Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Wise

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Wren Elhai

We acknowledge that we're not getting the full picture, but at least we get close. We acknowledge our biases and try to work past them.

Travis Bradberry

When it comes to getting promoted, you want to present yourself in a way that feeds into the biases that bosses have about what makes someone promotable. You're already doing the hard work, so why not frame your effort in such a way that it increases your chances of obtaining the position you want?

Geoff Mulgan

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

Billy Beane

I don't want a lot of guys like me who played the game. Quite frankly, I want blank canvases; I want people to come in with new ideas. I don't want the biases of their own experiences to be a part of their decision-making process.

Keith Stanfield

I think prejudice has gotten to a point where a lot of people hold biases in their mind and don't even realize that they're doing it, because it's deeply ingrained in the fabric of what it means to be an American.

Evan Osnos

Analysts, scholars, business people, diplomats, and journalists involved with China spend so much time questioning one another's biases and loyalties that they have even settled on two opposing categories: 'panda huggers' versus 'panda sluggers.'

Alan Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Allen Wallace

The existence of biases hurts recruiting ... intentionally overlooking some things just because you want to promote certain kids.

Ben Edlund

The big challenge for me is that my nature is more towards comedy, so I understand when a comedy thing is working; I know when I'm not bored in a comedy.

Bonnie Raitt

I tend to be freer on the piano. I never took guitar lessons, so my reach exceeds my grasp - what I hear in my head I don't always know how to play. But I love to play over something else. I'm not a self-starter. I get kind of bored with the same three folk chords that I know.

Samuel Butler

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

Eric S. Raymond

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.

Salman Khan

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Marilyn Monroe

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

William Ralph Inge

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Nancy Gibbs

Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.

Cybill Shepherd

No, I always hated modeling. I developed an early hatred of modeling just from having to do it; having won Miss Teenage Memphis, I had to model, and I hated it. It bored me.

Bruce Feiler

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

Ray Charles

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Cullen Hightower

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

Thalia

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Bruce Catton

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America.

Donna Brazile

We are not post-racial. And in many ways we don't even know how to have a conversation about being post-racial. Until we get out of that old-school way of thinking about race and opportunity and the ability to transcend some of the past of this country, then we're going to be stuck in the 20th-century conversation about race.

Pat Coyle

We had a private conversation about a month ago. She told me that I could use her in key moments down the stretch, and she's proven that.

Kenneth Burke

Where does the drama get its materials? From the "unending conversation" that is going on at the point in history when we are born.

Nancy Gibbs

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Pamela Adlon

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

Susie Gex

We've had kids whose parents want them to be exposed to Spanish. This is a good way to do this.

Leslie Cockburn

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Kirk Johnson

You've got 500 million years of history exposed here at Pulpit Rock, Garden of the Gods and in Manitou Springs,

Eric Olson

My fear is that the people who suffered the most when Hurricane Katrina struck will be the people who become most exposed to toxins.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Jan Bowman

Many of our youngsters will never know this musical heritage unless they're exposed to it here.

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Harry Connick, Jr.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

Christo

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

NeNe Leakes

I'm not a real makeup girl - you see me in lots of makeup on 'Housewives,' but I'm really all about skin. Take it from me: Wash, moisturize, and never neglect the neck.

Valentina Zelyaeva

We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

Tinashe

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

Jamie Sale

We have lots of time for a honeymoon, and we're always together.

Bob Mitchell

There is just no prospect of having an accident. We've been doing this kind of thing now for nearly 40 years and have lots of fly-bys of planetary bodies.

Ivan Radenovic

We know that they play slow basketball. We have to put lots of pressure on them and keep it like that for 40 minutes.

IdaRose Sylvester

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already,

Michael Todd

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma, ... It's actually scared me quite a bit.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Robert Davies

He does not see it as a racial thing,

Warren Moon

I don't want to make this a racial thing, because it shouldn't be. But it is significant because it was the first time.

Will Durst

I didn't know that was a racial epithet. I thought it was a geographical designation.

Forrest Pearson

The whole racial thing has been downplayed, but that is what it was. It seems that everyone wants to sweep the thing under the rug.

Ben Williams

I never had a racial term thrown to me the whole time I was at Ole Miss. We were progressing.

Peter T. King

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.

Katie King

We'll probably keep saying all that to ourselves, but it sure doesn't make this feel much better.

Denis Breslin

We're not saying a whole lot right now.

Harold Williams

We are saying we won't look into the provenance.

Eric Dubin

Wait, are you saying because they spoke Spanish they were illegal?

Charles Caleb Colton

There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less than the truth on others. But the fact is that they are in both instances as fraudulant as he would be that exacted more than his due from his debtors, and paid less than their due to his creditors.

Benjamin Franklin

Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted.

Raymond James

What they're saying is the conventional firms are waiting too long,

Chad Caldwell

We're saying (this) is a lockout because of retaliation over that no-layoff arbitration that we won.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Emily Carr

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.