Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

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.

Bruce Green

People generally don't know that they are developing a particular bias, ... and this study purports to disclose, perhaps, particular biases -- that is, whether liberal or conservative. Often, people simply don't know that they hold a particular viewpoint because those viewpoints are caught more than they are taught.

John O'Keefe

Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.

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.

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.

Terry Proffit

Kent has never been one to stick with a lot of anything. He can do anything, but he gets bored too easily.

Adam Woodworth

Kids can get bored just looking at things. But if they can touch it, throw it, pull it or push it, they really enjoy it. I should know this. I have two children (Tyler, 10, and Alyssa, 4). Right now our target-age group is up to probably 7-year-olds. But we get kids 8, 9, 10 and 11 who have a really good time with it. I want kids to walk out of here saying they've had a really good time. For me, it's really rewarding to see smiles.

Susan Strasberg

My acting career wasn't going where I wanted it to. I wasn't getting good parts. I got so bored with myself that I started writing.

Christopher Moore

The only thing that matters to me about my stories is that they're entertaining and they're funny. And I tend to get bored easily, so I generally throw something supernatural in. I would say they're humorous novels that have a supernatural bent, but that's as close as you're going to get to fitting them all in the same basket.

Quincy Jones

I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?

Kevin Rooney

His own boredom could be a problem. He could stay on top a long time -- if that's what he wants. That's a big 'if.' That's up to him. He's under a lot of pressure, and the next few years will be a problem. He won't mature until he's 25.

Brittany Howard

I was a handful as a kid. I get bored easily. Now I'm pretty chill compared to back then. When I'm on the road, I watch Netflix and, at home, relax or fish.

Manisha Koirala

It is important we do not give this too much attention. Just as in the early days of the internet, porn was everywhere and later people got bored of it, interest in interest in this too will die a natural death.

Steve Coogan

I went on tour and I wouldn't say I was bored with the Perrier show but I started doing this stuff that wasn't as charming as the Perrier show.

Sanjay Dutt

Journalists think twice before striking a conversation with me. I don't know why. I try to make people feel as comfortable as possible.

Howard Rubenstein

He can take you on an intellectual tour of virtually every nation of the world. I had lunch with him and Henry Kissinger last year, and the conversation was back and forth, country by country, taking in politics, government and economics. It was one of the most interesting and extraordinary lunches. If you didn't know his age, you wouldn't think he was 60.

Martin Wright

He just ran out in the middle of the conversation. I thought it was a fight,

Sam Hunt

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

Teju Cole

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we are no longer at all habituated to our own voices, except in conversation or from within the safety of a shouting crowd.

Larry Page

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

Mike Meyer

Had he not been out here playing, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation at all.

Plaxico Burress

He's been talking a little for the last couple of days. We've been laughing, having some fun. He even got on me the other day for having my stuff in front of his locker. But he's a quiet guy. He really doesn't say much. I pretty much had to initiate the conversation and then all a sudden the guy just starts blabbing. Hey, you'd never know that guy could talk so much.

Holly Johnson

I think it's been the topic of conversation for everyone.... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

Jim Marshall

Ken was a very good player. He's a very good friend. We kind of grew up in different eras, but we were exposed to the same things.

Debra Sullivan

Kids need to be exposed to as much as possible.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.

David Hawkins

He's a great teacher. He's doing a great job preparing us for college. He's exposed us to different types of tests (including those in which students identify specimens from microscopes).

Peter Smith

It has been frustrating... this is important information to have. It is potentially a major route whereby the human population was exposed to the BSE agent.

King Krule

Growing up in any big city, you get exposed to so many beautiful cultures. I've grown up with a lot of open eyes around me that's influenced my eyes to open.

Richard Wahlquist

Our member firms are able to offer people training and offer them a variety of different assignments so they get exposed to different kinds of settings.

Stacey Quandt

If you have an operating system or applications with known vulnerabilities, then you're exposed as soon as you're using T-mobile from a Starbucks.

Aaron Warren

If you're around long enough and working hard, ... people will be exposed to your work. It's an interesting time.

Kofi Annan

I suspect there will be lots of criticism.

Annika Sorenstam

I think I played really well today, very solid overall; lots of fairways, lots of greens. I was really never in any trouble.

Ray Depwe

He didn't just sell lots and leave. He made sure there were roads and water there.

Sam Hunt

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

Richard Cotton

I think you will see lots of these discussions going on.

Geddy Lee

I think, basically, the music industry is scattered and in a mess. I think you've got lots of people that are so-called 'experts' that have no idea where it's headed.

Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live like a poor man with lots of money

Nie Haisheng

I can feel that lots of people are thinking about us.

Julia Voth

I am big in Japan... heightwise! But, yeah, I started modeling there in my teens and into my 20s. I did Calvin Klein, Uniqlo, and lots of magazine covers. It's such a beautiful country, and they have beer vending machines right on the street. Love that!

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Wayne Cornelius

The overwhelming majority would go one way or another.

Michael Stoops

The overwhelming majority of perpetrators are teens and young adults. We need to start with young people in public and private schools.

Joe Biden

He doesn't speak for me with that kind of rhetoric, and I don't think he speaks for the majority of Democrats, ... This Week.

Richard Benjamin

By 2042, whites will no longer be the American majority.

Robert Caro

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Robert Ringer

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Ben Williams

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

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.

Will Durst

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

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Ruby Dee

We've got to start saying 'No further. This must stop,'

Tyson Chandler

We stunk it up in the first half. I'm thinking we've got a chance. I'm thinking, get it within 10. That's the only thing I'm saying on the bench: 'Get it within 10.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

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,

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.