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Good Example
Must
The professionals must set a good example.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Baseball
Undergone
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
Always
WWE
There's a lot of goals I've set in the WWE that I want to accomplish. I'm always setting goals for myself, and someday I want to be in the Hall of Fame.
- A.J. Styles
Think
I Think
I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
- Aaron Koblin
Week
Could
I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
- Aaron Patzer
Living
Like
I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
- Aaron Rodgers
Small
Instance
We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
- Aaron Sorkin
Work
Part
My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'
- Aaron Sorkin
Community
Geographical
The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
- Aaron Swartz
Rest
Standard
My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
- Abby Wambach
Necessary
Certainly
We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.
- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Individual
Lives
Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
- Aberjhani
Like
Movie
Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
- Abigail Breslin
Small
Making
We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
- Abigail Johnson
Going
May
There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
- Abigail Johnson
Dressed
Professionals
Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
- Adam Cohen
Practice
Allow
The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
- Adam D'Angelo
Mind
Always
What is a struggle is that acting isn't a place where you go to work and you do that thing. There aren't set boundaries, like an office, where you go and work. For me, the work is always on my mind.
- Adam Driver
New
Tonight
Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
- Adam Kinzinger
Goal
Brands
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
- Adam Kluger
Director
Tone
All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.
- Adam McKay
Wanted
Ever
Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
- Adam Peaty
College
Hang
I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a nerd who didn't look like a nerd. I never really fit into any social set.
- Adam Rapp
Curiosity
Which
We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity.
- Adam Savage
Kind
Could
I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.
- Adelaide Clemens
Means
Ideal
Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.
- Adlai Stevenson
Fantasy
Sometimes
Sometimes the fantasy writers set their novels in an ancient Earth, sometimes a parallel Earth, or, quite often, they offered no explanation at all as to the temporal and geographic location.
- Adrian McKinty
Based
Readers
Readers often bring a different set of criteria to the work based on the format.
- Adrian Tomine
Judgment
Cast
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.
- Aeschylus
Country
Religious
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
- Aga Khan IV
See
Jackson
When you walk onto a Peter Jackson set, you can see straightaway that money isn't an issue.
- Aidan Turner
Love
Mind
You can see God from anywhere if your mind is set to love and obey Him.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Funding
Private
The question for Dropbox is whether, when they run out of private sources for funding, they will be able to maintain that valuation when they go to public sources for funding and their valuation is set on the public markets.
- Aileen Lee
Life
Try
I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.
- Ajith Kumar
Mass
Films
The films I've done with all my heart have gone on to become huge hits. When I set out to do a 'mass masala' intending to please B and C centres, it bombs.
- Akkineni Nagarjuna
Need
Using
Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
- Al Gore
Eternity
Goes
If you had a Ministry box set under your Christmas tree, wrapped in paper, 'From Beer to Eternity' is the bow that goes around the present, you know what I mean?
- Al Jourgensen
Game
Chess
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
- Al Leiter
World
Never
I never set out to beat the world. I just set out to do my absolute best.
- Al Oerter
Strong
Aim
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
- Alain Robert
Small
Obey
We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.
- Alan Bennett
Will
Some
Some liberals have a problem with me simply because I work at Fox, and nothing I do short of storming off the set in a rage will get them to respect that I work there.
- Alan Colmes
Deep
Which
My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.
- Alan Garner
Some
Certain Way
Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.
- Alan J. Pakula
Reflection
Mirror
Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It's a distorted mirror in the fun house. We watch society. As society behaves, then we have the ability to make fun of it.
- Alan King
Priorities
List
In all planing you make a list and you set priorities.
- Alan Lakein
Like
Movie
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.
- Alan Moore
Process
Lot
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
- Alan Parker
Doing
Which
So we had psychiatrists and counselors and therapists around the set regularly, especially for those scenes in which Jason would be dealing with a patient to make sure we were doing it all appropriately.
- Alan Thicke
Feet
Give
When you're seven feet tall on set, people give you respect.
- Alan Tudyk
Say
Felt
If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.
- Alan Tudyk
Rest
Mine
Mine is a job that never ends, a function where it is almost impossible to set aside time to rest or take a breather.
- Alber Elbaz
Brainy
Himself
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Always
Very
She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.
- Albert Finney
Surviving
Having
Surviving the elements is working, but being on set and having to do a scene and being in a room with the same people who you actually enjoy and respect, your day project was easy.
- Aldis Hodge
Processes
Himself
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Data
More
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
- Alex Berenson
Goal
Play
Every time you step onto the field, you have to set goals. My goals are to either score a goal, to have an assist, or to play well.
- Alex Morgan
Everyone
Hang
I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.
- Alexa Vega
Making
Mom And Dad
I guess if you are making more money than your mom and dad, you can set your own boundaries.
- Alexa Vega
New
Onto
Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time.
- Alexa Vega
Tone
Might
Efforts following 9/11 were important. They set a tone. They reminded those who might be tempted to take out their anger on an entire community that such actions were wrong.
- Alexander Acosta
Development
Discover
When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.
- Alexander Gould
Music
Sound Of Music
'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
- Alexander Hanson
Desire
Which
Who does not desire such a victory by which we shall join places in our Kingdom, so far divided by nature, and for which we shall set up trophies in another conquered world?
- Alexander the Great
Design
Designers
I'm not like most designers, who have to set sail on an exotic getaway to get inspired. Most of the time, it's on my walk to work, or sitting in the subway and seeing something random or out of context.
- Alexander Wang
Films
TV
That's where my passion was ignited, on the set of 'Pobol Y Cwm.' I loved it and I've had such a passion for TV and films. I can't do anything else.
- Alexandra Roach
Want
Been
People want a remarkable experience; it's what they'll talk about, largely because the bar has been set so low by so many companies.
- Alexis Ohanian
Next
Reason
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
- Alfonso Cuaron
World
Let Us
With a kiss let us set out for an unknown world.
- Alfred de Musset
Think
Unlearn
People think that theatre helps, but in my case, it slowed me down. I had to unlearn everything when I went on to a film set.
- Ali Fazal
Going
Go
It's not that we go around the set thinking, 'Oh, today we are going to kiss, so let's enjoy'. It's not that. It's acting. If it's important for the script, so be it.
- Alia Bhatt
Up
Then
We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.
- Alice Cooper
Medicine
Increasingly
I actually completely suck at being a bioethicist. What I do is history of medicine and patient advocacy. Patient advocacy is actually the opposite of bioethics, because bioethicists are the people who increasingly set up and justify the systems we patient advocates have to fight.
- Alice Dreger
Forget
How
I can't do an accent unless I'm on the set. I forget how to do it until I'm on the set.
- Alice Englert
Speeches
Another
One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.
- Alice Walker
Give
Been
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.
- Alistair Cooke
Shadows
Disguise
You can disguise any set with lights and shadows.
- Allan Dwan
Break
Some
I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me.
- Allison Tolman
Break
Some
I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.
- Allison Tolman
Van
Large
I no longer need a large television set in my vanity van and just go to Hotstar on my phone - it is much easier to watch everything there.
- Allu Arjun
Needs
By The Time
We believe that, by the time that we leave office, it will be institutionalized, and these programs will be addressing the needs and curing the problem that we set out to do.
- Alphonso Jackson
Career
Never
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.
- Amanda Palmer
Voice
Been
I have been the subject of ridicule. People talk about me and they don't know me and this is an opportunity to tell my story... to have my voice and to set the record straight.
- Amber Frey
Dilemmas
Various
A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas.
- Aminatta Forna
My Life
Through
A lot of my fighting qualities I inherited from my parents. They set tremendous examples right through my life.
- Amitabh Bachchan
Beginning
Through
The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.
- Amity Shlaes
College
Needed
I graduated high school and I didn't have a skill set and I didn't want to go to college. I needed a job.
- Amy Adams
Away
Thoroughly
I research every part thoroughly. I talk it out with my actor friends, but then I throw it all away when I get to the set. You have to be spontaneous.
- Amy Adams
Reason
Imagine
Rajinikanth is an absolute legend to work with. Imagine meeting him every day and spending time with him on the set. Sharing the frame with him is a lifetime experience; there's a reason he is called a legend.
- Amy Jackson
Been
Other
I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'
- Amy Poehler
Grateful
Been
Oprah has been a true inspiration to me, so I'm truly grateful both to her for taking the time to speak with me, and to the folks at 'DWTS' who set it all up.
- Amy Purdy
Small
Will
Bright graduates will either set up their own companies or come and work for us or a consulting firm or government. But going to work for a small company if you are really good? No way.
- Ana Patricia Botin
Here
Studios
Here's the thing with the business, is that when people like your work, and you make them money, you're set. When the critics like you, and you make the studios money, doors opened.
- Andie MacDowell
Compare
Putting
I often compare putting a hotel together to old-time movie production. You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.
- Andre Balazs
New
About
'The Knick' is set in New York during the 1990s, and it takes place around a hospital called The Knickerbocker. It's about a team of surgeons and nurses who are on the cutting edge of medicine.
- Andre Holland
Differently
Other
I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
- Andrea Arnold
Doing
Having
In essence, I set myself the objective of doing what I feel is right without having any ambition.
- Andrea Bocelli
Scare
Movie
Don't set out to make a scary movie and then flinch every time you're supposed to scare somebody because you're afraid of being MPAA or you're afraid of your own demons or whatever.
- Andrew Bryniarski
Director
Temper
When I on set as a director I crazy. My temper is not that good.
- Andrew Lau
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