- Nov 07, 2020
Most Quotes
The extremes people notice most.
This page collects quotes built around superlatives — including a direct critique of George W. Bush's domestic policy priorities, alongside genre-film commentary on luck and poor decision-making. For a look at priority and value elsewhere, see Important quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola.
- Materials
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that on most films it's very difficult to have a backlit movie in an exterior.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Twin Peaks' is like a movie; 'China Beach' is like a movie. These are two of the most cinematic shows on television, and they belong together.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.
- Priorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Priorities are the yearly goals that I'm most interested in achieving, then they become operationalized through weekly goals.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface.
- Key
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the staff. Finale stores notes as relative scale positions in the current key.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same values, some of the same techniques.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
- Show
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do most of my work on the stage, and typically once the show is over, it's over.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything has some consciousness, and we tap into that. It is about energy at its most basic level.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020