Quotes by category:Example

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Jean de la Bruyere

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It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Actually, one Anthem cue is a good example of the process. There is a four-minute sequence of music in Anthem, which underscores a prison sequence, and it lines up with five different, smaller scenes within one large scene.

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Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they should not get paid. Again leadership by example.

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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Henry David Thoreau

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Do you think Bernie Sanders, for example, is citing Theodore Roosevelt as the progenitor of his critique of the banks when actually Roosevelt wanted to keep the banks together and regulate them.

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I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

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Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disap... by Jenna Fischer

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

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Neither my husband nor I am interested in mincing words. If I break something, for example, I have to announce it. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Jennifer Connelly

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If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible... by Jennifer Crusie

If you can't be a good example, you'll just have to be a horrible warning." -Gwen Goodnight

Jennifer Crusie

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If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning. by Jennifer Crusie

If you can't be a good example, then be a terrible warning.

Jennifer Crusie

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Donald Trump was not a businessman to be admired, but an example of what's wrong with discriminatory corporate America.

Jennifer Pozner

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You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

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Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

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It simply isn't true, for example, that being big is in general better for fitness than being small except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that flying slow and high is in general better for fitness than flying fast and low except when there are effects of interacting variables; or that being monogamous is in general better for fitness than being polygamous... except when there are effects of interacting variables... It's not that the underlying generalizations are there but imperceptible in the ambient noise.

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God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

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Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

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I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example... by Jesse L. Martin

I want to be remembered as a great actor - and a shining example of humanity.

Jesse L. Martin

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I hated Shallow Grave, that movie made me angry. And I hated Happiness. I generally hate movies that use extreme violence or gratuitous shock value in place of having a heart. For example: movies that combine extremely sadistic violence with humor I find offensive.

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I do notice that I spend a lot of all my time steeped in different forms of myth, such as English folk music, for example, not really studying it necessarily, but just trying to experience it so I can recall it later.

Jez Butterworth

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