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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.
I wasn't a part of any real clique at school but had a select few friends that I would open up to.
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective. — © John Smith
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
Thankfully, I have got the ear to select music, which I think I have inherited that from my father. That matters a lot, when you are recording a song.
If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
What could be more satisfying for an actor than having the liberty to select and do the work of his choice.
The conquest of space is not merely a technological project of interest to a handful of select scientists and specialists, valuable though that research and information may be.
Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few. — © Ken Robinson
Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them. A culture of creativity has to involve everybody, not just a select few.
There's something to be said for being on a team for your whole career. Not many players have done that. Only a select few. That's a goal to accomplish.
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
If the president alone was vested with the power of appointing all officers, and was left to select a council for himself, he would be liable to be deceived by flatterers and pretenders to patriotism.
I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.
The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it.
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
One should use great care to select an employer who will be an inspiration, and who is, himself, intelligent and successful
I'm not just a voice who wants to sing on anything. I co-produce, I want to select who comes in and plays on what songs, who to duet with and all of it.
I have always been intuitive as far as work is concerned and would continue to select projects based on my gut feel.
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.
Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
There is no way in the world anyone else could do my wedding other than myself, along with whomever I select to do various things.
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis
A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts.
As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities. — © Jean de la Bruyere
It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.
To photograph is often compared to an act of redemption - to select from an infinite number of choices that which is to be remembered.
I would say if we can select children who are not going to be severely disadvantaged, then we should do so, but I think it has to be done by voluntary choice.
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work. — © Jose Saramago
I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.
The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.
Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.
I don't want to make fictional characters who are perfect - that's a vanilla situation - but the fact is you are allowed to more carefully select and curate what it is you're going to explore.
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
I sometimes think that unions don't understand that we live in a free society, and people have the right to not select union representation if they don't want it.
I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings.
We're very careful to select what domains we'll build to serve. I completely believe in domain-specific architectures.
Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.
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