide strong growth and attractive returns over the long-term... And we've identified non-core assets we have shed.”

Long Play Strong Growth Term Return Unique Strategy Focused Core Attractive Long Term Assets Shed Adopted Historic

Author:Michael Corbat

“To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.”

Term Musician

Author:Cy Coleman

“Researchers have found very little difference between men and women in terms of the amount of time spent gossiping.”

Men Littles Found Term Differences Amount Men And Women Researchers Time Spent Differences Between Man And Woman

Author:Kate Fox

“Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.”

Wells Term Progress Seeing Like Me Unusual Astronaut Spaceships Rendezvous

Author:Kevin A. Ford

“Comeback records always worry me, especially when they're made by one of my heroes, and I'd heard stories about Gil Scott-Heron recently, about drug arrests and prison terms and other troubles. I wasn't prepared for the ravaged shakiness of his voice on this record or the raw spoken word pieces or the dark electronic backgrounds.”

Made Stories Voice Term Dark Worry Records Pieces Trouble Heard Hero Drug Prison Prepared Backgrounds Comeback My Hero Spoken Word Herons

Author:Will Hermes

“I mean, the first “Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Mean Stories Use Term Perfect Depends Scripts Definitions Time Travel

Author:Rian Johnson

“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.”

Long Energy Term Company Produce Building Pressure Financial Chiefs Boards Long Term Executives Expenses Officers Earning Financial Markets Takeovers Chief Executives

Author:J. Irwin Miller

“There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.”

World Want Two Self Helping Term Media Balance Citizens Strikes Two Things Short Term Bothered Good Citizen

Author:Eli Pariser

“I don't know if I'm a Twitter addict. That seems kind of harsh. I would say it's more that I'm seriously involved. That it's a long-term relationship - like a girlfriend, which my actual girlfriend loves to hear.”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Seems Term Involved Long Term Girlfriend Harsh Addict Long Term Relationship

Author:Chris Hardwick

“It has taken me most of my adult life to come to terms with who I am. To do that, I had to break free of attitudes that brought me down.”

Term Attitude Break Taken Adults Who I Am

Book:True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

Source: True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself

“Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.”

Should Art Use Term Clear Style Photography Art Is Photographer Useless Sophisticated Documents Documentaries Mislead

Author:Walker Evans

“Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?”

Term Party Taken Events Office Importance Election Boast Stagnation General Elections

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.”

Littles Order Turns Term Rooms Fronts Design Connections Innovation Marketing Deeper Insight Connected Critical Driving Consumers Cooks Designer Inquisitive Merchandising

Author:Mark Parker

“Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.”

Passion Term Love Is Obedience Sentiments

Author:Martyn

“My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income...passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.”

Long Real Term Rich Focus Taught Dad Gains Income Long Term My Time Assets Passive Estates Royalty Dividends Capital Gains Residual Passive Income Rich Dad

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“DePaulo says that 'singlism' -- a term she coined and for which we are prepared to forgive her -- is not just aimed at unmarried women.”

Term Forgiving Prepared Unmarried Married Women

Author:Gail Collins

“The forcings that drive long-term climate change are not known with an accuracy sufficient to define future climate change.”

Long Term Known Climate Climate Change Long Term Sufficient Accuracy

Author:James Hansen

“The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art”

“Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.”

Ifs Would Be Felt President Term Party Democracy Thirds Seeking Welcome Impulse Rulers Precedent Continental Mugabe Zuma

Author:Mark Gevisser

“But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.”

Ifs Thinking Long States Government Able Growth Term Ability United United States Economy Obligation Long Term Global Economy

Author:Charles Bass

“Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.”

Ifs Action Term Jazz Latin Vague Polite Intercourse Crude Cohabitation

Author:Charlton Laird

“The dictionary is a closed system in which someone interested in the meaning of a word can go around and around and end up exactly where he started, simply because words are defined in terms of other words, and these, in turn, are defined in terms of still other words.”

Stills Ends Turns Term Defined Dictionary

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

“Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.”

Mother Language Term Expression Horror Letters Tongue Newspapers Editors Predictions Creeps Mother Tongue

Book:Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

Source: Word Play: What Happens When People Talk

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