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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
Ben Carson also denounced [Donald] Trump`s ban all Muslims proposal saying we do not and would not advocate being selective on one`s religion.
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
I love young directors who experiment with subjects. But I am definitely not choosy. I don't get that many offers to be selective.
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.
It's better to be a star on TV and do selective work, rather than act in some stupid film.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
The good part is once I start directing, I can choose the songs I want to do. I'm just selective now when it comes to choreography.
I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.
Human vision is untrustworthy, subjective and selective. Camera vision is total and non - objective.
I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
When we are selective about doing business only with those who believe in our WHY, trust emerges.
If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.
I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective.
Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
New Yorkers should know that no one in the Administration, at the Department of Defense, or at the Selective Service System is advocating the reinstatement of the mandatory draft in any form.
People believe I am selective. I am not. Directors pick me, not I them.
I think everyone does selective reading. Everybody has a filter, and that is real easy for critics to see things from their perspectives, and I'm going, I didn't mean that at all. And believers do the same.
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
I have a lot of family members that served in the American military. I did not serve; I filled out the selective service. It's one of the regrets for my life.
What part of our history's reinvented and under rug swept? What part of your memory is selective and tends to forget?
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills.
I have never clamored for an award and have quietly done my work over the years and have been as selective as possible.
No government can give a selective advantage to a specific company, because that would make competition unfair.
There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.
Even though these days I'm very selective about what roles I want to do, I will do Stargate anytime they call.
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
I have been selective from the very beginning. And I did get to work with some big names like Basu Chatterjee and Shyam Benegal, among others.
Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
The drama can only be brought to its climax in one of two ways -- through the selective brutality of terrorism or the impartial horrors of war.
At the beginning of my career, fresh out of college, I did everything that I could do. And now I'm a little bit more selective. I think that's sort of a natural process.
I'm in a unique position in that my career in music is not over and I have other television things and ventures I can get into. So, it's like I can be very selective when it comes to movie roles.
I keep getting advice on the social media that I should be selective in accepting roles. But, as an actor, I get attracted to every role I'm offered.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.
Eating among the French certainly affected me. After a few years here, I gave up most of my selective food habits.
A grateful heart is not one that is very selective and choosy about what to be grateful for.
I think it remains a film-by-film process, and since I am relatively selective and slow, it can take a while.
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past us in a polite blur.
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species.
I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
My best training came from doing illustrations because it taught me to compose my paintings more effectively, to improve my colors, and to be ruthlessly selective.
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.
Singaporeans like Mr. Alfian Sa'at do not deserve to be admonished in Parliament on the basis of a selective reading of their works.
I am kind of being a little selective in what I do, so it takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it in the end.
I've come to be pretty selective about the type of advocacy that I do, because I kind of feel like it's stronger to just do my work and let it speak for itself.
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.
History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.
In war, everything changes. You are very selective of what you do because everything you do can be the last thing you do in your life.
We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.
I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
In the U.S., highly selective renditions of its history have served in practice to impose blinkers on some of its citizens and catered to vested interests.
I try to keep the happy memories. If that's what you call selective memories, I'm good with that.
