Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wen Jiabao

I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

Wen Jiabao

It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

Zubin Mehta

I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.

John Malone

The pilots understand. It's a critical time period.

David Thewlis

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

Noah Baumbach

I can feel pretty critical of people, and I understand that sort of feeling of when you're going through something that's painful, taking it out on the world and projecting onto other people, finding faults with other people because it's harder to find faults in yourself.

Torsten Wiesel

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period of postnatal development.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation are not utopian ideals. They are critical to global peace and security.

Valerie Simpson

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

Brewster Kahle

Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.

Chad Hurley

EMI is a proven leader in the emerging digital music landscape and one of the world's largest and most respected music companies.

Luke Harding

Snowden was extremely good at digital self-defense. When he was employed by the C.I.A. and N.S.A., one of his jobs was to teach U.S. national security officials and C.I.A. employees how to protect their data in high-threat digital environments.

Don Scardino

Studios are so used to digital now, and there is a mythology that it's cheaper. But it's really not cheaper. For instance, digital is great for night exteriors; everybody knows it's a video tap, so it's very responsive to light. So you can go out at night, shoot with digital, and it's gorgeous, beautiful to look at.

Hedi Slimane

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

Albert Lin

Those hoping for the price of digital songs to rise toward the prices paid for ring tones are out of luck. Some hoped it could rise from 99 cents, $1, to the $2, $3 or $4 paid for ring tones. That's not going to happen.

Hakeem Jeffries

In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.

Hod Lipson

The moment somebody is making money off the recipes, that's when you'll see digital rights management around it.

James Hood

We'll use the funds to get some things we weren't able to get before, ... We'll probably get a digital camera, printer, some night-vision equipment, a digital recorder, Motorola 2-way radios and some fingerprinting kits.

Beeban Kidron

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

Ray Charles

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Tyler Hilton

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

Ving Rhames

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Kelly McCreary

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Jack Johnston

We're not going out as much -- eating, entertainment -- we're trying to get rid of those kind of things.

Eric Snow

To me, the rules are made for guys to score more. And I guess that's where the entertainment comes in.

Helen Oyeyemi

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

Ivana Milicevic

I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Paul Little

The outlook for the group is very positive.

Tadashi Yanai

Politicians make decisions in favor of their interest groups or their supporters back in their hometowns.

Vincent Gallo

I'm sorry I'm not gay or Jewish, so I don't have a special interest group of journalists that support me.

Nick Saban

We are not in the playoffs, but it was not all in vain. This group was a team for the last six weeks of the season, for sure.

Chris Hughes

When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip. You walk down the street and you see lepers and beggars, and there were several of us, a group of Americans. I remember we were just trying to park one night somewhere and people were just sleeping in the parking lot.

Nelson Mandela

Tomorrow the two groups will meet on the ship,

David Evans

To me, the whole strategy is how to communicate information to a group of people. People tune out if you don't hold their attention.

Shannon Wallace

We're doing this to provide residents or groups an opportunity to use tools they might not otherwise have for beautification. It's a large, 9-foot trailer that will have everything from a rake or a shovel to a hedger and a lawnmower.

Walid Jumblatt

We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.

Will Hobbs

Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.

Jason Giambi

You couldn't have done that without involving me?

John Vane

Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity.

Steve Thomas

My objection is it's involving the students in a controversy.

Bea Arthur

I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.

Jeremy Corbyn

There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, and I think everyone knows that.

Ed Atorino

The probability is going up that there's going to be some kind of transaction involving Knight Ridder.

Jennifer Laster

Online shopping, anything involving pictures, downloading music can use up too much of a taxed system.

Estelle

My favorite film involving scarves was little Edie in 'Grey Gardens.' I often wear scarves like that, under hats.

Bill Hader

I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.

Mavis Staples

The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.

Jay Johnson

Where Jeff could score 25 or 30 points now we're getting 12 points from this post player, 12 points from this post player and maybe six from another. It's more evenly distributed.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

Chris Christensen

Rocky Mountain National Park, Winter Park and the mountains were very important to Jeff. We are at peace knowing that Jeff was doing something he loved and we are proud of him.

Darren Maynard

Our No. 4 through 6 really stepped it up. Especially Jeff Snyder.

Rick Comley

I thought Jeff was really sharp, and the puck is starting to go for us.

S. Hughes

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp; they were on the money.

Bobby Jindal

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

Alan Cohen

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Alan Cohen

Optimism may sometimes be delusional, but pessimism is always delusional.

Bill Owens

Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.

Jessie Evans

We need to have more patience. We need better leadership ... especially from our perimeter players.

Robin S. Sharma

There is a new model of leadership in the world that rides on the premise that every single person in the organisation can be a leader. Titles are important for structure and order, but real power does not come from titles.

Mark E. Smith

Seventy-five percent of our networks are storage related.

Kara Swisher

Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

Doug Gay

It hasn't really surfaced in official networks but that is something we have heard,

E. Hicks

It does make people more vulnerable. The wires aren't there to be seen. ... Wireless networks are much less secure.

Matthew Felling

That was really a retelling of an old tale at that point, and that's not what most people turn to news networks for.

Leo Hindery

The platform has now been established. The networks will need to come in and morph,

Ralph Nader

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

Andrew Heyward

Each of the networks is in a period of transition. It is extraordinary.

Stuart Levey

Identifying and designating supporters of WMD proliferation disrupts the networks that are vital to illicit weapons programs.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Marissa Mayer

This has been one of the longstanding unfilled user needs. We saw a search need where we weren't providing users with the highest-quality results that we could.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Richard Jay

For now and the rest of 2001, we will be taking a quarter-by-quarter approach, providing periodic updates as the year progresses,

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Andrew Patel

We will be providing him with a zealous defense.

Mike McGuire

He's going to put all his resources into providing for his family.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Jeff Alexander

It's one thing to have these services down the road; it's quite another when you're already providing these products.

John Heimlich

We're not saying things are hunky-dory. All we're saying is that some of the indicators we look at and some of the recent trends are promising, and that's the first time I've used that word in a long time.

Marcia Miquelon

We've already rehearsed in the recent single-digit weather, so were ready.

Dr. Baxter

We're seeing a lot of influenza, more than in recent years. This is a very big year.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Dean Taylor

There is no secret formula; they just do things better than everyone else, ... They have scouted and evaluated their own players, and other players, better than any other team in recent memory.

Mark McCutchen

Clarksville has hedged small amounts in recent months. They do know about hedging, they just haven't done much lately." ()

Carl McDonald

We think Aetna's results will be more than enough to sustain the stock's recent strength.

Robert Webb

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.